Stocktons favorite part of Disney...

While we were waiting for Bryan and the older boys to finish a ride chip and dale came out of this building by Stockton and I and they were SO CUTE with him!  They were poking his belly and teasing him.  He loved it.  So when there were only a couple of people in line for a picture with them I got in line to see them again too.

 They played peek-a-boo with him and blew him kisses.  So cute. Whenever he sees this picture he points and starts to jabber on about it.  A worker took these picture for me.  I loved how he took like 10 total.  I really appreciated how much they interacted with Stockton because Mickey didn't at all.

 There was no one in line for Mickey in Ca. adventure so I made Bryan let me get a family picture. The only one we got the whole trip. You can tell Stockton didn't feel very good this day can't you?

Pluto was also really cute to my boys.  Stockton tried to grab his whiskers off.  

I took Stockton into one of the stores and showed him all of the stuff animals and he grabbed onto this donald duck and WOULD NOT let it go!  He I tried to talk him into the bigger one that looked just like it but he wouldn't have it.  So this was his present from disneyland. 

A few Disney videos

This is Bryan and the boys (in the back) going down splash mountain. 

Stockton at California adventure playing in the water at the Bugs life land

Stockton loved being down to move around on his own. 

California Adventure!

California Adventure was pretty torn up with construction that will be done this summer but they have most of their rides still open so we went over there a few times.  My boys love soaring over california and they especially loved the new toy story ride. It's newer so the line was like 45 mins (the longest one we waited in) which was hard for Stockton but the ride was really fun.

 Stockton and I had time to wait for the boys while they were on a ride so we spent a hour or so in the bugs life land. It's really cute just to walk around in.  They are building a new cars land next to it that will be really fun.  They have a couple of cute little rides in the bug lifes landI could go on with him but his favorite thing was the fountain.

 He dances and laughed at this water for like 20 minutes.  Lucky for me he never tried to touch it.

Bryan had a hard time finding me after they got off a ride so they went into the bug's life show.  When they found me we went in again and my boys wern't too happy to do it again.  Hence Blake:

 They new toy story ride requires 3-D glasses.  They give you a little "blaster" and it drives you around to all of these different games you shoot rings and balls out of  your blaster at.  Needless to say my boys loved it.

My kids are in disneyland all they want to do is ride the merry go round.  Go figure. 

I heart Disneyland!

 Monday morning was our first day into the park.  Tyson was so funny because when we were in line to get in the park he said "I don't want to use my ticket for this ride!" He thought we only got to ride one ride because he only had one ticket and he saw the train and didn't want to "waste" his ticket on that. Once we started walking down main street USA he changed his tune.  Bryan wasn't into posing for pictures every two seconds (can't say I really blame him) but I thought it was too cute to watch them hold hands I snapped a picture.  I know these are a little out of order but the end of the first day we got this picture with the castle in behind us.

 Ty was so excited to go though it until we did and all that is in it was a 'princess' store.  He still thought it looked cool though.  I loved how he wanted me to keep taking pictures of him. Stockton was really sick on Sunday but with some medicine he did pretty good in Disney the next day. It was a lot of walking for me with my big belly though.  It was nice to send the boys on some bigger rides that I couldn't go on so I could sit for awhile.

 My boys had been talking about how they were going to pull the sword out of the stone for weeks so I was excited when they finally got to give it a try.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE Blake's face as he is trying to pull it out.  We missed the little show they usually do where someone pulls it out but they enjoyed trying just the same.

 For the most part my boys were really brave to try pretty much any ride we put them on.  The thunder mountain railroad looked really scary to Ty but we made him try it at least once.  Those little stinkers kept ending up in the front of every ride they went on.  When Ty got off he was like "mom that was awesome!".  He tells me now it was his favorite ride.  Blake rode it later and loved it too.

LOVE this picture. What a funny boy.

Next to Splash Mountain was the little winnie the pooh ride and so Stockton and I got some quality time on that ride.  I went on it 3 or 4 times when all was said and done.  Bryan and the boys went with us one time too.  Whenever Bryan says take my picture I don't pass that chance up.  He helped so much with Stockton in the park for me.  Stockton is SUCH A DADDYS BOY that he would rather go to him sometimes then me- even when he is sick and sad. 

 The Mr. toads wild ride- I have to be honest.  Fantasy land isn't my favorite.  I think the rides are dumb compared to the other side of the park.  But we always spend some time there.

The one ride I really like there is the tea cups but I was worried being morning sick a lot of times and  going on it.  Poor Bryan had just gotten off of star tours though and the new one they did with that made him a little sick so I decided to tuff out the tea cups.  I am SO IMPRESSED with this picture! Bryan is better then I am at my camera come to find out.  We had fun but I didn't let the boys  make it spin anymore then it already did.

