Happy Birthday Jason!!

I know that I have not posted much lately, except for the vacation posts, but my space on Blogger is full so I can't put anymore pictures on. I am working on a solution as I type, so that I can keep blogging.

I feel like a post without a picture, is like a wedding without a groom, or a junkie without his drugs, or a suit without a button (get where I got those??).

Anyways I am trying to fix it.

Movies, Movies, Movies

So this weekend all I did was watch movies and do laundry. No exaggeration.

Friday Night: Went to dinner and a movie with Jessica. First we went to Red Robin... Yummmmm. We always go there because it is next door to the theater. It was fine, as usual. Then we went to see Bride Wars. It was a movie that neither of our macho wonderful men would want to go and see, so we went together. To spite the HORRIBLE reviews, and the chatty ladies sitting next to us, we had a great time laughing at the bridezillaesque antics of the main characters. Perfect chick flick.

Saturday Night: Lewis rented Pineapple Express. Let me put it this way; if you liked Dazed and Confused then you would love this movie. It had some laugh out loud lines, but it was a very inappropriate movie. Which is why we watched it I suppose.

Sunday Afternoon: I was channel surfing, which as you know I do often, and found Underworld was just coming on. I am NOT into sci-fi usually but this one is about vampires and (likens) werewolves and the ungodly creature that they make when they both bite someone who is immune to the poison in their blood.... Anyways! You know how I am with vampires, and these werewolves looked good, so I watched it, and LOVED it. Yes I told Lewis to go and rent me the 2nd one. I have seen parts of it before, but not for a long time. And there is a prequel coming out in theaters soon. Lewis will have to take me to see that one.

Sunday Night: Jessica (again!) and I went to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Very long, and very worth it. Yes, it is basically a love story but it keeps you busy watching and wondering what will happen for the whole 3 hours. I will not ruin this one, just in case any of you want to see it. I will tell you though that Brad looked hotter then hot as a young man. And they did a good job making everyone grow older. Worth your $5.50 for a matinee.

I do have to say a thanks to Jessica, for without her I may only go out to see one movie a month. That is about all of the time Lewis and I have for movies together.

If Danny is now Wolf, and Cris is now Bear, then who is Sam? Cockroach???

Friday Night

After dinner on Friday night Adam, Haley and I went back to California Adventure with my dad, and Cris, Marlo, and Ti to ride a ride and watch the light parade. This is the same parade that we used to watch when we came to Disneyland when we were young.

Pete said hello at Haley and she was thrilled!

The last thing that we did before we left for good was get a Mickey pretzel. They are delicious and they come with cheese sauce for dipping.

Bowling

On Friday afternoon we needed a break from the "parks" and decided to go bowling. There was a great shopping center right next to our hotel with a bowling alley inside. It was a plush bowling alley to say the least. We had a great couple of hours, and my dad joined us in the fun.

Lewis actually won, but everyone did really well.

December 27th (Friday)

The sun came out. It was warm and wonderful, except for the wind. We let the kids sleep in and went to Disneyland later in the morning after having a big breakfast.

Teacups!!!


Abigail trying to look like Indiana Jones.


Grandma and the younger cousins. All of these kids were too short to go on the Indiana Jones ride. So they went on Winnie the Pooh instead.

Abigail with Aladdin and Jasmin. They told her that she looked like a ballerina. Then they asked to see her moves and she danced for them. It was the sweetest moment. She was so happy.

Christmas Dinner

We ate at the hotel restaurant. We took up half of the tables. It was so funny. Everyone had a great dinner. The kids were exhausted. Jason even decided not to go back to Disneyland after dinner and stayed at the hotel with his grandma.

Everything you see, even in the background was our group.

Abigail got this phone from Santa and was going around taking hundreds of "pictures" during the meal.

Disneyland on Christmas Day

Merry Christmas!!

Here we are Christmas morning at 8am. Standing under the bridge, right inside of Disneyland, trying not to get soaked while waiting for my brother Cris to get to the park. Don't they all look so happy??? As you can guess, it rained on Christmas. It rained off and on all morning. Lots. That is until about lunchtime. Around lunch it stopped. Just as I was being to get very irritated and want to go home, it stopped. And it did not rain again.

Haley in front of the castle!!

Adam trying to budge the sword.

Everyone trying to budge the sword.

Lewis on the carousel.

All of the cousins on a sleigh, in the pouring rain, right after seeing Santa and the reindeer. About 3 minutes later the rain stopped and only had a few drizzles afterward for the rest of the day.

One of Haley's (and my) favorite rides at Disneyland. Somethings up with Jack!!

Happy New Year!!