I highly recommend to anyone to visit Disneyland in January. We hit a heat wave in California, so it was in the 80's the whole week we were there. A big change from the 30 degrees here in Utah. It was beautiful! Not too mention:
There was NO ONE at Disneyland!
OK, so that's a bit of an
exaggeration. Of course, we weren't the only ones there, but the lines were on average 5 minutes. Quite a few of them we walked right onto the rides. We thought that the shows wouldn't be going, but we did get to see
Fantasmic, which is such a great show!
Zoey is my shy child. I wasn't sure how she would do with the characters. She knows who Mickey Mouse is and a few other Disney characters, but I wasn't sure how that would translate in real life. She had NO problem. We saw Pluto first and she ran right up to him and gave him a big hug. But she really loved Tinkerbell.
We went through Mickey Mouse's house and met the Big Mouse.
And Hali made the mistake of checking out Mickey's closet. Oops.
A really cool show is the Jedi Training
Academy. We had never seen this one before, but Dave and Natalie highly recommended it, so we made time for it. Another good thing about going to Disneyland when it's off season, is the fact that three of our kids got picked to participate.
Zoey probably could have been picked too, if she had been a little older. All three got to fight Darth Maul.
Porter was so funny. He had this really serious look on his face the whole time, like he was going to wipe out the entire Dark Force and save the Universe.
One fun thing that we like to do, is take the kids to
Goofy's Kitchen for dinner one night. It's a great buffet in the Disneyland Hotel that the characters walk around and talk to the kids at the table. The best of the night was Peter Pan.
He and Porter had this conversation that had us all laughing. Peter Pan spent a really long time at our table just talking to Porter. It got a little creepy after a while.
We had a great time at Disneyland and a great time staying with my Parents. They are always so willing to open their house to us and we loved have Grandma and Grandpa spend time with us at Disneyland. The kids just loved all the attention and love from you! Thanks!
They made the puppets out of lunch sacks and card stock. 
I think they turned out pretty cute! They even made tickets for me, Porter and Zoey to get into the show. Hali was wondering if I would pay real money for the ticket. Nice try, babe. The show was all about a little girl who had lost her dog and was trying to find it. There was even some audience participation. Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa who gifted this lovely puppet theater for Christmas two years ago! Great show, girls!
Scott and I celebrated our anniversary a week early this year. We decided to take advantage of my parents and while we were in California we took a night for ourselves. We stayed at the Disneyland hotel and had dinner at the Blue Bayou. I have vague memories of eating there once when I was a kid, but haven't been there since. I had made reservations so they knew it was our anniversary and they put us at a table right by the water and gave us these special pins. No, didn't wear them the rest of the night.
We went through Mickey Mouse's house and met the Big Mouse.
And Hali made the mistake of checking out Mickey's closet. Oops.
A really cool show is the Jedi Training Academy. We had never seen this one before, but Dave and Natalie highly recommended it, so we made time for it. Another good thing about going to Disneyland when it's off season, is the fact that three of our kids got picked to participate. Zoey probably could have been picked too, if she had been a little older. All three got to fight Darth Maul.
Porter was so funny. He had this really serious look on his face the whole time, like he was going to wipe out the entire Dark Force and save the Universe.
One fun thing that we like to do, is take the kids to Goofy's Kitchen for dinner one night. It's a great buffet in the Disneyland Hotel that the characters walk around and talk to the kids at the table. The best of the night was Peter Pan.
He and Porter had this conversation that had us all laughing. Peter Pan spent a really long time at our table just talking to Porter. It got a little creepy after a while.
