For Christmas, Grandma Marcia gave everyone a trip to Disneyland. So she bought Disneyland tickets for all of us and paid for us all to stay in a house together. The boys were anticipating our trip and were counting down the days between Christmas and our vacation.
FINALLY!!!! It was time to go on our vacation. We got all packed and ready to go on Wednesday. We waited for Channer to get out of school and then took off.
On the way down, we stopped in St. George so Chantry could run into Sportsmans, we stopped in Primm for a potty/feed the baby break and then we stopped in Barstow to stay the night. After we checked into our motel, we went across the street and had Channer's favorite, Sizzler.
Thursday morning we got up and headed out. We were an 1-1/2 from Anaheim and were headed to Knott's Berry Farm for the day. This is what we saw on our way.....
Snow in California and 30-degree weather. I was sad, very sad, and was worried our whole day would be ruined. BUT, luckily as we came into Anaheim the snow had cleared up and it was about 50 degrees. I can handle that, but still a lot colder than I had expected.
Knott's Berry Farm ended up being so much fun. The boys loved all the rides and got to see all their favorite Charlie Brown Characters.
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| Channer, Chestyn and Snoopy |
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| Chestyn and Snoopy |
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| Me, Chestyn and Peanuts Characters (I don't know all their names lol) |
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| Chestyn and Channer love Charlie Brown and that is the only one they really wanted a picture with. |
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| Tulsa with the characters. |
Chestyn was about a hair too short to go on the first ride that everyone went on, so I brought him over to this ride and it ended up being his favorite. He rode it probably a dozen times.
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| Channer and Chestyn joined Chestyn this time. |
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| Channer and Stetson on the planes. |
It was quite cold for Randilyn and so she spent a lot of time in her car seat. I made sure to get her out when the sun was shining for a few minutes here and there.
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| Chestyn flying the planes. |
Getting ready to ride the train. Tulsa took this picture and posted it on Facebook with "My Grandma is cooler than your Grandma" and she really is...THE.BEST.GRANDMA.EVER!!
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| Riding the train. |
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| Taking a little break with Stachia, Canyon, Christian, Tulsa, Chestyn and Grandma. |
The boys loved the bus ride...they had to go on it twice. Luckily there was hardly anyone at Knott's that day and we got right on every ride.
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| Chantry in the bus. |
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| Isn't she just the cutest baby ever!? I just wish it would have been about 10 degrees warmer the whole time and she could have been out more. |
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| Ginger, Charlee and Stetson on the roller coaster. |
Channer and Chestyn loved these carts that you had to pump around the track by yourself.
The semis that my boys couldn't wait to ride. They saw this ride on the computer when I was showing them what Knott's Berry Farm was and they asked a dozen times where the semi ride was.
Time for a lunch break.
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| Channer resting his legs. |
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| I guess Blade was a bit tired. |
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| Tyrell taking a break. |
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| Mmmm Grandma's soda...he always takes it and ruins it for her ;) |
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| Charlee and Chestyn held hands everywhere we went. |
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| Charlee, Channer and Chestyn with their animals they won. |
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| Back to this ride..Channer, Charlee, Tyrell, (someone we don't know), Blade and Chestyn |
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| Charlee and Chestyn enjoying the Charlie Brown show |
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| Charlee got picked to go on stage...she is in the pink jacket with the hood on her head. |
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| Channer, Charlee, Grandma and Chestyn |
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| Talking with Charlie Brown |
The kiddos wanted pictures with these crazy guys and they kept saying, take another and another....
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| My cute Channer! |
As soon as the sun went down, it got cold fast. The baby had enough and we couldn't really get her out because it was too cold, so we left the park at about 6:00. We headed over to the house that Marcia rented for us and oh my gosh it was the CUTEST house ever!!! It was about a mile from Disneyland and it slept lots of people for our big family and each room was themed. The kids called it the castle house.
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| Rapunzel's tower. |
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| Nemo Bathroom |
The kitchen was very large and I loved that even their dishes were Disney themed.
Of course my boys wanted to sleep in the cars room.
And all the little girlies wanted to sleep in the princess room.
The living room.
Rapunzel's room.
Dining area.
The kids loved that there was a big basket of toys in the living room and a big basket of toys in each closet at the house. The princess closet was full of dress up clothes and shoes and jewelry.
Chantry, the baby and I stayed in the Mickey Mouse room.
The Star Wars room was so fun for all the older boys.
Nice swimming pool area.
