Trip to Disneyland (for Halloween...I know I'm Late)

I know these are late going up...I just never had time to finish it. I am sooo behind in blogging. I will back dating my pictures until we can get caught up.
We first got to the Grand California Hotel.

The kids got dressed to go trick or treating at the California Adventures. Alex is a Jedi and Grace is a boxer (we put makeup on her eye...to have a black eye)

Tristan was a Jedi also and Kaleb was Peter Pan. We forgot his hat and we didn't have Light Sabers for Tristan and Alex.

The first ride was Tower of Terror. Alex's friend, Grace, came with us. She was terrified before we got on the ride. She was crying so hard that people were staring at us. You don't usually see 9 year olds crying before a ride....however look at her face on the ride. She is very happy. We are in the back row on the right side. It goes...Alex, Grace, Jaimee. Then the row infront of me was Kaleb, Jason, and Tristan (you can't see him because he is hiding his head).

We took a break from Trick or Treating to eat churros. (more sugar)

Kids trick or treating.

We stopped for a photo opt.

I guess I wasn't strong enough?

So...then the kids tried....no matter how many times we come....the kids always want to try and pull out the sword.

Chip and Dales treehouse.

Jason is taking a break in Toon Town.

We were eating breakfast and the characters were coming around. I saw Tigger and then I turned around again and my kids were on Tiggers back. I about died!!! I was hoping that Tigger wanted them there and that they didn't knock him down and jump on him. Ahhhh!

Us at Mickey's house!

Tigger grabbed me while we were eating breakfast.

He was messing with Jason too!

What are you looking for Alex? Gold?

Me and Jay on Tom Sawyer's Island.

Here we are on Splash Mountain. Grace in front, Alex, Kaleb (can't see him), Jaimee, Tristan, and Jason. Grace and Alex got it the most. I barely got wet at all.

This was such a long day that while we were waiting to be seated for dinner, Kaleb fell asleep on their couch. It was hilarious!!

We celebrated Tristan's birthday at Goofy's Kitchen. The princess came over and sang him Happy Birthday.

Of course Jason wanted a picture of him and his new girlfriend! haha

Here is Tristan in his birthday hat and birthday buttons. Disneyland gave him a Happy Birthday button to wear. All the workers kept telling Tristan, "Happy Birthday." He loved it. It made him feel so special.

One night was sooo crazy that Jason took the boys back to the room and just the girls went back out. Here is Grace and Alex infront of Disneyland.

Me and Al.

We took a girl picture!

This was down on Main Street. There was so many people taking pictures in the front of the big pumpkin that we just decided to take a seat on the side and do a picture. We went on some of the roller coasters that night. Grace wanted to ride Space Mountain again....so we waited for 2 hours in line. It sucked!!!!!!! We were so done after that!

Alex and Grace...playing a baseball knock down game. Grace knocked enough balls down and so did Kaleb.

Grace won the monkey and then gave it to Tristan. That made him so happy.

On one of the other games...Grace and Alex both won so Alex gave the whale to Grace. Everyone was sharing. How nice!

Alex and Grace were sooo tired that they layed down in the elevator on the way back (this one was after our girls night out) Our feet hurt so bad that we all went back and soaked just our feet in HOT bath water.

Jason and Kaleb on Dumbo.

Us on Splash mountain again! It was so fun!

Me, Grace, and Alex went on the Maliboomer (we call it sling shot). This ride scares the crap out of me!! Look at Graces face! She is terrified!

How cute!!

I took a picture of the Tower of Terror. We (me and Kaleb) are in the front row on the left. Alex (in the white hat) and then Tristan, and then Grace are behind me in the second row on the left. I took a video of this ride...kaleb was scared out of his mind. The worker tried to stop the whole ride in the beginning and let Kaleb off because he was crying. Absolutely not!! We waited in line and he was going on this ride whether he liked it or not! So I took a video of it. For some reason all the videos are going to the bottom of this post. Be patient while you are watching it....it will be black (in the dark) for a little while and then you will see a clear view of Kaleb and if you look behind us you can see Alex, Tristan, and Grace. But don't look for them the first time. Watch Kaleb the whole time. Watch the whole video and then watch it again watch for the others.

Tristan coming down...the current at the bottom of the slide would whip them under if someone wasn't there to catch them. Yikes!

