Days 4, 5, 6 – the end.

May 2, 2013 admin No Comments

Friday morning – april 3rd

love this age

We got up and packed and checked out of the hotel. We were heading up to Northern CA to my parents house. With no desire to start that drive we decided to go to Down Town Disney with the Hancocks. Than convinced us that we needed to try Princess Tiana’s donuts – Beignets. They were yummy. Then we played at the Lego Store for a while before saying goodbye and starting the long drive north.

Benji pulled out his 4th tooth

Packers Lego Car

Lego Races

Lego HULK!

We got to my parents house at 9:00ish and hung out with family and stayed up late catching up with everyone and being silly. The next day was Joel and Megans Oroville reception in my parents back yard so we spent the morning prepping the house and yard and food. Next we snuck over to the family favorite – HULA’s Mongolian BBQ. Then back home to get pretty and enjoy the evening with family and friends. I love that Megan took time to make the girls hair pretty – she was so not worried about herself. I loved seeing good friends. I love being with family.

We had to leave the next morning to drive home. The last place we wanted to be was in the van AGAIN but we made it another 11 hours in the car. LaNell and Kelsey and Moki carpooled behind us. And it is always good to be home – when you finally get there and crash.

We loved our SPRING BREAK. It was a great trip. We are really blessed to be able to do that kind of long vacation. If you didn’t quite get enough Disney then check out Erica’s blog – she did a good job of capturing the magic 🙂 – – http://thananderica.blogspot.com/2013/05/disneyland.html

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Day 3 – ALL Our Favorites

May 2, 2013 admin No Comments

THE Only thing that got us out of bed on Thursday morning was knowing that Than would run around and get fast passes for us all day and ultimately make our day better and more fun and max out our rides. So we got up early and walked to the gates. We got there right at 8am when the crowd was let in.
We met the Hancock’s at the princess castle and met Aurora, Ariel and Cinderella.
There was no line for the Tea cups so we rode those 2 times. I was surprised how much Rose loved those spinny rides.
We rode the Small world boats. The Girls and Ray and Packer loved it.
From there we entered Toontown and rode the roller coaster. Packer did not like it. Rose was sad she couldn’t ride. They played at a few of the houses and then we went to the Rapunzel theater. The girls were very Happy and waited to give Rapunzel a hug.
Boys stayed in Toontown and rode the Roger Rabbit and then the Boys went to space mountain.
We took a Pretzel break and the Girls rode space mountain. After that was what I call Bathroom Hour – everyone needed diapers and drinks and toilets and it took a good chunk of the afternoon to get everyone taken care of and ready to walk over to California Adventure.

Rose and Aurora

Cinderella!

tea cups!!

ToonTown

TANGLED

Space Mountain

Cali didn’t even need to sit with me – She’s only 4!

At California adventure Benji and I went on the Grizzly Rapid ride with Pacen and Than. Ben took the kids to bugs land and killed time. The Kids played in the water because Ray was asleep so they couldn’t ride with Ben. When Benji and I got back I took the kids on the lady bugs and balloons. Rose loved it again.

Grizzly River Run

love that face!! this is the magic!

pure joy

and Benji’s priceless smile – or at least the one that made the price worth it.

We went to lunch with the Hancock’s over by the Muppet show. Chilled and then went to ride california screamin. Benji loved it.

screamin!

We stood in line one more time for toy story mania for over an hour but it is a FAvorite so it was worth it. Then we ran as fast add we could to Soarin over California to use or fast passes and we got on but then the ride broke: (

Raymond and Dad in line for Toy Story Mania

Toy Story Mania!

So around 6:00 we left cal adventure and went back to Disney. We went to the emporium and let all of the kids pick a toy. Cali picked Minnie mouse baby. Rose picked Rapunzel baby. Benji picked Pegasus baby. Packer found a bucket of toy story aliens. They are all obsessed with these toys. Honestly might be their favorite part of the trip. The Hancock’s also spoiled them with swords. Buzz guns. And an Ariel. And tons of food stuff.

Packer and his Aliens outside of Star Tours

That night we went on the jungle cruise with everybody in the dark and then we ran over to Star Tours one more time. Cali went and loved it. Pack and Benji to. Rose and Ray hated every time that Ben and I left together but they survived. We all survived! By 10pm we had done everything that we had come to do. We were done.
So we went across the street to IHOP and ate and chilled and enjoyed being with the Hancock’s and enjoyed the success of our 3 day disney trip. So much fun. Lets do it again in 3 years!

We LOVE Disney Land!

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