Disneyland Part Dos

Here are the rest of the pictures from our Disneyland trip last week.         Danny and Emily on the monorail.              We drove over to Newport Beach one morning and it was pretty chilly! The crazy boys got in the water but I just sat on the beach covered with cheap hotel towels (we didn’t bring any beach towels). It was gorgeous and probably warmer later in the day, but we were pretty cold!                                                  This is kind of a crappy pic Dan took of our picture on the roller coaster at California Adventure. I’m not sure what I’m doing, but it was fun!        Sarah and I rode “Mr. Toad’s Excellent Adventure” together and she loved driving.

                                          Ryan saw the fireworks show from Dan’s shoulders and he absolutely loved it even though it was really late. He latched onto Dan’s hair and ears and didn’t let go.                                                                        Amanda and I took the kids to Tarzan’s Tree House and they had a ton of fun. Sarah was obsessed with the dirt on the ground and every time I looked at her, she was rubbing it and collecting it in her hands.

There was a hollow tree with holes and the girls stuck their heads in the holes and talked to each other. It was really cute.                                                 Sarah was pretty tired after a long day and took a nap on Dave’s shoulder. I wish I could still do that.

Disneyland Part Uno

I have a lot of different things to post about so I’ll start with Disneyland part 1. We had a blast in Disneyland and it was a great get away.

Dan’s family is kinda crazy and we left Tuesday night and drove through the night then went to Disneyland on Wednesday! But luckily I slept a lot in the car and we took it easy with a nap and stuff on Wednesday.            Here we are on the Jungle Cruise. Dan and I went with his parents, his brothers Joe and Mike, and his brother David’s family (Katelyn, Emily, Sarah and Ryan). I’m absolutely in love with my nieces and nephews and so I had tons of fun playing with them and going on the rides with them. I kind of abandoned Dan for the most part, but he is like a child himself so he didn’t care as long as he got to ride the rides!          99% of the pictures I took of Sarah (on the bottom left) were exactly like this. This is the face she made when we said, “Smile!”. So cute.      Riding the teacups! Mike’s cup was the spinning cup so Amanda and I took the little ones on a different teacup so we didn’t get sick!                  I look like a sickie in this picture, but I still posted it because the girls are so freakin’ cute.                                                   I was really happy to be going on the Tower of Terror!

                                 This is not someone in our family but it was so flippin’ funny. This is the big water ball thing at Disneyland. Kids are obsessed with playing with it and we were waiting for our family to get off a ride and this kid just stood there with his tongue on the ball forever! It was so hilarious and so gross!    Enjoying the delicious frozen bananas! We also enjoyed numerous churros and caramel popcorn!           Grandma and Grandpa with the kids and Goofy!                On the Merry-Go-Round with Sarah and Ryan. They loved it so much they went about 5 times in a row while the adults switched off going on the roller coaster.                                             We had the greatest time at Disneyland with the family and the kids make everything more interesting! We took a million potty breaks and we were always chasing one kid or something. It was so entertaining and the girls are so funny! Sarah was tall enough for the Matterhorn (sp?) and she was obsessed with it. For some reason she called it the “Tuba Ride” and when we asked her, she said a tuba is the monster inside the ride.

Emily marches to her own drum and is always saying or doing something funny. She was being quiet and I asked her what was wrong and she said, “My mouth just doesn’t feel like talking.” She made up millions of knock-knock jokes that made no sense at all and she loved it. Sarah came up with a joke she told millions of times over and over and over… “knock knock”, “who’s there"?”, “monster”, “monster who?” “Rrraahhhrrrr!!!”. That was her joke and she laughed hysterically every. single. time she told it (hundreds). It was about the monster in the Matterhorn.

We went on a lot of rides and had a good time. We also soaked up the sun and the weather was perfect. I got a nice tan but it wasn’t hot at all. We’re so glad we got to go!

Family

Well we just got back from Disneyland and we had a GREAT time! The weather was awesome (sorry about the snow here hehe) and we had tons of fun. I still have to download and edit my pics but here are some pics of a few weeks ago.

My sweet nephew Everett was blessed a few weeks ago and Jon and Julie live near us so we had everyone over to our house after the blessing and lunch.                  The kiddos played outside and Lissie loved picking the flowery weeds in our grass.                        Grandpa and Taylor on our neighbor’s swings.

                   I held Everett most of the day/evening and I loved it. He is the cutest thing ever and he is so good tempered. Look at his amazing eyes!               We had leftovers from Everett’s blessing lunch and it was really fun. I absolutely love having people in my home. It was weird how happy it made me to have so many people and kids running around our home. I feel so blessed to have a home and even more blessed to have great family to share it with.

             I almost feel flattered when people make themselves comfortable in my home. I love it when they are at ease enough to get a drink from the fridge or dig around for something to eat! Some people might feel weird if guests were doing that, but I love it!  Debbie has started doing Tai Chi to help with her muscles and stretching and everyone teases her. She’s teaching the boys some sweet moves here.     Watching some Shrek 2 after dinner and playing outside.                          Lissie, Everett and Wellyn. Lissie’s eyes looked funky in both pictures I took!              Just enjoying some Shrek with Grandpa on the couch. Taylor LOVES Grandpa Hill and follows him around! It’s so stinkin’ cute!

Loads of Fun

I’m definitely not done with the laundry room yet but I’ve made some progress and it could still be a few weeks until I finish up so I wanted to post some updates.

Here are some lovely before shots of the laundry room at its worst. There was a weird laundry room sign outlined in white paint and an ugly shelf that was too tall even for Danny (and we know he doesn’t spend any time in here).                             It’s a pretty small room, but I’m glad to have it! The mini blinds were dirty and gross and the walls were all patchy and plain.              Now here it is after some paint and a few updates!                                  I painted the walls and I LOVE the color. The blue/gray is gorgeous and I might have to use it somewhere else now too! Even Dan likes it and he’s not a fan of blue.

I took down the weird vinyl and added my own cute saying I found online. 

                                  I also took down the huge shelf and patched and cleaned up the walls. I was just going to do some sort of tie up curtain, but I found these amazing grasscloth (I think?) roman shades on sale at Lowes. Holy smokes I am so happy about them. This one was regularly $56 and I got it for $6.25! I’m not kidding! I about died with joy.                  Dan hung them for me and I love them! The texture is awesome and I loved throwing away the gross mini blinds. Since they were pretty long for the window, I put some hooks on the top inside of the window and made some loops and glued them on the inside of the shades so I can hook them up when I want the window open more. It’s hard to explain but because the shades were extra long, they didn’t pull open all the way. But this works great for me!                        Now I still need to get some unfinished double oak cabinets from Lowes and paint them white and put beadboard wall paper on the doors kinda like this:                                   I’ll probably paint the inside of the cabinets a lighter shade of the blue wall color just because I like it. :) The double cabinets will go above the washer here:        

                                  Then a bar for hanging shirts will go above the dryer here:

                 

Kinda like this:                                                     

                          Then I just need to get some organization for an ironing board and brooms/mops. We’re going to Disneyland next week (jealous anyone?) so it will probably be a few weeks until it’s totally finished. But I still love it like this for now!

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