Disneyland or Bust

We had a fun opportunity to take the kids to Disneyland at the beginning of the month.  We decided to go and planned it in about 2 weeks time.  It's sort of old hat for us now but we still love all the magic Disney has to offer!   I took 281 pictures so it was hard to narrow down to a few for a blog post as I like to remember specific details about our adventures!

Here we all are at the entrance into Disneyland

Here we all are on a family favorite  - TOWER OF TERROR!! We just can't get enough of this ride..okay some of us can.  Notice Jace is buried in Chris's arm?  Baylie was hanging on to me tight with one arm but hesitantly put the other in the air - I even got a bruise from her hanging on so tight!

This is funny story - we were on Space Mountain and when the ride was over, Chris says, "this is going to be good."  I had no clue what he was talking about until I saw this.........

Needless to say, we laughed SO HARD!!  I had to go to the bathroom and upon seeing that, I almost went in my pants from laughing so hard!
Next time on tower of terror (notice Baylie, Jace and Emily aren't with us), we decided to make fun of Chris about his space mountain photo........

We got to meet quite a few characters...... Lindsay is really loving this conversation with the Incredibles!

You might notice that Chris isn't in any of the character photos - he was always off running to get us fast passes whenever we would come across them.  I don't like to wait in lines to see them either, we were lucky enough to catch them coming out of the back doors so we were always in the front of the lines, we would just follow them for a minute until they stopped - this was a lucky trip as we saw MANY........

The new Cars Land in California Adventure was something Jace had been anticipating  - he would have someone look it up on the computer and show him for the 2 weeks before we went.  He was beyond excited to see it!

This ride had a 2 hour stand by line to go on it - Chris went in early one morning to get in line for fast passes.  He was only able to get 3 after waiting in line TO GET FAST PASSES for an HOUR!!  We went back to ride at 3 that same after noon  - he got the fast passes about 8:30 - Chris took Jace and Baylie with the fast passes he got and the rest of us waited 45 minutes in the single rider line - it was a great ride but I wouldn't wait 2 hours!

All of us at the Pier in California Adventure

We went into the animation studio, we've never done that before but it was so HOT we were up for a little air conditioning.  We went in to learn to draw 'Dale' - here we all are with our drawings.  My mom and her friend Deanna Marshall joined us 1 day at Disney and it was fun to have grandma with us and for me to see Deanna again -such a fun lady!

Kenna, up close with her drawing.......not  too shabby!

Jace (and Ali & Baylie) asked EVERYDAY for cotton candy!  It was a tool used to bribe them to get onto the bigger rides!

More characters.......... gotta LOVE Minnie!

It was hot and we didn't want to walk all the way down Main Street USA, so we hopped on this old time fire truck and rode to the castle! Again, Chris was off getting us fast passes!

Whenever we got too hot, I would suggest pirates for a slow cool off ride!

Getting ready to get on space mountain!

It's tough to be a bug - 3D movie, so funny!  It's always a must when we visit California Adventure!

The kiddos in cars land!

Cruella told them all to look sassy but Kenna was the only one that did!

Another favorite, and it sure helped to cool us off!  Grizzly River run! Here are Chris and Kenna getting ready to go

View of the Grizzly!

Me and Jace were DRENCHED - but if felt oh so good!

Waiting for everyone to come out of the restrooms

This is part of the cars land - SO CUTE! All these little cones had separate things to eat - Ice cream CONES, CONE-Coctions (drinks), CONE queso (nachos), pop CONE - this was just fun!

Another of the rides in cars land -

Kenna at the Pier

After a LONG day, Jace was so nice to rub my feet while we waited for the monorail! Such a sweet boy!!

This just says it all! (someone should have told me to straighten my shirt!)

Disneyland is our 'go to' get away and it never gets old, we love it!  This trip was tiring for me though!  We spent 4 days in the parks and 1 at the beach (a separate post) - each night, Lindsay, Kenna and I would leave the parks about 9:30-10:00 as we just couldn't do anymore while Chris stayed with the little kids and Emily until 11:45!  It was so fun to get away and spend time with the family - we are almost back to school, schedules and Lindsay off to college, we needed this get away together!