Happy Hallo-Disney!

October 7th was a day spent playing hookie from school. We went with Teryn and her kids to the Happiest Place on Earth! ;o) We must get a visit in for every holiday when we have passes!

Nothing like a happy Mickey Jack-0-lantern!  We love it here!

AHHHHH!  Goofy DIED and is now just a walking {SKELETON}!!  ;o)

Look at the two youngest first.  Sigh.  LtoR:  James, Ryan, Braeden, Lexi, and Ella... and MICKEY, of course, in his Halloween attire!

They don't even look a tiny bit scared of the Haunted Mansion!  (But you weren't the one they were {CLINGING} to for dear life in the elevator part at the beginning!!  Haha!)

While we were waiting for Braeden, James and Teryn to finish on their second round of Splash Mountain, we had a snack, fed some of it to the ducks, and waved to the Mark Twian as it passed by!

Ella, Ryan, and Lexi

Oh-so-happily waiting!  Lovely faces, guys.  You'll notice that this is a fairly common look for everyone on this particular day!  James, Braeden, and Ella at Thunder Mountain!

That's better!

Lexi, Ryan, and Teryn... it was their turn to go twice!

Pumpkin here, pumpkin there, we have pumpkins EVERYWHERE!  Try to follow the little pumpkin through the next several pictures!

See it now??  And Braeden... WHY oh WHY can you NOT just look AT the camera???????

Teryn and me!  Lexi, I think, was the photographer for this one.

Love it!  This is how I often feel.  Like I'm too weak to hold my head or back up anymore, but I paste a smile on my face anyway!

This was going on while we were trying to get the kids to eat lunch, so we hung around for the next showing!

Teryn and Ryan!

Braeden, James, and Lexi  (And yes... sometimes Disneyland is just a BIG, long, WAIT!!!  Sometimes!)

Ah, yes... back to the silliness to entertain ourselves while we {WAIT}!  Lexi

Braeden and James

Okay... seriously?

Lovely... no wonder we didn't get picked.  They can OBVIOUSLY tell that we are already joined with the dark side!  ;o)  J/K

Except Ryan.  This is as goofy/silly as he could muster!

Pure joy to see the Jedi!

Normally I would have had a picture before this of the Jedi and their training crew, but I feel that the Darth's don't get enough credit for their hard work for the dark side!  They always get left out of the fanfare and pictures because they're BAD... and SCARY!  Haha!

Darth Maul is very intimidating, and delights in trying to make small children cower and sometimes cry!  Boo for the dark side!

Get that {EVIL} Emperor Zurg.

Braeden and James on the carousel.

Lexi and Ella HOLDING hands...

Braeden and James... NO HANDS!!  ;o)

As many times as we have tried this... the kids still TRY with ALL THEIR MIGHT to get the sword OUT of the stone!!!

Great friends at a great place=GREAT FUN!!

No words or explanation needed here.  Ella and Wyan (aka. Ryan!)

All the way to the end of the day and we STILL don't have ONE picture where ALL 5 are smiling!  Pathetic!  Or fun... ??  Fun, but pathetic!

WHOA!  PLEASE never give this girl a driver's license!  This is a classic case of what road rage looks like!  (Believe me... I know.  I have it every once in a while!)

We really do love it here!  Ella thinks what Lexi thought several years ago... that she will live in this very castle with all the {OTHER} princesses SOMEDAY!