Impromptu Disneyland trip

Tim’s brother needed help moving from Vegas to California. The original plan was to just head to Vegas and help him load up and come home….Tim found out he didn’t have anyone in Cali to help him unload. Soooo since his new house is 30 minutes from Disneyland we decided to all go and do Disney  for a few days.

     Belagio gardens

The best part about this trip to Disneyland was taking NOTHING with us! We got a locker for jackets and food and didn’t have to lug anything around. Porter could go on almost every ride and it was great. He even braved Tower of Terror twice! After the first time he said “let’s not go on that again it freaked me out a little bit.” He was so unusually quiet the whole trip, we think he was processing so much information he just didn’t have time for talking, I bet I’ll get 2 ears full this next week as he recalls everything we did. It was amazing what he remembered from going 2 1/2 years ago and he was only 2 1/2 at the time.

We didn’t stop to see as many Characters this time for 2 reasons, we weren’t there as long and they just weren’t out as much. We also just used the camera on our phones so we didn’t have to worry about the big Nikon (which was good and bad) Tim’s phone took pictures the first day and that night we couldn’t find them, so he took out his memory card and is going to try to recover them.   We ran into the Bijou cousins twice on Tuesday very randomly, we were going to meet up but didn’t need to after running into them. But we didn’t get a picture with them which was DUMB!

poor Abbey was in tears the night we left, she didn’t want to leave! It was amazing the detail that they put into the Christmas decorations and how involved the decorations are in so many rides. I loved it! We almost forgot to do a family picture….not the best picture but it’s what we’ve got!

It was a crazy trip with not much planning (which drives me nuts) but it was fun and I survived without crossing all my t’s and dotting all my i’s like I like to do before a trip. Although the snack department was lacking without all my usual planning :)

And now it’s time to make some homemade bread! California didn’t have any home-style bread at all! I walked up and down the aisle more than once and store bought fluff bread is just NASTY! Tucker didn’t even want his sandwich the last day he couldn’t stand it anymore. So next time I will definitely buy some grandma Sycamores before leaving Utah or take mine with us!

The Before…

Well this picture isn’t quite a valid before, imagine very tall weeds and nothing else, then you have an accurate before. Oh wait and the color should be brown not green :-) See all the wood chips on the sidewalk and in the boxes and bags? It took me a LONG time to remove all of them so we could get new GOOD dirt. The dirt we currently have should be called cement!!!

Smile :)

Isn’t she pretty?

Winter Fun

I think these pictures speak for themselves. Yes that is Me and P in the top picture (sorry it’s blury, I took these a long time ago.) T took the picture and I think he did a good job!

Below is A, P and T (on a snowboard)

Porter’s New Bed (January)

Do you know how hard it is to resist this smile?

He is getting way to big! How ironic is that for me to say when I give him growth hormone shots everyday…..I want him to be the right size for his age, but I want him to stay little just for me!

Bench

So I found this great blog called Knock Off Wood. She posts plans to make your own furniture. So I thought I’d start with something simple and this is what I made (all by myself I might add!)

Bowling



Bowling