Quotes of the Week

"Authentic happiness isn't something we can go out and get, buy, beg, borrow or steal, it's only something we can be, and it's a choice we make with every breath we take."
-- Dennis Merritt Jones

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
-- Andrew Carnegie

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."
-- Richard L. Evans

Quotes of the Week

"It doesn't matter if the song of life that you sing is simple or complicated. All that matters is how much you put into that song. Your life is controlled only by what you give to it. You won't get anything from it if you don't put feeling into life. That's why people fall in love. If they give that feeling, they get it back. Put all you've got into this life, and when the day comes for you to pass on, you won't regret what you did."
-- Author unknown

"Sometimes, when you make the most out of what you have, it turns out being a lot more than you ever imagined."
-- Susan Gale

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

Quotes of the Week

"Always do what you say you are going to do.  It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships."
--Anonymous

"Don't let the complainers, criticizers, and moaners change you and make you negative."
--Unknown

"The best things about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
--Abraham Lincoln

Our Last Day At Disneyland

Our last day at Disneyland was green t-shirt day. Or princess day if you had a princess costume to wear like Caroline and Claire. I think Brooke had a princess costume but opted to wear the Thomas family costume instead.

We headed straight for Paradise Pier to ride a ride we hadn't been on yet. Oh look! Glen is wearing a Mickey Mouse hat.

No! He's not!! It is just a very good example of very poor placement of people in a photo. That may be the last time I ever ask a random person to take a picture of us.

I wanted to get a picture of us with the pier in the background. I then decided to just go ahead and take a picture of Paradise Pier myself without us in it and look what a great picture it is. That area of the park had a fun, carnival-type feel to it as we walked along the boardwalk by the water.

We reached our destination--the Toy Story Midway Mania ride. And look who we see in line! Can't miss them in those colorful green matching t-shirts.

 Eli now spots us because we are wearing the same matching t-shirts.

 Where to now?

Glen watched Eli and Carson so Jeff, Sarah and I could go on Tower of Terror. You can tell by all the people in our elevator car that they were having a great time...except maybe the guy on the last row in the middle...?

We walked through A Bug's Land quite a few times during the week. I like the lights they have that are fireflies because the bottom of the fly (on the tall yellow straws) is a light. Clever.

Here comes some of our group. We were all meeting at the stroller area of a theater so we could watch Disney's Aladdin--A Musical Spectacular.

There was a sleeping princess in one of the strollers and I was glad when Jacob handed her to me.

Snack time while waiting for Glen and Eli to arrive. They had gone on a ride together.

The Goldens come strolling down the sidewalk.

When Glen and Eli join us we are complete and ready to enter the theater.

Dallas and Rebecca had taken their family to see the play on a previous day and suggested the rest of us make time in our schedules to go. Then we decided to make it a whole family affair when they decided to take their kids to see it again. It did not disappoint. It was colorful and musical and spectacular and magical and funny. Great show!

Collecting strollers, deciding what to do next and off we go.

I got a kick out of watching little tiny Spencer pushing his empty stroller along the road.

Yes, I would say a couple of our favorite rides were the Tower of Terror and the Toy Story ride.

The biggest drawback of the Toy Story ride was we had to wait in line for a very long time because it is a new ride and because it had been closed for a few days.

But it was worth the wait because every family member--from the oldest down to the youngest--could go on the ride. No baby swapping occurring on this ride.

We watched a water show from the pier. This picture is funny, though, because apparently there was something more exciting to watch. Most of us aren't even looking at the spraying water.

Luke and Logan liked riding the merry-go-round and playing in the water while waiting for the big people to go on the big roller coaster California Screamin'.

In the afternoon Jeff took his boys back to the house for a while and Sarah was able to go on some big rides with us--or I should say with Glen. I watched a cute show while Glen and Sarah rode Soarin' Over California.

I was already getting cold by then and opted out of going on Grizzly River Run where everyone always gets wet--some less wet and others soaked.

Sarah wanted her picture taken at the front of Disneyland and I happily joined in with that request.

When Jeff and the boys came back, we got in line to go inside the Haunted Mansion where two holidays collide--Halloween and Christmas. It was another good ride because everyone could go on it.

Well, we called it a day (our last day) at Disneyland and headed back to the house where Sarah was whipping up some chicken quesadillas for dinner.

 It wasn't just the little people who loved the cheese balls. The big people liked eating them, too.

The next morning we were trying to eat up the food we had in the house. Dallas is eating steak while his children are eating a more traditional breakfast of cereal.

The men got the cars all loaded.

We said our good-byes. And then we were off. To our separate destinations.

It was very sad to see such a fun trip come to an end. It was a wonderful bonding experience and we are thankful Jacob got the ball rolling way back when to get everyone excited to go on this family trip. It was most memorable!!