Christmas Disneyland Trip!

The Friday before Christmas we drove down to Arizona, and on Sunday we headed to California with the entire family to go to Disneyland!  We got to bring Eric with us for his LAST trip to Disneyland before he left on his mission!  My Aunt Rachel and Uncle Matt were also in Cali to go to Disneyland and they were willing to drive him home to UT!  It was a trip to Disney none of us will soon forget!!

Here is our family picture when we first got there...


While the "older" children (Brian and Eric included in the children part) went and rode some of the big rides, like Matterhorn and Space Mtn.  Mom and I took Kernan to It's A Small World.  It was all decked out for Christmas and looked so cool inside!


I love the Hawaii part of this ride!  Makes me think of our Jordan and Ohana every time!! Ü


Once we got out of Small World it was about 10am and it started sprinkling...
it. didn't. stop.
Not kidding!
Here are the kids wearing their lovely 99 cent store ponchos!  Doesn't he looked thrilled?!


She's so cute! Ü


Stockton, he did not want to wear the poncho!  Can ya tell??


Scary!!  Eric looks like the grim reaper!


Haha! Cute Jaxin!


Mom and I took Kernan to the Tiki Room.  I don't remember ever going in there!  It was fun!  Plus it was dry inside there! Ü  As you can see, after about an hour of the constant rain, we upgraded from the cheap rain wear to Disneyland's...  It was a lot better!


Kernan loved this show!  He has been singing the "tiki room" song a lot since we've been home!


Shortly after the Tiki Room, Mom and Kernan headed back to the hotel room!  It really was nasty with all the rain!  It would have been a bit more bearable if it would have stopped and given us a slight break but it was not letting up!!
Brian, Eric and I went and got us some nice hot cocoa to help, we hid next to a food stand to get out of the rain and enjoy it...


This was the sight we watched as we drank our warm beverages...


We were amazed at how many people were still sticking it out!


Once our hot cocoa was gone, we decided it was time for lunch, and we wanted something warm and cozy... so we made a dash for it!


We all got bread bowls!  So yummy!!


Eric enjoying his last trip to Disneyland for 2 years!!


This is all Eric and Brian do when they're together!  Laugh and laugh!  We're totally missing him since he left for the MTC... our days are not filled with as much laughter as they used too be...  But we wouldn't want him any other place! Ü



We sat under cover and ate our food, by that time we were ready to call it a day too!  So we waited for the kids to come meet up with us so that we could head out.  They were off riding more rides with my Aunt and Uncle.  It was so fun to just sit and watch people!  Oh and LAUGH! haha!


I had to get a picture of the stroller!  I still can't believe how much it rained!





Our 3 drowned rats!  I think Stockton was glad Mom made him wear the poncho! haha!


On our way to the car...


These are Stockton's hands!  It looks like he had been in the pool for hours, but NOPE!  Just at Disneyland getting soaked!

We went back to the hotel room to dry out and warm up... We ended up ordering pizza and playing cards.  It was still a lot of fun!  It never let up on the rain though!  From the time we got out of Small World until we left town the next day around noon, it never stopped!!  We didn't turn off the windshield wipers until probably 25 miles away from our exit and then it didn't last more then 5 minutes!  It was SO crazy!! 
That was defiantly a trip to Disneyland that we won't ever forget and will probably talk about for a long time!! Ü