The boys join us

The Doc from Back to the future

Drew and Jade are scared of what might hop out of the mummy area of the backlot tour.

The kids in Hollywood

Jaws

Fiona needs some character pose lessons, every picture she was looking away!

Marilyn and gang

The fountain statue right behind Cole is a real guy.

It was Bike night at TGIF in Knotts Berry Farm

We did the Chicken dinner

Our bliss ended when we picked up the guys from the Orange cnty airport. We headed to Knott's Berry farm for dinner, it was ok, the chicken was a little tough. A huge amount of food, the big hit was the rhubarb, go figure!

Thursday we did Universal Studios. We stayed in a cheap hotel across the street from Disneyland, so I knew this would be my scenic live the LA culture and enjoy the freeways! It only took us an hour to go through the heart of LA, Hollywood to Universal. The boys were pretty good until Cole kept pounding on Drew to force him onto the Mummy ride. Drew did, but said he kept his eyes closed the whole time.

Then we were back in time to watch the fireworks from our hotel room.

Enjoying Disney

Waiting for "Honey I shrunk the audience"

The girls were fine with going by themselves on the teacups

This girl is afraid of nothing!

Going into Monstro's mouth

They scored primo seats on the Storybook cruise

In front of Sleeping Beauty's castle

climbing Tarzan's tree house

Capn Jack Sparrow in the Pirate's of the Caribbean.

Pixie Hollow with Tinkerbell

They were very excited to meet Tinkerbell!

This was Iradessa

Both at the world and the land it is new to see Tinkerbell and the fairies at Pixie Hollow. We had to forgo the princesses since we did this first and the princess line was a consistant 2 hour wait all day long.

Breakfast with Minnie

Captain Hook is one of Minnie's friends? The girls dance with him.

How cute is Dale!

Dale covering up their eyes!

What a cute picture!

The princess birthday chest I had pre-ordered for Jade.

Here she is! Miss Minnie.

When you know you are going to be going on a Very crowded day, there must be a plan. We got in early with the first reservations of the day at the Plaza and dined with Minnie. Jade still couldn't believe she was actually here! They had a great time with the chararters.

A beach day in Laguna

I loved these pictures the coloring was just perfect today.

This was Aliso Beach just between Dana Point and Laguna. It actually was one of the prettiest and nicest Orange county beaches. I picked out which dress Madeline "needed" to wear for my obsessive must have white clothes on the beach for pictures! Let's see what happens Friday when the boys need to pose for me as payment for flying them out to CA to join us! They won't be as good as these!

We hung out most of the day here and then headed to across the street from Disneyland. We got a great room we can watch the fireworks from our window of our hotel room.