Catch up on our Disney Recaps here: Disney Travel with a Newborn | Disney Part One | Disney Part Two | Disney Part Three On my parents' last day in Orlando, we braved Epcot Center. We had a few fast passes for Future World that morning and planned to spend the remainder of our day, eating our way through the World Showcase. We decided to split up that day, and travel in smaller groups, since everyone's priorities were a little different. My sister's family did things geared for their young kids, Ella & Molly hung out with my parents, and we let Sophie be our tour guide for the day. She had so much fun planning our itinerary. She had to pose with this unicorn in China, because she has two smaller versions of it and loves them. She begged for this one, but wasn't willing ...
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Disney World 2018 | Part Three
Catch up on our Disney Recaps here: Disney Travel with a Newborn | Disney Part One | Disney Part Two When we decided to reschedule our trip for Thanksgiving week, my sister and I were both thrilled about the way the dates fell. My birthday is almost always the week before the holiday, but this year's calendar was a little different and since my niece, Vera, and I share a birthday -- we got to celebrate 39 and ONE in the most magical place of all. I try to plan Magic Kingdom as our first and last day, because it's the best, but we just couldn't work that out for this trip. My parents and Molly left the morning of Thanksgiving and since they wanted to see all four parks + Universal in their five days, we couldn't repeat until after they left. We were aiming to be there by rope ...
Disney World 2018 | Part Two
Catch up on our Disney Recaps here: Disney Travel with a Newborn | Disney Part One I know the post title says "Disney World," and the first photo is from Universal Studios, but you know what I mean, right? We had never been to Universal before and decided that since the girls are both old enough to ride pretty much everything, we would spend one day there during our trip. My mom kept the littlest girls and we headed out for a day of roller coasters. Let me preface this by saying that we only bought tickets for one of the two parks. We could have done a dual pass for the day, but our trip was already more expensive that we'd planned and with only a single day to devote to Universal, we were worried we wouldn't couldn't fit it all in. This meant we only saw half of the Wizarding World ...
Disney 2018 | Part One
I'm backdated this post, since it never published yesterday (chalk it up to weird internet issues because of our "faux snow day." If you're lucky, you might get two posts in one day! Catch up on our Disney Recaps here: Disney Travel with a Newborn I said this on Monday, but it's so weird to think this trip was more than eight weeks ago. Polly looks so little in these photographs, but it doesn't feel that long ago. I took so many pictures -- except the day I forgot my camera and we relied on iPhones and park photographers -- so these recaps will be short on words and long on photographs. If you have any questions about our itinerary or details, please leave a comment and I'll respond to your questions there! I told you this on Monday, but we flew into Orlando bright and early on a ...
How to Survive Disney with a Newborn
I received product compliments of Dock-a-Tot and Elfin Marketing in order to facilitate this post — all opinions are my own. This post may also contain affiliate links, meaning any purchases made using these links will earn Taz + Belly a small commission. You can read more about our affiliate relationships here. I'm a known procrastinator, so it should be no surprise that we visited Disney World back in November and I'm just now getting around to posting about it. I'm doing good to brush my teeth most days, so blogging with any regularity isn't likely. The girls and I were just talking yesterday about how it's been almost nine weeks since our trip -- it doesn't seem like that long ago, but I know the details are probably already getting fuzzy. I wanted to be sure I captured all of ...
Travel Diary | Disneyland
You can catch up with our California trip here: Carlsbad | San Diego Zoo | USS Midway Museum | Hollywood + San Clemente, but keep reading for details on our adventures in Disneyland! Alternately titled: the one with alternate titles (or even more appropriately: the one with forty-seven photos) When we started talking about this California trip, way back last summer, Ella brought up going to Disneyland. I'll admit that it wasn't even on my radar and Josh kind of rolled his eyes at the mention. Not that we aren't both huge Disney fans, but he wasn't sure about spending a day of our west coast adventure on an amusement park. We had already nixed Seaworld and LegoLand for these very reasons -- there was just so much we wanted to see! Ultimately, we decided that we might never be in Los ...
Insta Disney
To wrap things up I thought I'd share all of my Instagram images from our wonderful week in Disney. Yes, you may have seen most of these if you follow me on IG or on FB, but since it's been six whole months, I thought we could run through them again! This was honestly one of my FAVORITE trips of all time. The girls had a blast, Josh & I enjoyed every moment, the surprise factor was unmatched and nothing beats being in Disney World during the holiday season. Mark your calendars, friends, because we will be doing this again in the near future! ...
Walt Disney World | Day Six
Our last day at Disney World was kind of tragic, in all manner of ways. What a fitting ending to a wonderful vacation, right? The first characters we spotted on our way to the World Showcase in EC were Jasmine and Aladdin. They were so much fun and engaged us more than any other character except for Ariel. They were hilarious and Aladdin got really upset and corrected me when I referred to Jasmine as his girlfriend. Obviously, I forgot that they married! While waiting in line to meet them, my camera lens met a very unfortunate end. It was hanging on the back of the stroller (where it had been all week with no issue), when Tax threw herself onto the ground and the stroller fell backwards. Onto concrete. Where my camera lens took the brunt of the fall. The camera center in EC had no real ...