Disneyland

Now I'm going to play catch up on all the May posts that I haven't had time to get to with how busy this month has been.  We got passes to Disneyland last May, so we decided to take one last trip before our passes expired.  We pretty much did all the same stuff we've done every other time we've gone to Disneyland, so I won't post too many photos and bore you with the exact same shots as my last Disneyland post.

Lucas has been such a great traveler lately.  Paige on the other hand is getting to the point that she needs to be entertained and does not want to sit still for more than 30 minutes, so she's a little trickier.  These photos were taken about 3 minutes in so there were smiles all around.

First stop every time we go to LA - Cafe Rio!!  Who has time to take photos before you've eaten.  Here's my completely empty tin.

 First day at Disneyland, Paige is all ready to go.

 Of course we had to get a picture in front of the castle.  And of course we only took one picture and Paige's eyes are closed and my hair looks funky.  Oh well...

 Happy girl!

 And sleeping girl.  I got a lot of these photos.  She never slept for long, but she took at least a short nap every day we were there.

 And then of course the kids passed out as soon as they hit their beds.  We wore them out!

 The kids loved the carousel and we rode it quite a few times.

They also loved the toy story ride and the lines were so short we got to ride it a couple times too.  Paige liked the glasses best of all.

 Another favorite was the hotel pool.  We went almost every day to cool off after a hot day in the park.

Another cooling off favorite was Dole Pineapple whips.

My parents came down and went with us one of the days we were there. It was nice to have someone else to help out with the kids, even though I couldn't really run off and go on any of the big kid rides.

 Although I did go on splash mountain, and it was fantastic.

I'm not sure how I always make my mouth look so huge in these pictures.  At least my face wasn't covered in this one, although I did cover up my mom's...sorry.

We've been to Disneyland quite a few times now and I've always wanted to try a turkey leg and we never have.  Well this time we got one.  It was gigantic, but we all dug in and it was AMAZING!

Here's a few more random photos of our trip.

Paige was in love with Pooh Bear on this trip.  She was really getting into the characters.  I thought she'd be afraid of them.

And one last photo of the kids playing in the pack n play at the hotel.

We really enjoyed having passes to Disneyland for a year.  Now we're going to take a few cheaper vacations till our kids get a little older and can really enjoy it.  Plus also I'd really like to be able to ride some rides and it's hard when I'm pregnant half the time.

Lucas's Birthday

I am so behind on blogging.  This month of May just flew by!!  We have been so busy and I have a bunch of other posts that I should technically do first, but I decided to just do Lucas's birthday post because it's fresh in my mind and we just had his party with friends today.  This was Lucas's first birthday party with friends and he had a blast!

We decided to do the party right after preschool since I'm teaching preschool this week.  All of Lucas's preschool friends were there.  Lucas wanted a super hero party, but I didn't want to do a strictly "Spiderman" or "Batman" party, so we just did generic super heros.

I made these cute capes for each of the kids as a party favor with their initials on the back.  They were actually pretty easy and super cheap.

We also decorated masks to go with our capes.  The decorating part was really fun for the kids, but the masks did not really hold up very well.  Oh well, at least they lasted long enough for a picture.

 Once the super heros were outfitted with masks and capes, we had to go complete a mission.  I had a small obstacle course set up for them to navigate through.  My favorite part - the LASERS.

 They had to go through the lasers to get a ball and then bring the ball back to shoot into a basketball hoop.  There was also a tunnel to crawl through and a beam to balance on.  It was pretty simple but the kids had a lot of fun with it.

 One of Lucas's biggest requests for his birthday party was that there be a pinata.  Now, aside from the fact that I'm too cheap to spend $20 on a pinata, I also thought it might be kinda fun to make our own.  There are a lot of tutorials and stuff out there but I liked this website the best.  It was definitely worth saving $20, I already had everything I needed so I didn't spend any money on the pinata, but I'm not going to lie, it was a bit of work and took 2 days to let all the layers dry and everything.  We did have fun though.  Lucas helped me decorate it.

 Both kids gladly helped fill it with candy.

I was a little worried that our pinata wouldn't work out very well.  I was worried that either it would break on the first hit, or it wouldn't break at all.  I've seen store bought pinatas that take some serious beatings and still won't break and kids can only handle so much waiting before they get grumpy for candy.  The pinata actually couldn't have broken at a better time.  Every kid got two turns and then the birthday boy broke it and the next kid finished it off.  It was perfect!

 And last but not least, the cake and presents.

 I think the kids all had a good time, and I survived and only got exasperated once.  I'd say we did pretty good for our first friend party.

On Lucas's actual birthday we had a little party with my family.  On top of the usual grandma and grandpa Crapo, and John and Becky, my brother Joseph is home right now from college and my sister Sarah is visiting, so we had a lot of family to celebrate with.  We went to Red Robin for lunch.  I didn't get a picture of the whole table, which is sad, but we did get a picture of Lucas eating the cherry on top of his sundae.

And opening presents...

After lunch we went to this indoor pool/water park.  It had a little kid play area, water slides, and a lazy river.  It was the afternoon and during nap time for the babies so we didn't end up staying as long as I thought we would, but it was pretty fun and Lucas had a blast which is the most important part.

Happy Birthday my little man!!