Family Vacation 2016: Day 2 [Disneyland!]

Day 2! Day 1 at Disneyland!

We ate breakfast at the hotel and drove over to park! (I thought we were in walking distance because we stay at the same hotel every time. Well within the last 3 years they hotel changed names and have new owners and I didnt pay attention and ended up booking us a mile from the park haha woops) We waited about 10 minutes for bag check and about 10 minutes to get in the park. First stop when we were in... Ariel's Bubble Wand. We saw so many the night before, Emma begged for one. Or course! So glad we grabbed it then, a worker informed me they ran out park-wide that day! James made sure to bring it on every ride so it wouldn't get swiped from our stroller.

Family selfie! We are excited to show Emma all the fun!

Everyone you walked by gets bubbled haha

We saw Woody and the line was short, so we met up with him first. I wanted to get my rides out of the way so we could focus on Emma. We started with the Haunted Mansion (which Emma hated at first but wanted to go again ha) and then the Pirates of the Caribbean (which she felt the same about, but asked to go again!)

 We then hit Toon Town and saw Pluto. We were last in line to greet him, so they danced for a few minutes and it was so cute. She then asked to meet Mickey and Minnie. So Mickey was first! Her face when she saw him was priceless. When we went to see Minnie, the line was 75 minutes. So we told her she went to lunch and we would try again later. (So glad we did, because day 3 was so magical)

We did a few more things in Toon Town, grabbed some lunch and we to bigger rides!

 The Tea Cups were so much fun. Her laughter while James spun us was the best ever. After this, my phone started to die because I did not prepare. But we explored all over Disneyland and Emma just had such a great time. Lots of squeals and 'Wow Mom!!!'. On the Astro Blasters Toy Story ride, Emma did really well! I was impressed she hit the targets and scored some points! All 3 of us crammed in a rocket ride and it was tears after from how funny it was with us all in it. Was not sure if we would make it to the end. After about 630-7 we headed back through downtown and grabbed some diner and headed to the hotel. Fireworks started around 930 and we could see them from the parking lot. We all crashed around 930 and were back at it for our final day! Part 3 to come...

XOXO

Family Vacation 2016: Day 1

After 20 minutes she asked if we were at the beach yet haha sorry..5 more hours

Sunday morning, we left nice and early to try and not waste a day/evening just to be at the hotel. We arrived around 330-4 to a windy afternoon. The weather felt sooo nice! We got changed in the parking lot and sort of tried not to flash the people around haha

 On the way to the water, Emma couldnt see over the brick wall and shouted 'Wow, Mom!! This is the biggest sand pile ever!!' Oh Honey, just wait... and she took off.

**she kept saying 'ooo im in a bikini!'

 She collected at least 100 seashells and it was so cute watching her be so proud every time she found a bigger one.








There were these dead little crabs lined all across beach.

 She would only touch the water once. It knocked over and she was done ha. But for the 2 seconds we touched it was fun.


She kept picking random sand spots and telling us that is where she is going to relax and do not disturb her ha

After we were done at the beach, we drove to our hotel to check in and clean up. We headed to Downtown Disneyland for dinner and to get Emma excited for what was to come! We waited 20 minutes in line at this cute outside restaurant...we had the worst service! They only brought out Emma's food and 20 minutes later, we ended up with our food to go because someone was a hot mess. BOTH of our waitresses tried to give us excuse after excuse. We get it, we have both worked in the food industry. But our four year old is pouty and throwing things ha so we have to go now. But all was good when we got to back to the hotel and ate, the food was delicious and we saw the fireworks show... days 2 and 3 to come!

Mothers Day Weekend

 Friday night, my Mom picked Emma up from school and so it was just Gianna and I till Saturday. Let's just say I went to bed at 845 haha.

Saturday, Gianna and I went to Target. It was great spending so little money without Emma there haha. She gets sucked in to it too!

Saturday evening, my Mom and I had tickets to Kenny Chesney's Spread the Love Tour and it was fantastic!! I have been wanting to see Kenny in concert for yearssssss. Never had the funds, timing and now 28 years later, I finally got to see him and it made me so so so happy. Old Dominion, Sam Hunt and Miranda Lambert were also there...but I was there for Kenny!

Sunday we all woke up and my Mom had stayed the night from the concert, so we were able to have a Mothers Day morning :)

Emma let me straighten her hair and I just love it!

Gianna made herself at home in Emma's room ha

Ugh and then after several times of me telling Emma to stop leaning over the sink because the flat iron was on, she didnt listen and I heard 'owwwwww' and thankfully it was super minor and the iron was off in cool down mode. But it called for 5 bandaids per Dr Emma.

I wanted a new cheese grater so bad! James delivered and this Mama is so happy with it!

She looks 7 and these pictures make me so sad haha stop growing!


Mothers Day was so wonderful this year. Emma threw me several parties throughout the day and it made my heart so full. Love you, babies!

Disney Magic: Throwing Glitter

We head to Disneyland in about two weeks for the girls birthday present! She has been asking since her birthday if we are going today?! So sorry...still two whole weeks away. 

So to make the two weeks pass, we have decided to do a Disney activity each day. 

Yesterday, Emma's new tutu arrived and she was twirling around, talking about princesses and fairy dust. So fairy dust we must!

We have been talking about which characters she wants to meet, which princesses we must take pictures with and getting an autograph book for them to sign.

Over the next two weeks, I hope we get to:

Make Mickey shaped snacks

Color pictures

Have a Fashion show 

Go on treasure hunt

Bake Mickey cookies

Build a castle out of legos

We will probably do each of these twice over the next 15 days :)

Well go a a treasure hunt everyday actually. It has been her favorite thing to do, lately!

Outtakes::

 <-- one of my favorites. Trying to explain how this works and she threw the glitter ALL over me haha

 <-- the eyes



--> she got a mouth full of glitter after this one ha

<-- pure magic

Minnie ears (last year) Shelby Chic Boutiqe

Pizza Tee (valentines collection) Ahoy Amigo

Skirt Zulily

Moccs Hello Moccs