Disney Day 2: California Adventures

On Monday, we spent our first full day of parks at California Adventures! Again, I warn you now....these posts will have lots and lots of pictures!!

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Breakfast in our room bright and early! Muffins, breakfast bars, pop-tarts, milk, and coffee!

 **Side note** We used our phones ALOT this year....you'll see lots of back and forth between phone pics and good camera pics!!

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Waiting to get in and start our day!

Their are TWO rides that are over the top crazy long wait times....RS Racers and Toy Story Mania! Last year we made the mistake of not doing Toy Story Mania early and we waited a looonng time! So this year I had a new game plan....as soon as the park opens, grab RS Racer Fast Pass then head straight to Toy Story! And that's just what we did!

Lane & Mommy's score!

Daddy & Levi's!

We rode a couple more rides in Paradise Pier...

Then we made our way back to Radiator Springs....

I love this picture of Lane...please note that Levi wanted nothing to do with Mickey ears again this year! I had high hopes of two cuties in Mickey Ears!

We saw Mater!

And Lightning!

 (**Side Note...This year it was the one from Cars 2, Lane thought that was cool)

It was then time to ride Radiator Springs Racers...despite our best efforts, Levi was still too short to ride it this year!! So Paul and Lane went to ride...I held onto the stroller swap to ride it at night! (We didn't ride it at night last year and heard it was great at night.)

Snack time!

Then we rode Luigi's Tires...

(**Side Note...This was a funny pic we took waiting in line at a ride in Cars Land...Disney thinks of every single small detail...down to line waiting!)

We met Flick in Bugs Land and rode some rides...

 

We shook hands with Doc...

And met Sophia!

Then it was more rides and fun! 

We finally caught Disney Jr. Live this year...and it was precious!!

Right after the show it was time for the main parade, the Pixar Play Parade! We grabbed snacks, drinks, and the kids played while waiting!

So pretty at night!

Then it was time...I love this sweet pic that Paul caught of the boys leaning over to catch their first glimpse!

A few of my favorites...

 We did a few other things in the park, then headed back so I could ride RSR with Lane...

We also rode Mater's Junkyard Jamboree!

It was a full day but we had LOTS of fun!!!

Disney Day 1: Arrival & Downtown Disney

Well we survived another trip to Disneyland....and it was awesome!! We loved last year's trip so much that we did it again!! It was a great week and the boys, again, had a blast!! Well, we all did really! 

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Just like last year, I am going to document our trip by days! It helps me keep calm while sorting through ALL the pictures we took!!

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So here we go....Day 1: Arriving & Downtown Disney!!!

We left the Sunday before Thanksgiving and unlike last year, had a direct flight to Anaheim, which was great! The boys did great on the plane, but I can't say that that was the smoothest flight! We hit the worst turbulence I have ever gone through and I was very close to texting loved ones! NO LIE! But we made it.

We got to Anaheim around 12:30 or so, got to our hotel, ate lunch, waited on our room, then finally checked in. It was about 2:00 and we were able to get settled in the room and watch a movie before heading over to Downtown Disney for the evening!

We walked through the Grand Californian on our way to DD, it was so pretty inside...

 and had this huge gingerbread house, made out of real gingerbread, that smelled amazing!

We visited the lego store while waiting for dinner...

The Cowboys were playing that night and Paul didn't want to miss it, so we ate at the ESPN Zone at DD and had a front row table to a wall full of TV's....daddy was in sport heaven!

Even though it was only around 5, Levi was still on Central Time and fell asleep!

A little after half time we left and went back over to the Lego store to let Lane build and race Lego cars!

It was a good travel day and a great night!! Up next California Adventures!!

2014 North Pole Breakfast

After spending a week at Disneyland, which will be coming soon, our Elf arrived Sunday, along with our annual North Pole Breakfast!!

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The boys were eagerly awaiting him and were so excited when they woke up Sunday morning! My aunt and cousins had spent the night with us the night before, so were there for all the fun!

Bernard left the boys some adorable elf on the shelf pillowcases too!!! 

And don't forget you can follow along with our elf fun on my Instagram!