First Day at Disneyland

We arrived at our hotel Wednesday afternoon and spent the rest of the day swimming and hanging out and Lilly spent time with the ipod, her favorite thing. She requests the Jonas Brothers!

Here we are heading over to Disneyland on our first day. We had a friend that worked at Disneyland that was able to sign us in so we were very excited. We were supposed to meet her at 10:00. We had gotten about 5 hours of sleep considering no one could fall asleep the night before and Maddy was up by 4:30 so excited to go to Disneyland. So we finally got up and got ready and decided to just head over to the park even though we were going to be early. I told Lilly that Cinderella was waiting for her and she seriously took off sprinting yelling, "I'm coming Cinderella!! I'm coming! Lilly's coming!" It was really cute.

Check out those poses!
I think Dustin was just as excited as the girls.

Well we ended up getting there almost an hour early! This is what Lilly did to pass the time.Our friend Kathie finally made it there and signed us in and immediately we found Mickey our front and had to get a picture.
Check out the sky in this picture. It almost looks like a fake Disneyland backdrop doesn't it?

As we walked through the castle they were handing out the dream fast passes! We were so excited that we each got one for the day.

We went on the Peter Pan ride which seems to be our traditional first ride. And then headed straight over to The jedi training that the girls had been talking about for weeks. They had worn their Star Wars costumes just for this purpose.

Maddy got picked in the first round and was so excited. Josey I think was a little too short back in the third row of screaming kids and was crushed that didn't get to go up. So we told her we would keep going back until she got picked.

Unfortunately our camera ran out of batteries RIGHT as Maddy was fighting Darth Vader so that was all we got. She beat him though.

Here is Maddy with her Jedi diploma for defeating Darth Vader.

Luckily Josey got picked in the next round so we didn't have to stay ALL day. Maddy was next to her pointing at her and screaming, "PICK HER!".

She also defeated Darth Vader and this time we captured it on the camera.

This is such a funny video I wish it wasn't sideways. This was Maddy while Josey was up on stage. Dustin and I were cracking up and so were the people around us.

And here she is with her Jedi diploma.

Then we headed over for some more rides.

The teacups were of course a favorite.......of the girls......only.

And this was their favorite part of the Storybook ride.Then we went over to the Princess Fantasy Faire. By this time the girls had taken off half of their costumes because it was so hot! Which is why they are wearing such odd clothing. Lilly was NOT taking off her dress though.

This was Lilly's dream to meet Cinderella. She was so happy to get to meet "big giant Cinderella".

On our way to Disneyland we found out that my sister Alli is good friends with Snow White. So we told her that we would say hello. So we saw Snow White walking away from the princess place and I yelled to her that Alli Judd said hello. So then we were able to watch her in the show and she was SO sweet to my girls. She just kept waving at them during the dance and talked to them for a little bit afterwards.

And then she came down and danced with Lilly. Lilly was in heaven! Then that night she talked with my sister and said that she wanted to set up a Meet and Greet with the princesses for my girls the next day. The girls were shocked that Snow White wanted to meet them!

Josey attached herself to this princess. It was really funny.

Here is Lilly in one of the millions of gift shops with all the princess dolls.

And that was our first day. We were exhausted already.