Disneyland in January!

We took a little southern California trip for a wedding last week and decided it would be fun to stop in at one of our favorite places and play for a few days before the wedding. It turned out to be an extra fun trip because some of our best friends were going to be there the same time!! We got to spend two days with the Brown's and the kids had a blast! It really was nice to have friends there with us...the kids were much more entertained with friends there!

We left Wednesday morning at 4 am and drove straight to Disneyland. The kids did pretty well on the 7 hour drive down and they were super excited to go to Disneyland that day. Although, I think the early morning rise and long drive backfired on us...I'm pretty sure my kids were the only ones whining and complaining about walking and riding rides more than any kid in the whole park. Seriously?!! What is there to complain about in Disneyland?!! Yeah so they were pretty crabby, but we did have some fun. Needless to say, the second day was much better than the first when our friends were there!
Tram ride to the front gates. The fun begins!

Mommy made sure to take Kali to the princesses first. Luckily the line wasn't too long this time. Madelyn wanted nothing to do with the princesses, she wouldn't let go of me and screamed when we got closer to anyone dressed up in a costume!




Madelyn picked up pretty quick on what we do in Disneyland. Her new word that was repeated over and over was "ride", and she would say it until we got on a ride. It was way cute!
We had a lot of fun this time because Kali was tall enough to ride our favorite rides like Space Mountain and Thunder Mountain! She was pretty brave and tried all of them and rode them several times!
Just some really funny pirate singers that tried to auction Zach off. Here Zach's showing his muscles to see how much he's worth :)


DAY 2: Weather couldn't have been more perfect! It was in the 70's!!
We met up with our good friends and everyone was HAPPY! It was great to see the Brown's! We've missed them since they moved to Utah!
Hannah was 3 months old when we first met the Brown's! Crazy how time flies! She is almost 8 now! Kali loved having Hannah there!!

Madelyn trying to kiss Josh! She wanted to sit next to him in his stroller more than her own.

Zach and Nolan were two peas in a pod! Having a blast together!

Zach and Nolan got picked to be in the Star Wars Jedi training show and it was super cute! Here's Zach waiting to start his training. He was so serious. They even got to fight Darth Vader! Hopefully I'll get some videos up later.

Madelyn's favorite ride was "It's a small world" and she would get up and start dancing and point to all the fun things. It was so fun to see her so excited.

Madelyn is clapping for herself after stacking her fruit at the restaurant that night. haha!
Day 3: We started the day with a big yummy breakfast at Goofy's Kitchen. The food is awesome and the kids love all the characters that come around to our table. It was nice that it wasn't very busy so we got to see a lot of fun characters. :) Madelyn still wasn't so sure of them though!







We rode the monorail into the park and then spent a few more hours with the Brown's until we had to say our good-byes. We had a great trip and we will be returning this year sometime to get our money's worth out of our season passes! Yay!!