Disneyland 2017

One thing is for sure about my family- we love disneyland. I love the excitement, how friendly the employees are, how well done the rides are, I love the weather there- Everything! It’s so fun to get away. Especially when you have two feet of snow outside at home! We just went last year and my husband has been itching to go again. I was against if for awhile until we got yet another foot of snow a couple of weeks ago. After watching the weather in California we booked our trip two days before we left. It was just what I needed to get out of the cold and into 70 degree weather! After dropping my camera hours before we left on our trip last time I was determined to redeem myself this trip with photos. So I took a lot! So here is your photo overload!

We stayed at a hotel across the street from Disneyland called the Marriott Courtyard Theme Park entrance. We decided to skip the beach and stay at the hotel and play on the water slides. It was so fun to sit in a chair and see the matterhorn at disneyland right across the street. My kids went nuts. They had so much fun.

My little 6 year old bumped his head on the slide and the sweet girl working there came up with a ice pack and gave him a little whale stuffed animal. So nice of them!

By far my favorite part of our disney trips is always the morning of our first day. I absolutely love the excitement walking into the park! Because he have a little one we have to split up a lot as a family in the park while the older kids go on rides my younger ones can’t. I was with our youngest two when we walked into frontier land as it opened and saw woody from Toy Story there. My shy little 4 year old ran up and jumped into woody’s arms- to woody’s surprise! He was so sweet though and sat down on the ground with him as my 18 month old walked up to him. He totally sat down on woody and made himself at home.

Splash Mountain is my favorite ride in disneyland. For some reason it’s usually closed when we go and we haven’t been on it for 4 years.

Screen shot from the video bryan is taking as they went down Splash mountain- his face though! haha! 

Not sure why my baby is sitting on Pooh's feet! I don't think pooh knew what to think either!

Disneyland at night is so beautiful. I love how they light everything up!

When I measured my 6 year old before we left and he realized he was tall enough to ride the California Screamin' it was all he could think about. My husband took him for his first ride and took this EPIC video and we posted it on you tube. His face kills me ever time!

Most of the time I’m in disney I do not get in photos. I use a different focus button on my camera then most so it confuses people. I even put my camera on auto mode because I wanted a good family photo and it still came out blurry! I guess Vader wanted the focus to be on him! I did get a couple of me in focus because I handed my camera to the disneyland photographers.

What a awesome trip! The weather was perfect and my kids did awesome! Can’t wait to go back! When I’ve recovered from driving that much in a car with 5 little kids…

Tyson's 11 bday

I don't know what I would do without this boy. He is the best kid.  Such a kind heart and wanting to help me out. He has had some struggles with friends and school but he has worked so hard and now has lots of friends and is doing better in school. It's hard to know what to give a 11 year old! So Ty got legos, a case for his kindle, shoes and a scope for his new 22 (gun). I can't remember what else I gave him! I know sad right? I know there was more! We had a party at the jump zone with some of his school friends and that was way fun. I used to try to do parties with lots of games and that wouldn't have gone over as well for a 11 year old. So we let them play and bought them pizza. 

Happy birthday to my sweet boy! And PLEASE stop growing up!!!

The year it wouldn't stop snowing

Starting Christmas eve- we got a lot of snow. Like 8 inches or so. Then soon after Tyson's birthday (the first week of January) the kids went to one day of school and the next morning they had a school start delay- because it snowed a lot. Then the next day they had NO school. Because it just wouldn't stop snowing! 

 I made him show how deep the snow was- it was the tip of the iceberg.

 *side note* do you notice the huge shiner above blakes eye? He sat up in bed in his bunk bed and hit the ceiling that comes down a little bit.  Really hurt the poor kid.

 After the first full day of a snow day here is how much snow we had.

Then the next day when the daily high was below 0 they canceled school AGAIN. And it was cold- really, really cold. 

 Then we lucked out. And it rained a ton for a couple of days and melted a foot of snow off.  Which was lucky- because then the snow came again!

 Can you see my snowman by the house? Yeah me either. This is at least 2+ feet of snow. Driving down the street felt like you were driving in a tunnel. I couldn't hardly see to pull out of my driveway. This was snow day #3 from school. We never have snow days! And this year so far we have had 3! So crazy!

Brett is showing how high the snow is.  And then it rained again.  So as of today (feb. 16th) half my yard is grass again.  According to the news if it would have never rained and only snowed we would have 5 feet of snow by now. And a ton of people are flooding in their basement.  So far we have been really lucky and have had no problems from all the crazy weather.  Except feeling stir crazy! When it's so cold and the snow is so deep we are stuck inside! What a crazy winter!