Another picture I got from Tulsa with her and Chestyn in the Cars room.
They had the cutest dress up things.
They had a Wii and Netflix and every Disney Movie you could think of....we were definitely never bored in this house.
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| Chantry and Blade playing baseball. |
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| Late night swimming in the heated pool. |
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| Ladd and Chantry having a dance off. |
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| Tulsa and Randilyn (Randi loved being passed around the whole time and spoiled). |
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| Stachia, Jessi and Makayla |
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| Chestyn was so tired he fell asleep right on Wyatt |
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| Makayla and Jessi dancing. |
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| Channer |
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| Colten and Laramy in a dance battle |
On Friday, we had kind of a free day. We went to the beach, but it was soooo cold that we just spent enough time to write our name in the sand and go.
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| Me and my hotty husband :) |
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| Chestyn, Stetson and Channer |
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| Looking for seashells |
We walked down the pier and the boys loved chasing the pigeons and Chantry loved feeding the pigeons skittles.
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| Chestyn and his hilarious father. |
My boys just love these smashing penny machines, so we couldn't pass one up when we saw it on the pier.
It was so cold out on the end, but we had to take a few pictures.
There was a nickel arcade close by, so we headed there for a little while. The boys enjoyed it.
Then we spent the rest of Friday in the house. We got in the pool for a while.
Played some board games.
And had us a little BBQ. Chantry may or may not have almost started the house on fire.
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| Don't do something if you don't want it to end up on Facebook and my blog. :) |
We made the kids go to bed early so we could get up and go to Disneyland the next day (when I say early it was like 10:00).
DISNEYLAND
When Chestyn woke up the next day and we told him it was time to go to Disneyland, he said "We are at Disneyland". He thought the whole time that the house we were staying in was Disneyland. So cute!
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| Riding the tram from parking to the park. |
We got a map when we got to California Adventures and Channer kept reading it and trying to tell us where to go next, so dang cute.
Of course we headed right over to Cars Land. The boys could not wait to see Radiator Springs, Lightening McQueen, and all their other favorite cars characters. Our very first ride was the tractor tippin' ride.
Call me a sucker, but I was in love with Cars land. They put so much detail into it. The Radiator Springs looked just like it did in the movie.
We lucked out for the Cars Racer ride. When we got over there it said 105 minute wait. I knew Chantry wouldn't wait that long and I wanted to ride it so bad. Some nice guy came up to us and offered us his fast pass. Chantry and Randilyn didn't get to ride and Chantry was nice enough to let me and the boys go. It was my favorite ride. They really put a lot of thought and detail into it. Not sure I would have wanted to wait the 105 minutes to ride it though. Ginger and their family got in line and ended up waiting 3 hours. YUCK!!
Once again it was a cold day and had to get Randilyn out when we could.
Chantry's dad rented him a chair to ride around on and I think we all should have rented one ;)
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| Taking a break for a diaper change and feeding. |
Most of the family met up and had lunch together and rode the Pirates of the Caribbean together. Even Randi got to ride.
I was really disappointed in the lack of Characters. Pluto was literally the ONLY character we got a picture with. We saw Mickey, Goofy, and Minnie, but they all quit right when we got to them. Last time we went to Disneyland we saw tons and tons, so I was a bit sad.
Once again at dark it got really cold so we left Disneyland at about 6:00. I was bummed our day was over and I was surprised at how crowded it was. I could have used another couple days there, but we did have so much fun the day we were there. The boys had lots of fun and couldn't stop talking about it. I loved going back to the house and hearing all the little cousins talk about their favorite ride/part.
We stayed up late playing board games and letting the kids play. I didn't want to go to bed, knowing it was our last night there.
Sunday, we got up and packed and we were gone.
This picture below totally looks like Channer is crying saying goodbye to the house, but what really happened was that I told him to say goodbye house and I was taking a picture. He wouldn't say goodbye and pose for the picture, so I walked off....then he started crying and told me to take his picture. LOL!!!
The boys have already asked me several times when we get to go back to that house. As much as they loved Disneyland and Knott's and the beach, the house is what they loved the most. :)
It was a long drive home. We stopped in Barstow for lunch and in Primm again for a potty break. As cold as it seemed in Anaheim with the 50-60 degree weather, we came home to this....
YUCK!!! I want to go back!
Thank you so much Marcia for putting this vacation together for us. So much planning and excitement and it comes and goes way too fast. We all had such a great time. Love you!!
