More Disneyland with Cousins!

More Disneyland! My sister, brother in law and nieces drove down from Granite Bay (Sacramento area) to go to Disneyland for a few days so Brent, Madison and I drove up from San Diego to join them yesterday! We had a good time and it was less crowded then on Thanksgiving Day which was great for us and more rides. We took Madison on Pirates of the Caribbean, Jungle Cruise, Small World and the Merry go round and I got to enjoy Indiana Jones and California Screaming at California Disney. We missed Sean though, he had to work :( We did buy him some beignets at the Jazz Kitchen in Downtown Disney, they are so yummy, the best donut pastry ever!! yum!

Cousins so cute together- Marissa, Taylor and Madison

Mama and Madison

Jungle Cruise!

Madison got a balloon with lights and all :)

Dinner at Tortilla Joes!

In line for Small World

California Disney

Kalub Christmas Preparation 2010

This year we have a cute little fake tree. This tree is perfect for little curious eyes and hands. We miss the pine scent filling our home but love the fact that Madison won't be able to eat the pine needles this year :)
Doesn't it look like Sean is sitting in the high chair with Madison on his lap?

Time to decorate Christmas cookies! We ate so many of the cookies while decorating them that now I need to get more dough :) If you look close you can see New York represented...what would Christmas be without a NY cookie!

 Sean and I have this big debate every year regarding the best way to string the lights on the tree.

1) Do you plug the lights in before you string them or 2)do you leave them off, string them, hang the ornaments and then plug the lights in for a grand finale?

I won't tell you which one of us has what preference, and really, in the end it doesn't matter too much, I think Madison will be the tie breaker though when she gets older...I have plenty of time to influence her!

JUST

PLAIN

CUTE!

We are looking forward to Christmas this year! Last year Madison was so tiny and slept through most of the day but this year she will be into all her gifts as well as everyone else's gifts. We will be up in Northern California spending time in Woodland, Granite Bay, Vallejo and San Fransisco! 

Thankful Hearts & Disneyland

This Thanksgiving was a little more unusual for us. We usually are home in Nor Cal for Thanksgiving but unfortunately this year it didn't work out. So we started out the month of November planning to cook dinner at our home and  host a family from church that needed a place to go for Thanksgiving day. I was looking forward to watching the parade, football and eating a huge meal for .....days! but that's not what happened. Once we found out that the ministry at our church did not have a hosting need after all, my fun, wise husband proclaimed....."Let's go to Disneyland for Thanksgiving!" .... great idea honey!!! So on Thursday we packed up the car at 7:30am and headed to Anaheim. Sean got us discount tickets(another story).We enjoyed taking Madison to Disneyland for the first time and cooking our Turkey on Friday instead of Thursday so we had double fun this week :) The only thing missing (other than our family) was remembering to TEVO the parade and football games that day so we could play them back on Friday for our Kalub Thanksgiving Day....but that's okay we still had a great day at home cooking and sharing our dinner with brother Brent (roommate).

smashed between Mickey, Elmo and Daddy....lucky girl :)

The Merry go round was her first ride ever! So cute, she was so curious!

Disney California Water Fall

Yes, she is on a leash. 

Toontown! Mickey's House play area!

Ferris Wheel at California Adventure

Small World was beautiful..all day I was saying small wonder...show ruined me!

We are so Thankful to God for His blessing in our lives, His ongoing Faithfulness and Grace given to our family. We are blessed with a wonderful family who we wish could have been with us, Disneyland still takes a backseat to family even though we enjoyed our time with Mickey. Lord willing we will be enjoying our usual Nor Cal visit next year or family will be down here in Southern California with us; but either way we missed them this year.
     I never enjoyed Disneyland as much as this trip with my wonderful husband and beautiful baby girl. Its so fun seeing the park through her little eyes! I wanted to buy her every princess outfit and hat displayed in the shops....yes, I was captured by the Disney consumerism! Thankfully we got out of there with just an ornament to remember the trip :)