The long awaited Disnealand post! Pictures of my family having a blast at "The Happiest Place on Earth." Proof my family is the coolest ever. (At least I think so!)
Boys will be boys, girls will be girls. Love this shot. The morning of the first day all together.
Strike a pose. Paige knows what's up.
My sweet little guy Cameron on his first Disneyland ride of his life. The carousel of course; what else?
After naps were finished, the whole family got together after spending the morning in smaller groups. You know despite what one would think, we really had much more fun all 16 of us together even if moving was a bit slower. That's because we are all such big fans of one another!
A newer favorite, the animation room on Hollywood Blvd in California Adventure. Nice and cool and a good place for the kiddies to enjoy themselves while parents are riding rides. We found a good way to ride rides even with small children via "divide and conquer" methods, i.e. one half entertains chillins while the other half rides, then switch.
Fans of one another! We're having fun!
Tuesday we all wore our "DisNEALand" shirts. I was surprised how many compliments we got on them. Just all the sisters together (yeee-hawww!) with Dad going on Space Mountain! Note the wrist bling, sported by two of us a day and then passed on to new wearers (only girls of course) for the entire four days! They work for waving around while on rides. You have to know us...
Disneyland is never absent some form of music. Mom's birthday-observed dinner was filled with music from a nearby parade. And of course we MUST dance!
Cameron's first suckers! All children should have treats at Disneyland. Needless to say it caused a sticky mess of huge proportions but he was perfectly happy every second he was devoring the sucker AND the stick. (yes, he'd also devour the stick down to nothing.)
Getting ready for the MainStreet Electrical Light Parade, a Neal classic favorite! I remember watching this parade when I was 5.
Day three. Mad props to Paige for 1. being adorable, and 2. not being terrified of the characters as is so often the case with young children.
"INTERCEPTED!!" There were always treats for everyone to enjoy everyday, another Disneyland staple.
Did I mention I love my family?? I love this picture of Natalie. She always wanted to be with the children.
Lots of shoulder rides to be had by all! Well, by the kids anyway. Uh, do you see James Larson being a pack mule?!
Here is Cameron going after Paige's sucker. A scene was about to be made...
Until mommy remembered baby's half eaten sucker in our bag. Saved! Hi-larious!
A picture of the whole gang! With 16 we now officially fill an Its A Small World boat. And a whole Pirates of the Caribbean boat.
Grandma in heaven! Thanks to my parents for helping out with grandkids so we could pretend to be kids ourselves again, however briefly.
Last Day. We wore our shirts again to get our money's worth. This is one of my favorite pictures of my little fam. Big thanks to the man of my life Tyler for helping out so much with Cameron!
Official picture of the growing number of grandchildren. Now, here I must mention that Cameron had just calmed after a meltdown from being put in his stroller and would not have stayed for this picture but have been 100 ft in the opposite direction in 10 seconds. I must also admit that he spent a great amount of time trapped in that stroller. But you gotta just trust that the parents knew how to best handle him in that situation.
My dad was a fan of taking us shooting. He's real into that lately. Maybe he's feeling like teaching his girls how to defend themselves is better now than never! And of course there aren't real guns in Disneyland. Maybe next time we're all at home he'll take us all real shooting?
Official family picture! It was an extremely memorable and fun vacation and on my life's highlight reel. A huge thanks to my parents for taking us!
Boys will be boys, girls will be girls. Love this shot. The morning of the first day all together.
Strike a pose. Paige knows what's up.
My sweet little guy Cameron on his first Disneyland ride of his life. The carousel of course; what else?
After naps were finished, the whole family got together after spending the morning in smaller groups. You know despite what one would think, we really had much more fun all 16 of us together even if moving was a bit slower. That's because we are all such big fans of one another!
A newer favorite, the animation room on Hollywood Blvd in California Adventure. Nice and cool and a good place for the kiddies to enjoy themselves while parents are riding rides. We found a good way to ride rides even with small children via "divide and conquer" methods, i.e. one half entertains chillins while the other half rides, then switch.
