Greetings from the happiest place on Earth!

This is view from our hotel room! Not too bad huh? I took this picture with my fabulous new camera (thanks again Mom). I'm slowly learning.

For those of you who haven't heard about my widely publicized vacation plans - we're in California again! We came here with Paige and Taylor's family and met up with Brett and Melissa and we're having a fabulous time!

We quickly learned that having potty trained kids slows down a road trip considerably. We were stopping about every thirty minutes the entire way here for potty breaks. I feel fairly confident that I could fill a book with reviews on public bathrooms along I-15. We also learned that kids are content with the simple things on vacation. I mean, what's more fun than having Dad push you around a hotel on a luggage cart??

If they had that much fun at the hotel, things were definitely about to get better when we went to Disneyland the following morning. (Yes those are palm trees and blue sky reflected in her glasses.)

Paige and I were so excited to go on the Matter Horn!!

Cameron was most excited about a High School Musical 2 performance at California Adventure Park. This picture is of her and Eric groovin'. Eric would like me to mention how handsome he looks in his new Celtics t-shirt. He would like everyone to leave a comment about it, please.

All my kids had things that they were excited to see at Disneyland. Cam, of course, wanted to see all the princesses and Adam wanted to go on the Nemo ride and Luke really wanted to go on the Haunted Mansion ride. Both Luke and Adam have a freakish obsession with Halloween and ghosts, skeletons, bats, spiders and pretty much anything that should scare typical kids. The first temper tantrum (and certainly not the last) came when it was announced that the Haunted Mansion was closed for repairs! Poor Luke. But never fear - we found something else that he's equally obsessed with...

It's still hard for me to understand how my boys can love spooky things so much and still be scared of anyone in costume. But they are terrified. Which made for fun times at Disneyland where you can't walk ten steps without a mascot (that's what they boys call them) trying to give you five and shake your hand. It was fun threatening them, "if you don't finish your lunch I'm going to go get Goofy..." We're kind of mean, huh? This Goofy picture is Cameron and her cousin Carter. My boys were hiding and screaming behind me while I snapped the shot.

We had such blast in the magic kingdom for two days. But two days with 9 kids, 3 mommies, 3 daddies and traveling is a recipe for exhaustion.