Kellen’s First Trip to Disneyland

While we were in California spending time with my family, we took the boys to Disneyland with Grandpa. Spencer gets free tickets through work every year, so we try to plan our annual trip during the slow season. We ended up picking a great day to go because it sprinkled a little bit in the morning. Rain tends to keep the crowds down. The park wasn’t crowded at all and we didn’t have to wait in line longer than five minutes for anything.

We spent the first half of the day at California Adventure. The part of the park we were most excited for was Cars Land. Cars is Mason’s favorite movie, the only movie he’ll sit through actually, so we were super excited to take the boys to Cars Land. It is really cute that they have Radiator Springs set up just like the movie. Mason was so excited about all of it. He wanted to ride the “Maytee tractor ride” again and again. It does seem to be the ride he has talked about most since our trip too. Mason loves tractors.

Kellen was such a good sport all day. We were amazed that he lasted so long. One of the nice things about Disneyland is that there are TONS of rides that babies can go on. So Kellen got to ride lots of things too. But for the rides he wasn’t big enough for, or the times he was napping, we took turns going with Mason.


I think the cones are one of the cutest parts of Cars Land.

The little Heimlich caterpillar ride in Bugs Land seemed to be Kellen’s favorite ride of the day. He was looking around in total amazement and kicking his legs so hard.

We actually spent more time at California Adventure than we usually do, and only had a few hours for Disneyland, which was fine because we really did get to do a lot at both parks.

Because my family lives so close to Disneyland, we had season passes a few times when I was growing up and I have lots of childhood memories of spending time there as a family. It is always so nostalgic walking down Main Street with my little family now. Main Street is one of my favorite parts of the park because it’s just so… Disneyland-y I guess. The atmosphere Disney created really is pretty amazing.

The men had to have turkey legs for dinner of course.

We took the kiddos to Toon Town so Mason could run around and burn off some energy. He had to sit in every little car we passed. He never passes up an opportunity to “drive.” Even when we’re out and about and happen to be walking through a parking lot, Mason will point out various cars and say, “Wanna ride dat one Mom.” So he thought it was pretty neat that there were so many cars that he was free to take for a test drive. 

That little marshmallow is just so darn cute in mouse ears!

It was a very fun day and the boys slept WELL that night after playing so hard.