Disneyland

The Giles' family

2008

Disneyland trip

We were so happy to have our Disney Visa. It gave us many, in-park advantages, including a chance to meet some of the characters, and get a free picture with them. Well we happened to go in when Chip and Dale were there and the kids were so confused why Alvin and his brother, didn't have their shirts on. It made me realize that our kids really don't know many fo the classic characters, besides what we have said about them. By the end of the trip, we decided to collect those pennies that are in the smashing machine that put a picture on them. Anyway, Aubrey chose to have the Chip and Dale ones because they were the characters we got our pictures with. I guess we are going to have to rent some of the Classic, Mickey flicks so we can educate our children about the past.:)

Side note: We do love all of our children equally and did make a cool, Halloween shirt for Porter too, but when he realized it wasn't Halloween on the day we wore them, he wasn't going to have any part of it. At least he chose to wear an orange shirt so that he matched. He's so funny and, as you can see, having 3 sisters has not converted him to enjoying

Dress-up, unless it is the only way his mom tells him he can ask for candy, while trick-or-treating, on Halloween.

The kids had so much fun and felt so cool. Can you see that from their picture above?:)We were just hang'n around in Downtown Disney on our day off for 7 hours in all of THREE stores. We were so tired of shopping by the end of the day! Though Kailey's picture (below) was taken on a ride the day before, her look of "What the heck am I doing here" depicts what all of us were feeling by the end of that day.. This is the look she gave in most of our Disnyland pictures, unless she was sleeping! Lucky she's young enough that she won't remember being woken up over and over again to be taken on another wet, bumpy, noisy ride.

They had some great picture spots that the kids had a blast finding and posing by.

We loved our Disneyland trip!