Disneyland

Last week was another week of fun school projects, but I'll blog about that later.  There's something more fun and exciting that has taken place in our family this week!  :)  We've had a pretty large Disney gift card sitting around our house for a while now, just waiting to be used.  We'd been wanting and planning to take Hannah to Disneyland since Christmas, but just never actually did it.  After mulling it over, we finally decided to go!  Thanks to so many of you for helping pay the way (you probably didn't even know you were helping!)!  We took Hannah's birthday money and saved some Christmas money from when we were originally planning on going, along with our gift card, and went!  It was a blast!  Thankfully I have an aunt who lives about 5 miles away from Disneyland who let us crash at her place for a few nights.  It was really great, because we could just go back to the house, eat lunch and even give Hannah a nap (which made for a much more pleasant time all-around).  :)  Instead of me telling you about our trip, let me show you instead - I think it'll be much more enjoyable for you.  :)

On the "train" (tram) to get from the parking garage to the park.  This ended up being a highlight of the trip for Hannah.  She was never sad about leaving the park, because it meant riding the "train."  :)

If you click on the picture to make it bigger, you'll be ale to see Hannah's cute little hand waving.

My cute, crazy husband. :)

Loving the tea cups.

The World of Color show at California Adventure is amazing!!!  It's unbelievable what they can do with water and lights.

We were on the Ferris wheel when Hannah spotted Buzz Lightyear walking through the park and started yelling to him.  "Hey, Buzz!  I'm on a ride!"

You can now purchase life-size Hannah Grace action figures!

A highlight for Hannah.  Before going to Disneyland, the only thing she knew about it is that Buzz, Woody, and Jesse live there.  :)

One of our friends wrote a book called Discovering the Magic Kingdom.  I have yet to read it, but James did and in the book, we found out that we can ride in the wheel house of the Mark Twain Riverboat!!!  Hannah even got to help "steer" the boat!

That's the boat Hannah got to "steer."

It took a few days for her to warm up to the characters.  You'll notice that in all the other pictures, either James or I am holding her.  This was the first time she approached one by herself and gave him a hug.  :)

After 2 1/2 days at Disneyland.  :)

Here's Hannah on the tram with a year's worth of sunscreen on her face.

Translation:
Me: Where are we right now?
Hannah: On a train.
Me: But where's the train?
Hannah: Right here. (Haha...obviously!)  :)
Me: Where's it taking us?
Hannah: Uhhh...this way.
Me: But where are we going?
Hannah: Uhhh...to....
Me: To Disneyland?
Hannah: Disneyland!!!


This one's really cute.  It's Hannah on the tea cups.  Thankfully it's dark and you can't see much so you won't get motion sickness from all the spinning.  BUT you can still hear the cute laughter and squeals (plus get a glimpse of Hannah every once in a while).

Hannah "steering" the boat.

A video of just a small portion of The World of Color.  It's not as impressive, because we were watching it from behind, but if you watch it from the front, you they project images and movies onto the water - it's amazing!