Disneyland!

We recently decided that we could really use some time at one of the happiest places on earth!  Benjamin put in for some time off of work and we headed a couple of hours north to Disneyland.  We spent three action-packed days at the park and had a blast.  It was JUST what we needed!


The boys on the Dumbo ride.  Caroline and I took the picture from our own Dumbo just ahead of them!



We tried to get a photo with the two of them.  Turns out it's physically impossible to make two kids look at you and smile at the same time.  So we settled for this picture.

 

Harrison's first carousel ride ever!  He really liked it!

 

Caroline's an old pro!




Here's Caroline in line to meet the Disney Princesses.




She really was super excited!




Meeting Belle!  Belle loved Caroline's dress of course!




Caroline & Belle




Terrible quality, but it's a screen grab -- sorry!




Hugging Cinderella.  Just in case you didn't know, Caroline is absolutely obsessed with Cinderella!




Showing off her dress to Cinderella.  You keen blog observers have noticed that this is a different dress, right?  Well this is the second day of meeting Cinderella.  Yep, Caroline loves her so much that we had to do it all over again the next day!




Another screengrab, but so, so sweet!




Screengrab again as if you couldn't tell.




Screengrab of Caroline meeting Rapunzel.





Caroline and Snow White.




Caroline and Sleeping Beauty.

 Meeting the Disney Princesses pretty much proved to be the highlight of Caroline's entire life.




Here are the boys!  The whale in the background is smiling for the picture too!




Harrison obviously pre-haircut.




Caroline was so excited to ride the teacups!




She was NOT disappointed!




Harrison preferred the Ferris wheel.




Caroline loves her brother so much!  :)




She was not amused like we were... oh well!




Enjoying our last day at Disney!




We were having too much fun to pose for a picture!




Okay, one try from us!




Another!  We were trying not to laugh but it was so hard.




Oh look!  It's us on another carousel!  You must be so surprised!




Here's Caroline with Duffy the Disney bear.  I have no idea who Duffy is.




Caroline and Mickey Mouse!

 When we first got to Disneyland, we were so excited to start the adventure that we skipped posing with the famous sign.  We figured we'd be there for three days and that we'd have plenty of other opportunities to take our picture with it.  Well... three days later as we were about to depart, we realized that in all of our fun and excitement, we hadn't taken that picture.  Oops!  So we made a last ditch effort and these were the results:



Caroline and Harrison with the sign!




Both kids are smiling but Caroline moved out of the frame... oh well!




One last picture at the Disney park Benches right before we left!


 The dose of Disney is just what we needed!  We're already planning for the next trip!