Pumpkin Patch and our crazy weekend

We had a really busy weekend. Friday night, the kids had their Harvest Festival at school, Saturday morning Marco had a soccer game (and scored 2 goals!) and then, we had a little accident with Tessa and had to have her forehead glued together, then to the Pumpkin Patch and then the ward Trunk-or-Treat. Phew!

See the bandage on her head? She’s such a tough girl!

Sylvie was in heaven swimming in the dried corn.

More pics to come…

California Adventure

On Friday, we went to California Adventure-just us. We had never been and had a hard time deciding if we wanted to go there or just go back to Disneyland again, or get a park-hopper. We decided to just do Cal Ad. for the day. We got there early, had our disability pass ready to go and went full speed ahead!

First, photo ops…First ride-the Hollywood Tower of Terror! IT even looks ominous under those dark clouds! We did get rained on a little bit that day, but it wasn’t too bad. This was my favorite ride of all! I loved it! Lucia and I went on it first, then swapped with Julio and Marco.

Then we headed

over to Bug Land and went on some kiddie rides which Sylvie loved.

Then we watched the Disney Junior Live Show. It was ok.

Then we headed over to Soarin’ Over California-which was broken down. So I went on the water rapids ride with Lucia and got SOAKED! Julio went on it alone and didn’t get wet hardly at all. I was wet the rest of the day.

Then we went over to this nature play area where the kids would have liked to play for hours. I think that’s the dog from Up.

Then we headed

over to Paradise Pier and went on every single ride over there-the big roller coaster, the Goofy roller coaster, the flying rockets, the spinning swings, the carousel, the Toy Story ride (one of my favorites) We tried to get Sylvie on the Little Mermaid ride-no way! Good thing too, because we got stuck on that ride. We did get to see a parade.

Sylvie liked this dropping ride.Julio on the roller coaster.

We all went on the ferris

wheel, I was terrified! Lucia said it was her favorite ride. Marco liked the Toy Story ride.

Cars Land-we didn’t get to go on the fast Cars ride-too crowded. By about 7 pm, Disneyland closed, so it was so packed we could hardly get through the park.  We went on 2 out of 3 Cars rides. But last stop before we left was Hollywood Tower of Terror again. We got on and off in 20 minutes with our pass and the people next to us had been in line for 2 hours!  We were exhausted! I think we only missed 3 rides in the whole park! We left about 10 pm after getting some treats and souvenirs. We had a blast!

Disneyland-day 1

October 10-13th

We left after school on Wed. and got to Yesenia’s house in Granada Hills by midnight. The kids were good, we made good time, but we were so tired.  So, instead of getting up early on Thursday to get ready to go to Disneyland, we slept in. By the time we got there, driving through traffic, it was 11 am. By the time we got in, it was 11:30. By the time we took some initial photo ops, it was noon.

I guess the reason Elliott and I are both in this picture, was to keep the babies from falling off the wall. I didn’t get a single picture of Yesenia!

Abuela with Marco

Look! There’s Sleeping Beauty across the pond!

What is Julio doing?

After the photo ops, we went straight to Fantasyland-which is not my favorite. But, since we had a bunch of little kids, that’s where we went first. Sylvie was already feeling overwhelmed with all the people and the noise, so it was a mistake to take her on a dark, loud ride first (Snow White). She freaked out and wanted to go home and not go on any more rides.

See, she was ok while we waited in line.

This is her on the ride. Not happy!

She loved the Carousel!Just pull a little harder!

Tessa with our friend Brian who works at Disneyland and got some of us in for free-was a huge help and gave us lots of insider info!

After we all went in Small World, I took the Marco and Lucia on the Matterhorn while everyone else went to Toon Town.

Tessa and cousin Halea.

The girls really did love meeting Mickey and Minnie and exploring their houses. Here is more in Toontown.

Marco and Lucia on Thunder Mountain Railroad. They loved the rollercoaster rides! Marco was glad to be tall enough to ride them this time.

the Haunted Mansion

About half-way through the day, Brian mentioned to Julio that we should get a disability pass for Sylvia so we could skip the lines. So, while we all went on Pirates of the Carribean and the Haunted Mansion (which there’s no way Sylvie would go on those), Julio went and got the pass and from then on, it was smooth sailing!

Then we had dinner in New Orleans Square (my favorite part of the park). Marco loved the jazz band and was dancing his heart out! Then we went on Splash Mountain. Marco and Lucia loved that ride (of course they got to take turns riding the rollercoasters twice so Julio and I could both go on them.) I didn’t get any pictures of Splash Mountain. Then we rode the train over to Tomorrow Land. Sylvie wasn’t so thrilled about the train.

The kids totally loved Space Mountain, but it was so loud and the entire building was shaking and lights flashing. Sylvie was terrified and so was Tessa, so we had to go wait in one of the gift shops.

Last ride was Autotopia.

We met up with abuela who was watching sleeping babies.

Stopped for ice cream on Main Street.

Some final photo ops. Disneyland was all decorated for Halloween-my favorite holiday. I loved it! We left when the park closed. I felt there was so much we didn’t get to do , but we still did a lot and had a great time. The kids had a blast (except for Sylvie) and Tessa was really good the whole day. It was nice to spend time with family as well.