Sunday, January 18, 2009

Christmas at Disneyland!

This year we really wanted to see Disneyland at Christmas time. We invited Aaron's dad to come with us. With four boys, we can always use an extra adult! It was so fun to share Disney with him. It was his first trip and he handled it like a pro. He trekked around the parks with us and rode every single ride that we did. We were so impressed with his youthful enthusiasm!

We woke up the first morning to RAIN! Thank goodness for Wal-Mart ponchos!


Because of the rain, there were no crowds!!! Seriously it was AWESOME!!! We walked onto the Nemo submarine ride and we rode Toy Story Mania numerous times. These are both rides that we had never been on before because we didn't want to wait for three hours to ride them. It was actually really nice, if you don't mind a little rain and cold.

It's a Small World was absolutely SPECTACULAR! It is completely redone for Christmas and it was so fun! (We also LOVED the Haunted Mansion at Christmas, but something about "no flash photography" so I didn't get any pics to prove how cool it was!)






The Christmas parade at Disneyland was another amazing experience. Disneyland really goes all out!




Another fun highlight was that Santa and his "real" reindeer were hanging out at Disneyland to meet the kids.





Of course, the kids loved the Goofy Breakfast, and we all loved eating tons of yummy food!








Trevor begged and begged and finally got his face painted. If you can't tell, it is a rocket ship blasting off!




Another highlight was finally getting Kaden to ride Maliboomer. Ethan did it with me earlier but it took some convincing to get Kaden to go up.


Here are some other random pictures from the trip.



















We had a super trip full of tons of memories. We especially loved being able to ride rides numerous times without even having to get off! We LOVED having Grandpa Hardy come with us and making our trip so fun. We did not like that our eight hour drive home turned into a 15 hour drive because of road closures, pounding snow, etc. AHHHH! We LOVED Christmas at Disney and is something that we will never forget!

2 comments:

Jordan and Luci said...

Gina! YAY! It's so nice to get an update from you guys. You made me want to go to Disneyland so bad. Your boys are getting so big! We need to see you guys! It seems like forever! Come see us!

RichWithLove said...

It looks like you guys had so much fun.... I love the look on Ethan's face at the Tower of Terror.