THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH- DAY 2

Our second day at Disney, we had breakfast with the characters which was so much fun!  We bought a little autograph book and tried to get as many signatures and pictures with them as we could (although Richie was not into taking the pictures, so usually it was just us posing with them).  From there we spent the day checking out California Adventure and all of the rides.  The park is really amazing with so much to see and do!  We capped off the day with dinner at the park and watching their water light show which was so cool.  After such a great first day, we didn't think it was possible to have such an incredible second day, but we did.  We now know why it's called the "Happiest Place on Earth!"

THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH- DAY 1

No matter how old or young you are, there is nothing not to love about Disneyland in California.  We had an amazing three days visiting both Disneyland Park and California Adventure Theme Park.  I will tell you more about our hotel stay at the Grand Californian Hotel & Spa (coming soon!), but in the meantime, I think these pictures can tell you more about the fun we had in a way my words couldn't do!

UN-WELCOME WELCOME HOME!

Hey everyone!  We are back from a week-long vacation to California!  We went to San Diego and to Disneyland in Anaheim, and boy did we have fun!  We checked out the San Diego Botanic Garden, The San Diego Zoo, Legoland, and of course Disneyland and California Adventure.  I am working on plenty of posts about the trip which I'll have coming up next week.  I'm still unpacking, re-settling in, doing laundry...you know, all the not-so-fun parts of coming back from vacation.    In the meantime, I just wanted to tell you a quick little unpleasant story that happened to us when we got home.  After a long flight with two kids 3 and under (which turned out to be better than I thought), we got home late Saturday night to a house that was only 40 degrees!  Yup, our heat wasn't working, so we had to check into a hotel close to home.  It was the worst, after a week of sleeping in hotels all you want to do is sleep in your own bed, but nope!  Thankfully, we got our heat working on Sunday and were able to return home, and then boom- we were hit with another snow storm on Monday.  Talk about un-welcome welcome home!  Take us back to sunny, California!!!