Disneyland #3

Here are a bunch of pictures and hopefully just a quick review of our fun day at Disneyland.

We decided to go up the night before and stay the night so we could get in the park right at as the gates opened. My brother and sister-in-law, who are big Disneyland fans, gave us a book for Christmas, "The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2010." I was ready to follow it to a "T". For some odd reason, I don't know, maybe it is the fact that we have 4 kids (I gotta blame it on someone) we were running about 4 hours behind. We didn't get to our cool hotel room till late, which meant we didn't get to sleep till late and you don't want to wake any of these Spendloves up any earlier than you have to or not until they have had a good 8 hours of sleep. Especially, the morning of this great adventure.

All that didn't really matter. We had a great day!

Our first ride was on an old fire engine, which took us down main street.
Lauren pretending she was a princess doing what she wanted to outside Sleeping Beauty's Castle waiting for someone to come wait on her hand and foot.

This trip to Disneyland provides us with lots of photo ops with some entertaining Disney characters.

Cruella De Vil was as rude crude and evil as she is in the movie. I am surprised she even stopped to let us take a picture. It was great.

Alice in Wonderland-Since Lauren has seen the previews for the new Alice in Wonderland Movie she has become a little obsessed with Alice. She even thought one of her primary teachers was Alice. So she was so excited to "really" meet her.

Yeah! Our whole family in a picture and with MICKEY MOUSE!! We had to wait in a nice line for this one.

R for Rachel

L for Lauren

{We should have planned better when naming our children. Ethan and Matthew didn't have a letter to stand by.}

We decided to start out at Disney's California Adventure. We were meeting the rest of our family later and they were only going to Disneyland and with our passes we are able to go to both parks and we haven't been to DCA yet. There are some great rides!

While Steve, Ethan, Matthew & Rachel went on the California Screamin ride...

Lauren and I went on the Mickey Mouse Ferris Wheel, the non scary, easy fun ride.

Well, to tell the truth. We were both scared. I guess I am really scared of heights. It was a super huge Ferris Wheel and we were hanging for a long time waiting for all the cars to get full. Luckily, we weren't on the ones that zig zagged there way back and forth as we went around.

We were told that California Screamin was AWESOME!! So then this crew wanted to ride the Ferris Wheel. I said, "Go have fun, I'll take Lauren another ride". Here they are and apparently Steve is wanting to hold the special bag that is provided in the car and the other kids were trying to stay as still as possible. Crazy Ride!

Lauren and Jesse, she wouldn't get her picture with Woody-silly girl.

Lauren and I on the Jumpin Jellyfish! It was a little bit closer to the ground.

Ethan posing while on our way to California Soarin, which was Grandma "S" favorite ride. We all loved it.

On our way out of the park guess what we got to watch? Yes, a High School Musical Performance. And it wasn't just the girls that were enthralled by it.

So we are now back to Disneyland, have met up with our family and are entering It's A Small World-the longest most relaxing ride.

So, Scott, Kari, Andy, Emily and Mitchell were here from Texas for their spring break. Summer, Spencer and Nephi got to come since Stu & Kathy went away for the weekend and Grandma was taking care of them. Grandma was not going to miss out. Luckily, for all of us and for more than one reason, Aunt Sarah, Aunt Rebecca and Steve P. took time off work to come too. So much fun guys, thanks!!

Tarzan's Treehouse

The Princess and the Frog

Autopia-I think I got a picture of everyone that went on this ride. Lauren, Ethan and I were in the first two cars. Lauren was crazy a driver but not as crazy as Rachel. Rachel's car broke down which blocked traffic for everyone else and they all got to go again. Well, apparently Rachel's driving made Grandma laugh REALLY hard. It might have been Rachel's highlight of the day.

Grandma and I took Spencer and Nephi on the Finding Nemo Submarine. The line was extra long but the boys did good and the ride was great until the sharks had to come along. But we all survived.

Some one got a hold of the camera.

Fairyland

Gotta love this pic

Snow White's Grott and Wishing Well

While we were waiting in line for Peter Pan's Flight, Aunt Rebecca was playing the role of entertaining Aunt and was trying to occupy Nephi. We all knew he loved Snow White and from where we were you could see Snow White's castle and her wicked step mom in the window. So Aunt Rebecca pointed it out to him. This TOTALLY FREAKED Nephi out. You would think that as quick as this ride was, the line would move much quicker, especially for Nephi's sake. The only one that could hold Nephi and comfort him was Steve P. So Thankful!

One of my FAVS

Matthew was trying to hide from me so I wouldn't take his picture. After a few tries of him peeking out...

I got him.

Can't leave an amusement park without riding the carousal.

So that's all the pics I have. Which means we have left the park.

Love Disneyland, even if it does involves crowds.