"Sick Day"

Chris decided that Friday he wanted to use one of his sick days left for this year and spend it at Disneyland. We were so excited to be going all together as a family and had heard and read about the Christmas attractions and decorations...so we were in it for the day and had a lot to get through. As I got emma up and told her that we were going to see Mickey, she started jumping on her bed saying "mickey, mickey...go, go!!" and I've never seen her so willling to be a "big girl" and lay down to get her diaper and clothes changed. Of course we headed right for Small World when we first got there (it's become tradition now) in fact we passed the huge tree on Main Street and I couldn't even get emma out of her stroller for a picture...she had one thing on her mind, MICKEY! I never thought I'd be the kind of mom to chase after disney characters, I've never had much of a love for cartoons, but when we finally saw Mickey...I went running with emma in hand. Emma got to wave and say bye-bye which is probably all she would have done anyways. Check out our pic w/ Goofy...she was so excited waiting in line talking about giving him a high-five, but when it came down to it...she was all talk!! There was no way her head was coming off my shoulder! A definite highlight...live reindeer!! Frontierland was turned into the West Pole with Santa and his deer, it was extremely hard pulling emma away from that. All the decorating was amazing, many of the rides were changed to go along with the holidays. The Haunted Mansion was all decked out with the theme of The Nightmare Before Christmas and the parade was complete with Santa, dancing gingerbreadmen and nutcrackers.

We also spent time over at Cal Adventure and Chris and I were able to go on Soarin Over California for the first time...which was very cool and emma was able to dance with Chip and Dale to live Christmas music, very entertaining!

We finished the day off with a churro...everytime we've gone to Disneyland, we smell churros all over the place but have never given into temptation. We conciously made the decision a few days ago that we'd be getting a few of those! These last few pictures are of emma stealing (literally!) my churro and she was one happy girl! She wasn't giving that up but with that face, she can have whatever she wants!! It was such a great day...I love my little family!