What to do when you're turning 30?

Go to Disneyland, of course!! That's what we decided to do for my birthday a couple of weeks ago. I couldn't come up with anything else that I wanted for my birthday so I decided on Disneyland. And when you can get in free on your birthday, what better chance since we won't ever go for Kelsey's birthday and the next time we could go would be for Katelyn or Dave's birthday and by that time, we have to pay for Katelyn because she'll be 3. And with that, we were off!!

Although it was raining off and on throughout the day, it made for some very short lines. Some of you may be thinking how we convinced the girls to stay with the rain, but it'll take more than a little rain to make us leave. So between the umbrella, ponchos and the constant dry stroller covered with a trash bag we brought, we got in all the rides we could.

Riding the tram into the park. Kelsey's become quite the little photographer!!

Since we couldn't really make a decision on what to do first, Katelyn decided on the castle and the kids rides. All aboard the carousel!! Katelyn's bangs got a little wet, but other than that, she was the dryest of all. Katelyn's favorite ride is Dumbo. I don't know what it is about that ride, but both girls love that ride. It's just gotta be something about flying. Kelsey still likes it, but has since graduated to Splash Mountain and the Matterhorn being among her favorites.

Aren't they just cute? Although it wasn't raining at this particular moment, they wanted to carry the umbrella. As you can see from the lack of jackets, it wasn't a cold rain and once Kelsey got a little wet, she was in heaven and loving every minute.

Our biggest news for the day - Katelyn was tall enough to go on her first "big" ride. The Matterhorn. For the past 2 years, all she's heard about is the Matterhorn being Kelsey's favorite ride. And she's always wondered what is in that white mountain. Well, she finally got to find out for herself. All the talking up the ride sure made a difference. She screamed through a lot of it, but never cried and when we got off, was laughing and said, "Thank you for taking me on the Matterhorn." Our kids will love roller coasters if it's the last thing we do!! So far we're 2 for 2.

Unfortunately, with it not being very crowded, we were done at 3 which meant we got to sit on the freeway for 3 hours trying to make it home to see our families. We stayed with Dave's parents and had breakfast with his family, while the girls played with all their cousins. For the past month, Kelsey has been begging to go back to California since when we were there for Thanksgiving, the Las Vegas cousins were there, but the California cousins all left. And she hasn't let us forget that she didn't get to see Aunt Heather or Aunt LaNae.

Then it was over to my parents for lunch and playing with grandma and grandpa. Jesse and Alyson are always a big hit too. Kelsey got to make pink sparkle sugar cookies with grandma and then played on the trampoline and in the playhouse with grandmpa. This is the house my dad built for us growing up. Kelsey and Katelyn had such a great time cleaning up their own size house!!

Sure looks like fun, girls!!