Disneyland. . . the happiest place on earth

We can't wait to get outta the cold and the snow for some much needed warmth and bright sunshine!

Our little baby boy is about to have his first plane ride... how exciting! Hopefully he does well for take off and landing. Cross your fingers.

David did so well on the plane. What a natural! He is such a good baby. Flying must be in his blood.

The kids were surprised to find that we had magically arrived at the happiest place on earth... Disneyland!

Our poor sweet Kylee girl feel down in the parking lot right before we entered Disneyland and skinned her chin up pretty badly. Good thing Mommy was prepared for scraps and packed the bandaids!

Not long after we arrived Kylee made her classic zoned-out tired face and passed out cold for the next few hours.

David zonked out not long after Kylee did and slept peacefully for a couple of hours. He is such a wonderful baby! He has just fit perfectly into our little family so well. We just love him so much.

Our kids were dying to ride the mono-rail around the park with their cousin Emma.

Ethan, Logan, & Jolee have been begging for months & months to go and see cousin Emma for a LONG time! They couldn't wait to hop on a plane to go to Emma's World to have some fun! (AKA California)

Here we are under the sea in a yellow submarine.

We are off on an underwater adventure to find Nemo.

under the sea "Life is the Bubbles!"

Emma thinks Jolee is quite silly. I think that she has contracted scurvy here under the water since we have left on our quest to help find Nemo. Crazy Jolee!

beautiful Emma Jane

All of the kids happily hopped aboard the first available boat inside Pinocchio's Story... straight into the belly of the Whale! Oh, what FUN!

Here we go round & round the carousel - wheeeee!!!

Giddy-Up Yee-Haw! ~Logan

Ride-Um Cowboy! ~Ethan

Hi-Ho Silver Away! ~Jolee

Whoa Nelly! ~Emma

Our little Sleeping Beauty is still fast asleep.

No trip to Disneyland would be complete without flying high with Dumbo!

up...up...up in the air with Dumbo they go

Uncle David with our cousins Emma & Sam
flying high and fancy free

Sweet Logan coming to check on his baby David & give him a smooch! Logan just LOVES being a BIG brother.

Logan had been wanting a little brother for a LONG time. We are just happy that he got the little brother he always wanted. But before baby David we had a lot of time to prepare Logan that Heavenly Father gives us the perfect baby that was meant just for our family... weather it is a baby brother or a baby sister. In other words... "You get what you get, and you don't pitch a fit."

Baby Face... You've got the cutest little baby face... Their ain't no other that could take your place, baby face.

Logan at the top of Sleeping Beauty's Castle looking out at the mote surrounding him and the palace below.

the Matter Horn above Pixie Hollow

Here we are at Pixie Hollow. Home of our favorite fairy,...*Tinker Bell*- Who else?!?

Here are the homes of the fairies in Pixie Hollow

Fairies Welcome!
As you approach Pixie Hollow the grass and flowers around you start to grow ever bigger and bigger... either they are larger or we are smaller... how enchanting!

We just so happened to stumble upon Lizzie's Notebook that she seemed to have left out in the meadow.

The Animal Fairy, Fawn, found us here among the flowers as she was helping the little woodland creatures that lived here around Pixie Hollow.

Much to her surprise we were NOT pixie's - for we had no wings you see. How odd to find wingless pixies wandering about the flowers. How very strange indeed.

Kylee was so awe-struck at seeing Fawn in real life. She wasn't sure what to think. She loves all the FAIRIES that live in Pixie Hollow! But Tink most of all!

Kylee is still in shock that she isn't watching her cartoon at home, but that she is really here with Fawn! It is true when they say a picture is worth a thousand words. The look on her face is simply priceless.

It's none other than Miss Bell herself with Jolee ~ How cute is that?!?

Tink is teeny tiny and oh so cute!

Kylee can't believe her eyes! Can it really be her? Can it really be Tinker Bell?

Here Peter is only just beginning to ask Kylee if she would like to give Tinker Bell a hug.

Tinker Bell started to hold out her hands for Kylee to hug her, and before Peter could finsih the question Kylee jumps out of his arms and into Tink's. You don't have to ask her twice.

This is the happiest place on earth. Look at that face... that is one happy girl!!! That is a Kodak moment if ever I saw one.

DISNEY'S CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE
It's TOW MATER!

...and wherever Tow Mater is Lightening McQueen can't be very far away!

Our cousin, Sam, LOVES...LOVES...LOVES Lightening McQueen!!! To say anything less would be an understatement. He is going, going, going all day speeding around on his little Lightening McQueen riding toy car. And stashed away beneath the seat is all of his favorite CARS toys. He lives and breathes nothing but Lightening McQueen from the moment he wakes till he closes his eyes at night. So when he beheld the real, life size, deal he was in CARS heaven!

Jolee, Ethan, and Logan are astonished and amazed to see that they were REAL!

The kids can hardly contain their excitement! It's LIGHTENING McQUEEN! Need we say more...

Logan likes Tow Mater Best! Logan thinks he is pretty cool because he is sooo very funny!

