Disneyland with the Bennett's

So it seems like we have been trying to plan a trip to Disneyland with Bradyn's family forever and it finally happened. Yay!!! Warning: This is going to be a really long post with many pictures. But I had taken so many cute ones and couldn't decide which ones to leave out.

We left for California at 3:30 in the morning on Sunday, March 20th. The kids did so good on the 10 day hour car ride especially since we only stopped in St. George for breakfast with the whole family and a couple other stops for gas.


Once we got checked into our room and unpacked the fully loaded car it started to down pour. Since it was raining and the kids were all wound up from the drive and excited for Disneyland, we decided to order dinner in.


On Monday, we spent the entire day at the happiest place on earch. It seemed like we were just there. Well, actually we were just there in October. Everything looked the same but without the Halloween decorations. The kids were in heaven between seeing characters and riding all the fun rides. It was a little cool this day and mid-morning it down poured for a couple hours.


Bradyn's parents


Peyton, Raylee and Preslie


Me and Houston


Peyton, Houston and Bradyn


Peyton, Preslie and Raylee


The grandkids, Colter, Kesley, Peyton, Preslie, Houston, and Raylee


The wild boys, Colter and Houston


Bradyn and Houston


A bunch of us on the Storybook Boat ride


Bradyn and Houston waiting for the teacups to start


Shayne and the 3 girls


Brent, Hadley and Colter


Houston loved climbing in these cars at Toon Town


Grandpa Brent, Raylee and Peyton


Toon Town was one of the kid's favorite part of Disneyland






Kesley, Colter, Houston, Raylee, Preslie, and Peyton


Peyton and Houston both loved all the fun stuff in Mickey's house



Mickey!!! Always a crowd favorite. This is our whole group.


Exhausted after only the first day

On Tuesday, we spent the entire day at California Adventures. I love California Adventures! It's kind of a nice break from Disneyland because it's different and has some really fun rides and characters you don't see at Disneyland. This day was much nicer and we even got to wear shorts and capris.


Is it snack time already?


Raylee, Peyton and Preslie


Chinese Take-out Anyone?


Grandpa Brent, Bradyn, Peyton and Houston


Peyton and Grandma ReNae


Kesley and her funny poses


Preslie and Haylee


Houston and Bradyn


Grandpa Brent


Colter and Hadley


On the caterpillar train in Bug's Land


Houston finally got to see his favorite, Woody!!!


We even got to see a little The Incredibles parade


Waiting for World of Color to start. Definately a must see.



On Wednesday it was another nice day and that was good because we spent some time at Huntington Beach.


Houston was in heaven. The beach was a big sand box for him.


Peyton collecting seashells













Building sand castles



Peyton barried in the sand


Our little family


Grandpa Brent and Grandma ReNae with all the grandkids


Shayne, Kesley and Raylee

Thursday was our final full day in California. We got up extra early to beat some of the rush at Disneyland and spent half the day there and half the day California Adventures doing some of the stuff we hadn't done already and rode some of the rides again that we really liked.


The girls loved to see the princesses




Grandpa Brent, Raylee and Peyton with Pilot Minnie


The boys were excited to see these bears


Another favorite for the kids was this trail/play area where the kids could stretch there legs and just run all over the place





Peyton riding the zip line


Exhausted on the final night

While in California we all did a lot of swimming and hot tubbing too at the hotel. And Friday morning we all headed out and us and Bradyn's parents spent a night in St. George to attend Peyton's dance competition on Saturday while the others headed home.

Thanks everybody for such a fun trip!!! We had a blast and can't wait for the next trip.