Our Disneyland trip!! :)

Wayne said I should plan something when the kids had a break from school to go somewhere warmer.... So this is what we did!
Kind of a last minute trip (I booked it about a week and a half before we went). I kept it a surprise from everyone (Wayne guessed a few days before when he saw me buying mickey mouse t shirts).
I checked the girls out early from school and we were off. It was a long drive, but we broke it up stopping at Las Vegas on our way through both ways. And we survived with some fun new coloring books, stickers, and activites.
We finally made it to Disneyland about 1 pm on our 1st day. We are all decked out in our cute Mickey stuff... couldn't convince Wayne to get even a Mickey hat... but he did get a California one. We had fun looking at everything and going on a few rides.
 

Finding Nemo submarine, Autotopia cars, Buzz lightyear, Space Mtn, Teacups amd Splash Mtn.
We had fun visiting Toontown and had Minnie and Mickey sign our backpacks/lunchboxes.

 

 

 

Anna and David don't like scary rides, but they love the teacups!!

Megan is our thrill seeker, she loved Space Mtn and probablly rode it 6 times. :) Mommy and Daddy like it too!

They had fun playing at Tarzan's treehouse. Anna was a good climber!! She loved doing it.

The 2nd day we went to California Adventure. We thought we had an early start getting there just a little after the park opened....wrong! The lines for the Cars ride were already way long. We waited for about 45mins to ride on Mater's junkyard jamboree. It was fun, we would have done it again if we didn't have to wait... the kids aren't so good at waiting. But we survived. We met a nice family who told us a better way to go to get to the Temple and beach so that was good.

David was pretty excited when we finally got to go on the ride!

Cars Land is pretty cool, we were lucky to get to see it!

Next we headed over to Bugs Life land. The kids liked all the little rides, they didn't like th 3d movie, with special effects but I sure did!

Wayne and I both went on the Tower of Terror. Megan was going to but she saw the little Twilight Zone movie and it scared her, so she changed her mind. We treked across the park to go on some more rides. This little umbrella stroller got used and abused, our spoiled kids!! Daddy was a trooper, he'd push the stroller but wouldn't wear the Pink Minnie mouse backpack ;). 

Ice Cream!! It was such nice weather, we all got a little hot!

We found Buzz and Woody, and Wayne and I went on a fun roller coaster. The girls rode the carosel, then Wayne and I got seperated and couldn't find each other for awhile.. (my cell phone died). We found each other though.

 

And we rode on the Little Mermaid, a cute little ride.
Then we went over to the Red woods challenge course. They loved climbing around the rope bridges, and going on slides. Anna and Megan both rode on the "fire jump" a little zipline. Then we had fun on Soarin Over California, Anna even got brave and went on it. The girls and I rode it a couple of times, it was so fun. It felt like you were flying over all the California landmarks. It made Wayne a little sick though. We enjoyed watching the World of Color Show and then went on the Toy Story ride... it was a long day, but lots of fun. The next day we went to The Los Angelas temple and to Santa Monica beach. It was a beautiful day, with very nice weather, we even played in the ocean a little. The beach was a pretty one, and I'd like to visit there again someday. :)  

 

 

 

 

David's first time at the beach, he was pretty excited. The waves made him nervous, so he played in the sand more than the water.

 

 

Doesn't this beach look fun with the peir and amusement park. There are lots of hotels right on the beach too... maybe another vacation one day!

For our 3rd day at Disneyland we had a magic morning pass to get in an hour before the park offically opens. That was so nice, we didn't have to wait very long to go on Raidiator Springs. David was thrilled to get a green car!! He was barely tall enough to go, and after he was pretty scared, it goes fast! But it was fun, the girls loved it and went again with Wayne. (He had to go park the car and didn't come in with us..) We did have FREE parking the whole time (we parked at our hotel and walked the block to the Toy Story parking lot and used Disneys shuttle bus...cheap I know.)

 

David didn't want his picture with Lightning McQueen because he was still upset about the ride... oh well, I sure wanted my picture ;)

 

The whole cars land is pretty cool! 

 

What a cute Lightning McQueen Mickey mouse hat!! 

 

David loved the Star Wars stuff (he's never even seen star wars... but to him robots and guns are cool)

Our little Minnie Mouse cutie! She loves Minnie Mouse!!

Its a small world, last ride of the trip :) 

 

Megan's 7th Birthday

We celebrated Megans birthday in Jan. with a fun party with her friends.
She wanted to play with Gmas Cake playdough maker.
Everyone had fun creating fun cakes, ice cream sundaes and more.

Megan just loves making playdough cakes!

We did a few fun crafts: jeweled butterflys, linky bracelets and

these fun puzzle peice necklaces!

Then we played musical 'pillows'.. a couple of times! The girls had almost as much fun stopping and starting the music on the ipad ;)

 

Birthday cake + cupcakes :)

Megan was spoiled with lots of fun presents from her friends and mom and dad. She got her own electric blanket (that she sleeps with every night)a package of clay (she really wanted some but Santa didn't bring her any) and some new clothes.