Here is Paradise Pier all lite up at night.

Peter & Jolee and David & Emma went on the SCREAMIN Roller Coaster which was scarey fast! So fast I didn't even dare go. Mary and I tried to talk the girls out of going but they wanted to go... so we let them... and they loved it! I didn't get a picture of them on the roller coaster because they went SCREAMIN by us at the speed of light - so fast that we never saw them!

Here we all are waiting for the Color Show to start. We must have waited an hour down on the pier. The kids were starting to drop like flies. By the time it was time for the Color water show to begin we had to wake them up to watch it. Let me tell you it was well worth the wait to see. I have never seen anything like it. It was nothing short of beautiful, creative,& captivating. What an amazing feast to delight the eyes and the ears. If I could go back and do anything, see anything at Disney it would be that... again and again and again.

As we were driving out of Disneyland we told the kids to say "goodbye". (Because we didn't know when the next time will be - if ever - that we will go back. In other words... it's very expensive.) Kylee says without any prompting,"Goodbye Tink-ka Bell."

Emma's World . . . . .

is this magical far away land where it's warm all the time and fun possibilities are endless. Here, you can enjoy a nice evening stroll walking a gentle GIANT dog or jump...jump...jump yourself silly in a BIG BoUnCy house ~ or BOTH!! Where the Horse Ranch is just a short drive and one canyon over. In Emma's World creativity, dress up, and pretend play are encouraged. A place where you can dream up a tea party @ Starbucks, then *POOF* it happens! And as the smoke begins to clear you are being served by a your own personal server and sipping hot chocolaty goodness or warm apple pie in a cup all before you can tap your ruby red slippers together 3 times. You can swim OUTSIDE all day if you wanted in a heated swimming pool and take in some much needed sunshine. And where you can visit the Savior and feel of His love, presence, and comfort whenever your heart desired. Who wouldn't want to visit a beautiful place like Emma's World. If we could only bottle it up in all of it's wonderful goodness and take it home with us so we could enjoy it's enchantment whenever we wished.








































To David, Mary, Emma, & Sam: Thank you for opening up your home and sharing memories and moments with us that will last a lifetime! We LOVE you!!!

Grampa Jordan

Arizona - Ready or Not - Here we come!!!

It would be silly to fly all the way to California and not hop over to Arizona for a quick visit to see Grampa Jordan. He will be 84 years old next month. And honestly a lot of things could happen sooner than later and I would never forgive myself if I didn't take the time to see him, and heaven forbid something happen before I get another chance to make the trip again.
The kids love staying there at his house. They have their own room there and Grampa has lots of fun things to do at his house with a heated pool close by, lots of warm sunshine, quite a few nice playgrounds located all throughout the neighborhood, baseball diamond across the street, an unlimited amount of rocks to climb on, collect, and throw. What more could you possibly ask for - it's a child's paradise!


Jolee is some old cuffs of Grampa's!
She is a prisoner of the state now.

My Grampa Jordan for the better part of his life has served in law enforcement. He was the Sheriff, to be more precise. I always thought my Grandfather was John Wayne growing up - He used to look just like him anyway. He has had many a gun fight. He was pronounced dead once. And he has even shot and killed a guy. It was shoot or be shot. He lived in the Wild West back in those days and someone had to lay down the law.


Logan & Jolee are enjoying the sweet pink grapefruit from the tree in the backyard. Yummo!


Grampa LOVES a good game of Domino's. Mexican Train, to be exact. And if he starts loosin', pug your ears, before he starts spoutin' like a sailor on the high seas!


Jolee jumped in for quite a number of games and did really well. We were all impressed how well she thought ahead and strategized her domino's without any help at all. Way to go baby girl!


Uncle Tracy came out to visit and play an entire game of Mexican Train (which is 13 rounds, for those of you whom have never played)and he brought a couple of his dogs for the kids to play with. Wiley E. Coyote - We call him "Wiley" for short, and Blanca - who is expecting a litter of puppies. The kids sure had fun walking them, or if you want to get a better visual... draggin' them around.


Kylee is busy doing her homework and writing down everyone's names. She is too cute. And WAY too smart for her own good. The girl never stops talking!!!


Funny thing is my Grampa calls me "Shorty" and I never have been very short.


David is 1 month old today!
Jolee is quite the little Mommy to baby David, and loves carrying him around like a little rag doll, despite all of the times her Momma tells her to "put the baby down".


Here we are all together with Grampa Jordan and he has his Lake Hood Elementary School T-shirt on that the great grankids gave to him. A little story about the T-shirt is that when I was going to Elementary my Mom sent him a T-shirt from my school, Pioneer Peak Elementary. And he STILL has it and wears it EVERYTIME we come to visit him. Sooo I thought it might be time to get him a new shirt and retire the old one. Just thinking of him in that red Pioneer Peak shirt makes me smile.


I love you Grampa! We are missing you already!


Grampa, despite all of the times he has lost at Mexican Train to Peter, loves him anyway!!!