Disneyland Weekend!

We took the whole family to Disneyland this past weekend in honor of Aida's 4th birthday. Oh my gosh, we had the best time! It was a short trip but we really packed it in and Aida loved every minute of it. We kept the whole thing a surprise and didn't tell her we were going until the morning we were leaving for the airport. She was very excited:

We flew in on Thursday morning and checked into our hotel and then went and visited with my Uncle Teri & Aunt Jan and introduced Grandma Jo to her newest great-grandchild.


Thursday we went over to Disneyland all day. We met up with my brother, AJ and one of his friends that works there and spent the day riding rides and meeting Mickey.


My dad drove down from Sacramento for the weekend so we met up with him after lunch and headed back to the hotel for some swimming. This was Jack's first time in a swimming pool and he loved to splash! :)

My dad stayed with Jack at the hotel so Zack and I could take Aida back to California Adventure Park. We watched AJ in the Pixar parade and then we rode a few more rides. Aida was just barely too short to reach the 40" height limit on a lot of the rides, missed it by about 1/2 an inch. Oh well, next time...


Then we were able to take Aida back to the hotel to stay with my dad so Zack and I could head back over to Disneyland and ride all the rides Aida was too short for. We loved having Grandpa there with us!

On Friday, we slept in a little and headed back out for another full day. We started in California Adventure Park because we had reservations for Ariel's Grotto for lunch. That was so great, instead of standing in a huge line to meet all the princesses we got to have a nice lunch and they all came one by one to the table to meet Aida and take a picture.


Then we headed over to Disneyland for more rides. Aida loved the ToonTown roller coaster:

After going back to the hotel for some more swimming and rest time, we were able to have dinner with my best friend, Mary, and her husband, Thomas. They are way too cute. Then AJ, Zack, Aida and I headed back to Disneyland for the fireworks and a few more rides. We took our time packing up on Sunday, the kids slept in pretty late, they were all tuckered out... :)


Of course, I couldn't make a trip out to California without one quick stop to Huntington Beach before we headed to the airport.


I think this will be a hard birthday to top! Below is a slideshow of all our pictures and a cute video that Zack made for Aida's birthday. What a great trip...

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