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Unicorn Birthday Wooden Number

Jul 27

Jul 27 Unicorn Birthday Wooden Number

Crafts, Parties

The theme for Melody’s 7th birthday party was unicorns. For some of her birthdays in the past, I would make wooden numbers fit for the theme. Well she got disappointed the first year I missed doing that. So now I can’t forget. I let her completely design it this year. It really made it hard for me to step back and do that, but she really wanted to. She painted it herself, and I simply glued on the unicorn horn. The idea is the back of the seven is the tail. I am not entirely sure you can see it, but that is what she was going for!

Disney World March 2023 Family Shirt

Jul 16

Jul 16 Disney World March 2023 Family Shirt

Crafts, Vacations

We have made many Disney family shirts over the years, and it does get hard to make up new ones. I hate to re-use themes from the past. And when you are with a larger group, it is harder to make it all unison but different. So when it came time to design a family shirt for us to all wear for our March 2023 Spring Break trip, I had a little bit of a difficult time. I didn’t want to do favorite rides, because I really don’t know that Bob and Vicki had a favorite ride prior to this trip. Brad mentioned everyone being a different park, but I wasn’t sure how we would narrow that down…and there are not five parks. So after some deliberation with Brad, we opted to try and make everyone a character or favorite “thing” and make it have Mickey ears.

Swim Lessons 2023

Jul 13

Jul 13 Swim Lessons 2023

I didn’t take near as many pictures this year during swim lessons. A main reason was due to swim lessons being MUCH shorter this year. Melody did a refresher course which only lasts 2 weeks. Last year we went for 5 weeks. Melody also did dramatically better this year. We didn’t have any tears or real complaints. She even jumped off the diving board since finishing lessons!

World's Largest McDonald's

Jul 11

Jul 11 World's Largest McDonald's

During our trip to Disney World back in March 2023, I finally took Brad to the World’s Largest McDonald’s. It is located in Orlando, and it has changed quite a lot from my first visit there back in 2008. While I didn’t research the changes, I am certain they leveled the original building and rebuilt it. Either way, this was all about our experience there in March of 2023.

Gymnastics Spring 2023

Jul 9

Jul 9 Gymnastics Spring 2023

Melody has made great strides in gymnastics this year. At the end of the season, they had what they call “Gymfest”. It is like a showcase for the gymnasts. It was really neat to finally get to see this. They stopped it due to COVID, and this was the first year back. Those pictures are the ones where she is wearing the blue t-shirt. We did decide to take a break for gymnastics this summer. And I actually signed Melody up for another gymnastics class closer to our house. I can’t wait to share how that goes!

Unicorn Birthday Party

Jul 6

Jul 6 Unicorn Birthday Party

Back in May, we celebrated Melody’s 7th birthday. This year she landed on having a unicorn themed birthday party. I didn’t want to just have a re-do of her Rainbow Rangers party which included unicorns. So I decided to take it to a more pastel colored vibe and super girly unicorn stuff! (Wanna look back at all the parties I have done for Melody? Scroll to the very bottom for the links!)

Jul 4

Jul 4 June 2023 Fun

Summer is already half way over for us, and it has really been a fast one. I tried not to plan too much this summer, yet we still feel like we are going nonstop. My hopes are the last couple of weeks of July will be calm and full of establishing routines and relaxing. But you can check out all we did in June below!

2023 Huntsville Comic and Pop Culture Expo

Jul 2

Jul 2 2023 Huntsville Comic and Pop Culture Expo

We attended the 2023 Huntsville Comic and Pop Culture Expo back in April. We didn’t plan out things as much as we have in the past when it comes to our outfits. We also only attended Friday of the Expo vs the whole weekend or just Saturday. It was a lot of fun and much more calm on Friday night vs daytime on the weekend. All of the vendors were already setup too. The only major thing we missed was the mass crowd of cosplayers. There still was some cosplayers throughout the Expo though.

