Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Disneyland!!! (hey look at me, blogging after 2 months :-)

I am SOOOO proud of myself getting new pics and stories posted before the month of March is over. We had a fantastic time taking the girls to Disneyland and California Adventure for the first time. As you can see, our two "oldest" children also accompanied us (Carlos & Alecia). We had a super time - it was nice and warm, and while we were joined by virtually ALL of Arizona (quite crowded), the girls did awesome! They tolerated long lines patiently and were real troopers. Soooo glad we waited until this age to do it. Highlights were lunch at Ariel's Grotto (Brent's fav :), Thunder Mountain, Toy Story ride, Peter Pan - NOT Indiana Jones for Gracie and NOT Pirates of the Caribbean for Hope. (We thought it only fair to scar each of our children once on scary rides (they thought). We were also joined by a few of our California friends who came and visited us at the park and shopped and ate with us at Downtown Disney.
Belle, our favorite princess, because she loves to read! group pic at Ariel's Grotto - about six princesses came and visited us while we ate lunch - avoided the long lines at the Princess fantasy faire :-) Hope and I are prepared to "rocket" skyward.


my two cute toys with a scary ogre looming over them.


this is at the well behind Minnie's house


yeah! Princess Aurora!
this is Hope in line for Pirates - pre-shaking and crying.

Poor thing - she thought they were real and going to

come in the boat with her. :(

cute family shot - Brent sorta looks like Shrek there :)

2 comments:

Kimmer said...

Yay! A blog post! :) So glad you guys had such a great time. And I'm sure your "oldest children" helped out a lot with the youngest. :) Love all the princess pictures!

Julie said...

sounds fun! Andrew still talks about the scary pirates and the haunted mansion. we told him to use his gun (his finger) to shoot the bad guys, and that seemed to help! he had his sweet little finger ready the whole time. :)