Hi again Jenny!
We're keeping our trip a surprise, but mostly because it isn't a sure thing yet, and we hate to disappoint the kids if we have to cancel. We're in the middle of buying property/building a house and money is questionable... (know you can relate).
It does look like we might overlap your dates. We have ressies at the HoJo Tue-Fri, the week after Thanksgiving.
My friend Callie, we have to meet if your trip happens. 
Your first day will be out last. 4 more days to go!!!!
i have to say the last week has been the most difficult to keep it quiet!!!
How long have you kept it quiet?My DD just busted me writing on another thread telling about where I bought tickets! Good thing she is not a good reader.But she knew this was about Disneyland and lamented about when we can go again. I said "maybe one day..." I have to be more careful!
Close call. 
I feel ya. Misery (well not really) loves company. Rosie, I have had two of those close calls, and my DD can read! Fortunately she believed my excuse, but it was a good reminder that I need to be more careful! FOUR MORE MONTHS!!!! I'm going to need a tranquilizer by then
Traci
Love how many of us are trying to be so slick.
But my oldest has...er...issues with anticipation and we just didn't feel up to weeks of her throwing up every night. Every.single.night! 
Love the surprises! We kept the secret for FIVE MONTHS before our first trip to DL last year. I had some people tell me I was mean for not telling the kids ahead of time, which made me feel bad
We didn't do anything elaborate. Got them up and ready for school. Then DH sat them down for a stern talking to (I'm sure mommy holding the video cam must have confused them), explaining that as they'd taken soooo long to get ready, we were now late for school & work...so why not just go to Disneyland instead. The kids squealed with excitement and I shut down the camcorder to start herding them to the car...then my oldest asked her dad 'are you kidding us?' and mean daddy that he is said 'yes'. Oh how I wish I'd left the camcorder running! It was happiness to despair in the space of a nanosecond! We all rushed in to assure her that no, no, no...we were just kidding about the kidding and yes, we really were going to DL!!!
As a follow up, my same child had to have five teeth extracted about a month or so after we got back. She knew she had to have the teeth out but she didn't know I'd already booked the appt -- until she got up that morning and came downstairs. The running joke in our household is that you can never be quite sure what's going to happen when you wake up - could be Disney...could be the dentist!
We have a cruise/DL trip planned for September. We're going to tell them about the cruise, but not till the weekend before. I figure she has to learn how to manage her excitement at some point, right? We won't tell them about DL until we're in the taxi on the way to our hotel ('oh darn, the cabbie missed the exit for the airport! Oh well, might as well go to Disneyland for a couple of days')
Great story! There's always the hope that Disneyland will trump the dentist. Love a DH with a sense of humor.we started planning it in january!!!I cannot imagine. I would be a spastic mess.
I feel like I'm going to pop!
Fast forward 6 years later....I have NO clue how to surprise them.We may be in Vegas for soccer again over Thanksgiving which will be a no brainer because we'll head towards CA instead of Utah and eventually one of them will catch on if I can keep quiet for 5+ months.
Anyone else keeping THE secret? Any good ideas for the surprise?
. It was a fun surprise. I can't wait to surprises my own children w/ the same surprises (my DS is only 4 mo. old).
we started planning it in january!!!
our first idea was to go in march, but we had to postpone it, they knew we were thinking about it but we said we had to cancel it because of work.
We decided to keep it a secret at first because I could not live 6 months with them asking me how long it's going to take!!!!
3 more days! I can't wait!!!!!
Have a magical trip. Please report back on their reaction! 
Reminds me of my first surprise trip to Disneyland (at least that I remember). I was 8 years old and we had just spent some time at my cousins' house in Las Vegas. When it was time to head home we packed up, got in the car and left to what all us kids thought was back to Utah.
We were a little confused when we started driving the opposite direction for going home, but still being rather young, we bought the excuse that my parents fed us (don't really remember the exact excuse - something about an alternate route home). Of course, eventually we realized that there was no way we were heading home, and my parents broke the news that we were heading to Disneyland
One of these nights I'll pull it off. I have watched the few links posted here though. You also might see some ideas that you might want to use on how to do it. I absolutely know that it will be worth waiting for, and although I will miss the build up, seeing her reaction will outweigh it. And think of the memories your child will forever have because of the surprise! Good luck!
