Disneyland (lots of pics)

Let me start by saying We had a blast at Disneyland!!!!

We headed out on Thur Feb 12th. We love the drive down I5, its so pretty and so simple. It was really neat when we came to the mountain range and got to see some snow.
To bad there was no where to pull off and let the kids play in it.

We got to Disneyland about 4:30pm and got settled in to our hotel room. Then we took off to Downtown Disney for some shopping and dinner.

We ate at the kids favorite place the "Rainforest cafe".

We booked our vacation package online this time and we got so many perks. One of them was "Mickey's toontown morning madness" they do a big parade with all the characters and you get to explore toontown a whole hour before it opens to the rest of the park. The characters take extra time and care to hang out with the kids and that made it so much more exciting for them.

Day 1 at the park 2/13

Mickey's toontown morning madness.
Skyla and Justin got to meet Pluto,

Minnie, and

Donald.

After that we went in to Minnie's house to play and explore.

When we came out we ran right in to Goofy, he decided to take the kids on a walk down the street to his house. They LOVED this! and I got a really cute pic.

Then he was sweet enough to stop and pose for a pic with them.

We loved toontown.

After that we hit "Its a small world" this was the first time we have been on it (it was being fixed last time we went). Its a cute ride....long but cute.

On the merry go round.

Skyla trying to pull out the Sword in the stone.

Justin really tried but that thing wouldn't move.

Then we headed to Justin's favorite ride "Splash Mountain" We got really excited when we found out how tall Skyla was. She is 41 1/2 inches tall the only ride she could not get on was Indiana Jones. Man dose this girl LOVE coasters!!!

After Splash mountain we got to meet Tigger and Pooh. Here is poor Mick waiting again for us.

Skyla was really excited to see "her friends" as she calls them.

We had so much fun with our first day at Disneyland. We got to go on all the rides as a family this time (Yes Skyla went on everything, space mountain, splash mountain, the Matterhorn all of it, and she loved every bit, Justin loves all the rides too but gets scared with spooky stuff like the abominable snowman on the Matterhorn and the hunted mansion but he went on them).

One thing I love about staying at a hotel across the street from the park is we got to go back for naps each day then go back and stayed at the parks till midnight every day. It was so fun.

So in our hotel they did this cute folding thing with the towels and for some reason the kids thought they were so funny and would laugh hysterically every time they saw it.

Mick and I love the candy shop over by splash mountain in Poohs corner. I'm a sucker for carmel apples and a even bigger sucker for loaded carmel apples. In our fave candy shop they had Mickey and Minnie apples and I had to get one.

Let me tell you about my apple. not only is it supper cute looking but it was so good. It was a granny smith apple dipped in carmel, the ears were marshmallow's then the whole thing was dipped in milk chocolate, then half dipped in white chocolate and had red sprinkles added to make the Minnie dress. Then white chocolate dots added to that, and the bow was a sour gummy belt cut in to a bow shape. Best apple EVER!

Justin and Skyla really loved their Tigger tails (3big marshmallow's dipped in carmel, then dipped in orange colored and flavored white chocolate with dark chocolate "stripes" on top of that) Can we say Yumm.

Day 2 2/14 Valentines day

We got a Magic morning with our vacation package so we got to go to the park at 7am a hour before it opens to the public. We hit Space Mountain first thing (no line can you believe that). Then at 10am we headed over to California Adventure. Justin was loving coasters so much he decided he wanted to go on California screaming. Sadly he was a few inches to short and couldn't go but he got to go on Ariel's merry go round. Cant you just see the excitement in his face about this.

Well at least Skyla enjoyed it.

Proof me and Mick were there too.

We got to see Stitch too.

We also got to go on the Hollywood Tower of terror it was so much fun. I don't think any of us have ever screamed that loud ever. We also got to ride the new Toy story Mania ride/game. Its really neat and the 3D game you play is so fun (my score was higher then Micks by the way...both times :) ).

Mick and Skyla after a long day playing at California Adventure.

After that we headed back to Disneyland and stayed till the park closed. It was Valentines day and Mick was so sweet. At a cart that was selling the glow in the dark/Light up stuff he found these light up Rose's and got one for Me and Skyla. What a sweet guy he is :).

