Disneyland - Day Two

Day Two

On day two, we woke up early to go have breakfast at Goofy's Kitchen. Goofy was the main chef and we were able to greet a ton of the characters while dining on food like PB&J pizza, Mickey waffles, worms in dirt pudding and so forth. Since we were in vacation mode, we let Ave choose what she wanted to eat. I think she had a bowl of cereal consiting of M&M's and Reese's Pieces. Needless to say, we (MAINLY NICK) learned our lesson!! I think our friends thought we were nuts! But hey, it's fun to let kids be kids at some point!

She was very upset that Goofy did this to her cheeks. She didn't want anything to do with him afterwards!

Infatuated!

We spent most of the day at the Calfornia Adventure side. It is actually super kid friendly and has delicious restraunts to eat at!

Ave was unhappy that she had to go on the boring rides with mom while the adults went on Tower of Terror without her!

Ave became obsessed with taking pictures with my camera. She actually does a pretty good job!

She even got a shot with our housekeeper!

We had dinner at a yummy italian restraunt and had priority seats for the World of Colors show. We weren't sure what to expect. We heard it was a water show and we immediately thought of The Bellagio in Las Vegas. We were WAY off! They project images from Disney Movies on the water with an amazing light show. I'll have to pull the pics off of my phone to prove how amazing it was!!



Disneyland - Day One

Prepare yourself.

I took a boatload of pictures!!! And I want to post a lot of them for our family book. You have been warned!! ;) I'll try to break it down by days if it gets too long!

At the beginning of May, we were lucky enough to take a family trip to good ole' Disneyland. We went with a client and were able to mix business with pleasure. Last year, we went on a business trip to Disney World and had the time of our lives, so we were pretty excited to try an repeat that same experience.

The only draw back was I was 6 months pregnant. So, I couldn't go on the adult rides. But there were a lot of preggo friendly rides and I still had SO much fun!

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Day One

The plane ride was a breeze with Avery, for the most part. We have become pro's at packing lot's of snacks and new games/toys. The Ipad is a HUGE saving grace! What would we do without technology? (I don't want to know.) We totally forgot our stroller at home and our backs definitely paid for it by the time we got home.

We stayed at The Grand Californian in Downtown Disney. It reminded us of a huge treehouse. We had access to concierge at all times and were able to have afternoon tea and dessert at night every day. It was awesome! We would sneak PB&J's in my backpack to snack on while we were in the park. (Big money saver!)

We weren't meeting our friends, Chris and Brittany, until dinner so we headed right into the park. We asked Avery what she wanted to do first and she said "Find Cinderella." We looked everywhere and didn't see her, but did see Alice in Wonderland. She came up to Ave and was so sweet to her. She held her hand and they took a little stroll around the Magic Kingdom. Ave was in awe!

That night, Ave changed into her "Dinner Dress" that her daddy bought her and we had BBQ in Frontier Land. This was a little hard for me as I was just starting to eat meat again. But, it was still deelish and they had a couple of country singers putting on a show for us.

I remember the castle appearing HUGE when I was little. Amazing how small it actually is when you are a "grown up".

 We were so excited to get a picture with both Minnie AND Mickey at the same time!



 I think she is in Heaven!



Jasmine was the only princess M.I.A. Aladdin was there, but we never did see Jasmine. Maybe they were on the "outs!"

The fun meter ran on empty by dinner time!

Day One was definitely a SUCCESS!!





Tee Ball

We signed Avery up for Tee Ball this Spring. She was assigned to be on the New York Mets. (Not Yankees, but atleast it wasn't Red Sox!!)

 Our goal is to have Avery try as many things as possible, so she can decide what she really likes. Since our family is HUGE into baseball, we thought Avery would totally be into this!

Well, we first learned that she hits left handed!! Just like her daddy! She writes right handed, bats left and throws right handed. Pretty Cool!

Tee Ball for the age group of 3-5 year olds is like hearding cats. (So says Nicholas.) The kids LOVE to bat. But once they are in the outfield, it is basically the parents running the game. Literally! I imagined Avery rolling around on the astro turf and she did exactly that! I left exhausted after each game! But it was so fun and Ave had three of her friends from school on the team!

We'll try again next year!!

The games were held twice a week at the Field House at the U of U. Go Utes!!

Typical Outfielder Avery! Crawling or rolling on the astro turf!

Her adorable team!

Love this gal!

Great season Mets!