Disneyland Day 2

This is the way Daxton rode most of the rides...licking any part of it he could.  Hence the reason he ended up with a nasty cold on the trip.  Mikayla threw up the night before we left and Maylee once on the trip, but somehow all the sickies didn't stop us from having a blast!

Mikayla was obsessed with the wishing well.  Each time she would wish to be a fairy princess and was quite devastated when it didn't happen.  Dustin explained that sometimes wishes take a while to come true, but she was still pretty upset.  Each day she would wish multiple times to be a fairy princess.  Luckily Snow White snuck into our house last night and left some fairy princess wings (although according to Mikayla they are pretend ones).  In her note Snow White said it takes lots of practice and hard work to be a fairy princess!

The girls have a pretty awesome Dad and on our early admission day he snuck into the Frozen meet and greet ticket line and got them tickets to meet Anna and Elsa!

Thunder Mountain Railroad for Grandad!

Daxton was in love with Eeyore!

I had to include this picture of when Dustin and I rode Splash Mountain. I totally didn't notice the other couple in the picture until later and it gave us all a good laugh...which was needed since Mom's phone got wet and ruined on the ride.

We were told we had to try Dole Whips by the Tiki Room and they were awesome!  Daxton's favorite thing the whole trip seemed to be the Tiki room.  He went nuts during the show!  The whole time he was squawking right along with all the birds and flapping his arms like crazy.  It was hilarious!

That evening we headed over to California Adventure and saw the Pixar Parade.  We loved it!

Daxton would literally be handed over to my Dad and would instantly fall asleep.  We need him around more often!

I went to get Fast Pass tickets for the Grizzly River Run and out popped World of Color tickets.  It was a great accident!  We had an awesome spot to see everything and the show was out of this world.  Some friends had told us about these Mickey ears that had lights to go along with the show.  For some reason, Mikayla had it in her head that she just HAD to have one of those hats.  Dustin ran and got some and of course, Mikayla wasn't interested in them much because she was too tired to function and fell asleep in the show.  Hopefully one day these kids realize that their Dad is pretty amazing and would do anything for them...including buying and wearing silly Mickey ears to make their Disneyland trip magical!

It only took a couple minutes for the lights on the hat to put Maylee to sleep before the show even started!

Disneyland Day 1

Oh the excitement!

We had given the kids Mickey and Minnie pjs the night before and Mikayla insisted on wearing her nightgown to Disneyland the first day.  So be it!

Right away we saw Mickey and some other characters, then the castle, which Mikayla had been dreaming and dreaming of seeing.  I think all the people totally overwhelmed our kids.  The park opened at 10:00 and at 10:55 Mikayla was begging to go back to the hotel.  Luckily we were able to distract them and get a full day of fun out of them!  Disneyland sure is tiring for all involved though.  There is no way on heaven or earth we could've conquered all we did without my parents there.  We owe them big time!

We went on Peter Pan first and quickly discovered both girls afraid of any rides that were dark.  Daxton loved it.  So naturally we hit up the carousels next.  At Disneyland.  Yikes.

Mickey and the Magical Map show was awesome.  All of the kids loved it and there were a ton of characters in it, which was magical for our kids.

The best part of the day for Mikayla was collecting streamers after the show.

Mom and Dad were amazing and let Dustin and I go on a lot of rides while they watched kids.  Rider swap on the bigger rides was awesome so we could all go on the rides and take turns watching kids.

Hands down It's a Small World was the all of the kids' favorite ride.  We went on it a bunch!

So we hopped on the train thinking it would be a good break for the kids and of course, there was a scary dark tunnel with dinosaurs in it.  Why does Disney do that?  While we were on the train we spotted Belle and were able to run off the train and catch her.  I wish we could've captured the wonder and awe in Mikayla's eyes as she got to meet her first real princess!  Maylee did not want anything to do with any of the characters though.

One of Dustin's dreams since he was little was to eat at the Blue Bayou restaurant that overlooks the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.  My parents took the kids back to the hotel so we could go on some "big kid" rides and out to eat.  It was a blast!  Dinner was delicious and Dustin got the fancy lemonade he had been dreaming of!