New Years Eve

Our New Years Eve party is shrinking. Tonight it was Ashley with her old parents ringing in the New Year.

She was a good sport now that her older sister both are old enough to go to stake dances. Before the girls headed out, we had our traditional dinner. Kylie and Trace joined us for dinner. I think whenever you tell a teen it is all finger foods for dinner any would be interested in joining it to see what it was like.

After dinner Allison was getting nervous for her first dance. She needed some pointers on how to dance so Kevin stepped in to help. It was cute to watch them dancing together. She acted all embarressed when dad grabbed her to dance but I think it was exactly what she needed to calm her nerves.

When dinner and dance lessons were over the girls headed out to the dance. Allison went with Brooke.

Madison headed out with Trace and Kylie. They had a good time and Ashley had a good time with her old parents.

Bring on 2016!

Futsol Tournament

I never knew when Ashley joined Chicas that soccer now had become a year round sport. Today Ashley participated in a futsol tournament. She played four games back to back tonight. When we got home she was one tired girl but it sure was fun watching her play.

Tonight it was confirmed that she will be moved from U11 to U10 (her age group) she is so upset to leave her pal soccer friends. Jose and Delanie will be going with her so at least she will have some friends with this new team. Being separated from Kinnlie is the hardest part of this move.

Allison's birthday

Allison is 14 and now a Miamaid. Allison loved that she got called to the stand in church to recognize her moving to Miamaids on her birthday. She may not have been able to go out for dinner on her birthday but there are still some perks too. Dinner was all her choice tonight. She picked Ribs and augratin potatoes. She was one happy girl at dinner.

After dinner we opened gifts and had some cupcakes. I was excited to have her open her gifts because I have been working on a rather huge surprise for her. For the last couple of months I have been working on a quilt for her. I am so happy with the way that it turned out and I was hoping that she would love it as much as I do. It was fun to watch her reaction. I am so that she liked it. It was fun surprising her.

LegoLand

We had a nice restful evening. The girls slept well having their own beds. Before we headed to the park we packed up again to head closer to San Diego. The girls didn't want to leave this hotel. They like the kid friendly atmosphere. The continental breakfast was even geared around kids likes.

Ashley was in heaven in Legoland. They added a lego friends section since we were there last. She loved going around and exploring. She loved taking pictures with the girls from her lego sets.

It was fun for all of us to explore the actual set from the Lego Movie.

Legoland is more for little kids so the older girls were kind of grumpy all day but we did ride the rides and they did enjoy some of them.

We had a fun day. Legoland closes early so we got an early start to our next stop but unfortunately the train was late. It was a little chilly and there was no where inside to sit. Madison found an inventive way to stay warm. A backpack blanket.

Tomorrow Thanksgiving day and Seaworld.

Disneyland one more time

Today we had to get all our bags packed because after the park we moved on to our next adventure. As we were preparing to leave the room Madison ask what we were going to do with all our luggage while in the park. Then she thought that going through bag check to get into the park with all our luggage was going to be quite interesting. She got a good laugh at herself and we got a good laugh about it all.

We got checked out of the hotel and headed to Disney.

The last two days have been exhausting but fun. Ashley showed us how exhausting it has been when she fell asleep on the bus to ride to the park.

Disneyland was even busier today then it was earlier in the week.

Crowd's make for grumpy kids so we just hit what rides we missed the other day and then headed to Downtown Disney for lunch. To help keep people entertained and distracted I downloaded Charades and the girls had fun playing while standing in line.

After hainging out in Downtown Disney for a little while, we headed back to Disneyland for a bit before it was time to head to the train station and move on to San Diego.

We got to the train station and the building was so cool.

I remember riding on a train when I was younger so I was excited to share this with my girls. They enjoyed the train ride. Madison and Allison found the seats comfortable and fell asleep.

Ashley was wide awake the whole time. She got to sit next to Kevin and the rest of us all sat by strangers. The train was full of people coming home from work.

Ashley's big surprise for this trip in our hotel for tonight. She loves legos and has mentioned that it would be fun to stay in Legolands hotel. We told her they were booked and we couldn't get reservations. She was delightfully surprised when we pulled up.

This hotel is a kids dream come true. Everywhere you turn they are having a party and there are many activities late into the night. Bedtime what? When we got to our room the girls discovered a scavenger hunt to get the code to the treasure chest in the room. Madison and Allison had fun going around the hotel with Ashley on the treasure hunt. While at dinner they put all the clues together to figure out the code.

It was a fun evening and the girls were ready for bed. Vacation is exhausting.

It was nice to have bunk beds with a trundle. They all got their own bed.

California Adventure

After a good nights rest we were ready for another day. We headed to California Adventure today. Breakfast a little earlier this morning so we were able to get to the park before it opened. There was a little crowd formed already but not that big. It will be nice to get started before the crowd gets bigger.

The first thing we wanted to do was get a fastpass to the cars ride. It is a new ride and very popular. The line was long for that so while dad got that with Ashley the rest of us headed to Tower of Terror. Allison loves this ride but it also makes her fer very nervous. I am glad the wait wasn't that long so she didn't get too nervous before we got on. I on the other hand definitely got nervous. I don't like falling.

I survived and Allison wanted Ashley to ride it but I knew that it was going to take alot of convincing to get her to ride it. When we met back up with her she found other things to do to avoid it. We found Mr. Incredible and had to get a picture for dad with his look alike.

We then found some snow.

The girls thought it was fun but also remembered that we get plenty of that at home. Next it was on to see Olaf.

And then Anna and Elsa.

The kids weren't really into seeing characters but these were two that they did want to see. Animation Studios was in the same area so we decided to check it out. I was so impressed at how easy they made it to draw Winnie the Pooh.

We had so much fun drawing Winnie the Pooh that the girls wanted to do it again. Next we drew Baymax.

I could have done this all day it was really interesting and fun. Allison finally convinced Ashley to ride Tower of Terror so we headed over there. It was Ashley's decision but she was really nervous the whole time we were in line.

Ashley did and will probably not do it again but she can say that she did it. Allison did some reading up before we left and wanted to try out a traffic cone full of Mac and Cheese.

It was a fun lunch. After lunch the Madison and Allison really wanted to ride Screamin. They really wanted to do it as a family so they started trying to convince Ashley that she would be ok.

She did but probably won't ever do it again. After several other rides it was finally time for our fastpass to Cars. When we got over to the ride it was insane to see how busy it was. There was over a 2 hour wait if you didn't have a fastpass.

It was a fun ride. I wish the wait wasn't so long because I would have loved to ride it again. We ended our day by seeing Aladdin and planned on seeing the light show but everyone was so tired so decided to call it a night.

It was a fun tiring day and we just wanted to go to bed but we got locked out of our room again.

Not very impressed with this Embassy Suites. The repair guy tried to make us feel like it was our fault. Not impressed.