Conquering the East

Yes, yes.  I haven't been keeping up with my blog posts - again....but for good reason!  Work, work, and more work!  I have been very busy "conquering the East" and working on our new park:  Shanghai Disney Resort.  Since I can't share any of the information from work, I have gone out and scouted the internet for some of our "official eye candy" of what has been released of the new park.  Hope this makes up for the blogging delay!  Enjoy! 

Article from the DisneyParks Blog about the ground breaking ceremony with concept sketches of the overall park:  Ground Breaking Ceremony for Shanghai Disney Resort

Photos from the ground breaking ceremony:

Even Mickey and Minnie are excited!  

And wearing very festive clothing :)

 

Coming soon to China!

Here is another article from DisneyParks Blog describing the new Shanghai Storybook Castle with images and video:  Shanghai Storybook Castle

And the official website of the new park:  Shanghai Disney Resort

*****Be sure to wonder back into the blog through September - I was finally able to get caught up with the updates!!***** 

Celebratory Week!

This past week was TERRIFIC!  After being full-time at work for 13months, I got a level promotion!!!!!!  Hard work and dedication has been recognized and has paid off!  :)

B and I headed to Peppers (a mexican restaurant in walking distance from our apartment) for a celebratory margarita!

 

Not only did I receive a promotion, I will also be moving into a private office!  Hooray!

And to top off the week, on Friday a friend at work brought me a Chick-fil-a biscuit with grape jelly and a gallon of sweet tea!!  AH!!  I screamed in the office!  Lucky me!

Brandon had a great week too!  

He officially has only 6weeks of school left!

He completed all of his FORD training on Friday and received a great parting gift:

 

A Ford Swiss Army watch :)

Even had a couple of photos snapped of his last day:

 

 

GREAT WEEK!  HOORAY!

FALL Organization!

Somewhere along the lines I missed the whole "spring cleaning" bandwagon but decided to hop on the "fall organization" one instead.  Even Brandon!  Instead of keeping all of his school papers in an empty Corona box, he now has a fabulous organization system in his new filing cabinet - yay!  And I reorganized our bookshelf to be a bit more decorative :)  Now I'm ready for the Halloween decorations!

BEFORE:

 

AFTER:

 

Okay, so not that different.  But it is more organized (and completely Swiffered and clean) with more decorative touches like these DIY containers:

 

Leftover paper I had laying around - just leave the seam to the back!  Easy :)