Fans of one another! We're having fun!
Tuesday we all wore our "DisNEALand" shirts. I was surprised how many compliments we got on them. Just all the sisters together (yeee-hawww!) with Dad going on Space Mountain! Note the wrist bling, sported by two of us a day and then passed on to new wearers (only girls of course) for the entire four days! They work for waving around while on rides. You have to know us...
Disneyland is never absent some form of music. Mom's birthday-observed dinner was filled with music from a nearby parade. And of course we MUST dance!
Cameron's first suckers! All children should have treats at Disneyland. Needless to say it caused a sticky mess of huge proportions but he was perfectly happy every second he was devoring the sucker AND the stick. (yes, he'd also devour the stick down to nothing.)
Getting ready for the MainStreet Electrical Light Parade, a Neal classic favorite! I remember watching this parade when I was 5.
Day three. Mad props to Paige for 1. being adorable, and 2. not being terrified of the characters as is so often the case with young children.
"INTERCEPTED!!" There were always treats for everyone to enjoy everyday, another Disneyland staple.
Did I mention I love my family?? I love this picture of Natalie. She always wanted to be with the children.
Lots of shoulder rides to be had by all! Well, by the kids anyway. Uh, do you see James Larson being a pack mule?!
Here is Cameron going after Paige's sucker. A scene was about to be made...
Until mommy remembered baby's half eaten sucker in our bag. Saved! Hi-larious!
A picture of the whole gang! With 16 we now officially fill an Its A Small World boat. And a whole Pirates of the Caribbean boat.
Grandma in heaven! Thanks to my parents for helping out with grandkids so we could pretend to be kids ourselves again, however briefly.
Last Day. We wore our shirts again to get our money's worth. This is one of my favorite pictures of my little fam. Big thanks to the man of my life Tyler for helping out so much with Cameron!
Official picture of the growing number of grandchildren. Now, here I must mention that Cameron had just calmed after a meltdown from being put in his stroller and would not have stayed for this picture but have been 100 ft in the opposite direction in 10 seconds. I must also admit that he spent a great amount of time trapped in that stroller. But you gotta just trust that the parents knew how to best handle him in that situation.
My dad was a fan of taking us shooting. He's real into that lately. Maybe he's feeling like teaching his girls how to defend themselves is better now than never! And of course there aren't real guns in Disneyland. Maybe next time we're all at home he'll take us all real shooting?
Official family picture! It was an extremely memorable and fun vacation and on my life's highlight reel. A huge thanks to my parents for taking us!
9 comments:
I like the 5th picture of cam dog. He's got a mad-eye moody eyeball thing going on and just has one sandal on- funny.
Yea! I love family! That looks like so much fun. I can't wait to take my kiddos someday..
It looks like you guys had a fabulous time!!! Wish we could have been there too.
What a fun trip! I would love to take a trip like this with my entire family. It might be a bit harder with Jim's- considering there are now 39 in the family with 3 more babies on the way... I'm already looking forward to taking my kids to Disneyland, though. Especially with Madi's Special Needs Pass (shorter lines, woo hoo!)
It looks like you guys had a great time!!! How fun to be able to be there with your whole family. I'm so jealous--I LOVE Disneyland, and I can't wait to take Tucker! Love all the pictures!
I am glad you guys had such a great time. It is always the best being with family. We just found out we are going to Disneyland for Christmas so we are pretty excited. We are in Utah right now and it was so cute cause Lainie got out of the car and ran towards your house. She misses her friend Cameron.
What a great post! Awesome, because it made me feel like I was there again. I was smiling really big the whole time I viewed it. Wow, we really did have a great time. I was in heaven! LOve all the photos!
YEAH!!! We sure HEART disneyland alright!! I loved all the photos and thought it was great to have everyone there to pass off the kids so we could all ride rides.
INTERCEPTED!!!!
I really loved your take on it! Loved the pix and captions! It makes me want to print out your post for myself!
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