Disneyland Day Two

The day started off at the hotel.   I had to wake the kids up at 8 because they were still KNOCKED out and they stop serving breakfast at 9.  So we ran downstairs and got some breakfast.  Kayla kept telling us that we were going to Disneyland.  Except when she said it she made it about 4 syllables long.  Because some how in the passed two weeks she has picked up a Southern accent when she says certain words.  It's so funny and really freaking cute!  So Disney= two syllables Land+two syllables  

Here are the kids waiting for the elevator.  

Tyler walking with Kevin in the parking garage.

Waiting for the tram.  

I swear she was WAY more excited this time! 

More waiting and having fun!

I love this picture because she was so excited to be on the tram that she sat up on her feet and turned around to watch everything.  

We started off the day this time in California Adventure.  WAY more fun for the kids here.  We saw Minnie Mouse.  Apparently she is a pilot.  Cody wanted to see her pilots license but we didn't ask her.

Then we went to Monstropulous ( no clue if that is spelled right! )  We got to see Sulley!  Just in time too because he had to rush to be in a show that we watched! 

The whole gang took a picture with him.  Notice the extra person?  That's another one of Mommy's fun friends.  Her name is Stacy.  She has a pass and comes to Disneyland regularly and so we thought she'd be a good person to have come with us.  In fact, when Mommy called to tell her we were coming and wanted to see if she could come too her reply was, "Oh I'm off that day and I think I was planning on going by myself anyways!"  Perfect!

Next Daddy and Kevin snuck off too ride a big kid ride while the girls took the kids to a Bug's Life world.  LOTS of kids rides there.  We spent a good amount of time here.  Our first ride was kinda like the teacups but you didn't spin it yourself.  It kinda did it on it's own.  Oh also we were in lady bugs!

Next was a train ride and we also did some bumper cars!

Then we got in line to ride something that went in the air.  It looked fun until we got up close and TYler didn't like how high up it went.  He chickened out and him and mommy left the line.  Kayla wanted to stay and ride it so Daddy stayed with her.  It was funny because Kayla was so small you couldn't see her so it just looked like Cody was a pathetic guy who wanted to ride kid rides by himself!  haha  Love you Honey

Next we got some lunch!  Kayla liked her nacho cheese sauce a little too much!

We also saw Mr. Incredible walking around

After this Kevin and I snuck off to do a big kid ride together.  We did California Scream.  That was fun and since it had scream in the title we decided that SCREAM was what we would do.  IN fact, we had a contest to see who could scream louder.  If you ask Kevin he won.  If you want my opinion, Kevin was too busy hyperventilating to here me scream and when I screamed I was MUCH louder then him!

The guy behind us looks THRILLED he got to ride with us doesn't he?!

At this point we headed to Disneyland to hit a few things and then head back to California Adventure for there water color show.  

Daddy and Kevin took off for a ride again and Stacy and Mommy took the kids to do some kid things.  We saw Mickey Mouse

Check it out kids!  EVen Mickey Mouse recycles!!!

Then we saw Pluto

Then we played at Donald's house

Next Mommy and Kevin got choosen to make the LONG voyage back to the car to get everyone pants and sweaters.  We were SOOOOO tired at this point that our whole bodies hurt.  It was awesome.  Here we are on the tram

And here we are "resting" on the escalators.  We were the ONLY ones on here and so Kevin sat down.  Then I sat down and then we both sighed.  Then at the bottom of the escalators there walked up an old man who looked up, saw two grown ups totally exhausted sitting on the escalators and laughed his booty off at us.  NICE

Here we are about to go back to California Adventure but FIRST on the way back inside of the park, Kevin and I got the grown ups Pretzels in Down Town Disney and they were amazing!  They were pepperoni, cheese and jalapeno!  MMMMMM  

Oh yes, before we went into Disneyland we rented strollers.  I am telling you my whole body hurt from carrying Kayla on my shoulders or with my arms.  Tyler was exhausted too so we got two of them.  Tyler BARELY fit!  While walking around Kayla decided to give herself a tattoo with her new MInnie MOuse Pen we got her.  NICE

Also, in my family we have this thing that happens to us when we get SUPER excited.  We get delirious!   Like totally out of control laughing for no reason until you cry or pee yourself.  Kayla had this happen to her about now.  She was laughing hysterically at Kevin making faces while stuffing her face with cheese popcorn. It was a lovely combination! 

