Kyle, Michelle, Cristian, Ava, and Carter


February 10, 2010

101 Disneyland pictures


Instead of doing posts for each individual day, I'm doing one GIANT (and I mean GIANT) post from our trip to disneyland. For the first time in a while, I actually do not know when we will return to Disneyland, so I soaked in every second of this trip, and took many photos to remember all the FUN we had :) It was so fun to have an annual pass, and I'm a bit sad that it officially expires on February 13th :(
Here we are in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, which will be coming down when they re-do and remodel California Adventure. Last opportunity to have our picture in front of it.
The Tastes Pilot Grill where we had lunch
Pretty good food!
Inside the main gate
Riding the horse trolley
The Fairy Godmother
Making a wish in the wishing well.
Ava dancing with Mary Poppins and Bert during their performance.
In line for Dumbo
Me and Cristian on the Green Dumbo
Ava picked pink, of course :)
Ava's first time on Space Mountain!!
And she LOVED it
Cristian wanted to do the Jedi Training Academy again.
Cristian hoping to be one of the kids that get selected from the audience to participate... PICK ME, PICK ME!
WHOOO HOOO!!! I'm a Jedi!
Learning how to be a Jedi
Darth Maal, who Cristian was to face off against...
Fighting Darth Maal
Mission accomplished, the Good Side of the force prevailed again!
Ava getting an autograph from her favorite Princess
Ava and Princess Aurora
Killing time waiting for a rain storm to blow over
Lucky us it only poured for about 5 minutes... but here we are in our rain gear just in case it started raining again.
The pretty tulips
Watching the new Parade
Ava was picked to participate in the Dance Party Parade :)
Some very excited kids
My mom and Cristian, and me and Carter on the rockets. Carter loved controlling the rocket and went up, and down, and up, and down.
Mommy and Carter
Star Tours!
Thunder Mountain
Trying with all his might to pull the sword out of the stone
Cristian and Ava going on Mr Toad's wild ride together
Cristian refused to be in this picture because the tea cup is pink, LOL
Pluto!
Ava, Carter, and Cristian on the trolley at toon town.
Carter playing in Goofy's garden
So sad the lighting is bad in this picture, I think it might be my favorite of the trip. There's nothing better then a DISNEYLAND smile from your kids. (the only things that compare are Christmas morning smiles and birthday smiles :)
All of us with Mickey Mouse
All of us with Minnie Mouse
Sitting on a chair inside Minnie's house
Making a wish in Minnie's wishing well
Me with my three kiddos by the fountain in toontown.
With the raccoon from Pocahontas at the Character breakfast
Mommy, Carter, and Chip
Cristian and Ava with Dale
Dale playing with Carter
High Five Dale
Hahaha, Dale is tickling me :)
It was nice enough to do a little swimming at the pool
Carter has always loved the water!
Jumping in
Cannon Ball
Nannie and Carter
Auntie and Ava
Cristian filling up a pool toy for Carter

All of us outside our hotel
On the Zypher
My mom said this one kinda made her feel sick, glad I didn't go on it.
Auntie and Ava on Jumping Jellyfish

Cristian and me on Jumping Jellyfish
We had a slice a Pizza at Pizza Oom Mow Mow
California Screamin' (my mom and sister are blasting off)
There they are going around the loop
Ava and Carter enjoying a churro
Nannie, Cristian, and Auntie on the Grizzly River Run
Ava watching their entertube float by
Cristian went on the ride twice in a row... this time with Mommy (wearing a poncho)
Cristian... SOAKED!
Carter on our balcony feeding the birds some fish crackers
Cristian loved the little candies they put on our pillows when they turned down the room each night.
All of us with Lightning McQueen and Mater. We're very excited for Cars Land to open up in the Spring of 2012 at California Adventure park!
With Lilo
Carter hugging Minnie, he really liked seeing all the characters!!
The three kiddos with Minnie
All of us with California Minnie
Carter walking around disneyland with his new hoodie.
Mommy and Carter on Toy Story Mania... he really liked this ride!
So excited to see Pluto again!!
So fun to get their noses
Cristian, Ava, and Carter with Pluto
Ava about to go on the Tower of Terror for the First time.
And she loved it... it's her new favorite ride. She LOVES all the big rides!!
Look at her holding on to Mommy and Auntie :)
3 kids outside the Tower of Terror
All of us outside the Tower of Terror (notice our matching hoodies! I bought it first, and then encouraged them to copy me so we could be the adorkable triplets, LOL)
3 kids with Chip and Dale at the Disney Visa Card Holders private meet-n-greet.
3 kids outside of the Monsters Inc ride
Enjoying a Mickey Mouse sucker, a tradition of EVERY trip!
Their new disney shirts
Ava sitting in the A of the California sign.
The entrance to Disneyland
Me with the kiddos
Eating breakfast at the River Belle
going on Pirates of the Caribbean
Cristian in New Orleans Square, doing some window shopping
All of us going on Haunted Mansion
Cristian waiting in line to go on Thunder Mountain
She's always riding with her arms straight up in the air!
Cristian too
Miss Ava
Tired baby boy!
takin' a bite of Auntie's churro
There's Nannie and Cristian on Thunder Mountain
C and A with Woody and Jesse
Mommy and Cristian skipping to the next ride
Aren't these the cutest hats :)
Ava outside Alice's front door
Taking a break to have a snack... they love popcorn!
Ava resting on Auntie
The only ride that was closed was the Matterhorn :(
Going on Space Mountain again
Cristian's favorite restaurant, Pizza Port
Enjoying my giant pickle.
Mommy and Cristian walking into Adventure land to go on Indiana Jones
Mmmm... Bengal Barbecue is so delicious!
Getting ready to go on the Jungle cruise
Looking a little sleepy
The back of his shirt :)
Nannie and Ava
Ava enjoying a pickle
Like mother, like daughter... we love our pickles!
Jungle cruise

Pulling the rope inside Indiana Jones
Awwww... if only he'd keep hats on his head :)
Cute chipmunks!
Auntie bought the kids an early birthday present, they all have matching Dale hats now :)
Tomorrow Land
Going on Buzz Blasters
Mommy and Ava by the castle

Ava picked a spinning Minnie and a charm bracelet as her souvenirs
Carter loves his new buzz spinner
And Cristian picked an Indiana Jones play set


The sign above our hotel
The pretty doors leading inside to our hotel
The view from our hotel room

The pool. Too bad they had the bigger pool and water slide area drained, that would have been fun... but it is winter after all.

5 comments:

McCray Family said...

WOW! Lots of great pictures! Looks like the weather stayed nice for you guys and that the kids had a blast like usual, especially your dare devil Ava! I love it!

Nicole said...

LOve all the pictures! Looks like you had another great trip!(not like any trip to DL could be that bad)!! :) Glad you had fun!

Jon and Erin, Hudson & Paxton & Dashel said...

Great post Michelle! All three of your babies have such gorgeous smiles! I LOVE the one of Carter giving Minnie a hug...so precious! Don't they just melt your heart?!?!

jessica said...

It looks like you had another amazing trip to Disney!! I really enjoyed seeing your Disney posts throughout the last year and seeing how much Carter's enjoyment and excitement (it's very cute how much he loves all the characters) was greater with each trip and wow, now Ava can do all the big rides just like Cristian. What an awesome experience for you and the kids!!

5 Cougs said...

Carter has to have made some kind of record for a NW kid going to d-land! You really like those pickles...something you need to share with us? :o)