Highlight of Disneyland...

Ta-daaaa!!! We stood in like for like and Hour and half for this stupid thing... stupid for me, and wonderful for Kelli. And you should of seen the line..... it wasn't that long... I don't know if people decided to sit down and talk with the princesses and about their experiences in the Disney films... but MAN! It took forever. Danny and walked Josie back to the hotel and I stayed with Kelli, since I missed out on a lot of rides, and shows with her. (not to mention, he took the double stroller, and left me with Kelli and a backpack.. and Kelli's legs were "too tired" to walk.. so I walked through the whole park and to the hotel carrying her.... lol) But man, once it was our turn and we turned the corner and saw BELLE standing there in her beautiful dress I think Kelli was so stunned she didn't know if she should run and scream or just cry. She was so excited. She told her about her favorite rides, food, gymnastics, dance... all sorts of things.


Belle and Cinderella were definatly the Hits of the whole thing... Mulan? Really?? I mean she watches the movie and knows who she is but... she's not even a princess... haha. I had my fingers crossed that Sleeping Beauty would be there.. but the stars dont ALWAYS align. But Kelli was just as excited about getting to meet them....
I tell you what though, that Disneyland... they are pretty tricky, and freakin' smart... they have like a beauty salon for toddlers right after they meet the princesses... so they can get their face painted and get make up on and stuff.... buy dresses, dolls... all sorts of things... its like the end of the world after such a wonderful experience, cause now all the adults are prying their children away from the Salon.... darn you Disneyland!

ps: Since we were at Disneyland for 5 days, we learned the ropes and the tricks, and we were able to have 2 nights where Dannys parents watched the kids, after we put them to bed, and all the "big kids'' got to go back and go on some rides... first of all, after pushing that stroller all day... you can walk so much faster! Its unreal, Danny and I were like running cause we still had the momentum from earlier. It was so much fun and on the final night, we were able to go on Splash Mountain like 6 times in a row... there weren't any lines close to closing time. So they let us all stay on the log, and continue on. It was such a blast! Thanks Ross and Nancy for such a great experience. We'll never forget it.

Dannys parents took all of his siblings and families to Disney for 5 days! Thats right.... 5 days! We stayed at a Hotel right across the street and we'd just have breakfast, and literally walk right out of our hotel and were infront of Disneyland entrance. So fun! It was really convienant for naps with Josie as well. We had so much fun! Kelli was so into EVERYTHING. She loved going on all the rollercoasters and rides that she could. She was less than a 1/2 inch too short to go on space mountain and splash mountain... but she still had fun. On the second day that we were there we walked into Disneyland, and all of the characters were just standing in the entrance, with like NO LINES. So we like raced to get as many as we could... we never did find DAISY.

(below: Kelli standing with Mickey... she was SO excited, and blew him kisses)
(below: Kelli standing with Minnie. After we walked away from them, she said..."they aren't so small like on TV, they're HUGE!)
(below: Josie like most of the rides but the TEACUPS were her favorite. She would giggle SO HARD when Danny would spin the teacup "super fast"..... )
(below: This isn't the best pic that I had of us with Pluto, but Josie's face is hilaroius I think... she looks like she's thinking.."ok, this is by far the BIGGEST dog ever!!" She never took her eyes off his nose)
(above: Josie in the stroller... which BTW after Disneyland, she HATES her stroller.. and after the 2nd day of Disneyland, she wouldn't take a nap in the stroller, we had to take her back to the hotel... she's already being dramatic.. darn it!
below: Kelli's favorite ride, Matterhorn. She LOVED it and I believe went on it 8 times. She'll still say its her favorite but didn't like the white "monster''.... but she wanted to go on it over and over again.. This is such a fun age to be at Disneyland)
(below: Kellis first time on a real roller coaster. The one in toontown. She LOVED it and was so excited about it. But of coarse she loved it... she loves anything fast and dangerous)
(below: kids and Danny with Donald... once again.. Josie giving him the evil eye of.... dont you think about touching me you HUGE DUCK YOU.)
(below: Kelli wanted to go on this the whole time we were there, and finally the 2nd to last day when there werent any lines in the morning we ran over there to go on it. and of coarse, she LOVED it)
(below: Electrical Parade)
Kelli and Tyler at electrical parade
(below: Danny and Kelli first went on the ferris wheel.. which kelli has wanted to do since she saw one at Lagoon. They went on the moving ones that slide, and she loved it. I was with Lauren and Josie, Lauren was a little too nervous to go on it.. Later, Josie and I went on it, and Josie absolutly HATED IT. she was climbing up me like a monkey. but there wasn't a line, so we kept going on... she warmed up to it the 2nd time around...)
(Below: getting off matterhorn)

San Juan Cap & Josie Bday

This year we had a huge family vacation with Dannys family, and we all went to Disneyland. So as a good excuse before hand, we went and visited my brother Scott and his wife Larissa, and my brother Greg. We stayed there for about 4 days, and did as much as we could... we went to the beach, and breakfast at the pier, shopping in Laguna, and of coarse went and got my favorite dessert.... a PIZOOKIE. Went out to dinner and some yummy places, and did lots of swimming. Josie didn't love it, cause she'd get cold so fast... so Kelli would swim a lot with everyone. We brought Jeff down with us, so he could work with Scott for a week. It was so much fun... Josie's birthday was coming soon, so we decided to have a make shift birthday party and Larissa made her a cake. It was so much fun. She blew out the candle and everything! Here are a few pics... My camera is so big that I never brought it to the beach but Scott and Larissa did... I'll get those pics from them and then post later...

(Below: Josie blowing out her candle)

(Below: Kelli swimming across the pool at Scotts house. She was timid at first, and would wear a life jacket (there's no gate around the pool in his yard) but then she couldn't swim as good. So we lost the jacket, and she would swim and go everywhere with a little inner-tube thing. She loved it and was able to get good enough to chase people down in it. She LOVED it and wanted to swim all the time.)
(below: They had one of these rafts at the pool, and Kelli loved to lay on it, and have people push her back and forth from one side of the pool to the next. She thought she was a princess. And when Uncle Scott is around.... she is TREATED like one!)
(below: Brody found such a wondeful friend... Josie followed him everywhere he went. I think it actually drove him crazy... he'd lay down and get comfy, and she'd come around the corner, he'd lift his head and look at us like..."are you going to get her or is she going to attack me?" then she'd come and attack, and he'd get up and walk away somewhere else and lay down. She thought it was a game... Poor Brody!)
After we left Scott and Larissas, we went to Disneyland for a week. We were going to head back to Utah after that, but decided that we couldn't leave Sunny So Cali just yet, so we met up, went to a Sample sale, Thanks to Greg and him working for DC SHOES and got hooked up with Quiksilver and Roxy and DC SHOE everything, and went back for one last night in San Juan Capistrano. Thanks for the letting us barge in and move in for a weekend. We always feel so welcome and we had such a fun time with swimming, bon-fire, beach, food, THRIFYS ICECREAM, movies, games, and everything else that we did. Thanks for everything Scott and Larissa... and we're glad that Greg was up there to enjoy the whole weekend with us... even with his injury!