All good things come to an end.

We left on May 9th and came home on the 14th.

We headed home from Seal Beach Saturday morning.

We dropped Kelsey off in Las Vegas so she could go to Thailand with some friends!

And we got home around 7:30. It’s always good to be home. Here are the kids with their Disney Purchases 🙂

Ray was ‘killing’ us with his Bow and Arrow poses!

We checked out of the Desert Inn across from Disneyland and headed over to a little beach town and spent the afternoon on the beach. Our kids have only been as little babies and Benji and Packer went when they were 2 and 3… so this was new and exciting and lots of fun!!!

They were really fun to watch when we first got there. The ocean and sand were foreign to them. They ran down in their clothes and were just amazed.

We taught them how to jump into the waves and how to run away from them. We explained the tide and how the waves will pull you out as another wave comes in. We brought a body board but the waves weren’t quite right.

The boys learned the art of sand seat building.

Kelsey taught the girls to make a perfect face-rest for beach sleeping.

We brought food and snacked and enjoyed the slightly overcast, warm but not too hot day.

And then we watched the dolphins!! There were several dolphins out just passed the 2nd wave. We could see them swim and their backs would surface and it was pretty awesome. We watched them for a good 10 minutes.

These two couldn’t believe how big the sandbox was and kept talking about the REAL sand 🙂

Tiago might have eaten a little sand 🙂

These kids were sand castle newbies but we taught them a few tricks.

and then we hit the water again! and Tiago attacked our Sand Castles 🙂

The kids loved sitting and letting the waves wash over us and knock them over.

I love how sandy Rayzor is in this picture.

Around 5:00 we called it quits. We drove e few minutes to our fancy Best Western 🙂 and scrubbed the sand off  and bathed and  ordered mexican food and just relaxed the evening away.

Beach Day was also a complete SUCCESS.

We bought the park hopper ticket so that we could go to both parks on day 3. We ended up spending most of our day at Disneyland but we did HAVE to go back for California Screamin’ and Tower of Terror. We made a list on Wednesday night of the rides that we didn’t get to do and the ones that we NEEDED to do again.

Small World

Tiago and I waiting for the guys on Space Mountain – He was happy to be out of the stroller.

One of the best rides! Kelsey and Ray and Rose saved a place in line at Pixie Hollow so Cali and Rose ran from Space Mountain to meet Tinkerbell 🙂

Brooke came to see me!!!!

That’s what you can do when you haven’t seen a friend for WAY to long.

We watched Beauty and the Beast at the Royal Theater.

We fast passed through Buzz light year 🙂

And back on the rockets while the big kids did Big Thunder Mountain or Star Tours or both…

We waited in line to see all of the princesses at the castle. Rose forgot to wear her dress the first time we saw a princess so I waited in that line for her 🙂

We skipped Splash Mountain the first day but the kids LOVED it, exccept PAcker = once was enough for him.

Kelsey is named after this guy but we didn’t let her wait in the 30 minute line to get a proper picture 🙂

Waiting for the Haunted Mansion – Our last day was the HOTtest.

Benji and I snuck back to Star Tours with an extra fastpass!

And then we enjoyed some Ice$ream!! and let the kids pick ONE thing to buy to remember our trip.

Then this strange guy started calling my name! jk I hadn’t seen Jake since the college days! It was fun to talk with him and meet his family.

NEXT we headed over to California Adventure. We did the SKy School Coaster a few times while the littles watched the parade!

I sent everyone off to do Screamin and some fun rides so I was juggling Packer, Rose, Ray, Millie and Tiago. I had to ask a woman for help so that we could all go on the Zephyr. She rode with Millie 🙂  and then she thanked me and gave us 30$ Disney Dollars!!

I of course took a turn on Screamin!and the littles did the carrousel again.

Rose was begging for Tower of Terror so we did that.

Then I took the stroller home and Ben, Kelsey, Benji, Packer, and Cali finished up the last hour with shopping and Star Tours. We DID a LOT. I got these babies in bathed and in bed and they were even smiling in their sleep 🙂

J&B Netty 2016 DISNEYLAND = SUCCESS!