Heading home

Driving home on I-5, it's a beautiful clear day with rolling green hills! You'd never know we've been in a drought all year. ;-)

We had a great time in Disneyland but the trip felt a little quick - we can't wait to return again someday!

Lounging at the Tiki Bar with a hot cocoa mustache

This must be the life. ;-)

First ride by himself!

There were signs at every ride mentioning 7 years and older could ride the rides alone (but younger needed to be accompanied by an adult). Logan realized this at some point during our trip and decided today he was going to ride alone (it was on The Little Mermaid ride).

Callum seemed just as excited as Logan about this big milestone and commented to me during the ride, "I'm so glad Logan is 7 so that he can ride by himself!" It was pretty darn cute (both of their excitements). :)

Their cuteness is criminal

A Very Merry Unbirthday!

Mickey-shaped Beignets

We're waiting for our Haunted Mansion fast pass time to come up, so we're showing the boys a taste of New Orleans. They're no Cafe du Monde beignets, but the boys still gave a thumbs up. ;-)

Exhausted!

We'll see how early a start we get tomorrow. ;-)

Almost at meltdown status

Woo!

A nice perk

A nice perk about staying on property, is running into some of the characters without the crazy crowds.

We spent the morning at Disneyland but after lunch we slammed into a wall of people. The boys really wanted to go back to the hotel so we figured we'd head back that way and got some shopping in at Downtown Disney (both boys got Disney gift cards for Christmas and Logan got an extra for his birthday) too.

Here the boys are telling Goofy all about the toys they just bought. ;-)

Merry Christmas!

Acting goofy as usual. 🎄🎁

So sassy!

A beautiful day!

Our navigators today

First night of vacation

After our super fun character dinner (where the boys were in awe the whole time, as characters dropped by to say hi), we decided to walk around a little (and ended up going to Downtown Disney), to burn off some of their immense energy.

We didn't get back to the hotel room until about 9:30pm when I remembered oh shit! We have meds to do tonight! (I'll just put it out there that I had wanted to bring one of them with us to dinner but Jon was on my case about how we were already late, not to bother and we'd do it after dinner!) ;-)

So, I quickly gave Callum his first med, and then set the timer for two hours. We all passed out but I woke up to the alarm to give him his chemo just before midnight. Yeesh! First night of vacation and we're practically throwing our routine out the window! ;-)

Character Dinner Time!

We made it! (But JUST barely! See how exhausted I look?!)

We're having dinner at Goofy's kitchen. The boys are beyond excited. ;-)

Grapevine

We're finally at the Grapevine!! Phew!

We had a couple of stops which delayed us some but then we hit (and are still in) some nasty I-5 traffic.

I always feel better, like we're "almost" there, when we get to the Grapevine, even though we still have more driving left to go.

All set!

Just picked up the boys from my parent's house and on the road to Disneyland! Let the craziness begin! ;-)