Day 3 2/15

Pixie Hallow is a new place where you can go and meet Tinker Bell and some of her friends from the Tinker bell movie. This was the longest line we stood in the whole 3 days but so worth it.

Justin and Skyla with Fawn she is a Animal talent fairy.

Then we got to see Tinker Bell, Skyla loved talking with her,

and taking a cute sassy pic too.

Justin liked meeting her too (his face got a tad red during this pic)

Of course I had to have a pic with Tinker Bell too after all she is my favorite.

After all that we went back to California Adventure to hit our 3 favorite rides one last time.

Waiting in line for Toy story mania ride. Mr potato head is pretty funny, he tells jokes and talks to people walking by.

We also got prefered seating for shows in California Adventure. We got to see the Aladin show and man was it a great show. We were in the second row and loved every bit of it. Its a must see you cant miss.

We had such a fun time, we hit all our favorite rides so many times and got to enjoy everything as a family. Im happy to be home but cant wait to go back again.

Update!

So from my last whining post thing have gotten better.

Justin is loving school, and baseball starts next month so that will be fun. He has learned how to tie his shoes!!!!! He can still be pretty mouthy but is really trying to control that. At least now when he says something he immediately apologies for it.

Skyla has not had a fit in a few weeks. We figured she was sleeping to much so we cut out naps and it has been so much better.

Mick is doing good he is heading to the Doc after work today he has been having some weird heart/muscle thing going on. He says it feels like his heart is hiccuping but you can feel in on the outside like a muscle spasm. its not just his heart he feels it all over his whole chest. This has been going on for a week now and I finally convened him to go in. I'm hoping its just muscle spasms (he had that before in his chest). I'll let you all know more when I find out. Besides that He is good.

Me I'm not as stressed as I was. As soon as we find out whats going on with Mick I will be much less stressed as well. I'm really happy cause we are heading off to Disneyland on Thur!!!! Its going to rain the whole time we are their and I don't even care LOL.

Sneaky Skyla

Skyla LOVES to wrestle Justin. I think just for the pure fact she can, and usually does beat him. Poor Justin he gets taken out by his little sister.

Anyways I was playing with my camera and the TV the other day. I figured out how to plug the camera in to the TV and do slide shows and show videos I take. Well I also figured out that I can take pics too and they show up on the TV as I do it. So we had some fun! I put my camera on this setting that it will take pic after pic as long as you hold down the button. Well here are some pics I got that had me cracking up. This is totally Skyla right here. Her and Justin were playing and out of no where she decided to attack him. I love that I got it on film cause her face is so funny and poor Justin has no idea whats going on till its over LOL.

Got to love the big smiles, I Love it when they play like this.

My life right now

Well I know I have not posted anything new in a wile. To be honest nothing new or or interesting has happened, no news, good new right? The things that have been happening are really starting to get to me so I'm venting ( you don't have to read if you don't want to :) )

1) Justin.......What can I say about this kid. I love him to death he is sweet, friendly, loving but a BIG pain with me right now. He refuse to learn to tie his shoes (he is almost 7). I try to take it really slow but he gets mad he doesn't get it the first time, then wont do it at all and cops a attitude and gets sent to bed EVERY TIME we try. The thing that really drive me nuts is he will walk around with his shoes not tied and half falling off. I notice it cause he sounds like he is dragging his feet and that drive me nuts.
I feel bad cause I got mad at him this morning when I found out we took Mick to work and one of his shoes was not tied and falling off his foot the whole time. Not once did he ask us for help to tie it. I got really mad and called him lazy. I feel bad I lost my temper with him but I don't know what else to do.
Then the attitude! OMG the attitude is crazy right now! I know he is getting some of it from school and most of it is just him (when he is tired he is cranky always has been). School really take allot out of him I mean he is there for 6.5 hours not to mention we have to get up at 6:30am so his days are long. He goes to bed pretty early 8pm so I know he is getting enough sleep.

