Disneyland for UEA!!!

We finally did it! We got to go to Disneyland for the first time since I've been married over 18 years ago. Two years of planning. My Mom decided that when my younger brother Logan got off his mission the "whole" family would go to Disneyland together. Thanks Logan for serving a full time mission, and thanks Mom for planning such a great family vacation. The plan was to leave the weekend before U.E.A after church on Sunday. Well MaKelle's soccer team had a chance to go to state and if they did make it they would have games that weekend and week of U.E.A. We had a hard time deciding what to do. Our tickets to Disneyland were already paid for and so was our hotel rooms. Other kids were really looking forward to it and we were stuck. I found myself torn between to very different decisions. I wanted to be there for MaKelle, if there team made it to state, and I wanted to take my whole family to Disneyland. Nathan mentioned it was a no brainer for him. If MaKelle's team goes to state we go to state. We can go to Disneyland another time because our tickets were good until the end of the year, just have to cancel and reschedule the hotel rooms. Ok I was good with that. The hard part came to tell my mom. She was upset, she was really looking forward to having the "whole" family together on a vacation and didn't want us to miss it. Things were said and in the end my feelings were crushed. I was so upset that my mom was making such a big deal about this and I again was feeling like I was stuck in the middle of trying to please to very different sides. Well long story short MaKelle's team didn't end up going to state and we got to take our trip to Disneyland. So on to the fun... We left Sunday October 13th after Church. As we were about to start or van we found out that it wouldn't start. Is that the sign of things to come. Well we just cleaned the battery connection and it started right up and we were on our way. Thank goodness no care issues the rest of the trip! We drove all the rest of the day and part of the night and got to California 11-12 hours later. Let the good times begin after a night rest.

The whole family picture in our shirts! That was hard to do. But turned out pretty good I think.

This picture above is proof that Landen can have fun with just us.

Awesome Picture Landen

To many pictures to go through but we had lots of fun and am grateful for the opportunity we had to go for our first time with my family. I love you all and am so grateful for the memories that we shared.
 
Next Sea World and the Beach...

Dolphins that came to say Hi while we were at the beach.

We actually lost one for a little while.

The ride I never thought Nathan would go on.

Proof that he did!

 Was a little disappointed in the killer whale show, but still glad we went. We took thousands of pictures and I just got tired of going through them all so this is all you get.