Disneyland!!!

We had such an amazing week! We went to Disneyland, California Adventure, the beach, Universal Studios and on an amazing whale & dolpin excursion. We had so many great moments. Spending an entire week with just me, Thomas and Hayden was so much fun. Hayden is so much fun to talk to and we spent the whole time laughing at his expressions. Since our last trip to Disneyland, Hayden is not as much in to roller costers. After space mountain, he told us he didn't want to go on that again until he was 8 years old. Then, Thomas took him on Tower of Terror. His response was, "Don't even think about taking me on that again until I have a wife and kids." What a crack up.

We had so many fabulous moments. One of Hayden's favorites was seeing Goofy at California Adventure. Hardly anyone was around and Hayden ran up and hugged him. After Goofy posed for a picture, he took Hayden's hand and skipped off down the street. Hayden loved that.


We did so many fun things at Disneyland this year that we have never done before. We got into the park an hour early one day and instead of standing in line for Finding Nemo with everyone else, we experienced Fantasy Land, all by ourselves. Yes, we were the ONLY ones on the rides in Fantasy Land. It was really weird to be on Dumbo, Peter Pan and the Matterhorn with no one else around. It was a lot of fun! And, great to be able to ride all the rides in less than an hour.


Hayden loved being chosen to learn how to be a Jedi. And he loved being able to defeat Darth Vader.



Another day we opened up Toon Town. Hayden was made an honorary citizen of Toon Town and had all of the characters to play with. Pluto and Hayden explored Toon Town together and we even got family picture with Mickey and Minnie. It was a lot of fun to have Hayden be able to really interact with the characters. They are still so magical to him.


The best thing we did at Disneyland was each breakfast with the characters. I had never experienced it before and it was amazing. I don't know whether Hayden enjoyed it more or I did. It was so much fun to be able to have such incredible experiences with the characters. Hayden's favorite was Captain Hook. He let Hayden play with his sword and he pretended to cut off Hook's hand. Hayden thought it was hilarious to tell Captain Hook he saw Peter Pan and also pretended to be the crocodile and freak Hook out. All of the characters were fantastic and really playful.





Thomas' favorite was the whale & dolphin excursion we went on. We came upon this pod of dolphins all swimming. I thought there had to be hundreds of dolphins swimming by our boat. The captain informed me there were thousands. Thomas was in heaven, there was a professional marine life photographer on board and Thomas took pictures with him. It was incredible seeing so many dolphins and them jumping and playing everywhere. We even saw a few baby dolphins. It was so much fun to be out on the water relaxing and enjoying the ride and scenery. I loved spending a day at the beach and Hayden loved playing in the sand. It was freezing cold out and he went out into the ocean almost to his waist and then proceeded to roll in the sand. He had a great time!


We had a fabulous trip where we made a ton of family memories. We are very thankful to Dad and Bonnie for their wonderful Christmas gift. We loved it!!!!