Yo Ho Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life For Me.............

Ever since I was a little kid I REALLY wanted to eat at the Blue Bayou at Disneyland. It always smelled so good when you float by on the Pirates ride. It's pretty dang expensive, so it was never an option. Jesse and I have tried to go a couple of times, but it was always booked. I didn't know you had to get reservations months in advance. So this time, one of the first things I did when we decided to go to Disneyland was call for our reservation! It was A W E S O M E!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was so giddy to be there and completely savored every moment!

It was so pretty!

Ellie- wha?

Arrrrrr.....

This was the second picture. The first one he was laughing and food fell out of his mouth. That picture wasn't so attractive. So we're going with this one :)

Nana and Maddi sharing a Mint Julep Lemonade.

Yes I took a picture of my food. Crab Cakes. mmmmmmmmm..............

The whole group! So fun!

More Disney...

Just when you thought I was done with Disney pictures huh? Oh I have a whole SLEW of them! So hold on to your horses, here's some more.

Toy Story Mania. One of the few rides we had to wait in line for. Like, an ACTUAL line! It was always pretty long....like 30 minutes long.....but it was soooo worth it. It was one of our favorites, we did it 4 or 5 times. We also loved it because we could take the babies with us! And yes, Emmy and Ellie pulled their socks off and threw them some where. We lost 5 pairs of socks at Disneyland, we actually had to run to Walmart to buy some more. Hence the reason Emmy has no socks on.

Jesse is a goof ball in this picture.
I tried again, but Ellie just looks confused in this one.

The Gadget Coaster. We LOVE Rescue Rangers in our house. We watch it all the time. So the kids thought this ride was the bees knees.

Maddi thought it was pretty funny that these doors were giant dominos. She pointed with her thumb and told me to check it out.
Gadget's coaster again. Another ride we did over and over.

I played peek a boo with the babies while I waited for Jesse to take the kids on the coaster again.


Apparently, Maddi is a Roller Coaster fanatic. She really wanted to try the California Screamin coaster and was actually tall enough to ride. I was kind of hoping she'd be too short, but alas, she wasn't. It's not that I don't like Roller Coasters, it's just been a long time and this one looked pretty intense and I was worried Maddi would throw up all over me. Maddi was jumping up and down from excitment while we waited to get on. The guys in front of me told me to buck up because I looked scared. uh huh. That ride was crazy! Maddi went twice more with Jesse. She's a crazy girl!

This picture is when Jesse and Maddi pulled up so I snapped a picture, realized I couldn't see them, so I ran up and took another.

Here's the second picture I took, but then I realized, you couldn't see Maddi.

Here's my crazy girl, she's so small! She was the smallest on there! She looked scared to me but later she said she was so excited she was trying not to scream. Which by the way, she screams constantly on a roller coaster because she says it's more fun. I was deaf by the end of this day.

Jumpin Jelly fish!



Another ride we just stayed on and rode over and over.

Anyone who knows Andrew, knows he is a HUGE Cars fan. Oddly enough, he was scared to go stand by them. He was trying to figure out if they were real or not. This is the best shot I could get.

Second Day

Here are the rest of the pictures from the day we did the Character Breakfast. It was a little chilly so we had hoodies on, but really it was not bad. Here we are at Tarzan's Tree House.

Running back and forth on the bridge was funny.

Tiana! She's a fav.

We did this ride 4 times. I'd never been on it before!


Woot! Tea Cups!
We had to wait in line for Peter Pan, boo!
Andrew was pretending to be nervous on Dumbo.
Papa and Maddi
The Jungle Cruise. Doesn't Emmy look happy?

Ok, so remember how I was talking about Dave Foley? The guy who voiced Flick on A Bug's Life? Here's why I was pointing it out. So I'm standing by the exit waiting for Papa, Jesse, and the kids to ride Dumbo. Beside me I noticed two people totally decked out in Disney gear with little name tags that said Tour Guide on it. I looked next to them and saw this guy who looked EXACTLY like Dave Foley. I was trying not to stare since he was standing not too far away from me. I saw him smile and noticed a gap in his teeth, one of Dave Foley's trademarks. I then heard someone call him Dave, (the tour guide was talking LOUD and very energetic, lol) And then I heard him LAUGH. He has a very distinctive laugh. I was flipping out because Dave Foley was standing about five feet away from me, I just knew it. There were a couple of kids with him and the nannies ( there were 3 of them!) they were loading up on the ride. They were taking a REALLY long time getting the Dumbo ride started so I texted Jesse to tell him, I then tried to take a picture with my phone very nonchalantly and I could NOT get it to work (first time that has ever happened!) So Jesse, who is on the ride starts taking pictures while he was on the ride every time he passed us. I was laughing so hard! Here are some or the tries:

Ok that's Dave with his arms folded. But um his head is cut off and you can only see my hand on the stroller in the corner.
Hmmm this is better, Jesse at least got Dave's head. He's wearing sunglasses and man does he need a haircut!
Ok this is better. There I am with my balloons and stroller and there he is with his entourage.

Did anyone else find it ironic that he was wearing a "Cars" jacket? Jesse did point out that he had a cameo in that movie. But still, ironic.
Here are the pictures I got after Jesse got off the ride. I wanted to ask if he would take a picture with us but I didn't want to bug him, especially since he was with his kids.
Later we went to go eat lunch and as we noticed Dave was getting food there too. Jesse took Andrew to the bathroom and while he was gone, Dave had gotten his food and sat down. Jess came back and said, rather loudly, "Where's Dave?" He was just joking, but what he didn't know, was that right in front of us was the rest of Dave's party. They all turned around and looked at us and we tried to act like we didn't know why they were looking at us. The look on their face was like "uhhhh....do we have a situation here?" We purposely ate far away from them and I didn't try for the food picture, like I was thinking. Although after lunch Jesse went to the restroom and Dave was in there. He was EVERYWHERE! Are we sure he wasn't following US??????

Character Breakfast

On this trip we had Breakfast with Minnie in the Park. It was AWESOME! We'd never done it before. Our kids love meeting the characters so we decided to get autograph books this time. This was such a great was to meet a bunch of characters and not have to wait in line for it! and we loved getting in before everyone else. We loved seeing the park while NO ONE was there! And seriously, the food was good! (And I loved that they were telling us to take all the bottled drinks we wanted when we left, I grabbed water bottles and apple juice and chocolate milk, it was awesome.)

Seriously love this picture. He was not bored I promise, I caught him in a funny moment. Laughed so hard when I saw how it turned out.

Captain Hook needed some help seeing how he only had one hand.



There was one little issue. Ellie apparently woke up on the wrong side of the bed. The Characters freaked her out. :(