Jason's Birthday trip to Disney

I was all over the shirts this trip I wanted to wear matching shirts as many days as possible.  I may be losing it a little with all these trips to Disneyland.  I researched free printables and have gone a little crazy.  This day we wore the "Have a Laugh" printable.

 We also saw the Mickey show and this was Hayden & Ryan's first time having the frozen lemonades.

 They loved them!

 Ryan also has gone through a little growth spurt and now is tall enough to go on the cars at Autotopia! This was her first ride!! Life starts at 32 inches!!

 We HAD to see the Frozen float.  Disneyland knows how to make you crazy.  They do 2 parades a night but the Frozen float is only at the 4pm parade! Gotta love it!

The people behind us could not get enough of Ryan.  Everything she did was hilarious.  I love her amazed expression here.

 My cute girl :)

 The waving: Adorable!

The best part was Anna & Elsa!  Ryan almost ran to them.  The love is too much!!  As we speak she saw their pictures from across the room and came running and shouting: ANNA! ELSA!

"Me Mou" is also a favorite of Ryan's.  She asks daily to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

 I once had a visiting teacher who told me she actually believed she was a princess when she was growing up. She was little off, but I do worry with all the Disney exposure that our girls will be delusional when they grow up.

I'm sure they'll be fine, they do have me for a Mom :) (I'm all for representing minorities and such but I was pretty weirded out by this Spanish Belle.  She's French for heavens sake!)

51's game

Our HOA is awesome and every year they give homeowners a day at the ball park.  They get you vouchers for free parking, tickets for the game, hats for everyone, and $5 concession money for each person!  We love it!  This year they scheduled us to go on $1 food night so it was a rare treat for the kids.

 They got to eat peanuts!  The kids were so excited.  I like peanuts as much as the next guy but the kids were in heaven.

 Because we didn't have to pay for anything we had no problem shelling out for snow cones and the kids each got a fun stuffed animal at the team store.

Super fun night!  If any one wants to move into our neighborhood, we have houses for sale :)  A Great HOA is included when you buy!!  (They also do Halloween and Christmas decoration contests for cash prizes!)

24th of July Saturday

We came prepared in bathing suits for the day activities on Saturday.  The kids talk about the dunking booth all year long.

 Hayden did not want to get dunked but she was more than excited to dunk her brother.  Where's the love?

 Hayden played her first season of t-ball in the spring and never once threw as hard or as far as she did while trying to dunk Tyson.  I guess it's all about the motivation with this girl :)

 They set up the ropes course this year and I was so excited. I remember growing up and they had a ton of ropes you could go on.  When I was little they even had a zip line tire swing thing.  No zip line this year but a step in the right direction with this awesome ropes course! Tyson was the only brave kid of ours to do it.

 After water slides, jump houses, games, hot dogs, scones, street tacos, bake sale treats, sodas, and popsicles, it was time for fire works!

 This was Ryan's face until the first firework hit.  Then it was ears covered and clinging to Mom.

North Stake does the BEST firework show around.  Love, love, love, North Stake and their pioneer day celebration!!

24th of July Friday

We are supporters of the 24th of July and every year we go out to the Friday night dinner.  We are trying to get smarter and smarter each year.  This year we brought our own blanket and drinks.  It went much smoother!

 They had some really fun pioneer stations.  You could make these amazing bubbles with 2 sticks, some string, and dawn soap. Those pioneers were geniuses!!

 So easy even a 2 year old can do it!!

 Random pic of Hayden and her dancing.

 They also had potato sack races.  Hilarious!!

 Couldn't be at a pioneer day celebration without Indian wrestling.

So fun!!  I was so impressed with all the Friday night fun, love pioneer days!!

Home Again

When we got home from California Taylor had this amazing gift waiting for her from Grandma DeMille!!  Its a blanket that folds up into a pillow.  She is in love with it!!

I of course had to stop at IKEA on our California trip and found this awesome backyard table set with 4 chairs for $118!  It was such a deal, regularly an outdoor chair is $50-$80.  Jason of course had to work so me and the girls got to work putting the furniture together.

 Love handy girls!!

The next day was church and the 3 girls all came down with a weird virus that caused crazy fevers for 4 days.  We went through 2 bottles each of Ibuprofen and Tylenol.  I had to keep a chart of who I gave what.  Every 4 hours around the clock the girls would spike these fevers and after I would give them their medicine they would be fine until the next spike.  So to pass the time while we were quarantined the kids made all sorts of stuff out of the IKEA boxes I brought home.

 Tyson made himself an entire Minecraft outfit that he says is going to be his Halloween costume.  Cheapest costume ever!!

 The DeMille bus.

Also not pictured Taylor made each of the kids their own cardboard ipads.  Hilarious!!

Disney California Birthday trip day 2

We went to Disney California for the second day of our trip.  I found these free princess printables on line and made these adorable shirts.  

We got to the parks early and were able to do a bunch of fun rides.  We got our radiators springs fast passes and played a ton in Bugs Land.  The girls wanted their hair done up like Minnie ears, hence the buns.

We waited in line for the Toy Story Mania ride and because it was her birthday someone just handed Taylor a Dumbo stuffed animal.  They had won it playing the midway games and their son didn't like Dumbo.  It was a MAJOR source of contention the rest of the day and led us to leaving early and almost driving back home this very night.  Sad when someone's kind deed ruins your whole day.  It's like when someone has an extra Popsicle and gives it to one of your kids and the other 3 throw fits because they didn't get one too.

After Toy Story we went to see if Taylor was tall enough to go on California Screaming.  She just knew that she was tall enough now because she was 6 years old.  When they measured her she was still too short and a little heart broken so they gave her a fast pass to any ride in the park.  This girl is the luckiest girl I know!! We have been to Disney several times and have never been given these amazing fast passes.  She gets 2 in 2 days!!
We went to the Aladdin show and got half way through it before the melt downs began.

We went on the water ride because of the heat and thought it would be fun to do the wilderness adventure activities.  By this time behaviors were so bad I had to have strangers stand between the girls in line.  Who knew!?!  Ugly business!

We ate the most drama filled dinner of my life and then took this one last picture of "posed" fun before heading to the bus to get back to the hotel.

Sad to say Dumbo never made it out of the park with us.  He was probably scooped up by a grateful child who will love him, or maybe he ran away from us to escape the drama.  I am very worried to know these girls at age 14. (I am even more worried because I have 3 girls who are very close in age.  One day I will have a 16, 15, and 13 year old!)  In theory it was an awesome idea.  Oh well, live and learn :)