Disney Days

We spent a day at California Adventure and two days at Disneyland. It was lot of fun! Aunt Betsy was so helpful and it was nice to have one adult per kid. It made it even numbers for the rides everyone went on. One adult would stay with Kaden and Lynnlee when it came to the bigger rides and the other two would go with James. Then we used the stroller pass to switch so the other adult could go on the ride. We also took advantage of the fast passes. It is a great time of year to go because a lot of times the fast passes didn't change the wait because the lines were so short. It was definitely less crowded than when we went a year ago in October. We will probably go back in a few years and it will have to be the same time of year so we can avoid the crowds.

 The pictures are in no particular order. I uploaded them from my phone and didn't rearrange them.

Lynnlee really wanted to see some princesses while we were there. She didn't mind which ones but wanted to meet at least one. She got to meet a few of them.

We missed having the minis but at the same time I kept thinking how much harder everything would have been with them there. They would have been stuck in the stroller a lot. Even though we missed them it ended up working out for the best.

This random picture is from our pit stop in Las Vegas. We were near where the sister wives live and I'm sure people thought we were sister wives. :)

Marshall lined up the kids in front of Mickey Mouse so the it looks like they have mouse ears.

James was about a centimeter too short for California Screamin so we did what any responsible parent would do. We stuffed some card board in his shoes so he was tall enough. He loved the roller coaster!

You can't tell but they are watching the parade and zoned out, probably from the long day.

Kaden was a typical toddler and had tantrums because of the long days, lots of sugar, and being off schedule. He fell asleep in the stroller one afternoon and woke up super grumpy which is when I took this picture.

James was tall enough for Indiana Jones and went on it about 10 times.

While James was on Indiana Jones these two played on Tarzan's tree house about 10 times.

The castle looked like this the first day. It was disappointing to see as we came up main street. The next day it looked a little better but not the same as the real thing.

Kaden and I were sad that we didn't make it into this picture but we had to go back to the hotel right as it was opening to change his pants/underwear. He has been potty trained since May and rarely has accidents, I mean really rare, like once a month. I was completely unprepared and so the only option was to go back to the hotel and change. I'm glad James and Lynnlee got to meet Mickey since that was on their checklist.

It was a successful trip! Besides missing the minis, I didn't want to come back to reality. We left at 3:00am on the way home and got home around 1:00pm.  It was so nice to have the afternoon to unpack and get settled back home.