Kaleb going down water slide.

We took a break and went swimming!

The kids went up to do kareoke. It was High School Musical songs. We love those!!! We all bust out dancing and singing at our house with these songs.

I made Alex put the bride hat on and Tristan put the groom hat on. (I know that sounds weird cuz their brother and sister...haha)

We celebrated his birthday while we were there!!

Tigger and Eyore....how cute!

I am Jack Sparrow! He plays the part really well...haha!

Their teacher told them to get credit for being gone at Disneyland...they had to eat at "The World's Best Corn Dogs" and they really were!

Us sitting out on the benches...waiting for 2 hours for the fire works to start!

It was sooo cold that we had to share our coats with the boys...because Jason forgot the boys coats when he met up with us.

Kaleb didn't have a coat to wear because it was warmer during the day...so we were all sharing. Kaleb is wearing Alex's friends coat.

Which one is really sleeping? Who is more tired?

We were waiting for the fireworks to start. We got really great seats (on benches)

Is it just a little cold?

The girls literally fell asleep while we waited like 2 hours on the benches for the fireworks to start.

Here is a movie clip of the fireworks episodes!


Here is a kareoke video of Alex, Grace (one of Alex's best friends), and Jason who wanted so bad to just bust-a-move up on the stage. He couldn't decide whether to stay or leave (secretly he didn't want people to know that he is a High School Musical groupee)

Kaleb being scared on Tower of Terror. I am a horrible mother...to video him being terrified! (but it is oh-so-funny!) This was the 2nd time we rode it...and he was still terrified.

Angel or Devil? Is stealing... on purpose or accident?

Okay....you know how we question daily which one (devil or angel) our children are portraying. Well we had to have a life lesson just recently with Kaleb. We went gorcery shopping and you know all those toys that are at the check stand area...well Kaleb was playing with a plastic play phone and I told him to put it back because it was time to go and of course he made it look like he had put it away. I put all the groceries away in the car and Alex was buckling Kaleb up when he says, "at least I still have my phone!" Alex started screaming, "Mom!" Soooo, I took Kaleb out of the car and told Alex to keep the doors locked with her and Tristan inside. I started to walk up to the front of Walmart and Kaleb was already kicking and screaming. He kept saying very loud.."I don' t want to say I'm sorry!" Everyone is looking at me in the parking lot like I was stealing a child or something. This bell ringer was outside and she kept watching me. Finally I make my way up to the doors. I set Kaleb down and I tried to explain that people who steal have to go to jail. I told him I was going to call Uncle Silver (whose a policeman) and tell him what he did. That made him scream louder. Threats were not working. He was having a total mental breakdown infront of walmart. I played everycard possible with him. Of course before the jail thing we talked about how Jesus would be very sad if he did not go in and apologize. Finally this bell ringer, who had been staring at me this whole time, steps in and says, "If you go in and apologize then I will let you ring the bell." He stops crying, stands up and says okay. We went in and found the checker and he hands it to the checker and apologizes and then the checker looks at him and says, "did you take that on accident?" Of course he is going to say, "oh yah...it was on accident! Yah sure that is what happened...I didn't take it on purpose." So after talking about making good choices....the checker lets him off easy by letting him say it was on accident! NO IT WASN'T!! HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING! Anyway....there it is....he is 3 almost 4 and he already had his first offense. I don't think he will do it again! At least not anytime soon. (I hope)

Music!

Okay....I put a new juke box on my blog...with all new music. Every song on there has a meaning! I put some songs on there in lue of certain people. Check it out and maybe you can find the song that I put on there because of you. There were a million songs I wanted to keep adding but I got excited about putting a new juke box on so I never finished with adding even more songs. Also...I just have to say that anyone who is reading Twilight....I bet your so excited about the movie!!! Ahhhhh!!! I can't wait!!! I am reading book 4 right now and I hide in the bathroom just so that I can read!!! I know that there are other moms out there that do the same thing!!!! (I think my husband has caught onto me!!!) Anyway, I love this series. If anyone out there knows of another series that is just as good....please let me know. My mother-in-law and I have been hunting down another really good series. I know someone out there must know about something! I am working on getting my Disneyland pictures blogged. I have Monday and Tuesday off of work because of Veterans Day...so I will try and work on it!