Disneyland- Day 1

Tyler's family planned a huge family reunion to go to Disneyland for a week!!! YES!! We are quickly becoming fans of Disneyland. So here is our first day there, where we wore our family reunion shirts (little tip....they help out a lot and totally help you get your group all together in lines and gets you picked for things!). My mother-in-law planned the whole week and all the fun things we got for the trip, like our shirts, and water bottles with our character names on them, autograph books, cute Disney shirts for each grandkid and a stuffed animal for each grandkid. I think she took care of everything and it made the week so much more magical! Thank you so much Jeanne!!! 

So about this characters thing, before we left everyone in the family picked a Disney character they wanted to be represented by, so then on our shirts and water bottles our names weren't everywhere. It made the whole adventure more fun too! For our names, Tyler picked Perry the platypus (Phineas and Ferb), I was Belle (Beauty and the Beast), Spencer was Phineas (Phineas and Ferb), and we picked Jack Jack for Preston (The Incredibles). And let me tell you those water bottles came in handy and were large enough to hold a lot of water, I love them!!!!

Okay to start our trip we got to Disneyland all excited and then they picked our family to open the park!!!!!! WHAT?!?! We were able to go in the first gate and get our family picture done without lots of other people in the picture. This isn't even the whole family, two siblings and their families were not able to make it, we were sad they didn't get to come too.  

Preston ready to see the park with his 1st Visit button.

Spencer and his Aunt A. She is so great with her nieces and nephews, we are sure glad she's so cool. 

Tyler and I ready to have fun. 

Our family!

So we get into the first gates and all the kids went around with little duck tails to say hello to people outside and to get them excited about being at Disneyland.

Todd and Jeanne, the mom and dad and grandparents and awesome ones who planned our trip.

Once everyone got done welcoming people, we got to countdown and say "Let the Magic Begin!!!" It was very fun.  

As soon as we went further into the park we got to see characters! Goofy was the first. Spencer and Goofy looking cool. 

Spencer surprisingly didn't care if he got autographs this year, which I was surprised by, but okay with...some of those lines can get long!

So we went off to get on the rides! Oh yeah! If anyone is a Disney fan you know you go straight to Dumbo first, because it can become the longest line quickly. So off to Fantasyland we went. Tyler doesn't like going around and around so he sat out with Preston and his mom. Cute picture of the two of them. 

Spencer got to ride with Grandpa. 

I was able to ride with my sister-in-law A! 

Again another ride Tyler doesn't like, but Spencer and I love...the teacups!!! Preston enjoyed this too, but Spencer said the next time we go back it's just going to be him and I because I help him turn the middle part to go faster...couldn't do it this time because I was holding Preston. 

On a new boat ride they have. 

Our nephew T LOVES Star Wars, so we were all SOOOO excited for him to get picked to do the Jedi Training, and that he got to fight Darth Vader. He loved it, and now believes that he really is a Jedi. 

 That night we all went out to eat for a character dinner. Preston all day was not sure about these characters who kept getting close to him. It was funny to see how he would react. Preston and Pluto seemed to get along though. 

Dale and Spencer. 

Minnie liked Spencer, and even gave him a little kiss on the cheek, which he was kinda embarrassed about, but it was SO cute. He did get a picture with her, but told me to stop teasing him about the kiss on the cheek. He's growing up too fast. 

Preston on the other hand did not like Minnie one bit, so she kept trying to sneak up behind him all night to get a good picture, but to also see if he would like her. By the end of the night he was okay with her. 

Chip and Spencer. 

One person Preston LOVED was Alice! Very cute how he interacted with her. I love this picture. 

Then we all went home and crashed! Everyone was so tired, it was great!