the happiest place on earth

So finally, here are the pictures. We had a such a great time being little kids again, running from ride to ride, and just soaking in the magic of Disneyland. It really is magic for any age. Adam and I kept commenting to each other that they do such a great job of totally transporting you to another world on every ride. Adam had never been to Disneyland or California Adventure and I'd never been to C. A. It was so fun to explore them together. Adam's favorites were California Screamin' and Indiana Jones. I found a new favorite: the Storybook Canal Boats, where you see miniature replicas of the princesses castles. It was so cute! We loved the Toy Story Astro Blasters. (On about our third time riding it, the ride conveniently stopped for a couple minutes, so we racked up points and both achieved the lofty status of Ranger 1st Class.)

Here's our Splash Mountain picture. Adam's face is awesome and I totally disappeared behind the girl in front of me.

Neither of us volunteered for the Jedi training, but I think we both secretly wanted to. Then again, maybe not--Darth Vader was pretty scary!

Riding the big ferris wheel at C.A.

The Pixar Parade was really cute

We had a fantastic time, but definitely missed our girls. Every princess dress or figure made us miss Mini, and every chubby nine-month old asleep in a stroller made us miss Emmy. We're so excited to take them in a couple years. Thanks to Mom who did such a great job of taking care of them.
Here's Mini with the princesses we brought her.

And here's Emmy doing her favorite thing: stand up. She stands up on or by everything and usually falls down after a couple seconds and bangs her head. Sometimes after watching her do this all day I'm amazed the human race has survived.

And here's a picture gone totally wrong. This was Mini and Emmy's first bath together and I wanted to document it. But of course, during the 5 seconds I had my hands off Emmy to take the picture, she toppled over. (Don't ask me Mini's excuse...)

Well, I think this has gotten sufficiently long for me to stop. I better go supervise the nerf gun war going on (instigated by Adam of course). We're babysitting my sister's five kids right now and having seven kids is quite the adventure!