Disneyland Trip

For Thanksgiving we headed to So Cal to visit family and spend a few days at Disneyland. We stayed at the Grand Californian, which is fantastic. Hotel guests get into the park an hour early, and by the time the big crowds arrive it's time to head back to the hotel pool and get recharged for an evening park visit. The highlights include getting soaked on the water rides (Jacob and Anna SCREAM in anticipation), the new Toy Story ride, California Screamer, pin trading, Nathan chipping his tooth on Dumbo (yep --walked into an ear), chillin' with cousins/siblings/grandparents, and riding Tower of Terror with Jacob over and over again until the park closed. I love the fact that our kids want to go on every ride -- even Nathan was ticked that he could not go on the big roller coaster.

Halloween 2008

This year for Halloween we had a cow, astronaut and Glinda (from the play Wicked). Mike and Jen passed on costumes this year because Mike had knee surgery on 10/30 (his leg is wrapped up so the kids thought he was a partial mummy). To maximize candy flow this year we attended a "trunk or treat" at the church -- you can hit a lot more cars in a parking lot than walking door to door. :-)

Nathan is progressing up the toy food chain. He used to be fascinated with Tigger, then he moved to Cars, and now he LOVES trains. Train books, Thomas the Train, throwing train cars at his brother and sister....etc. Here he is riding his train (oh, and this is why I hate Costco :-) ).