Tyler's 7th birthday

Last year when Chad found out that Disney was having a Year of Celebration promotion which would allow people to get in to the park for free on their birthday he came up with the brilliant idea that he and I get season passes and take each child on their birthday in 2009. We were already visiting the park as a family in 2008 for my birthday so it just meant upgrading our tickets! April 4th Tyler had his birthday, the first birthday of the year for the kids. After depositing the other kids at their respective babysitters (thanks to those had them) We headed to California and DISNEYLAND yea!! This post is few post long so I could fit in all the pictures and tell about our whole day, bear with me.

The idea behind this genius is that the birthday child gets to spend his or her birthday with mom and dad one on one at the happiest place on earth and that they get to call the shots. They get to choose what we will do and when we will do it.

Tyler of course wanted to go on one of his favorite rides Big Thunder Mt.

He wanted to try the shooting gallery. Something he always wants to do, but we never have.

This one took some tongue biting to allow. They had a face painter and she cost $15.00! Chad tried to talk him out of it, but he was willing to spend his own money and he really wanted it. I reminded Chad that this was his birthday and it was all about what he wanted. This is something we would absolutely never do, but he got his way and..

spent the rest of the day with this cool dragon painted on his face. As you will see it is now all over the rest of the pictures, but he loved it. He loved that people were always noticing it and remarking on it. We even had one guy chase us down after one ride to ask where we had it done. He loved the attention.

To be continued on the next post.