The Taylors had a long Trip with some happy and sad times!

[eeyore3847]

Well The taylors made it to Disneyland - It was great the first 3 days and then the last 2 were challenging, but we will get to that later...
It was The 3 kids and Me for the first 2 days and then My husband scott joined us thursday Night!!
Well Let's get started shall we!!!
ok so I went to the NKOTB concert monday night and did not get in till after midnight! And the alarm went off at 4:45am! that was a hard wake up! Well we were on the road and in the car by 5:20am! We were on our way. Let me say that the 3 kids and me driving was actually fabulous. Nicholas would just ask anastasia if he wanted something. We stopped once for a potty break only. We got in at 10:30am to the HOJO! They stated our room was checked out of but not ready. So we used the hotel bathroom to change into our disney outfits. that was a tad interesting but we were excited to go to the park and waste no time! I left the luggage in the car and off we went...

We went to Disneyland first and took some pics as we came in. We decided to wear our Mickey and minnie sets the first day!

Then I love the giant pumpkin they always have and we had to have a pic everyday in front of it! There was soo much sun and glare everywhere. But I had to get the traditional shots the first time in!

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

I'm first?!?!? Yippee!!!! Great start!

 

[eeyore3847]

we then head to Fantasyland and ride snow white, The tea cups, which nicholas loved!!! And then ALice. We then went to Toon Town to Meet mickey! Nicholas when we opened the door yelled, "mickey!" But this is as close as he would get without me holding him. He did not cry or scream, just stared!

Then we walk out of Mickeys house and there was Minnie!

Nicholas did not want to take a picture and did not get too close!

We then rode some rides and anastasia rode the Matterhorn as a single rider because jojo is not tall enough but Anastasia is not tall enough to take her herself. Then we go over to Nemo and it was only 25min wait!! WHAT!!! we sooo went in that line, and it was fabulous! Then Anastasia took Josephine on to space mountain! Somehow they let her go on that.
We decided to head back to the hotel since the room was ready and change into night wear, since we thought it would get chilly! But on the way......... We had to see the Halloween themed characters........................... More to come!!

 

[my*2*angels]

Great start! Looks like fun and I love all of your outfits!

Mindy

 

[Yakety76]

Love your son's expression in the Mickey picture. Too cute!

 

[pixleyyy]

Love your outfits! Can't wait to read more!!!

 

[teresajoy]

You guys all look so cute! I love Nicholas's expression when you are holding him by Mickey!!!

Anastasia sure does look like her Mommy!

I can't wait to read more!

 

[eeyore3847]

Love your son's expression in the Mickey picture. Too cute!

I know, hewas not sure if he wanted to be that close to mickey!

You guys all look so cute! I love Nicholas's expression when you are holding him by Mickey!!!

Anastasia sure does look like her Mommy!

I can't wait to read more!

She does look a lot like me every year that passes!

 

[BrookeTx]

Lovin it so far! Can't wait to hear more!

 

[lovesdumbo]

Love this shot!!!!! Your customs all look so great!

 

[MouseTriper]

Awww the kids all look so adorable!!! Love all the customs!!! How funny that Nicholas would not get to close to the characters!! Can't wait to read more!

 

[davidsprincess]

Your kids are sooooo cute! You did an awsome jobs on the clothes. Great report and pics. It is just all around perfect!

 

[jham]

Cute customs! I can't wait to read more!

 

[eeyore3847]

ok, without further waiting here is the rest of the first day!!!
We stopped off at Snow Whites Wishing well on our way out!

Well we decided to head back to the hotel and on the way we met some spooky dressed characters! Nicholas was not amused and was ready for a nap and was not interested in characters at all!!!
Pluto tried though!!

Pluto just adored Jojo's skirt and kept telling his "handler" to look at the skirt!! He was jumping up and down and just loved it!!

And here are the girls with the other "spooky" characters

Back at the hotel we change and relax for an hour before going back for night time fun....

 

[eeyore3847]

oh, well we are back at the park by 4:45 pm. We grabbed mcdonalds on the way and they eat walking to the park. not the healthiest, but it is quick..
Mickey pumpkin pic!!!

Then we have to do mouse ears!!!

Then we see the dapper dans! We love them!! They are singing and pick a person out of the audience everytime to help with a song and play thier bell thing. have no idea what it is called.!

Anastasia was thrilled to be picked. They sang all halloween themed disney songs. it was excellent. They took a picture wit hthe kids afterwards. In fact the girls were posed and nicholas started yelling "picture, picture!" so he wanted to take one too! he started doing that in the trip when he wanted to take a pic. But did he smile. um no!

Then we head over to the Haunted mansion....... Had to take a pic in front!

at this point the park was quite busy!
here they are in line!

Nicholas rode with me and had his head down in my lap the entire time. he was not a fan of the ride!

Then we head over to indiana jones and anastasia was tall enough and got to ride single rider!!! off she went and Jojo and Nicholas waited with me! Nicholas started making silly faces when we waited for her to come out, it was so funny!

he would pull his cheeks open and go " blaahhh" He was funny.
And then he decided to just relax and wait for her!

we rode the jungle cruise and then rode a couple fantasy land rides before heading back. The park closed at 8pm that night so we were in bed early. And I was ready to sleep after a long day of driving and walking on less then 5 hours sleep!
Lori

 

[revrob]

A shameless sub just to see your awesome customs!

 

[Ferry Joy]

Me too! You're kids are cute. Is it very hard to do Disney with just one adult?

 

[eeyore3847]

Me too! You're kids are cute. Is it very hard to do Disney with just one adult?

It is hard, and even more so when they are little. I will do day 2 on sunday! WOO HOO!!!

Lori

 

[jessica52877]

Can't wait to see and hear more!

 

[eeyore3847]

ok... you have all been waiting long enought!!
We woke up wed. and it was our NBC day. Well, we got up and we were at DL when the doors opened! Woo hoo!!!
We got a picture as we walked in!! Nicholas was still eating bfast and did not want to get out of the stroller!

Off to Fantasyland and a quick pic in front of the castle!!

The girls choose the tea cups to ride first!!
In line waiting.... we waited a minute maybe!

and the girls wanted there own tea cups and Nicholas and I shared one!

Since no one else was in line we got to ride again!! woo hoo!

Then Anastasia went single rider on The Matterhorn!
Jojo waited patiently!

Nicholas not so much!

Here she is in line!

about this time I think the 5th person asked me where I got the outfits. We could not go 100 feet before being asked about them. it was the most amazing reaction I have ever seen from customs before.

Then we made our way to the Haunted Mansion and there was no wait for rocky Mountain and Anastasia rode single rider again!

We took some pics in front of the Haunted Mansion and got to ride the ride with no wait.

We found out what time Jack and sally were going to be out and decided to go to calif adv, for a bit!
First pics with the candy corn!!

We went to the disney Visa event!
Nicholas saw Pluto!