Best of Disnealand

Hooray for Disneyland!! We were so lucky to get to go two times in two years for five days each! So for the benefit of everyone out there (that cares), and more especially for my family's photo swapping, here are my best pictures of the awesome vacation! I have to admit that while they are my best, they are not great by any means, meaning I took pretty terrible pictures. I don't know about you all, but I have to make a very conscious effort to make sure I get enough good pictures. Between taking care of my kids and wanting to talk to my family, I didn't have a whole lot of brain processing space left for worrying about pictures!

(Note: they loaded out of order, so apologies that chronology is a bit messy!)

First ride HAD to be Captain EO!! Oh yeah! Nobody ask me how we got in trouble twice for having our video camera's out.

Nice face, Cameron! Always the charmer at Redd Rocket's pizza joint, a fave of ours in the park.

I think Space Mountain is probably still my favorite ride in the Disneyland park!

WOW! Look how big my family has gotten! There are 19 of us now! We take up a whole section of tables when it's time to eat.

My dad, never without a project, used the vacation as a chance to get more footage for his long anticipated Disnealand movie. He is going to assemble it using footage spanning across decades of Disneyland trips!

Suckers!

Heidi was, along with several others, a huge help with the kids. Here she is holding sleeping Jane. It seems like she was always holding a sleeping Jane! Oh that's right, she's the sleep nurse. Way to go, Heidi!

Jack and Cameron would hold hands all the time. It was so sweet! We all wish they could live near each other so they could have their best friend near by.

The end of day 1. Cameron was so well behaved, too!

Soda buddies!!

In order to stay together as a group but still get to ride the rides the kids were too small for, we would break up into 2 "shifts" to watch the kids. They did surprisingly well staying in one spot just playing for 30 minutes or more at a time while us grown ups got to ride our rides.

I wondered if Cameron would be a bit scared of the characters. Apparently not!

After coming home from the park between 8 and 9, Cameron and Tyler would sit and watch TV for about 30 mins, and then Cameron would roll over and crash to sleep.

The third day was the day the princesses got to wear their dresses to the park. Paige and Sarah were entranced with Jane once they saw her in her dress. Melanie and I joked that they realized that Jane was "one of them."

Always the lover of babies, Caleb was very sweet to Jane the entire trip.

Grandpa on watch, considering the jump he'd have to make to go after one of the tykes if they fell into the water.

Princess Jane! So cuuute!

Tuesday, the rainy day, on the Rockets.

Princesses! Melanie and I made sure our girls got to sport their pretty dresses together in the park. We barely got these pictures in at the very end of the night before Jane "lost it" out of tiredness.

Toontown! Just the place Cameron needed to be: a place where he could run around and explore and not have to ride any rides. For the most part he didn't like the rides, especially the ones inside a building.

Jungle Cruise Ride

Cameron's best friends: Caleb and Jack. He is still asking for "Small World" with "Caleb and Jack!"

The last night we staked out a great seat for the Fantasmic light show, which I love! Here we are having a great time chatting at our last activity all together! What a great vacation!!