SUMMERS: The HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH!

For our Christmas vacation we went to California [Ross served his mission in Aneheim so that's how I got him back!! :) ] We had been trying to plan a vaca with Nate & Emily [our cousins] and Disneyland was just the way to go. We booked it a few months before, so we had to wait all semester to go!! It was motivation to get through school! Me and Emily would text each other practically every day for the countdown!

The day finally came to leave. I got a sub for PE, packed up our whole house, and Ross & I headed to St. George. That was our first stop, so we could go to my BFF Angelie's wedding! We got to go to my sister's house and visit her family [whom i miss very dearly] and then Ang's wedding was the next day. She looked BEAUTIFUL and it was the first sealing I had gone to besides our own. It was really neat.

The next day was Sunday and we waited for Nate & Emily to meet us in Cedar City. It felt like it took them F.O.R.E.V.E.R. but i was just super excited to get to Cali! It really didn't take them that long to get there and then we were ON OUR WAY!!! I had made us all disney travel bags, and my mom made us travel games with disney giftcards on them! It made it fun! We played guess the song for a long time with the ipod. I slept a lot. haha And we got there at a pretty decent time. And yes, it was HEAVENLY! We were not very far from Disneyland. We could see it from our parking lot! That night we just kinda relaxed, getting ready for our days ahead!!

We woke up and got all ready to head to Disneyland. We were all like little kids. so. excited. It was all decorated for Christmas. BREATH TAKING! I loved it. so magical. We got there and headed straight to Space Mountain. We didn't have to wait in line long at all and we had so much fun! After that we were just heading from ride to ride! oh. so glorious!! We rode SPLASH MOUNTAIN so many times because we were those "crazy people" in jackets, while everybody else was in heavy winter coats! Some points we just went again and again one right after another! :) Our other favorites were Tower of Terror [Emily had never been and she cracked. me. up.] California Screamin, Pirates [of course] and Indiana Jones [a couple of times. the boys LOVED it!] we got pulled out of the line to come up front to ride the Matterhorn [that was cool] and we thought that the Star Wars one was way way cool! We also went on Thunder Mountain a few times. It's funner than it looks!

Waiting to get through the velvet rope!

First Ride!! [i love Ross' face!!!]

First Splash Mountain experience.

Mater & McQueen. Ross' FAVORITE movie!

Tower of Terror

California Adventure [again ross' face! :)]

cute matching shirts! they wore their jackets zipped up all. day. long. :(

Great Pic.

The WORLD OF COLOR was one of the coolest things! [don't mind my ugly hair. yikes.]

Emily's turn to be in front!

On our third day we got the privledge to go to the Newport Beach Temple. so so pretty! Loved the color of the outside, and the inside was more gorgeous! Then we took Ross on his first BEACH adventure!! We got to meet people from Ross' mission and they were so nice! I loved meeting them! We went to dinner out on the pier, and ate at the yummiest, cutest little diner. Ruby's. If i could live there, I would. they have HUGE straws for your milkshake. like big enough so my brownie chunks just came right up instead of clogging the straw. so bueno! We walked around for more of the night, and then headed back to out hotel.