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.

Day 2 of Disneyland

Here we were on Halloween waiting for our friend to come and sign us in. The girls were SO excited to wear their costumes in the park.

We started off the day in California Adventure because we had a little Meet and Greet with Chip and Dale! Lilly wasn't sure what to make of the huge rodents but Maddy and Josey loved them

Then we hit some rides over in the Bug's Life.

Lilly had fun playing in the water features while Maddy and Josey went on lots of rides. It was SOOO hot that day and CROWDED! Dustin and I were really disappointed. We have gone to Disneyland many times on Halloween and it is always dead. So I stand by going on Halloween. Just don't go when Halloween falls on a Friday and Nevada Day. It was seriously packed! I really wish that we had gotten that dream fast pass that day instead of the day before.

As we were walking through the park Lilly came upon a talking garbage can. We didn't have the camera or we would have taken a picture. But there was a garbage can that was talking to people. She thought that was pretty amazing. Well it noticed her and started talking to her like she was Cinderella. It asked her to dance with him and they started dancing together while he sang "So this is love". The rest of the time we were at Disneyland she couldn't figure out why none of the other garbage cans were talking to her. We had to keep telling her that there is only one garbage can that talks, his name is Push (that was his name). But still she would go up to every garbage can and try to talk to them and ask them to wake up. It was really pretty funny. We miss Push.

We were able to meet up with one of Dustin's best friends that happen to be at Disneyland with his family at the same time. We didn't get any pictures but it was nice to meet up with old friends.

On our way back over to Disneyland we were able to catch the High School Musical 3 parade that Maddy really wanted to see. She even got picked to go and dance with the group. She was very excited.

And Lilly finally fell asleep..... first nap in four days. The joys of a 2 year old.

Check out those lips.
While she was sleeping we ran into Jasmine and Aladdin. Luckily she woke up as we were leaving so she could see them because she loves them.

Then we took entirely too many pictures on the carousel.....what was that about?

I LOVE this picture though!

Then we met up with Snow White for our special little Meet and Greet with the Princesses. She was so nice! I can't thank her enough. The girls felt really special to KNOW Snow White and not to have to wait in line!

And then we watched the parade and this was literally Lilly's face through the entire thing. She LOVED IT!

Last Day in the Park

Well we started off taking some pictures......



But then ended up not taking anymore pictures for almost the whole day! We left the camera in our locker on accident and just never ended up back on Main Street to get it out. But it was a fun day and it had cooled off a lot and was a lot less crowded so it was a bit more fun. I took Lilly to watch the parade again because I think that was one of her favorite things while Dustin took Maddy and Josey on Thunder Mountain over and over again. I finally bought her something and decided on these little princess figurines. I should have bought them on the first day they kept her SO entertained. She was completely contented to just sit on a bench and arrange them over and over again.

I brought glow sticks from the dollar store in every day and it was nice to save some money! We whipped them out when the sun would go down and the girls had fun making fun different jewelry and shapes out of them.

And even Dustin had fun with the glow sticks. Can you tell this was the last night of the last day of a long vacation and maybe he was a little tired and delirious?

We ended up having to double up in the stroller for most of the night as EVERYONE was tuckered out. I would have sat in it if I thought I could have fit.....and Dustin would push me.

On the way out we FINALLY found Minnie and Maddy was so excited. This was the last picture we took before we headed for home.

It was a hard and exhausting vacation but we had a great time. I think Dustin and I have had our Disneyland fill for a few years! Now we are just trying to get back into real life again!