Jacob's birthday party

Today we had Jacob's birthday party.  He wanted to have it at Hollywood Connection, so that is where we went.

Pizza, friends and fun what more can you want.

Zach didn't want his picture taken I know so what's new?

And he got 8 in one blow.

This was the second ball to go in the water during miniature golf.  I thought I should snap a picture just in case.

When the third went in I thought ok I will take a picture of it being fished out.

Why not the fourth also.

Ok maybe the fifth.

Well you might as well get the sixth they were on a roll. 

We let Zach take some friends with to hang out with.  Zach threatened me not to use this picture shhhhh don't tell.

Thanks to all of the friends for helping us celebrate we had fun and hope that you did also.

Happy Birthday Craig!

For Craig's birthday I thought it would be fun to post some questions and his answers and see how close ours were compared to his.

Favorite movie

Me: Anything with Carey Grant

Zach: Transporter series

Jacob: Pirates series

Craig: Napoleon Dynamite

Favorite tv show

Me: Dr. Who or the Graham Norton show

Zach: Wild Wild West

Jacob: Wild Wild West

Craig: Everybody loves Raymond

Favorite band

Me: Beatles

Zach: Beatles

Jacob: Beatles

Craig: Beatles or Rush

Favorite food

Me: Italian

Zach: Disneyland corn dogs

Jacob: Chinese

Craig: Italian

Favorite Snack

Me: popchips

Zach: popchips

Jacob: popchips

Craig: chips

Favorite book

Me: To Kill a Mockingbird

Zach: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer

Jacob: Harry Potter

Craig: To Kill a Mockingbird

Favorite color

Me: Green

Zach: Green

Jacob: Green

Craig: Green

Favorite store

Me: Costco

Zach: Fanz

Jacob: NBA store

Craig: Costco

Favorite thing to do

Me: watch sports

Zach: watch tv

Jacob: watch tv

Craig: watch tv or movies with family

Favorite place

Me: home

Zach: Energy Solutions Arena

Jacob: Home

Craig: home

I think we did a pretty good job.  We love you daddy and hope that you have a happy, happy birthday.

You'll shoot your eye out!

I think it's inevitable every mother says these five magic words at least once and for some more often.  Unfortunately I didn't realize what was being done till said eye had already been shot at.  Here is the culprit. 

I still don't know that I understand the complete story but it happened something like this. He got this thing as a prize at school (you flip them inside out and they snap back flying into the air) and was trying to get a birds eye view of how it worked (it seems he had tired of the other view). Jacob sat indian style on the floor and placed it on his legs with his head hanging over it and snap. Of course when you are trying to watch something you shouldn't blink or you miss the action. When it went off it snapped right into his unblinking eye.   After the initial screaming we finally were able to get out of him what had happened.   After about 5 minutes of hard crying he stopped long enough to make sure that it wasn't bleeding and we weren't planning on taking him to the hospital for stitches.  A few minutes later he checked to make sure that it was still there.  He continued to cry for awhile and it was watery and hard to open for a little longer. He is much better this morning,  the only thing he has to show for it is a little swelling which is in both eyes so its from the crying and not the injury.

No he won't be getting a red rider b.b. gun anytime soon.  Hopefully it will be at least another week or so before I have to warn stop playing with that, that way or "you'll shoot your eye out".



Hidden Mickey's

This is my last disneyland post finally right?  I am starting with a big thankyou to my wonderful husband who may not always be wild about spending every vacation doing what the kids want to do (which tends to be disney related) but still does.  This year especially instead of going to washington d.c. or alaska we went to California and took the kids for our anniversary.  We appreciate it.  Also to thank him for my jewelry this year.  Well I am always grateful for it but I still want to say thanks.  I get jewelry for our anniversary every year and on the years that we have been in a disney park (world or land) I usually get something there.  This is this years it's a Judith Jack ring and I absolutely love it thank you, thank you, thank you.  I had a hard time getting a good picture of it and couldn't find one online to use but it falls into my hidden mickeys category.  Thanks sweetie I love you!

One of Zach's favorite things to do is look for hidden mickey's he got his first edition of the hidden mickey's for his birthday in 2007 for christmas this year he got the new updated edition.  And for those of you who haven't seen it there is a book out there that is all of the hidden mickeys in the disneyland park.

And yes there is also one for disneyworld. 

He gets a lot of use out of these books whenever we are at one of the parks.  Sometimes they aren't always that easy to find even with the book and they are even harder to get photos of.

This is an easy to spot hidden mickey on autopia.

The hidden mickey book claims that the backend of this bumble bee is a mickey I guess I kind of see it but it isn't as good as some of the others.

See the mickey under the trunk of the blue elephant.

Of course these aren't even mentioned in the hidden mickey books since they are on every lightpost.  But they are still cute I wish I could get one for our front yard.

Can't forget all of the plants.

Favorite pictures

These are some of my favorite pictures from the trip.  This first one of Zach just makes him look older to me but I do love his smile.

Jacob constantly worries that he is going to or has blinked in a picture as soon as you are done taking it the first thing he asks is did I blink.  If he blinked he expects everyone to stop and let him take it over.  Now you know why we have a lot of pictures of just him others get tired of this and tend to walk away.  He loves being in pictures though.  I think that this one he was just on the verge of blinking and he doesn't like it for that reason but I think it is cute because of that. 

Usually it seems like it is Jacob smiling and hamming it up for the camera and this one he doesn't even seem to be aware that I am taking a picture yet Zach is totally posing for it.

I just think that this one turned out cute.

Of course we love ducks.

But not coke.

This one I took to prove that I am not always the last one out of the bathroom.

Someday they are going to pull that sword out of the stone.

Homewood Suites

Ok this post is for Sam who was wondering about the hotel.  Also for Jacob cause he wanted us to show all of the hotels that we stayed in.  Homewood Suites in Annaheim is the kids favorite hotel to stay in when we are there.  Craig and I don't mind it either.

I think I cut someone off in this picture oops.

Of course give the boys their gameboys and they are happy anywhere.

Jacob's favorite new stuffed animal - Perry the Platypus.

These are some miscellaneous pictures that I didn't want to leave out.  Yep we are almost to the end of them.  This first one was taken inside the haunted mansion as you are leaving.  There was no one in the several buggies behind us so it gave me an opportunity to stop in front of the mausoleum on the way out and snap this and not be in the way.  My camera flashed that it was busy every time I tried to use it for the picture so I gave up and as I was just about to shut it off this showed up on it.  I have never had my camera tell me it was busy and don't know why it did this time or why the picture turned out this way.  I was just going to delete he picture and Zach pointed out that it makes them look like ghosts.

This was taken outside of innoventions the boys tried to see who could stand up the longest as the floor slowly moved away from the.

This was taken behind the stores in New Orleans Square.

Stopped for a survey.

Yes I did use my flash inside the Peter Pan ride and no they aren't looking at me but I still do think that it was worth it.

Leave it to the boys to find video games in the park.  This is inside innoventions.

The waterfall by Grizzly rapids.

By the raft launch for Tom Sawyer Island.

Jacob wanted this picture taken with the castle in the background.  It is really far in the background.

No one else had any interest in posing for this picture but Jacob wanted to although he was upset that we were leaving the park.

Pin Trading.