M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

We are lucky to live close enough to have season passes to Disneyland. We try to go a couple times a month to make our passes worth it, and these trips usually fall on Sunday's since our passes are blacked out on Saturdays. (Good thing our church has Saturday night service so we don't miss out each time we go!) A few times a year we get a hotel for a night or two to make a mini vacation out of it rather than just going up for the day. It's great becuase it changes the entire feel of Disneyland and allows us to stay late for the night shows. (fireworks, world of color, etc.)

We almost forgot we had a free night at Marriott that expired the end of this month and we wanted to utilize the less busy weekdays since we normally go on busy weekends. We decided last minute to go up Thursday and stayed overnight doing the park again Friday. This meant a second break from our school schedule just a few weeks into the year. We had an amazing time though and I suppose that's the perk of Pre-K... no need to feel like you HAVE to do school everyday! We made some amazing family memories and I'm so glad we are able to take advantage of these moments while they are still little and find the magic in everything!

My cute girls cheezin it up!


Believe it or not in our almost 3 years of going to Disneyland we've never taken a picture in front of the huge flower Mickey at the front gate. He's in a mask because the whole park is already decorated for Halloween.


The girls got to meet Rapunzel and Flynn for the second time. It's the same Rapunzel as before and amazingly she remembered the girls from the first time almost a year ago. The girls were the very last ones to get to meet them before they closed for the day and they had the entire room laughing when Avalyn exclaimed that "Guess what Rapunzel, we have you at home on Netflix!" They made jokes about that for the entire rest of our visit!


This morning we started out in Fantasyland and got to enjoy one of the girls favorite rides... Dumbo! The girls both wanted purple and they both got lucky enough to get the two purples that were in a row.


I almost teared up here... the girls are big enough that they can ride alone together in the same row. We went on this ride as a family for the first time on their first birthday... and they had to sit on our laps. This was the first time they ever rode together alone, on one of their other favorite rides Alice in Wonderland! *sniff sniff*


This was the sweetest Aurora ever! She spent a good 6 minutes with the girls and the entire room was already cleared out before they moved on. They were so happy and I will never get tired of seeing the sheer joy and excitement they get EVERY SINGLE TIME they meet these princesses!


Belle is Av's favorite princess so she's always so excited when she gets to meet her. She spends more time hugging her than anything else. So cute!


Mulan was amazing and also spent a ton of time with the girls. She even spent a few minutes showing them an awesome Chinese dance that they did along with her.


We were heading along our way when we saw Minnie Mouse. We don't always stop for every character, but they were so excited and the line was short so we hopped in and they were beyond excited to meet Minnie. The girls kept hugging and kissing her so she danced around with them and twirled them around.


Random story... We were headed back to the car and waiting for the tram... and we had to wait for three different ones until we finally got one with an open row. (We were waiting for the front row so we didn't have to collapse the stroller but it was already filled on the few trams that came by.) We didn't think we were going to get on the next tram but the first row was only half full so we ended up getting on. Then 2 minutes into the ride with perfectly sunny skies it just started to rain... big drops. It was so out of the blue and we were SO GLAD we were on that tram! As soon as the tram stopped the rain had lifted and we were able to get to our car without a drop of rain on us. Pretty crazy!