Caution: Dizziness may occur

The girls are obsessed with twirling, to the point of making themselves become dizzy and fall down. I find it to be hysterical and so do they.

Valentine's Day 2012

We had a wonderful Valentine's Day this year. Emma had a class party that we got to attend and later in the day we stuck with our tradition of making pizza and opening valentines.

Our cute lady all dressed up for her party. She is holding her lollipop flower valentines for her friends.

Emma in class. She is being a good student showing us how she sits in her chair and waits for instruction.

Making her bubble face.

Observing her sprinkle covered ice cream that she refused to eat.

Abby loved sitting in the chairs.

Emma passing out her valentines to her friends.

Happy girl.

The ended to party with a little dancing. Love that my two love bugs are dancing together.

My attempt to get some pictures of our little love bugs.

Emma giving kisses.

Our love bugs last year.

Disneyland: Day 3

Our final day in Disneyland was a bit rainy, but quite fun. We set out to do all the things we hadn't gotten a chance to do yet, and revisit all our favorite things that we had to do one last time before heading back to Texas.

It really is the happiest place on earth!

Here we are taking a tour of Sleeping Beauty's castle.

Abby encounters some special effects.

Think of the happiest things, that's the way to get your wings.

Emma waiting on line to go on the Peter Pan ride.

You must be this tall to ride this ride.

Abby looks on from an overhead bridge as

Emma and Andy go on the race car ride.

Emma was very excited to get her driver's license.

Come on guys, this way...

Abby directs us around Toon Town.

Here are the girl's playing the piano in Goofy's house.

Abby looks a little worried about getting caught.

Here is Emma riding her very first roller coaster.

If you look closely you can see the giant fish bowl in

the background. Andy convinced Emma that it was a

fish powered roller coaster: glug, glug, glug, zoom!

Pluto gives a big hug to the girls.

We had to ride Dumbo and the Carousel one last time.

Those two rides were their favorite, and they were

right next to one another.

One lump or two?

Andy and the girls riding on the infamous teacups.

Typically there is a parade each day with floats, but

because it was drizzling we got to see "Mickey's Rainy Day

Fun Time Jamboree" instead.

Bye Bye Disneyland!

We grabbed some souvenirs at the gift shop, packed up our stuff, and then the next morning we flew back home to Texas. We all had a wonderful time on the trip and made some great family memories.

Disneyland: Day 2, California Adventure Park

The second day in Disneyland we went to California Adventure Park. The girls were very excited to meet all the princesses over in Ariel's Grotto at a very special breakfast. That morning we got the girl's all dressed up in their princess costumes: Emma was dressed as Ariel and Abby was dressed as Rapunzel.

Making our way to Ariel's Grotto.

Disneyland isn't just for the kids!

Princess Abby is ready for her royal breakfast.

Emma and Abby's favorite princess is Ariel.

We got each of the characters we saw at the park to

sign autograph books for the girls.

Emma was looking forward to meeting Ariel for weeks.

This was her big moment, and it was great to see how

happy she was.

The next princess to meet was Cinderella.

Each time a new princess was announced Emma

would jump out of her seat and run up to them,

since we were lucky enough to be seated at the

first table for them to visit.

A hug from Sleeping Beauty.

Emma knows her special name is Princess Aurora.

Next we met Belle from Beauty and the Beast.

Abby wanted to meet her too but then wasn't so sure.

The last princess we met was Snow White.

After our special breakfast we went outside to

check out the rest of the park.

Rapunzel is trapped again! Oh no.

Actually she's just checking out the fish in the stream.

This section of the park was an outdoor

nature area with fun tree slides, nets to climb in,

rope swings, and bridges over streams.

Emma had already gone on the horse carousel the day before,

but as soon as she heard they had a sea creatures carousel we had

to make our way there.

Emma giving a hug to Lightning McQueen!

Emma is obsessed with the movie Cars, so

seeing Lightning McQueen and Mater was

very cool. They are in the process of building

a whole new section of California Adventure Park dedicated

to Cars, but it won't be ready until summertime.

Emma and Andy on the bumper cars.

Snuggling on a ride.

Emma was thrilled with Disneyland.

Here is a group shot of the family with Rapunzel.

That night we had tickets to "World of Color", which is a special

event that takes place in Ariel's Grotto at night. It is a laser light

show where they have colors, music, images of Disney cartoons projected

on the water, and they even had jets of fire shooting up into the air at times.

Unfortunately, "World of Color" doesn't begin until 8:15pm PST, which is

10:15pm our time. Emma fell asleep in the stroller at 7:30, and Abby lasted

until 7:45, but we were already in place to watch the show so we stayed.

Blogging Hiccup

Sorry I have not been blogging about the rest of our trip. Emma has been running a fever off and on since Saturday. She has also developed a horrible cough and an ear infection. The doctor ran a bunch of test to make sure she did not have strep, pneumonia, or an UTI. She has stopped eating and lost a pound since January. Life has been a little stressful and chaotic but we will get back to normal soon. Everyone in the house is feeling under the weather and I do not have enough energy at night to sort through all our Disney pictures and blog. I tried to get Andy to do it but he is working every night because things at work are crazy. So hopefully this weekend we can get all caught up and back on track.

Disneyland: First Day in the Park

Our first day in the park was fabulous. My friend Elizabeth came down for the day and the girls had a blast spending time with her. We filled our day with many rides and good memories.

On our way to the park from the hotel.

Me and Abby with the park in the background.

Me and the girls on the train ride. This was Emma's first request for rides.

After the train ride we saw Minnie Mouse. Emma was super excited to meet her and get her autograph. Abby was not to sure about all the characters.

Elizabeth got the girls super adorable Minnie hats.

Family pic with Sleeping Beauty's castle in the background.

One of Emma's favorite rides was the carousel.

Her other favorite ride was Dumbo. She loved riding it with Elizabeth.

In line for the Mr. Toad ride.

Emma checking out Mickey's piano.

Liz and Abby in Mickey's house.

Group shot with Mickey.

Emma in front of Minnie's house.

Another meeting with Minnie.

Later we took a ride on the river boat.

They had live music playing and the girl's decided to do some dancing.

Another carousel ride.

Some worn out ladies.

It was a super fun day in the park. Stay tune for breakfast with the princesses and California Adventure Park.