Sci Fi Dine In Theater

Jun 30

Jun 30 Sci Fi Dine In Theater

During our March 2023 trip, we spent our second day at the Disney parks (third day in Orlando) at Magic Kingdom that morning and Hollywood Studios that evening. We had a big, late breakfast at Cinderella’s Royal Table, so we didn’t do a real lunch. We decided to make a dinner reservation at Sci Fi Dine In Theater once we secured the plans for Magic Kingdom. Melody had never been there, and I hadn’t been there since our trip with friends in 2014

Dance Recital 2023

Jun 28

Jun 28 Dance Recital 2023

Melody’s 5th year of dance was this year, and she recently had her recital too. This was her last year taking a combo class, so she was one of the oldest groups dancing in her recital. And I honestly think they did the best. She has really come out of her shell over the last 5 years too!

Guardians of the Galaxy Ride

Jun 25

Jun 25 Guardians of the Galaxy Ride

Back in March 2023, we were able to ride Guardians of the Galaxy for the very first time. It was quite the experience, and I will say, I do think this is one of the best roller coasters there (we have NOT rode Tron yet). However, my experience afterwards was not the best.

Melody is Seven

Jun 23

Jun 23 Melody is Seven

How is Melody 7?!?!? I cannot believe but here we are!

Disney World Traveling Home March 2023

Jun 22

Jun 22 Disney World Traveling Home March 2023

Leaving Disney World is always one of the hardest parts. We really had such a fun time this trip, and we loved almost everything about it. (I will speak to the negatives in a future post. All were in regards to changes (such as Genie+.))

Melody's Last Day of 1st Grade

Jun 20

Jun 20 Melody's Last Day of 1st Grade

It is hard to believe 1st grade is already over! The year really flew by, but it was a great one. With COVID not being as prevalent, things really got back to normal as far as school goes. I was able to be at her school in her classroom at least once a week. And I volunteered outside of that as well. Melody has grown tremendously, and she has really blossomed. And to make things much less stressful, her 1st grade teacher is “looping” and will also be her 2nd grade teacher. I loved her teacher, and so this makes 2nd grade look so much better!

Disney World Day Six March 2023

Jun 15

Jun 15 Disney World Day Six March 2023

Day Six was our final day at Disney World before heading back to Huntsville. We opted to start our day at Hollywood Studios doing some of the bigger rides we didn’t do on day three. Then we wanted to end with our favorite park, EPCOT.

Jun 11

Jun 11 May 2023 Fun

You have heard it before. You probably even live it. But May is truly the new December. ALL. THE. THINGS. But we always have fun, even through all of the stress.

Summer 2023 Bucket List

Jun 9

Jun 9 Summer 2023 Bucket List

This will be our third year making a summer bucket list. I do feel like we have a lot of the same things from prior summers, but we do always add some new things. Check out our current bucket list below. Here is 2021 and 2022.

Pink Glitter Designs Special Discount

Jun 8

Jun 8 Pink Glitter Designs Special Discount

I wanted to create a special discount code for all of my Pink Glitter Pumpkins readers. You can use the discount on anything in my Etsy shop! This discount is greater than ANY other discount I have ever offered for my shop too! You can click here, or you can go to my shop (pinkglitterdesigns.com) and use the code PGP15DISCOUNT.

Disney World Day Five March 2023

Jun 6

Jun 6 Disney World Day Five March 2023

Our fifth day was a day we had been look forward to for the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique experience. It would be Melody’s first time getting to do it, and Vicki was so looking forward to it. And while the time originally wasn’t ideal, we ended up being happy with it. So this was definitely a Melody kind of day ahead!

Dance Spring 2023

Jun 1

Jun 1 Dance Spring 2023

Dance for the spring has officially come to an end. It is hard to believe that Melody’s last year in a combo class is over! Next year she has to pick specific dance classes to take. So that will make things quite interesting! I didn’t take near as many pictures as a I did videos this semester. So enjoy the few pictures I did take below!