So Santa brought our first BOY toy to our house for Christmas and it has been the best toy ever. The girls will put Luke it in and push him all around. They even push each other around in it. Luke will even walk around behind it and think that he is pretty hot stuff. Until he walks into a wall and can't go any farther. Then he gets ticked off so his sisters come to the rescue. I don't know if it will ever get used as much if we take it outside! They love it, he loves it, I love it!!!
Now this beater, I mean beautiful truck, we bought needed some "minor repairs" (back seat, new windshield, new brakes, new rotors, air conditioning, other stuff that I don't worry about but cost a lot of money and take a lot of time).
Thanks to a handy, hard working husband, a patient wife, and his trusty side kick we now have a truck that we can all ride in, now that we are done with our reunions and other camping adventures (until next month, of course), and most our trips to Home Depot for big items are over.
But who needs a truck when we have this amazing van that can fit all of this, two kids with car seats, and two adults! It only took us about a 1/2 hour to fit it in and a lot of strange looks from people that didn't want to offer help. No more of that we are proud owners of a truck! Joel loves it, they love it, I love it!! LIFE IS GOOD!
Last Thursday, (has it already been a week!) we were at the happiest place on earth!! We had such a good time. The forecast predictated it was going to rain so we packed our ponchos and umbrellas but THANKFULLY, it was a beautiful weather. Here is the group, going with that many people I was a bit nervous. But we got a GREAT group rate on hopper passes plus we had someone to watch our younger kids while Joel and I went on a few rides together. Our kids loved to be there with their cousins, it was a lot of fun to be there with a lot of family!!! It actually worked out really nice, we split up for a while and some of the moms took the little kids on all the rides at Fantasyland. While the others went on the bigger rides. Our only mistake was going on a Snow White ride very first and we had almost every kid crying. From there on out Courtney would just close her eyes if we went into a ride that was dark. They were a bit traumatized to say the least so we hit the merry-go-round!
Which by the way was Courtney's favorite! She got her fair share of that ride!
Luke didn't make a peep the whole day! I think he was overstimulated but didn't seem to mind it at all. 
At the end of the day we found this little roller coaster in Toon town and Megan loved it! We tried all day to get her to go on one, maybe next time. It was fun to have Brooklyn enjoy the big rides. She got to be on the front of Space Mountain two times, and I think she hit California Screamin' at least 3 times!! We were able to go on every ride we wanted to at least two times if not more. The lines were not long at all, 15 minute wait was the max if any waiting at all. 
It was fun to be there during the Christmas season. It's a small world was one of my favorites, it was all Christmasy (is that a word) and had Jingle Bells playing along with It's a Small World!! Courtney even opened her eyes once she realized it wasn't a dark scary ride. Our hotel was just across the street so we were able to go home and put some kids to sleep while Joel and Brooklyn stayed and went on a few more rides before it closed. They had an amazing firework show, which I sort of watched as we were leaving the park while everyone was watching it. The next day we were going to head to the beach but it was rainy so we just at lunch at a park and headed to San Diego for Sea World on Saturday!
