Surprise....here we go.

So Ryan and I had planned a big surprise for the kids. They were going to be off track and we thought it would be fun to go do something while they had a break and finally last week, Thursday we were finally able to tell them about it....it was so hard to keep it a secret because we were so excited ourselves. (I think they were excited too:) I had a video but I can't get it to work:(

She doesn't even know what's going on but man is she excited:)


What a fun trip it turned out to be. The kids did awesome, with a few melt downs, but over all it was just nice to be all together. We decided it would be better to drive (which i hate being in the car that long, ahhhh) but we made a couple stops along the way to help break up the long drive to California. We stayed one night in St George and one night in Las Vegas. Did some shopping, walked around and of course couldn't leave Vegas with out our $20 bag of M&M's:) The kids did great though for how much we were in the car. They just played and watch movies. (It helped that I got them a few surprises for the drive). Once we got to California we did Disneyland for three days. One of the days it was raining so hard we had to buy ponchos but it was still so much fun and there were no line and over all the weather was perfect. This was Addison's first time and she was having a ball. I think her favorite things were: meeting the princesses, (we took the kids to Ariel's Grotto for breakfast to meet them all) the rocket ride and then anything that was on a boat. Mckaela was so much more daring this time and she loved screaming California, tower of terror and thunder mountain. Brendan too was more daring then last year, he did all the scary rides at least once but his favorite was: we called it the "mouse ride" (like the one at lagoon) toy story and toontown. What made it fun too was that we had company with us. My parents came the whole time and then Kellie, Ryan's sister, came for a couple days. We really had a great time and hated that it had to come to an end.

Here are a few pics from the trip. Can't wait to go back...maybe in a couple years:) We have our cruise to look forward to now:)