Best Day Ever at Disneyland!

Wednesday we brought our ponchos and planned on rain. It sprinkled on us a few times and then for a while we got our ponchos out, but it didn't last long and seriously the entire day we were walking on to rides. No Max Pass needed! It was the best day I have ever had at Disneyland. And there were so many more rides that the whole family could go on together.

We started out with Indiana Jones for the big kids. Tyler met the cut off, Kallie didn't. After that we walked right on to Pirates and Haunted Mansion. Splash Mountain was closed. Ava loved pirates and kept asking to go on it again!

We hit up the Jungle Cruise with a 5 minute wait. I love this ride!

The big people went on Thunder Mountain Railroad while Ava and I waited.

They didn't even need fast passes, the lines were so short.

Then we headed over to Fantasy Land and did the carousel, Snow White, Dumbo a few times, the Wild Toad ride, anything we could walk on to to get out of the rain. We never did make it on Peter Pan because it got shut down and then the line was crazy long once it opened up again and we didn't want to stand in the rain.

Megan and Lincoln were there with us too but they went off by themselves on bigger rides a lot. Karen stayed with us the whole day and was probably shocked to be able to go on all the rides instead of sitting around holding babies like she usually does. It was such a fun day!

I was happy to wait off with Ava while they all went on Matterhorn, then we went on It's a Small World just to escape the rain. Tyler was crying at this point and wanted to go back to the hotel but luckily we stuck it out because it stopped raining and the rest of the day was fabulous.

I love Ava's smile! Casey Jr. Train.

Buzz Lightyear you could just walk on again and again. That's what Ava and I did while they went and rode Star Tours and Space Mountain.

The Castle is under construction so you had to walk all the way around to get behind it. Pretty annoying.

We weren't even sure if you could meet princesses but we walked over there in the middle of the afternoon and there was no line at all. Ava was so adorable with all the princesses and this ended up being a highlight of our trip.

First they got to meet Eleana outside. Ava totally kneeled on the ground and was scootching closer to her.

Inside it was Cinderella first and she spent seriously a good couple of minutes holding Ava's hands and just talking to her like this. You could tell Ava was in love. It was so stinking cute.

None of the princesses could get Tyler to come in for a picture, but Ariel did get him to give her a "star fish high five."

Ava really loved Snow White too and was lingering at the end to wave goodbye to her.

We went on pirates again in the evening, at Ava's request, and she fell asleep at the very end of the ride, at like 5 p.m. I was in heaven!

We sat and ate beignets and then went on the train ride that takes you around the whole park. Ava slept on me the whole time.

It was only like 6 pm when we were done with the train, but we decided to go home. We had had such a full day and done pretty much everything we wanted to, multiple times! So Brandon took Ava back to the stroller and we walked home to the hotel.

Ava stayed asleep in the stroller in the hotel room for a couple of hours. Brandon went and got us dinner, the kids and Brandon went hot tubbing, and Ava just kept sleeping.

I got her out of the stroller to kind of wake her up but I took her jacket off of her and she just kept sleeping. So I finally put her in her crib. We thought for sure she would wake up at midnight and be up for a couple of hours or something but that girl slept for almost 14 hours straight and woke up at 6:40 the next morning. Crazy!

Had to document our big three kids sleeping sideways on a Queen because they probably won't be able to do this for much longer and we will have to book bigger hotel rooms.

Lincoln and Megan surprised all our kids with Minnie and Mickey Mouse dolls which they absolutely love!!! What an amazing day!