Finding the Characters...

Alright... Where do I begin?!  Sorry I haven't posted in forever!  We've had a slight change to plans the last few weeks... My Brother came home from his mission early due to some health issues they were not able to figure out and fix out on his mission.  So the kids and I were in AZ for two weeks, Brian and Wyatt joined us for the last bit of that trip.  Then my brothers and sister came to UT so it's just been a whirlwind in our house!!  I have a LOT to catch up on and I'm hoping to get it all up before the start of school on the 11th!!  Wish me luck!! Ü

Alright, onto DISNEY pictures!!

One of our favorite things to do at Disney is find all the different characters, getting them to sign the kids autograph books and take their picture with them!  This year was no different!  First stop once we were inside the park was to buy their books...  Kernan completely filled his book by the end of the 3 days!  Maci on the other hand was into riding rides and not so much into looking for the characters.  So here's who we found!
First off.. this is the Goofy that greats you when you walk into our hotel!  We stayed at the Paradise Pier again, love that hotel!!


First sighting... GOOFY!!  He's one of our favorites as you'll soon see! Ü


Then we found Buzz Lightyear just outside the Buzz Lightyear ride. That's Kernan's favorite ride!!





Maci wanted to go see the Princesses!!  The last couple times she hasn't wanted to because she says she doesn't like them anymore.  But when she said she wanted to this time, I was SO excited!! Ü
As you can see though, Kernan didn't like them much!  Ariel is the only one he would stand with, and that's because I made him.  I think that because they look so much like REAL people he isn't as sure of them as the others... Which is a bit odd if you ask me! haha!








Once we were done there, we headed into Toontown!  Where we found our second Goofy of the day! hehe! I love Kernan's face in this one!


The start of our 2nd day at Disneyland... another picture with the Goofy at the hotel!  Blanky even got in this picture!  Kernan loves his blanky!!


We spent the day at California Adventure...  We got in line to see Jesse and Woody and while we were waiting they went in, and the "Little Green Army Men" came out!  I thought they were awesome!!  They interacted so well with the kids!


Then we went and rode the Toy Story Mania Ride and played the arcades... One of the arcade games had Woody as one of the prizes.  A sweet older lady won and gave Kernan her prize!  He loved it!  When we walked by where the Army Men were Woody and Jesse were back, and Kernan had to show Woody that he had him!  Love these pictures!!











While the older kids went and rode Grizzly Mountain... Kernan, my Mom and I walked around.  We found Stitch.





And then we saw Snow White...  Right as Kernan was about to walk up to her, he said, "Mom, wait I need my Sister!" It was so cute!!





Day 3!  First sighting... Lightening McQueen and Mator!!





Once again, everyone was gone riding Indiana Jones and Kernan isn't big enough for that ride yet.  So he and I did our own thing while we waited.  We spotted Aladdin!!  Kernan was SO excited!!


Then we went over to meet Tinker Bell... yes, you read that right!  Our son has a little thing for Tink!!  But the line was to long at that moment so we didn't see her then, but while we were in that area, Peter Pan and Wendy came by!!  I haven't ever seen them at Disneyland before, so that was fun!!


We went back to Toontown and saw Mickey Mouse!  I love this picture!!  I love watching my kids at Disneyland!!  It's the greatest!





Kernan wouldn't look at the camera, so Mickey helped him out! haha!


Part of the group... Some were off riding Space Mountain again...


While Kernan played at Goofy's house, my Mom went and had her picture taken with Goofy!  If you're keeping track, that's 3 now! Ü


And finally, Kernan and I headed back to Pixie Hollow to find Tinkerbell!  He was so funny, there was another fairy in Pixie Hollow but he didn't want to even talk to her!  All he wanted was to find Tinkerbell!  Once we found her and Terence, he got SUPER shy and wouldn't even look at them!  He's such a stinker sometimes!!








Then he wouldn't look at the camera and smile for me because he was being so shy so instead they all put their heads down!  I think it's a cute picture though!! Ü


But we finally convinced him to look up!  You'd never know it but he LOVED meeting Tinkerbell and Terence!!


We saw a few more characters but it was at our breakfast with the characters, so I'll save those for that post!!  I'm hoping to update the blog everyday to get caught up!! Here's what you have to look forward to... Rides, Hidden Mickey's, Surf's Up Breakfast, World of Color and an entire post of pictures of Kernan's facial expressions!!  He was being a bit GOOFY himself this trip!! Ü  So stay tuned!!