And now we were off to WAIT for the water show.  We waited for ever.  We had to be there about an hour and a half or so early to get good seats.  Kevin swore up and down that where we were going to stand was the best spot and despite what the people at Disneyland were telling us we would NOT get wet....just misty.   

Lies.

Lies.

LIES.

We got soaked and Kayla did not like it.  I had brought an extra shirt for Cody that was long sleeved and he decided not to wear it.  She started freaking out about the water so we wrapped it around her. I would have taken a picture because it was so cute but it was dark and I didn't want my camera to get WET! :) 

Anyways.  While we waited I took some artsy pictures.  

The cotton candy we bought Tyler had a flashing light in the stick.  It was a hit with him and Kayla!

Here is a picture from the water show.  Tyler pretty much LOVED it!  I took a video clip of him dancing during it.  One of these days maybe I'll even put it on here ( not likely though )  haha

On the way home from Disneyland we got some McDonald's,  We were all starving.  Kayla had fallen asleep but mommy figured when we got back to the hotel and got her out of her car seat she would wake up and want to eat.  NO SUCH LUCK.  She was out cold.  We layed her down on the pull out couch in her clothes.  I took her shoes and socks off and she didn't wake up until morning when at 8 AM I woke the kids up again so we could get breakfast.  Did I mention it was midnight again when we turned the lights off at the hotel.  YIKES. 

She was in this exact same position when I woke her up!  Well that concludes day two.  The next was sure to be fun since they were opening up some new rides and it was a Friday.  Oh the joy I felt when thinking of how tired and sore I was and how many people we would have to fight through.  Oh goody! 

Day One Disneyland

I am going to do our Disneyland post as Day One, Day Two and Day Three.  This will make it easier.  I have a MILLION pictures so these post will be long.  Hopefully when I am done with these I can finish up with our last Utah trip.

Disneyland Day One

Tyler didn't know we were going to Disneyland.  He knew we were going to a hotel and that we were going to have FUN!  We didn't get there until late the first day. Cody had to work and then we checked into the hotel and mommy realized I forgot to pack jeans for Tyler.  It was cold in the evenings so pants were a MUST.  We found a Walmart and had dinner and bought some pants.  My kid is 5 years old and I bought him a size 8.  They were too small but lucky for me he suffered through it.  We met my friend Kevin at Disneyland.  He took this picture of us waiting to go on the tram.

I love how it is clear by looking at this picture that Tyler is beside him self.  Kayla, on the other hand, still has no clue whats going on.  haha

Group shot of us on the tram ( as you will notice Kevin has his phone in his hand already posting the picture he took on facebook.  I think he was on facebook ALLL night and ALL the next day posting pictures as he took them! )

Kayla looks THRILLED to be at Disneyland for the first time doesn't she?!  Yup, she was STILL trying to figure out what the heck was going on.  So we decided first things first.  It's a Small World.  While in line we noticed how gross this horses butt looked as a bush!

Not the best picture of me OR my three chins....moving on

Here's Tyler and Kevin

Daddy and Kayla ( starting to get it a little now )

I thought maybe I'd put myself in a few pictures.  This next picture of Kayla is not the best but I love the look of wonder on her face.

Here is Kayla and Daddy buying cheese pop corn and Mickey MOuse shaped suckers. NOW we're talking.

And here's a picture Kevin took with his cell phone of Kayla enjoying her suckers.  I LOVE this picture of her.

Now she was having a blast!  Also notice the cute purse sitting on my lap.  :)

Next we went to go check out Fantasmic...that freaked Tyler out so we left JUST in time to get a perfect spot for fire works!  Tyler was on Cody's back and Kayla was on my shoulders.  Holy cow does 30 pounds get heavy QUICK!  I did manage to get a million pictures of the fire works.

