Our recent adventure

Well we are about a month late on this post but here are some pictures from our last trip to Disneyland! Sorry it has taken so long so much has gone on in the past 30ish days its unbelievable and definately POST worthy AFTER I get this one up so that the HARD TIMES can end....yes I'm talking to ALL of you who have been asking for this!!! :-)

Anywhoo ENJOY!!!

We had breakfast at GOOFY's KITCHEN and it was a BLAST! The characters came to our table and gave each person special attention. Baloo is Jeff's favorite character from a Disney movie but insisted that he was to NOT have his picture taken with him so here is Trevor and his best friend Ross who we brought on the trip.

Dylan and I were waiting for all the BIGGER boys to get off the Matterhorn so we decided what's a better thing to do than have a ROCKET SHIP painted on his face! He was so excite and believe it or not he stayed still the entire time! In fact to take this picture the artist person had to pretend like he was still painting because he wouldn't let me take a picture otherwise.



Anyone who has been to Disneyland near the Star Wars ride has seen or at least heard this group of very talented trash men! They do the coolest things with the few things they have and how they stay in-sync is beyond me but it's awesome!



We were stopped by THUNDER MTN. and just so happens to show up?! JESSE from Toy Story! She was really funny flirting with all the boys...notice that Dylan is NOT in the picture well as much as he loves his Disney movies and can tell you who each character is he sees from a distance when it comes to them coming any closer than 3 ft he is NOT ok with it!



Like I said before Dylan IS NOT into meeting the characters ~ not even with his daddy by his side! He was so excited to see Pooh Bear AGAIN and the Pooh Bear ride is his favorite but he just wasn't having it when Pooh wanted to meet HIM!

I think this is a really cool picture! Since we were there a week we decided to take a calm down day because we were all pretty much BURNT out! The hotel we stayed at (Howard Johnson) had their own kids "water park" that we had a view from our room of so while Dylan was napping we let the boys have FUN IN THE SUN. There was a pirate ship with a bucket that every 15 minutes filled and dumped. This is the boys getting a SERIOUS SOAKING!!!!

The story behind this picture: Ok so some of you know that Snow White is my VERY FAVORITE PRINCESS of all time! Well we spent a whole lot of money to have lunch with her and all the other princesses at Ariel's Grotto at the CA Adventure park. We or should I say I was really excited about this lunch ~ I couldn't believe I was going to finally meet SNOW WHITE!!! The boys were so understanding too...they just played along and got picture after picture with the princesses just to make MOM happy. Well anyway we get to our table and our server comes to introduce himself and I mention Snow White and what does the man say????

"Actually SNOW WHITE will not be joining us this time BUT princess Jasmine will be taking her place."

Are you kidding me???!!!! All this time my poor boys had to spend at a princess lunch and all this money we spent for what? FOR NOTHING!!!! Ok so it was a bit fun but when your the only girl in your family and all you want is to meet one particular princess it's inevitable your day is not going to be so happy after all.....

The "bigger" boys all rode together on the Grizzly Bear Run ~ one of Jeff's favorite rides! If you can't tell the guy in the white shirt straight ahead is Jeff....the boys are to HIS right.



This was a TON of fun...After doing Turtle Talk with Crush AJ talked us into going into the animation academy. We didn't really know what to expect so we weren't too excited about it at first but when we found out we were going to learn how to draw Disney characters our ears perked up! It was actually so much fun we did it twice....the 1st time we learned how to draw POOH BEAR and the 2nd we drew JACK SKELETON from The Nightmare Before Christmas. This is something we will definitely do again!




I love this picture! We were riding the Mark Twain boat and Jeff and Dylan were watching the "duckies" swimming.

This is such a CUTE picture! Dylan was knocking and trying to open the door at Mr. Toads house! This year he definitely had a bit more fun I loved watching what he got excited about because each year I know it will be different!

Ok so back to the SNOW WHITE story...well 2 days after our TERRIBLE lunch (it was our last day there) we decided to go check out the Princess Fantasy faire area to see if she was there and SHE WAS!!! The only thing was the people we were asking who were leaving said that she was making comments about only having a few more she could do and we had already stood in line for a 1/2 hour in a 1 hour line so the stress level was starting to get high! Well if you know me you know I'm pretty much a "whatever goes, goes" kinda girl so I decided to sneak through the exit to see if she was there and SHE WAS! But how long was she going to be there was the problem so the child in me came out and I decided to tell one of the character helper girls my entire lunch disaster story in hopes that she would just tell me if we were wasting our time ~ well she did better than that (and those who have stood in that line in the past please do not hate me for what I am about to say) the girl actually let us through the EXIT so that we could see her before she left!!!!!!

SO LONG STORY SHORT MY DREAM FINALLY CAME TRUE!!!!!!



One day of our trip we got to go in an hour before other people (not just us everyone who had the ticket so it wasn't the "special") and we saw something that doesn't happen EVER during regular hours ~ an empty picture shot in front of the castle!
AHHHH MY PRINCE CHARMING!!!

This was our last day on our vacation ~ we were sad to leave but excited to go back again! (Has anyone else noticed that Dylan loves his blankie in more than a few of these pictures?!?)

SILLY BOYS! On our day off from Disneyland we walked and shopped the stores of Downtown Disney and we couldn't resist posing on the GIANT LEGO!

Well that's our trip in a NUTSHELL....we had a ton of fun and came home with many new memories to cherish forever. Some people think we are crazy for going so often to "The Happiest Place on Earth" but how can you stay away from a place where "YOUR DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE!!!" ~ ok I know that was gooey but seriously IT ROCKS!!!!!