Disneyland 2010

School got out on May 20th and we went to Disneyland on May 21st. We had our free day for ding volunteer work and since Court was to young to do the project we wanted to go before Aiden turned three and we would have to pay for him too. We got up early in the morning...like 3:00am and drove for the 5 hours drive it takes to get there. It was great because the kids slept most of the way there. After parking at our hotel we headed over to the park and decided to knock space mt out of the way first thing. Chad and Casey went on the ride while the rest of us waited. Tyler was all talk about going on it till Chad mentioned that it went faster than the other rides, with that he was out. Next we headed over to Astro Blasters where Court proceeded to cry and fight about going on it. She did not want to go and had to be dragged on and even then she spent the whole ride with her face in Chads side. That is how it was for her with every ride. What the? Its a good thing she didn't do that last year when we came for her birthday trip. As we got off the ride Aiden was strutting around with he arms out. Big man shot the bad guys! he was hilarious to watch. He did well on the rides which was great since we were dealing with Courtney and a one month old baby.

We didn't get to many pictures, but we managed to get this family shot.

We all got volunteer pins and Brody got to sport a first time at Disneyland pin.

We went on lots of rides and ate lots of yummy food. Typical day at Disneyland. I had to go nurse Brody a few times in the nursing room. The last time was late at night, when I came out this how I found my family. don't remember where Aiden is in the picture, i think he was in the stroller. notice T is awake, he must have been watching him since Chad is rally asleep!

I was really worried about how Brody was going to do. When I planned the trip I was not planning such a rough start with child number 5 so as the time drew near for our trip I was a little worried about how nursing and everything was going to go. well it went great he slept the whole time literally THE WHOLE TIME. He would wake up to eat and then he would conk right out again. I think chilling in the sling allowed him to roll in a tight ball and feel super secure.

He woke up at 11:00 when we were headed back to our hotel and the rest of us were beat. Luckily he still went to bed fine and sleep well that night. After dropping Daddy and the three youngest off at the hotel, mommy and the two older kids went back tot he park for the last hour. We wanted to squeeze in a couple of last rides just because we could.

The next morning it was back in the sling as we headed over to Down Town Disney to check out the stores.

We just had to check out the Lego store. The kids had birthday money from their party and they were looking to spend it there. Adien was so excited to see a huge woody made out of Lego's. They loved this store and it took some fast talking to get them to wait and see what the other stores had to offer before they blew all there money. We went and checked out all the other stores, but in the end they came back to Lego and got some cool Lego sets.

Later that night we went and met one of Chads friends from elementary school for dinner. We had lots of fun catching up with her. It was a great trip, but next time we will plan better for our day not at the park. we had originally planned on the beach, but then I realized that was a bad plan with a new baby, so we really had no plan and no plan in a hotel room is not great with 5 kids! The pool at our hotel was indoor and very loud, so there was only so much time one could spend in that room. Chad has sworn ff Disneyland for at least 5 years, but I could never survive that! He seems to think he has filled some quota on Disney attendance in the last two years. I tell him there is no such thing as too much Disneyland. :)

Rides we hit, sometimes we didn't all ride them.

Space Mt, Astro Blasters, Submarine ride, Small world, Jungle Cruise, Pirates of the Caribbean, Winnie the pooh, Mr Toads, the Carousel, Story book canal boats, Alice in Wonderland, The orbiter, Tarzan's Tree House, Big Thunder Railroad, The Tiki room,