Birthday At The House O’ Mouse mini book

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I love mini books.  I think I’ve mentioned before whenever you’re in a scrapbooking rut you should put together a mini book.  It’s a smaller project and you get lots of photos used and you have a great keepsake.  This book is from May of 2003 when we took our daughter to Disney World for her 3rd birthday and I based the whole trip around one particular (impossible to get) reservation to have dinner with Cinderella & friends.  I’ve already done a 2-page layout for my regular size scrapbook that I’ll share with you later that tells the whole story about the meltdown my daughter (and mommy) had before the Cinderella dinner, but I still had lots of photos left so I wanted to put those together in a little book.  I used a Maya Road house (chipboard) book and I loved it.  I will definitely be buying some more of these.  I put the bulk of the story on the inside cover typed onto white cardstock and I also wrote little bits and pieces throughout the book.  I’ll share a few pages with you here.

 

 

Here’s pages 1 and 2 with the story:

Here’s the journaling from the inside cover (you’ll notice the book’s not called “happy” birthday at the house of mouse, right?)

This story begins one day in May 2003 when Ken came up with the brilliant idea to surprise Summer for her 3^rd birthday and take her to Disney World! On the evening of her birthday, we took Summer to the Grand Floridian resort (and it IS grand) to have dinner with Cinderella.  These reservations are VERY hard to get on short notice.  You have to call months ahead, but I had managed to get them only 4 weeks before & I then planned the entire trip around this one reservation. Yes, I’m crazy but it was a once-in-a lifetime thing. Unfortunately, we had a long day, let her get tired out swimming at the hotel, and didn’t wake her from her nap soon enough. She was a GROUCH, didn’t want to go, didn’t care we’d driven 1,000 miles to see Cinderella. Good times.  After some crying on my part and Summer’s, we got to dinner. The resort was lovely, the dinner was great, and the birthday girl survived. She got to meet Suzy and Perla, Cinderella, & Prince Charming. She was scared of the Fairy Godmother (go figure!).  I don’t think she smiled in a single photo.  Yeah, this is what you call a lesson learned for Mommy & Daddy.

Here’s another set of pages (notice no smiling on Summer’s part here)

The journaling here says:

Our princess meeting THE princess.  She doesn’t look very impressed, huh?  I was sort of starstruck, though.  Cinderella was absolutely breathtaking!

 

 

Here she is after unwrapping a Beauty & the Beast movie she had really been wanting.  Doesn’t she look thrilled?  LOL  At least Belle is smiling on the cover

 

 

Here are the last 2 pages.  The journaling says, “This is the best “smile” we got all evening.”  (and really she’s not smiling; she is saying CHEESE!) 

What a day! 

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