Family of a NAVY dentist: May 2013

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Just Another Fun Filled Saturday

We really are grateful to live so close by to family. As our time is dwindling down in Las Vegas (3 years... I being a bit dramatic), we need to soak up as much time as we can get with them. It was a fun day to spend the morning with the Jones side of the family and the afternoon with the Westra/Barnes side. We love our family so much.

James' last soccer game

Lunch at FIVE GUYS

They loved cracking the peanuts.

Jack was talking to James about his game. Jack invited him to come watch him play when "he gets bigger, and bigger, and bigger. I'll be a soccer ball man just like you one day James. My game is at 25 next Saturday." James was excited to be invited.

Silly cousins

Later in the afternoon at the Barnes' house,

Driving.

Swinging.

Feeding turtles.

& Eating at Café Rio!

Another Fun Filled Saturday with family!

A Real Adventure at California Adventure

Visiting this part of Disneyland was a first for the whole family. California Adventure is a new addition to the park since my last trip there for Grad Night in 2000, (Such a fun night, by the way!) and I think we all really enjoyed ourselves. - Side note: Glad we did this on Day 2!

We had had advise from just about EVERYBODY about what to do when we got to the park. All of the advise said, "Get your FastPass for the Cars Ride first thing." So we were ready to heed the counsel of so many. Doors opened. We saw the line. We ran to the line. We thought we had a decent spot in line, until some nice lady informed us that the end of the line was actually about 4,000 people back there, as she was pointing basically 3 miles away. (Slight, very slight exaggeration) Somehow there was a gap in the line, and obviously this nice lady did not want us cutting. Needless to say, we DID NOT wait in that line. That is just plain ridiculous. So we found our own way through the park and we began our first California Adventure.

Paradise Pier

Jumping Jellyfish

She especially loved this ride because she was tall enough but poor Jack boy wasn't.

Mickey's Fun Wheel

The Little Mermaid - Ariel's Undersea Adventure

Definite family favorite. The line was quick, the ride was long, and every single time, Jack waved to Ariel and Flounder. It melted my heart every time.

The Carousel

We rode all kinds of fun rides here at Paradise Pier. But California Screamin' was a ride that Afton was not thrilled about the fact that I left her with Daddy and Jack so I could ride it. I went on as a Single Rider so I didn't have to wait long, but long enough to warrant this break down just outside the Carousel.

After the breakdown, we had lunch and got to open up our daily lunch treat.

The babies loved them.

I love the colors in these pictures.

Cars Land

Mater's Junkyard Jamboree

This was the longest line we had waited in so far in our 2 days at Disneyland. They kept playing a fun song sung by the one and only, Mater. Afton and I danced in line to help pass the time.

This really was a fun ride. Afton got whipped around like a ragdoll, but she loved it!

"a bug's land"

She doesn't look like me at all. :)

It's Tough to Be a Bug

This 3D movie was really fun. My sugar and I especially loved how they warned everyone before the movie that some of the "smaller bugs" in the theatre may get scared at times. Sure enough, little kids were screaming, crying, and clutching to their parents until it was over.

Jack and Afton were some of those very kids.