Our Awesome California Trip! - Samuel the Jedi!

Samuel got to be in the Jedi training show that second day at Disneyland. We went to it the first day, and he wanted to be chosen so badly, but wasn't (they choose like 20 kids out of the audience). He was so sad, so we said we'd try again the next day. And excitingly enough, he was chosen that second day!! (The very last kid to be chosen out of the audience!) He was SO cute in the show -- the smallest one up there -- everyone in the audience got quite a kick out of him. And he got to fight Darth Vader too. We thought he'd be so scared, but he just went right up to him and started fighting. It was so fun to watch! He was very proud of himself the rest of that day...

Our Awesome California Trip! - 2nd Day at California Adventure

This was mine and Jared's (and of course the kids') first time seeing California Adventure. Athena and Heidi are the crazy ones as always -- and love all the crazy rides... They actually got Jared to do the Tower of Terror with them, though!

Our Awesome California Trip! - Our Birthday

Athena and I celebrated our 27th birthday while on the trip (one of the reasons we got some good deals on our Disneyland tickets!) Didn't have a cake, of course, so we stuffed 27 jumbo candles into our favorite treats! :) It was fun...

(So I'm attempting to use pictures that I have not re-sized to see if then it will be possible to click on them -- if it works, I'll do that from now on, but sorry, I'm not going to go back and fix all my earlier posts... Didn't realize the size of the picture made a difference in being able to click on them)...

Our Awesome California Trip! - 1st Day at Disneyland

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Brielle got to dance with Alice in Wonderland that first day! It was cute -- she was so excited!