Jack's Special Day

Jack's Special Day at Disneyland!!

Wow......what a fun day at disneyland I had with Jack. We met up with his friend Phillippe and his family. I really enjoyed spending the day with their family. We had such a good time. It is so fun to see your kid get along so well with other kids. Jack and Phillippe are like two peas in a pod. Phillippe has a twin sister Annika and they all get a long so well. We had fun doing all the BIG kid rides (different from my expirience yesterday of being at fantasyland all day ;)

Space Moutain was the favorite ride....and we went on that twice...also they loved splash moutain and thunder moutain. We seemed to go on a lot of rides, but although it was semi-crowed we didn't have to wait long for ride because we mostly did fast passes.

Jack and Phillippe on Space Moutain

It was so fun that they could ride together on the rides. Unfortunetly, my camera battery died...so I was only able to get the one picture. I will try to get more from Phillipee's mom...but in the meantime this is the only picture I have.

We stayed until about 7:30. I am really glad I was able to have this time with just Jack and getting to know his friends family more. I really have a lot of respect for them.

**Update**
Phillippe's mom sent me more photos...yay! Here they are.

Special Day with Charly

Special Day with Charly!!

This is our week at Disneyland. Just me and Boo went today. I have so much fun with her. We got to do whatever she wanted. We spent most of our time in Fantasyland. Peter Pan, Carosel, Pinocchio, Casey Jr. train, Dumbo, Storybook Land, Small World, and Pixy Hollow.

We were pretending to be snakes in the monkey cage on the Circus Train.

We ran to the green Dumbo and got it!! :)

I'm a sucker and bought some Cotten Candy.....she was over the moon!

She even took some home to share with Jack and Grandma & Grandpa!!

Ok, she LOVES it!

This is the pixie Irridessa. She was the first to sign in Charly's signature book (we are going to give that a try.) I guess she is the pixie that gives light (according to the well informed male cast member who was more than happy to impart his knowledge of pixy hollow on us).

This was just too cute.....Charly is in deep thought.

Tinker Bell! I have a feeling this year's trips to Disneyland will include lots of meeting of characters especially the girl ones.....much different than the jedi training and boyish things we have done in the past!!

I love you Charly....I had so much fun with you. You are such a sweetheart....my favorite thing was that I got to hug you about a million times today. And when we were in line you kissed me on both cheeks about 100 times!!!!

Disneyland!

DISNEYLAND!!

No year is complete without out a trip to the Magic Kingdom! So we decided to start our year off right with a day at Disneyland. We got passes from Grandma & Grandpa for Christmas. Monday we went together as a family and then the rest of this week I am taking each kid by themselves for a special day at Disneyland.

This is one of my favorite pictures! (BTW soon I will figure out and be organized enough to get the pictures in the right order and right direction!!) We were about to go on Soaring over California. This was Charly's first time and she LOVED it!!

Gotta Love Pluto!

One of many pictures with Mickey Mouse

Charly's first time in the Princess place.

Belle spent a long time talking to Charly....that was really special.

Our bad. Jim and I convinced Charly to go on Space Moutain....the only reason that she would go on it was because we told here that there was a giant floating Chocolate Chip cookie inside. We really down played the part that the ride is really fast. She did not like it. Jim and I felt really bad afterwards. Sorry Boo....mom and dad scarred you for life!

Nothing beats Small World at Christmastime.

Ahhh.....all together at the Christmas tree!! Well...we are missing sweet Violet.

It was the coldest day and she was sick the day before so we didn't want to take her out. It was strange to not take a stroller or have to pack baby food or worry about diapers. Violet spent a great day with Grandma and Grandpa.

Another note worthy thing to mention of course is the beloved Christmas parade. So glad that we could see it before they stopped showing it. That is so magical for me!

Christmas eve 2010

Merry Christmas!!!

This year we decided to recreate an old tradition in my family. For some strange reason, we would wake up early on Christmas eve and go out in our neighborhood and ride our bikes as many miles as we were old that year. Well we don't have the right neighborhood nor the biking abilities yet......but we decided to start a new tradition where we rent bikes and bike around beautiful San Diego. This year we rented a tandom bike (the bike shope wouldn't let us put Violet in any kind of bike contraption because she is too young).

We started in Coronado and road the ferry to San Diego to Sea Port Village........

And what did we do with silly.....well she came along for the ride in the stroller!

Merry Christmas!!

Halloween is Here!!

Halloween is Charly's favorite holiday. She talks about it all year long. I can not believe how many times that little girl changed her mind on what she was going to be for halloween. It went from Strawberry shortcake to bumblebee transformer to princess to who knows what else....I can't keep track. We finally ended up on Strawberry shortcake. Luckily we were able to borrow a costume from her friend so we didn't have to spend any money. They also had a snow white costume for Violet. For some reason I didn't have an opinion about what Violet was going to be, so I was ok with the Snow white. Jack was Mario.....and was pretty set on that, so that was the only one we had to buy. I think he has made up his mind on what he wants to be for the next 5 years or so.

It's not even Halloween yet, but we had a big Halloween weekend. We went to Sea World with some friends and went trick or treating. We then zoomed off to our Church halloween party....and it was pretty funny cause we came home to Jim all dressed up for halloween. He threw this costume together at the last minute. I was pretty impressed. He was a beat up injured scout master.....which suits him because that is his calling at church. It was funny cause he walked around telling people that he needs to be released :) The pictures are good but don't totally do the costume justice. But I do have to say that I am so glad that I have a husband as cool as him!! Some husbands don't dress up.....but mine does!! That makes me proud. Well I am going to stop jibberjabbing and load some pics.....cause I actually have some!

Oh and I almost forgot...our family won 3rd place in the costume contest!!