Disneyland Paris

For Thanksgiving this year we decided to take the kids to Disneyland Paris!! Before we even moved to England we told the kids that we would take them to Disneyland Paris to help them get excited about the move. Disney has great deals in November, so we decided to go before we add another little person to the family. If you stay in their hotel, you get free 4 day passes to the parks. We would staying right next to the park and being able to go back and forth through out the day if we needed. It was a fun relaxing trip. The kids can't stop talking about it.
We didn't tell the kdis where we were going at first. They knew we were headed to Paris, but that was it. We checked in to the hotel and waited for them to figure it out. After seeing all the Disney stuff, they finally figured it out and were SO excited!
Here is the lobby of the hotel. They had characters there to take pictures with through out the day which was so nice because we didn't have to wait in line at the park.

Meeting Minnie Mouse!

The entrance to Disneyland

Cinderella's castle

A view of Main street. I LOVE how everything was decorated for Christmas. It made the trip a little more magical. 

Livi's favorite ride, the spinning cars. I went on it like 5 times with her while the older kids went on the big rides.

Sword and the Stone!


Andrew loved all the rides, but really liked the Buzz lightyear ride

Pirates of the Caribbean 

Waiting in line and as happy as can be!!It really is the happiest place on earth!

Dumbo was the very first ride that we went on. you can't go to Disneyland and miss the Dumbo ride!

Flying carpets ride in the Studio park.



Andrew loves the tower of terror so Avery took a picture of it for him

Outside the car stunt show in Studio park



The line to see Santa was like 1.5 hours long. Livi REALLY wanted to see him, so Andy, being the good dad that he is, waited in line with her while I took the older kids on Thunder mountain. This picture was so worth the wait. I love the look on her face. So sweet and innocent. She was elated!



Meeting Goofy at the hotel



Livi really wanted to drive the car





The Christmas tree outside of the hotel

Livi hitching a ride on Daddy's shoulders

The kids really wanted to buy some mouse ears, but at $25, that wasn't going to happen. So we just let them take pictures with them on. Aren't we such nice parents? You can see how excited they were ;)






Mickey and Minnie in one of the parades we saw

Halloween 2012

Happy Halloween!

Drew the Blue Power Ranger


Livi the Sunshine Rainbow (her costume was a huge hit with everyone)



Avery the Spanish Princess


Warwick Castle


My mom came to visit us and the kids were out of school, so we decided to take a little trip to Warwick Castle. Everyone says that it is one of England's best Castles. It was really cool, but I think having it decorated for halloween made it even more fun. The kids had a blast and the weather couldn't have been better. We really lucked out.









They set a new Guinness world record for the largest witch gathering. They passed out witch hats to everyone


The headless horseman

The grounds were so beautiful!


Drew had to prove that he's a real man and not scared by taking a picture with this scary guy

The guys from the dueling show we watched.

We took a little break to play in the leaves






Drew was totally groosed out by this pig head and the lady thought it was funny and wanted to take a picture with him