On the way out of Disneyland we bought some Mickey Hats.  Tyler wanted to find the PERFECT one so I was a little surprised he settled on the R2D2 one.  He got mad when we called it that though and said it was a ROBOT hat!  Silly us.  Then we ran into Goofy

And then Donald

In which Donald proceeded to steal Kayla's Minnie ears and she just kinda stared at him.  HAHA

Kevin with the gang in the parking garage.  What a fun first day and we were only there about 4 hours, rode one ride, saw some fireworks and got us some Mickey and Minnie ears.  We didn't get the kids to bed until midnight ( which I wanted to get them to bed by 10:30 or so silly momma ).  Oh and one picture I forgot from Day One was taken with Kevin's cell phone in the parking garage before we even got to the park.

Clever if I do so say myself.  Maybe when we move back to Texas I can get me an IIIIILOVEIT License plate!  And this was day one...NEXT will be day two and if you thought this post had a lot fo pictures, JUST WAIT! 

DISNEYLAND

Tyler didn't know we were going to Disneyland!  We surprised him.  When we got a block or so away he noticed the street was called Disneyland Dr.  So I started filming this.  Heeheehee

Our Memorial Day

We had a great memorial day!  It was nice and relaxing.  I had it in my head that I NEEDED to make me a new purse for our Disneyland trip.  THEN, I realized I was out of interfacing.  BOOOOOO  Well, Joann's has a great sale on Memorial day ( or pretty much any holiday for that matter ) and I begged Cody to take me.  Cody needed to be back early enough to start smoking!  Yup, you heard me right.  Cody was going to smoke for the very first time.  His meat of choice was some brisket.  He was VERY excited.  We got up early, dressed us and the kids and headed out the door.  Cody dropped me off at JoAnn's at around 9:05.  It opened at 9 so I was worried because it was a sale it would be packed!  No such thing.  In fact, it was the least amount of people I had ever seen there.

While I shopped around, Cody took the kids to Target.  We have been tired of the whining and begging for toys that goes on in our house every time Tyler see's something on TV he wants ( which is everything! )  We finally told him that he needed to earn some money and buy a toy by himself.  Daddy made a deal with him that if he helped daddy take out the recycling every night ( into the garage and where it properly goes ) and then help him take it down to the recycling center once or twice a month, he could have HALF of the money.  Tyler scored because we hadn't taken the recycling in 2 months so they went and got 44 dollars!  Tyler got to have half.  He was VERY anxious to get to target and buy a power rangers toy!  While they were there Cody let Kayla pick something out.  She picked out a Dora fishing game.  But instead of fish it was pink, purple and white heart shaped diamonds.  Thanks Dora.  It was on sale and let me tell you it was on and running pretty much ALLLLL day.  Here are some pictures of her playing her new game

She was lining them all up by color!  She LOVES her game.

This is what mommy got at JoAnns.

I got 5 patterns, two things of elastic, a bow, a bunch of really pretty, sparkly buttons for my etsy shop, some fat quarters, some interfacing and a thing of parchment paper.  My receipt said I spent 29 something and saved 96 bucks!  Yeah, I scored too!  mostly because the patterns were 5 for 5 and normally they were 15 or 16 bucks a piece.  Also the buttons I bought were 50 percent off and some of them were ten bucks.  Yikes!

On to Cody...

Overall the meat was super yummy!  We were both happy with the results.  Overall we all had a great day!  The kids and I jumped on the trampoline and then they had popsicles.

It was a nice, relaxing day.  Thank you for those who serve our country.  Our know many who do so and I thank you for helping to keep safe and free!

I HATE IT!

I REALLY hate being beinh on here.  I am HOPING to get a post a day up for a next little bit.  I never finished our Utah trip and now we went to Disneyland for 3 days!  I took lots of pictures so we shall see if I can get all of that done.  Something is going to have to get neglected but I am going to try REALLY hard to be sure it isn't THIS blog again!  :)  Until then stay tuned...