Vintage Minnie & Dopey Challenge Costumes

Happy New Year! 

This weekend was full of fun things, especially those related to our upcoming Walt Disney World trip for Marathon Weekend! Our bags are mostly packed and we are ready!

We will be spending our week at Port Orleans Riverside with plans for visiting all four theme parks over the course of seven days. Jason's even taking a Disney fishing excursion with a friend of ours where they will have the opportunity to fish in World Showcase Lagoon before EPCOT opens for the morning! He is SO excited!

As far as other plans go, we will be at the Expo on Wednesday afternoon and Brayden will be participating in his first 100m dash on Friday morning! 

For the races, I'll be sporting several different outfits, most of which I've already worn...whoops. The full marathon is a different story, though! A friend of mine wanted to run the full dressed as Steamboat Willie Mickey and that's where the idea for Vintage Minnie came into play!

Putting this outfit together was SUPER easy as it didn't require any extra work on my part. With running the full marathon, I wanted everything to be functional and easy to run in.

For the costume itself, I put together the following pieces:

• Solid black dry fit BCG brand shirt from Academy
• Sparkle Skirts sparkle light vintage blue skirt
• Legend Compression sleeves in black
• Vintage Minnie ears from Etsy (my running buddy purchased her Steamboat Willie ears from the same vendor so we will match!) 

I used this picture as my inspiration....

...and voila! 

Easiest costume ever!

For the 5K, 10K, and Half, I decided to bring back a few oldies to wear again. We had so much fun running as Anna & Elsa several years back for the Enchanted 10K, so that was a no brainer. Lilo definitely needed a redemption race since most of that one was spent under a poncho in pouring down rain (the Wine & Dine Half of 2014 aka the "Splash & Dash"). We couldn't decide what to run as for the 5K and as a last minute (literally) idea, we threw in Mousketeers to the mix (from the Disneyland Half of 2013).

Mousketeer - 5K

Anna & Elsa - 10K

Lilo - Half Marathon

So, if you happen to see me out there, please don't hesitate to say hello!

If you're running this weekend, have a GREAT time and enjoy every moment! If it's your first runDisney race, I hope you have a blast!!

Wine & Dine Half Marathon Costume Inspiration

I LOVE this movie. For real, y’all…it’s one of my all-time favorite Disney movies! It was released in the summer of 2002 and I remember going to see it at the movie theater with a college friend. We both travelled to Hawaii for our senior trip two summers prior and loved anything and everything that had to do with Hawaii.

This movie has adorable characters, heart wrenching lines, and funny quotes. (I may or may not quote some of them…and annoy my husband while I’m at it…)

This one always gets me…

And this one…

It also has ELVIS, and Elvis music…and Stitch dressed like Elvis... Hello.

Growing up, I was surrounded by Elvis. He’s my dad’s favorite…so any inclusion of Elvis or Elvis songs in a movie makes me smile, cause it reminds me of my dad. :) Hawaii+Elvis=Favorite.

I was incredibly excited when I saw Lilo and Stitch out on the Princess Half Marathon course. I told Lilo that she was my favorite and in turn, I received lots of blown kisses as I continued on my way.

I’ve debated over my Wine & Dine Half Marathon costume for months. At first, I wasn’t going to wear anything special but I didn’t really like that idea at all. Lilo was an idea in my mind that I tossed around for a while but hadn’t settled on – I really couldn’t make up my mind. The decision officially came when I saw a facebook post from a friend of mine who ran as Lilo at the Disneyland Half Marathon last year – she was thinking about dressing as Stitch for Wine & Dine. I quickly text her and we both agreed to go for it…and we decided to meet and take pictures before the race too, of course!

I’m taking inspiration for my costume from the above “parks” Lilo and going from there. I am in LOVE with this tutu, but don’t really want to wear a tutu for this race. Isn’t this adorable, though?!

However, I AM taking inspiration from this tutu and we’ll see what non-tutu costume I come up with. (For the record, I have nothing against tutu’s – I’ve run in them before, I just don’t want to wear one for this race.)

The crazy part is, I only have a few weeks…what?! Where has the time gone? 40 days to be exact.

I already have the lei and I’m going to make a flower for my hair out of the red flowers from the colorful lei – now for the rest!

I. Can’t. Wait!

Do you work better under pressure or would you rather have a ton of time to execute your ideas? Are you wearing a costume for your next runDisney event?