My Disney Birthday

Isn't it every 28 year old's dream to spend their birthday at Disneyworld? Actually, yes, I wouldn't have wanted to have been anywhere else this year than with Rick and the kids at Disney (ok, maybe Hawaii.....or with my whole family in Boise) We have really taken advantage of the getting in free on your birthday thing this year!

I want to apologize ahead of time for all the pictures, I realized halfway in I should've just done a slideshow, but oh well!

The kids LOVED the characters, but in totally different ways. Carson LOVED everything about them, seeing them, hugging them, etc. Brynnli loved the characters and waved and smiled.... until she actually got near them, then she clung to me for dear life! This is why, even though we finally have one child who will sit with the characters, we are still in most of the pictures.

While Brynnli was napping Rick and I took turns taking Carson on the "big kid" rides that Brynnli couldn't go on. Carson and I flew in an airplane roller coaster, which Carson loved

But not as much as he loved driving a racecar with daddy. He was soo excited, I was in the perfect spot to take a picture until I realized Rick had the camera, so Rick took this one of himself:)

When we were at Disney last time we stole a secret from a family in front of us in line who had brought lollipops for their kids to eat while they waited in line for the rides, so here's our kids waiting in line with their lollipops. On a side note, the longest we waited was maybe 20 minutes thanks to my birthday fastpass!!
Brynnli's favorite spot was the park and splash area where she got totally soaked, and so did her lollipop! Carson was more careful, but thankfully I had a few changes of clothes for her!

Carson danced with the characters during the street parade

And then our kids both crashed during the fireworks. It was a really great birthday!

We decided instead of going to another park the next day to go to Downtown Disney where we visited Legoland, and Carson got to make and race a lego racecar

Brynnli carried her lego creation all over the place with her, she was very proud of it and even made a run for it with it.Carson loved Mickey, and for some reason became obsessed with Buzz lightyear while we were at Disney (even though he has only seen Toy story once...and hated the Buzz ride) and sent us on a wild chase for a Buzz Lightyear toy. All the ones at Disney were too lame or advanced for him, so we are still combing the local toy stores....

Since we couldn't find him a Buzz lightyear and we had already bought Brynnli a Minnie mouse doll she couldn't say goodbye to, we got Carson this little Mickey train, which he drove EVERYWHERE that whole day. On the water playground at Downtown Disney, at the temple grounds, in McDonalds, and the whole 3 hours home all he could talk about was how he needed to drive it on his tracks when he got home. Crazy kid.After Downtown Disney while the kids napped Rick went to the temple and I hungout (since last month I went by myself). When they wokeup we walked around, and found the tiny one spot of shade on the grounds to sit in. The kids had a blast. My favorite comment from this was when we were sitting at the temple and a rescue truck rode by and Carson said, "mommy Jesus is leaving on a call!" I wasn't sure how to explain that one to him:)