2) Skyla.....OMG I'm ready to send her far away!!! Any takers? She has been throwing temper tantrums like crazy and whines for everything!! I cant tell you how many cold showers that girl has gotten in the last week. One day I gave her 3 in just one day. We also fight allot lately cause I have noticed a habit with her I'm trying to break. She likes to eat out of boredom, not a habit I want her to have. We have been doing lots more activities since we get stuck at home 3 day a week right now (I'm babysitting Rylan more now and never know when he is getting picked up so we get stuck at home waiting and its never the same time twice), But once we are done with what we are doing she goes looking for food. Anyways this girl can eat I mean i know they say to let them eat when they want and how much cause their body's know what they need, but I can just see it with her. She isn't eating cause she is hungry I can see it and it scares me I don't want her to struggle like I do.
Then we are trying to get her to not wear pull ups at night any more but she is such a sound sleeper she doesn't wake up to pee. We even cut liquids off at 6 (2 hours before bed) and she goes potty before bed but every morning that girl has peed a lake I swear.

3) Mick..... at least this part is good :) Mick is a wonderful hubby! I'm really grateful that he has been keeping me in the dark about his work. With the economy so bad obviously jobs all over the places are hurting. Micks work has not been to affected by this, but I guess about a month ago the company asked every branch to turn in a letter of who they would want to lay off in order of worst worker to best. Happy to say Mick was last on that list! Anyways they have only had to lay off 3 people in the whole company nation wide so far, and his branch also does work for a company call prax air who makes tons of money for OKI. SO there is NO WAY they would close Micks branch or get rid of Mick cause he is the one who runs it. Anyways He has kept me in the dark about most of this and that L.A. is getting rid of 2 people next week and a guy named Tony from his branch might go next month. He told me he has not said anything cause he didn't want ME to stress out and he knows it will all work out how its supposed to and we will be fine (not like Mick at all he usually stress big time over stuff like this). So knowing he isn't stressed make me less stressed and that has been really nice.

Me......I'M SO STRESSED!!!! My kids are driving me crazy, my apartment is to small, and I'm have been working my butt off trying to lose weight and have lost 15lbs and am now at a stand still. Stepping on the scale everyday and the same number is coming up is driving me crazy! I don't know what else to do or what I'm doing wrong. I have never had a stand still like this and don't know what to do to get over it. Plus you would think with all the weight I have to lose I wouldn't hit a plato so soon (its really odd). On a good note I'm looking forward to my silver lining ITS TAX TIME!!! We should be getting Mick W2 soon and once we get our return Disneyland here we come!!!

Well if you read all of this Thanks for letting me vent and sorry I'm such a whiner.

Twilight (yep again)

Have I told all of you how much I LOVE Twilight? Edward: One of my all time fave charters (it helps that Rob is really hot too)

Edward and Bella

So I have read the books a few times now and just cant seem to get over the whole story. I get sucked in every time. Now with the movie it nice to read and have a face to put with the words (so to speak).

There is also a Twilight convention (in San Francisco) coming where 6 of a movie actors are going to appear and take pics and sign autographs. I really want to go and Mick even gave me the OK to try to work it out (money wise). I'm so excited cause my fave charter from the book is Alice and Ashley Green who plays her in the movie is going to be there.


Alice and Jasper my fave charters (besides Edward and Bella of course)

O yeah I also up load the Soundtrack so enjoy my blog all Twilight-ed out. Yes I know I'm crazy but just let me be I like my fantasy world :)

SF Zoo and Ice Skating

The day after Christmas we decided to head out to the SF Zoo. It has been so long since we have been there (about a month before the tiger thing happened). It was so nice to be back at that zoo. Its one of our faves and they have done so much work to it, its crazy to see how much it has changed. Here are some fun pics we took around the zoo. On the carousel

I can never get a normal pic out of these two.

The Zoo did something new this year with the "Reindeer romp" they also had a Ice skating ring up!!! It cost extra to skate but it was so fun. I couldn't get Mick out but he took pics for us. It was really neat too cause they had buckets out for the kids to use wile they skated.

Justin did really good he even let go of the bucket a few times.

Skyla (of course) didn't want me any where near her. She was determined to skate by herself. She even tried to skate with out the bucket and did really good.

Very happy and tired kids :)

It was a fun day at the zoo!