Monday, September 17, 2012

Disneyland 2012

This trip was a blast and dubbed the "Special family" by my mom. The trip started off with loading 5 adults two car seats, a wheel chair, a giant stroller with a ton of bags and a cpap machine into a suburban. Oh yes it was sung! With Grandma Dee getting car sick very easily she sat in front while Warren drove. Autumn and I had the two captain chairs in the center with a cooler in between us for snacks. My parents and Hunter sat in the bench in the back and where super snuggley i'm sure :) The drive was only about 6 hours but with a 7 month pregnant me and Grandma and her lasix we stopped a ton. We checked into the Hotel around 10pm and all crashed out in hopes of getting to the park early the nest morning. Only to find out it did not open until 10am on Thursday's.

Our Hotel had awesome hot breakfast every morning so we started everyday with full bellies and hot coco!  Another awesome feature was the shuttle that picked us up and dropped us off in front of our rooms and in front of Disneyland was amazing! Like i said before we were a "special family" with two huge strollers, 4 bags, 4 kids under 6, a wheel chair, an 80 year old, my parents, two preggers, Warren and Brian the "pack mules".   We were for sure a sight to be seen.

We spent a total of three days at the park. The first day was entirely California Adventure. Hunter had to go see what he called "matter town"! That kid sure was in heaven as he walked into Radiator Springs and saw Matter, Lightning Maqueen, and all the life size characters driving around the roads with him. He felt the magic!

We found out later that day that California was having record hi temps and it was 106 degrees and muggy. That just added a layer of fun init self as we found ways to cool off apart from getting completely naked.

With Having two wheel chairs (grandma dee and myself) we got to go to the front of almost every line and did not have to wait. The kids loved that!

(I was in a wheel chair because i would walk about thirty minutes and then i was light headed and dizzy and the pain in the back of my legs was so bad, 7 months pregnant and a theme park was not a great idea.)  My Mom pushed me for three days bless her soul! She is my hero. Thanks Mom!!

Day 2 and 3 we spent in Disneyland. Shopping, ridding rides, watching shows and eating awesome food. Oh how i love Disneyland! We will be going back but not until our youngest child is 48 inches. The looks on their faces when they are told they are too short to go on a ride is just so sad.


In Radiator Springs, Papa, Autumn, Hunter, Trace, Tanna





Hunter was not to happy to leave "Matter town"


Oh, Autumn climbing! shocker!!


Me and Jen trying in ears. 


Autumn's first pair of ears! 


This was the girl that made them for her and her name was Autumn too! 




Dumbo! 



Papa riding the tea cups with the kids so the preggers would not puke :)




Autumn meeting her favorite Princess yet she would not take a picture with her
(hence the reason i am in it)


Hunter ran up to Belle and said "i'm gonna marry you"  she thought that was pretty funny. 



Tanna loves Belle too! 



Princess Ariel! 


Princess Tiana! 


Me and Mom rockin my wheel chair! 


Autumn loves Trace. they are buds. 


Autumn and My mom 


tickles! 


Autumn loving Papa


Water! 



Mickey Mouse's chair in his house! 


Meeting Mickey! 




That is a very sad face.



cooling off by the water. 


All tuckered out. 


chip! 



As you can see Autumn was not a fan of the characters and would not ever stand in the photos :(


Mom and Dad! 30 years!! 




part of out train! 


Jen's family


My family! Soon to be 5!


Jen at 12 weeks and Me at 30! um i'm HUGE! if only we could get a pick of all four of us sisters together that would be a hoot. This is the first and i am sure last time we will all be preggers at the same time. 


Kids getting there skeleton drawings. (which immediately washed off on splash mountain so we had to go back and get them done again)


the way most of the trip went me in the wheel chair and autumn riding on what is left of my lap ;) 




Our monkey always climbing something. 





these two where all worn out after playing on tom sawyers island. 




the crazy bunch! 


Can you say MICKEY! 








Climbing again! 













They got to ride with Mary Poppins! so exciting!!






2 comments:

Dale, Vanessa, Gavin, Linnaea & Duncan Berg said...

i love Dad's faces! I saved a pic of him on tea cups, and all ya'lls mickey ears pic. We would have had a blast. We probably are about the same size, which isn't big.

Sandi and Curtis said...

Looks like you had a fabulous time even if you were in a wheel chair!