The Big D Vacation (part 1)

We have been planing on taking the kids to Disneyland, for awhile now.  We finally realized it was one of those now or never kind of things.  We left Twin on September 30 and returned October 6.  It was a wonderful trip, even if we did have a few hiccups along the way. 

 The first day we stopped off in Vegas to visit some of my family.  We got to have dinner with my grandma and a few of my cousins. 

 As always my grandma cracks me up, but she is doing really well and I am glad of that.

 We headed out to Cali the next day.  About a half hour before we got to our hotel Beckett started throwing up.  Now we all know it would not be a vacation for us if one of our kids was not vomiting in the background. So our vacation had officially begun!

 Jason got us an awesome suite.  It was a little further from the Disney than we would have preferred, but whatever.  The bus rides to and from the park were an adventure.

 This made me laugh so hard.  Jason was picking up our tickets, so the kids and I were waiting near another window.  Pretty soon I see Beckett fishing out his "monies" out of his pocket.  He piled them all on the counter.

He then walked around the corner and pointed this picture. He wanted that.

 He never cared about the "Cars" cars that I had before, but we watched the movies for the 12 days of Disney, and he fell in love.  He couldn't get enough of them.

 We then headed to Downtown Disney and checked out the shops, and ate dinner.  The kids got some fun balloon shapes, and Beckett threw up in the bushes.  All in all a wonderful dinner.

 We had to stop at the Lego store.  They have some of the coolest structures.

 Who builds these things?

They have a fun play area for the kids.

 Next day we got up and headed to the park.  It took the kids (who am I kidding and me) awhile to get used to standing in line for everything.

 We stood in line to see Rapunzel, and Elleree decided that she didn't need to see any other princesses as long as we had to stand in line to see them.

It's hard because there are lots of rides that the boys didn't want to go on because they were for "little kids", but Elleree and Beckett couldn't ride on certain ones because they were not big enough.

 The day heated up to be a whooping 100 degrees, and we were melting.

 Surprising as it was though no one threw up.

Even when they exerted themselves.

 The best places to be were on the rides duh.  Not because they were fun, but because they have air conditioning.  Everyone was exhausted when we got back to the Hotel.

 The next morning we got an early start.  This gave us some photo opps.

Funniest thing happened while we were standing in line for one of the pictures, I looked over and saw some friends of ours that we knew in Idaho Falls.  It was so good to see someone you recognize, and they are a very cute family! Such a small world.

 Elleree and Beckett's favorate ride was the carisel.  Luckly the line was never very long, and they have one in both Disneyland and California Adventures.

We checked out Toon Town and Jason had to ride Splash mountain one more time before we headed over to California Adventures.

While they rode that ride we got to talk to Jack for a while.

There are even fewer rides that these two could ride in CA, so they spent lots of time like this.

 These pictures are to prove that I don't just put embarrassing pictures of my kids on here.  We decided to ride the Farris Wheel, no big deal right.  Wrong, I hate roller coasters, so if you are planing a vacation that has them and you need someone to just hang with your kids, I'm your woman.  So this Farris Wheel has seats that, well I don't know how to describe them.  They roll, it didn't seem to be a big deal from the ground.  It was a huge deal in the air.  Jason and the boys just laughed and us (Elleree and I) and took pictures.  When I saw them I had to admit it was kind of funny.

Beckett and Elleree loved these two rides.

 Our last stop of the day was Cars Land.  Beckett nearly died of the awesomeness.

 They have three rides there and all three were really fun.

When it is lit, it looks just like the movie.  I loved Cars land!  It was super cool!  

Then we headed back to the Hotel.