"Happiest Place on Earth!" Day #1

On Thursday, Feb 12th we woke the girls up at 5am and pretended like we were getting ready for school. They got dressed, made their beds and headed downstairs for breakfast. That's when they got the surprise of their life! We recorded the whole thing on video, but now that I make books of my blog every year, a video will obviously not work in a book! ;)

We decided to give them their Valentine's present early. They each opened a bag, in it was; skittles, heart chocolates and other candy. I bought one of those GIANT size Valentines cards...

  Before they opened and read the card however, I told them we had some bad news thought but some good news too.  I shared with them the bad news first, which was that they wouldn't be going to school that day, and that they would miss their class Valentine's parties. Avery looked as if she had had been punched in the gut. SO very quickly I had to remedy the situation before wailing and gnashing of teeth could occur! 

Madison read the card, which read, "

On the back on the card, read this message: 

Madisen read, "Get in the car!! We are leaving for" and then she stopped reading and her eyes got wide and she just stared.. She just stared and stared at the words on the back for like 30 seconds and wouldn't read the rest no matter how many times we kept telling her to read it.  And Avery still being on the verge of tears didn't understand what was going on and Emily just looked tired and confused. Finally after about 5 times of asking her to continue to read it, she did. And the other 2 girls were both speechless! Haha!

We kept telling them over and over again that we are going to Disneyland and finally it sunk in and then there were cheers and smiles and laugher. Phew! 

Lesson learned: Never give a child bad news before giving them good news. It just ruins it and it takes a minute for them to go from complete agony to utter excitement. :)

And here is the first day at Disney Land! We got there super early, so we were first in line and second to ride Space Mountain, which always has a ridiculous wait time.  We had such a great time and we were so glad Mom and Bob and Dan decided to join us. Thanks for making this trip a memorable one!