 It's a Small World ride.  Stockton liked it but Blake told me half way though "mom this ride is too long"

 I'm pretty sure this is my FAVORITE PICTURE OF THE WHOLE TRIP! They went on splash mountain three times and two of the three times they walked right onto the ride.  So Ty kept ending up right in the front. The first time he went on it he hit is lip into the log and it started bleeding.  This ride really scared my boys (just the big hill) as you can see.  I think Ty's face is priceless.  I think Bryan loved being able to take them on all of these fun rides.

We were waiting for Bryan and Ty on a ride so the boys were watching the ducks.  Stockton couldn't get enough of walking around outside. We never really thought of it before but Stockton had never been able to walk around outside because it's too cold here since he started walking.  He hated being carried very much and wanted to walk by himself.  He hated for us to even hold his hand.

  

 Another picture of Stockton walking around Disneyland.  Like I said- he loved exploring by himself. he defiantly thinks he knows what he wants.

The picture of my three boys is also one of my favorites.  Stockton did a decent amount of crying while we were there to let us know what he wanted. I didn't get very many good pictures of him because he wouldn't hold still enough for a picture.  

 

 Another "take my picture mom" moment. I couldn't pass it up. Blake was asleep and Stock was having dad follow him around.

Happy Valentines day! This was the only thing in the park that made it look like valentines day- except for the amount of couples that were there.

Desert Palm Hotel

Last time we went to Disneyland we stayed at the Desert Palm hotel that is on the back side of California adventure and loved it so we went there again this time.  By the time we were done at the beach we got to the hotel at like 10 am.  We figured we would check in so we could get our parking pass and wonder around downtown disney or something until our room was ready at two. While they were checking us in Bryan apologized for being so early and we told her we had driven all night.  She must have taken pity on us because she upgraded our room that was open and let us check in then.  After being up most the night it was so nice to get to lay down and relax a little bit!  Our room had a mini kitchen with dishes and a stove in it.  The fridge was bigger then the normal mini one too so we could fit a lot more stuff in there.  The main beds were in their own room and there was a pull out bed.  My boys loved having there own space with the sofa bed because it felt like they had their own room.  Bryan took the older boys down to the pool every night to swim and they looked forward to that as mush as Disneyland. 

The boys sofa bed

We would totally stay here again.

Californ-i-a!

We have been planning for YEARS to go to Disneyland with our boys and ended up going to Cancun with my parents last year (no regrets there) and put off Disney to go with Bryan's family this spring.  Well things happened and we ended up being the only ones in Bryan's family that were really into going.  We made sure Bryan's school and work was all squared away and booked our trip a month ago or so.  We decided to drive it to save money and do a all nighter on the way down so the kids would sleep.  Bryan had to work Saturday night and he got home just before 9pm and we headed out!  I had taken Stockton into the dr. a few days before and had gotten shots that had been giving him a fever so I was worried about that.  My kids usually do really well with shots but for some reason he had a couple of days with a fever.  My kids did great in the car!  Stock woke up a couple of times and fussed but went back to sleep. I'm pretty sure Tyson didnt' really sleep much though.  I didn't get a lot of sleep either because I was worried about Bryan driving and falling asleep.  We were worn out Sunday but we did ok.  After breakfast we headed to the beach to play before we could check into our hotel.  We got there in about 10 1/2 hours (love the no traffic!) so it was like 7 am when we got there.  Don't ask me how we got there though- We really used our GPS a lot this trip.  We went to Newport beach to check out the ocean. It was a little windy and kind of cold but my older boys had a blast running from the waves. 

 Stockton was ok with the ocean at first then he feel apart.  Little did we know but he was coming down with a REALLY bad cold.  I chalked up his fever that morning to his shots but I'm pretty sure the fevers kind of blended together- he was not a happy boy. I think on a different day he would have been all over the beach.

     Tyson LOVES the ocean.  It was too cold to get very wet but he still ran all over the beach and got his feet wet.  I told him out to write California in the sand by himself. My smart boy. =)

 How dare we put Stockton down.  He was not happy about it. Bryan and Stockton ended up in the van for a while.

 You can't really tell but the waves were really high and there were at least a hundred surfers in the water.  I loved watching them.  My boys were too busy playing to really pay attention.  Ty is running from the waves in this picture.

 In Cancun we never saw one single seashell.  We got a few broken ones here my boys thought were cool.

We only stayed a little over a hour (that's all the quarters we had for the meter) then headed back to try to check into our hotel.