Gollhofer Family: November 2009

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sO we are on yet another family vacation...yes my husband does work and yes this is our LAST vacation for awhile. We are making up for the fact that we did not go on a vacation last year. Think we've made up for it now and made up for next year as well. ANywho we started off our two and a half week long vacation by taking the kids to the HaPpIeSt pLaCe on earth with my family for SIX fun filled days. OK fine we took me to the happiest place on earth. Truly is my happy place. Could live at Disneyland all year long. Oh the magic that I feel there is incredible!! Now some moments are more magical than others so here my friends is my TOP TEN MAGICAL MOMENTS:

#10: Bacon wrapped asparagus....need I say more?!?

#9: Annual hat picture. Every year we all pile in the store in Toon town and all pick out a funny hat. Then we ask one poor worker who happens to be standing in the wrong place at the wrong time to take our picture with 24 million different cameras.

#8: The castle all lit up with Christmas lights. It is soooo pretty!!

#7: On our last day in the park we went on a ride while Jason took Jackson to the bathroom. All week long poor Jackson wanted to go on splash mountain but was 1 1/2 inches to short. Magically while I was on the ride Jackson grew the 1 1/2 inches he needed to go on splash mountain!! For the rest of the day the folded up napkins in his shoes magically slipped in and out for him to go on all the rides we had been missing out on. Pure magic!!

#6: One of the most magical moments of going to Disneyland during the holiday season! Every night they have a amazing firework show. Following the fireworks it MAGICALLY starts snowing! It seriously brings tears to my eyes!! SO a very neat story to go along with this topic. When Taylor was four we took her to Disneyland. The weeks leading up to it I had been telling her what a magical experience she was going to have. As we entered the park that day she was so excited to feel the magic. Unfortunately she did not feel it the way I do every time. All day she kept asking where the magical feeling was. By the end of the day I was beginning to feel like I had let her down. After the firework show when it started to snow she looked up at me and said..."Oh mom I feel the magic now!". Seriously I can not sit through the snow falling without thinking of that moment.

#5: Spending Lexi's aka Tink's 5Th birthday in the magic kingdom. Loved it!!

#4: Entering the park on the first day. I'm like a little kid. The night before I can hardly sleep because I'm so excited. I love going in and seeing my kids faces light up. The first day in we all wore our M-I-C-K-E-Y shirts.

So I'm a little nutty. I cry every time without fail as I walk through the tunnel entering the park. That's where the magic hits me. Every time.

#3: Truly a magical moment. It was Lexi's birthday while we were there. She had received some birthday money from aunts and uncles. She really really wanted to buy all her sisters a lollipop. While they were on a ride she went into a store and then made them all close their eyes while she handed them their surprises. What a cutie! Spending her birthday money on something for here sisters...magical I tell ya!

#2: Going and spending time with my family. There is nothing better in this world than being with them. They truly are the magic in my life!

The whole gang: Greg, Ryan, Matt, Jackson, Jason, Kay, Mom, Kelly, Amanda, Christy, Jen, Anika, Cailyn, Me, Lexi, Taylor, Lauren, Kim, Ginni, Breckyn, Kate, Cater and not pictured Jaclyn and Jon.

The #1 most magical moment: Often times the most magical moments can not be captured in pictures. That was the case in this years #1 moment. While we were there my little Carter called me mom for the first time. Why yes it brought tears to my eyes. Could not of happened at a more magical place!!