Belle's Castle House

Jacob gets all the credit for our family trip to Disneyland. And I mean it was a family trip. The whole family was there. Some for some of the time. Most for all of the time. Jacob titled it the "first annual Thomas family reunion."

Once we figured out all of the kids were planning to go, I got busy finding a house to rent so we could all stay together. Success! And it was a good one, too! The kids loved pushing the numbers of the code to open the front door.

Right inside the door was a note welcoming us to Belle's Castle house.

There were beautiful murals all throughout the house and a spiral staircase leading to the second floor.

There was a huge master bedroom and bathroom with a gigantic walk-in closet where Jacob's family slept. Natalie and Emma got the closet.

Dallas, Rebecca and Spencer had one bedroom right next to the upstairs mid-floor bathroom with Brooke and Caroline across the hall from them on the other side of the bathroom in the Peter Pan room.

Glen and I were on the other end of the upstairs in the princess room.

Notice the fairy godmother on the wall sprinkling her fairy dust right over the place on the bed where I slept.

There was a bathroom for the upstairs which had a sink and a vanity across from it outside the bathroom which worked out perfectly for all of us to have enough room to get ready in the mornings.

Ben slept in the man cave room on a mattress between the couch and the pool table.

All the kids loved playing in the little toy room with the Toy Story mural on the wall.

This is the huge master bedroom on the main floor which Sarah's family slept in that had another big walk-in closet for Carson to sleep in.

 This is the half bath on the main floor.

It is right next to the laundry room.

This is the front bedroom on the main floor where Abe, Klarissa and Newland slept.

There is a huge living room where the men liked to watch t.v. and the little kids liked to play cars on the rug.

The big, beautiful kitchen where we did a lot of cooking breakfasts and dinners and fixing sack lunches for our day excursions.

The house had a playground in the backyard.

Glen and Jeff went off to a baseball game. Jeff loves the Dodgers and Glen was happy to obligingly go with Jeff when they found out the Dodgers were in town.

The rest of the group ate pizza and went swimming in the backyard pool.

Lifeguard on duty. Wait! Isn't he on the wrong side of the fence?

The kids had been so anxious for us to open up the gate and let them go inside the pool.

 Brooke was ready--goggles, swim ring and all.

 At the end we all ended up in the hot tub, which wasn't really all that hot, but was warmer than the pool water. Emma's goal was to get me in the swimming pool. Here's picture proof for her.

I consider our first half day in Anaheim a huge success. Everyone loved the house and we were all happy to be together and were anticipating Abe's arrival on the scene to make our family complete.