California Adventures

Our second day we spent at California adventures, and it was our very first time being there. It was so much more laid back and much less crowded than Disneyland. We LOVED it. Well, we love it all actually.

^^one of the girls very favorite rides was the golden rocket one (not sure if that's the official name). It is also the ride that Tracen wanted to take stori on. It was so cute. It was the first ride that we shared with the Allreds.

Tracen and stori went on the goofy roller coaster with Dan and Luke while Alana and I took rai and Sylvie to the little mermaid ride. (We did that group combo several times that day actually).

Thumbs up before it started (because she liked all the previous roller coasters so much)...

And thumbs down after haha. I guess it was pretty jerky and Dan said he gas to hold onto her pretty tight so she would get slammed into the bar and door so much. But now that we are home, she keeps telling me that she liked it, and that she will enjoy it more when she is the right size.


Cars Land was so so so much fun! We did the tractor ride once, and got to do the Cars ride twice. This was hands down Stori's favorite ride!

Radiator Springs is a fast car race/small roller coaster, and I got the best video of Stori riding it. It shows her terrified and screaming, "Noooo. noo." then it shows her with the biggest smile ever and saying it was her favorite ride. Thanks Allreds for the fast passes!

Sylvie wasn't tall enough to ride the fun cars ride, so Dan and I took turns with her.
When it was dans turn to stay with her, she freaked out because she wanted to ride it. Well he caved and bought her a giant lollipop---which became problematic when stori wanted Sylvie to share it with her... Long story short, we ended up throwing the lollipop away about 20 minutes later haha.

the blasted lollipop 

^consoling the tears that came from her thinking that daddy bought sylvie the lollipop just because, and thinking that he just didn't want to buy anything for her. She didn't quite get that sylvie got it because Stori got to go on the ride twice. Rookie mistake by dad haha.

Meeting Sofia the First was a HUGE highlight for the girls!!! Stori ran right up for a hug and Sylvie spent the entire time in line yelling, "HI SOPHIA, HI!!! HI SOFIA, HI!!" It was so cute. These kids bring me so much joy.

the kids got pretty good at keeping themselves very entertained while waiting in lines for rides.

These two weren't even on the same ride while both doing this crazy upside down move. Must be related. Dan had Stori while waiting for Soaring over California, and I had sylvie in the Bugs Life area waiting to go on the caterpillar ride. :)

Her and Rai guy bonded so cute! It's crazy to think that this is the age when Stori and Tracen became best friends, and now it's the younger siblings turn! :)

Reading the paper and deciding what color to paint their living room walls. Normal newlywed talk.

Sometimes Woody just happens to be walking down the road giving out high fives and making these red heads so happy!

We ran into SO many people that I knew! Celia, my cousin Andy and his family, and our friends from our ward here in Provo. When we ran into them, their little boy hudson (sylvie's buddy from nursery) gave her a big huge hug and kept blowing her kisses while they said goodbye.

See the lack of people here... amazing!

Dan LOVED that roller coaster. he got to ride it twice. I also love this picture that he snapped.

This bike trailer was a life saver on this trip! It held our cooler, camera, purse, jackets, spare clothes just in case, drinks, and memorabilia. We didn't have to eat out once our entire time at Disneyland/California Adventure. Our diet was oranges, string cheese, yogurt, and crackers haha.

Well yes, their faces do describe how happy this sea creature carousel made them. this ride never had a line so we got to ride it like 7 times.

Monsters ride while Dan and Luke went on Tower of Terror.

A Bugs Life. Alana and I got to take the littles on all of these rides while we were waiting for the big kids and the dads to ride their rides.

Caterpillar ride 

Ladybug ride (like the tea cups, but jerkier) 

On the flying bugs life ride: the big kids found us right as we were getting on, so they got to join in on it without having to wait in line. These kids are such cute little friends!

^I had asked Stori to take a picture of the 3 of us on the other side, and this is what she got. haha. pretty good I guess.

Toy Story ride was another favorite! We went on in once while Dan was on the big roller coaster, but the kids wanted to go again and show dad all the cool things that he would like (you get to shoot balloons and things for points. They must know their dad likes guns haha).

the squish and suffocate hug. It's pretty common around here.

We were getting ready to head over to a ride when Dan called me and told me that Goofy was out and that we should go find him. I took off running and got there just as the worker stepped in line to stop people from seeing him so that he could go to the final show of the night. So i put my kids back in the stroller and started to walk away when she ran up to me and whispered that we could get in line because she saw how excited our girls were to see him. So glad she did! Sylvie was kind of star struck. By the time he said goodbye, she stood right in front of him Yelling several times "BYE GOOFY! THANKS GOOFY!"

Getting ready to go on the last ride of the night... The Golden Rocket. we were the last riders on there and it was so fun to see them start lighting up all the rides for the color show while flying over the water.

This place is so beautiful!!! I don't think we stopped smiling the whole time we were here. Or the whole time in California actually. It was all so much fun!