disneyland- the happiest place on earth???

We took a trip to disneyland about a month ago- wow was that an experience. We left on a tuesday night from my in-laws house around 6pm and didn't arrive at our hotel until 11:00pm. John and Sam did awesome on the way down, thanks to the dvd player. We were all so excited when we arrived and everyone went to sleep with no problems. We woke up the next morning so excited and made our way to california adventure. The excitment turned to terror as we went to the bug's life movie theater thing. I guess we didn't realize that sammy would freak out when the spiders came down from the ceiling and the big huge grasshopper came out. I don't think that he had ever seen anything like that before and he thought that they were real. He was so scared that he was crying and john had to leave with him. That pretty much ruined the rest of the day because he was so scared to go on any other rides. He did love the brother bear tree house and had so much fun splashing in the water

here he is having fun getting wet
I was so grateful for that gigi and papa came because they were able to take sam back to our hotel for a nap while we took john to disneyland. it was so nice to be alone with him and do all of the big-boy stuff



After sam woke up from his nap they met us at disneyland and the real fun began!!!This was my most favorite part of the night.



We decided to leave disneyland a little bit early that night because we had a very cranky and hungry little boy.
the next day we were ready to start fresh again and it turned out to be a much better day.


Toon town was so much fun- we even got to meet mickey. John was off having fun with papa riding pirates so he wasn't there to meet him.

One of my favorite parts of the trip was when we went to tom sawyer's island. We have never been there before and the boys had so much fun exploring! they especially loved the caves. John got so excited when he saw the big pile of treasure!

We had a great time but probably won't go back until max is 4 years old.

I would like to give a special thank you to my mom and dad for taking vacation time from work so that you could stay home with max. that was so sweet of you and so helpful. i felt so good knowing that he was in such good hands and didn't have to be stuck in a stroller like he would have been if we took him. love you guys!!

Also, thanks to gigi and papa for going with us. The boys will treasure the memories forever