***I'm determined to catch up on cataloging our family's events this year. Be ready for outdated posts galore!

3/02/2009

Happiest Place On Earth - Finally


you wouldn't know that by the look on madison's face! we'll have to go back to disneyland when she's older and knows why people walk around dressed up in costumes. she'll be less traumatized.




the carousel was the favorite for madison with dumbo as a close second and the teacups coming in third. luckily, she fell asleep for a couple hours and we got to go on our favorite rides: thunder mountain railroad, the matterhorn, and space mountain. and grace was content all day long. it worked out perfectly!







my sister-in-law, lindsay, came with us and we were so glad. madison LOVES her, and it was great to have an extra set of hands (especially when madison threw up in the car). but mostly we just loved having her company! she was brave to drive to california with two little kids and spend that much time with us but we are happy she did. thanks lindsay!







i had to take a picture of the yellow submarine - dallin loved it.



another scary monster. click on the picture to see a closeup of madison's terror



i love this picture



dan and his little white pony. love it.
what a good sport to ride the one madison picked out for him. :)





the end of a long day of fun - after Fantasmic ended (an awesome light/fire/water show)



this quick, last minute trip happened because dan had a test he had to take in LA. so we decided to make a vacation out of it and stop by Disneyland. the next day he aced his test while we girls headed to Santee Alley for some shopping in the downtown fashion district. after finding some great knock-off purses and some cologne we picked up dan and headed back to AZ, fighting LA rush hour traffic for a couple hours first.

we had perfect weather, it was such a fun trip and sometimes it's great to do something spur of the moment. and who knew the perfect time to go to Disneyland was february? we didn't wait in line more than 10 or 15 minutes for anything! anyone up for going again next year?

4 comments:

Grant and Taryn Layton said...

We went in February a couple of years ago and it was perfect. Looks like you guys had fun! I'm jealous :)

Miss B said...

Yay for vacations!! Madison is so cute...even when crying.

Keith and Nicci said...

We've been itching to go there too - maybe next Feb, would be perfect, especially since we can't go to Mexico with you guys :(. Glad you guys had so much fun!

Lindsay said...

Oh, poor Madison!!! I love that she has a death grip on Daniel's shirt! LOL! Glad you had such a great time! I'll go with you next year! :) My kids beg probably once a month to go to Disneyland. They got so spoiled while we were living there!