Disneyland #3 ( Character Breakfast)

To begin our second day of Disneyland fun, we went to a character breakfast. And there were alot of them there. JD didn't eat much food because he was too busy watching them walk around. The food was so delicious, and everyone really stocked up on eating the fresh fruit. My nephew, Garrett, fell asleep right before we got there, so he slept for most of the breakfast, but when he did wake up, he certainly ate his share. JD helped him as well. What a great way to start our day!

Minnie Mouse and JD

JD and Dale

My sister, Jenn, Reed, Chip, JD and me

Chip with my parents!

JD and Eeyore

Minnie Mouse with my brother Jeff, his wife Beth, and their son Garrett

We did find a character that JD was scared of. Captain Hook!

Garrett and JD helping eachother eat their breakfast

Disneyland #2

So, to finish of our first day at Disneyland, we hit almost all the rides that first day. JD insisted on going on the roller coasters with us. He went on Space Mountain (didn't want to go on that one again), Splash Mountain (didn't want to go on that one again), Star Tours (didn't want to on that one again), and Thunder Mountain (didn't want to go on that one again). As you can see, most of them he only wanted to go on it once. What a sport he was!

The first time I went to Disneyland, I was younger than JD. For the longest time, the characters scared me to death! I would scream and kick, trying to avoid any kind of contact with them. I was really praying that this fear hadn't been passed down to my son. Luckily, he was so excited to meet the characters that he had watched on TV and movies! I was so happy that he had no problem going up to them and giving them hugs. YAY!

The weather was absolutely beautiful. 70 Degrees for the weekend that we were there. We couldn't have asked for more perfect weather. We got alot of compliments on our shirts. My mom and sister made them with stencils and spray paint! It was really nice to be able to keep track of everyone. We were definitely a sight to see, eleven people wearing the same shirt. WE loved them so much we washed him after our first day and wore them the next. Thanks Mom and Jenn!

Garrett and JD on Casey Jr. Train Ride

Here we are with Tigger

Here's Winnie the Pooh!

Making music at Tarzan's Treehouse

My very awesome family

Disneyland #1

Okay, so I have been terrible with my blog this last month, but i have a good reason! I have been visiting family back in Utah the past couple weeks. During that time we took a trip to Disneyland and sent my sister on her mission to London, England. So, for the next couple days, I'm going to try and post more and more pics (since I took a ton!) so that you can all see the fun we had for our couple weeks out west.

So, my parents took the whole family to Disneyland. Last family trip before my sister, Jennifer, left on her mission. A couple days before we flew out to California to meet up with the family, I found out about a deal that Disneyland/Disneyworld was doing for their armed forces. We were able to get Reed in for free along with getting up to five people in with a three-day-pass for the price of a one day pass. The three-day-passes were around $150 dollars a person! One day was $94. We were really excited to help out my parents with this. We saved them a couple hundred dollars, and now a days saving is a great thing.

For a couple days, we were at Disneyland and we has so much fun! JD insisted on going on roller coasters! We thought that we would start out with some of the rides that always have a long line on them.

The Olsen family

JDs first Mickey Mouse ears. He picked out the color.

JD and his cousin, Garrett, trying to pull the sword out of the stone!

On the Carousel.

JD rode on Dumbo with his Aunt Annalisa and Uncle Ryan

Reed's flying scared me!

Like I said, I will be putting more pics on either tomorrow or in the next couple days. I have too many pics to put on just one entry! We had the best time ever and it was so great to finally be together as a family again.

Christmas Fun

Our Christmas was alot of fun. It was this year that JD started to understand who Santa was. JD got so much stuff (which is what happens when mommy starts shopping in October). Later on, we made our annual trip to the Washington DC Temple to see the lights. Once again, JD wanted to go inside the temple. That just brought tears to my eyes and filled me with so much warmth. Hope everyone else had a great christmas.

I actually took a ton of pictures! It was really hard to narrow it down to a couple of them.

This is what Santa left for JD

He's so cute!

JD got Daddy a Nerf Gun!

Our little handy man!

Washington DC Temple

Reed and JD

Me and JD

Making Cookies for Santa

So we were doing some grocery shopping and realized that we needed to get cookie mix for Santa. Well, Santa (Reed) said that he would like to have peanut butter cookies. Well, this was my first time making peanut butter cookies. I decided to be brave and let JD "help" me. He was very excited to help out and especially loved squishing the cookies down. We hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas and we love you all.

Cox's Farm

So, after Halloween was over with we went to Cox's Farm (about thirty minutes from us). This place is huge! Before Halloween, they gave free pumpkins. Now, after Halloween, you could bring your pumpkin and they were doing pumpkin smashing! It was really fun! There were slides everywhere at this place! Along with a petting zoo, hay ride, and a corn maze! We spent over two hours at this place! JD did not want to leave. Definitely a place that we will hit this time next year!

JD actually got to milk a cow!

This is just one of the many slides

More slides!

JD at the petting zoo with a goat!


A happy boy with his free little pumpkin.

Halloween Time!

Well, I know I'm behind on getting the Halloween pictures up... better later than never!! This year when went trick-or-treating with some friends that we went with last year. JD and his friend Erica had so much fun walking from door to door they didn't want it to end!

We only did one block around and his bag was dragging
on the ground from all the candy he got.

Even I and our cat, Wilson, got into the Halloween mood.
We sure had a great time.



Check out JD's bounty of candy
(it went straight to his potty jar).