Disneyland

Just a note before I blog this week... there will be picture over load... I promise not to post even 1/2 of what I actually took, but there is a ton of pictures ;) "The Happiest Place on Earth" - someone needs to tell Grace she is suppose to smile for pictures- in 10 years she's going to wonder why she never is looking in the camera smiling... maybe not.

We went with my parents, my 3 youngest siblings and my brothers friend Ashley. Grace fell in love with Ashley- she wanted to hold her hand, smother her and pretty much just wanted to be with her all day.

Out of order picture...this is us waiting to see the princesses, we waited for an hour and overall the kids were pretty good. We really were hoping for Belle, Cinderella and Aurora- you don't know who you are standing in line for until you get there, we got Aurora, Jasmine (again) and Snow White-

Max kept trying to make Buzz fly, he kept pushing the costume buttons. He loves Buzz! On , a random side note, Buzz really creeped me out, I know he's suppose to be a toy, but his face seriously needed some help!

Jessie and Woody were really fun - Woody autographed our book and handed it back, Jessie hit him and my kids laughed and laughed- I loved how good they were with the kids!

We bought Max a Buzz Lightyear costume while we were there...I'm sure he will wear it everyday!

It's a Small World has been redone, it now features several Disney Movies including Finding Nemo, The Little Mermaid, Lilo & Stitch and Cinderella. Grace loves this ride, she wanted to ride it over and over, the whole time she would sing "It's a small world, it's a small world after all". Sometimes we'd be walking in the park and she'd just start singing it, it made me smile.

Grace meeting the princesses ;)

Aladin and Jasmine were really good with my kids. Max was carrying a luggage key all day, shooting people of course, Jasmine knelt down and asked if he was giving her the key to his heart. Max looked at her, smiled and said "Uh-huh" in the cutest voice, he totally loved her!

Minnie was really hard to find- we finally spotted her on our last day in the park. Grace had an outfit I wanted her to see Minnie in so they matched for pictures...my plans didn't work out too well!

Max was so tired he didn't make it out of the park the first night, Mickey went and posed with him for a picture! Loved it!

Goofy and Pluto were the first characters we saw when we entered the park, and what does Max do? He walks up to Goofy and kicks him. That was my kid! What the heck! I'm not sure what happened, he didn't kick anyone else- who knows...

The kids loved Dumbo!

Max got to ride the roller coaster in Toon Town, he loved it!

We bought Grace a Tiana dress- she looks stinking cute!

These are Graces ducks... the top one is the girl and the bottom one is the boy. While Mike and I rode the Indiana Jones ride my parents sat outside with the kids, apparently the ducks, Allie & Jelly stuck right by her. She wanted them to follow her when we left, she was broken hearted to leave them.

It was fun to be with some of my family, the kids loved riding on Grandpa Guys sholders and taking turns riding with Grandma Kate. We sure missed the rest of our family that couldn't come!

Someone who loves puppies just as much as Grace...if you make this picture big you'll see how in love with Cruella Grace was- she asked Grace if she loved puppies and of course Grace was like yes! She asked her what was her favorite and Grace told her black labs, Cruella said "Darling, thats no good at all, they have no spots!" Her accent was perfect! She then asked Max if he could help her catch puppies in the park with his gun and if it shot a net to trap the puppies, Max was like "Yep!"

Autopia- Grace loved it, she laughed and laughed, I got thrown around like a rag doll! Lets say crazy driver!

I must be old...this was the last time I'll do the teacups, yuck! Still to come...California Adventure, Sea World & Universal Studios, but not tonight.