disneyland!

what's better than going to disneyland? free disneyland!!!

several months ago, jeff had a band come play at wsm. the guitar player, aaron, and jeff hit it off. aaron's wife turned out to be sleeping beauty at disneyland (did i mention this was my dream job?) and offered to get us in to the park. of course we jumped at the idea! so on january 10th, we surprised the kids (we didn't tell them what we were doing until we were parking- they were so excited!) and enjoyed a fun-filled day in the happiest place on earth.

i love disneyland. passionately. i could seriously go there every month. at least. going as a parent is so amazing.... i just love watching my kids experience the sights, the rides, the characters. it was a great day.

family picture with minnie mouse. the park was really empty, and there were tons of characters walking around. the kids would go running when they saw one :)

our kids are toy-story-crazy, so seeing buzz lightyear was truly a highlight for them. it is so sweet how they are just in awe that they got to meet the REAL buzz!

we had just gone the week before to see 'tangled' with gramma. all bella wanted to do was see her. she even told every other princess that she was going to meet her... can a princess feel like chopped liver? daddy was the hero and waited in the very long line to meet rapunzel and flynn rider. they were really sweet and the kids got to talk to them for a few minutes.

flynn was amazing with jackson, getting him to make all these silly faces. i love the pic above where they are pointing at the girls and the girls made sweet faces.

jackson showing flynn rider his "smolder"

a fan favorite... the dumbo ride with daddy.

alice in wonderland and the mad hatter. i say creepy but my kids loved it.

our sweet friend stacey came along with us for the day (her hubby was on a mission trip to thailand). it was great to have her with us. i love charlotte in this pic checking out mickey. you can almost hear her saying "what in the world is that?"

our kids are CRAZY for it's a small world. it was still decked out for christmas, which was pretty amazing. we rode it A LOT. but we didn't mind :)

having stacey meant jeff and i got to sneak away for a quick ride on space mountain! yipee!

it was such a fun time. the big bummer of the day was my new camera lens breaking :( so most of our pics were taken with iPhones. can't wait to go back!

posted by mommy