December 2011
By Tara Zandra | December 25, 2011
We started off the month going to Chris’s company Christmas party at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena.
The rest of the month we pretty much went to Disneyland- a lot. If you’re my facebook friend, you can see those pictures here.
We also attended a cookie exchange party for the second year in a row which was a lot of fun.
I also hosted 2 of Daisy’s friends for a craft and cookie party. Sadly, Daisy got sick right in the middle and I had to send the girls home 
Up until that point everyone was having a good time though.
Christmas Eve was spent at my in-laws’ as usual and we had a wonderful time.
Once home it was time for the annual gift of Christmas PJs.
Christmas Day was fun and beautiful.
Daisy was thrilled with everything, especially her sit on pony; Tabitha received a 3DS and 2 American Girl Dolls; Chris surprised me with diamond earrings; I gave him an ipad 2, though not really a surprise. We visited my in-laws to exchange gifts, then my mom and sister came to our house for lunch and gift exchange. All in all, a really great Christmas month.
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As always, I’m thankful for my family
By Tara Zandra | November 24, 2011
I am truly blessed in life.
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Blinded me with Science
By Tara Zandra | November 21, 2011
Today we had another class at the Science Center. The subject was like CSI, though I forget the exact name. There was a crime scene and each class had different types of clues to determine the culprit in The Case of the Missing Goldfish. Since Miss Daisy still wants me in class with her, here’s a shot of her after taking her fingerprints.
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Little Disney fun
By Tara Zandra | November 20, 2011
Today was a Disneyland kind of day 
Lunch time! Star Wars sandwich cutters from Williams-Sonoma.
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pre-thanksgiving
By Tara Zandra | November 12, 2011
Today was our annual pre-Thanksgiving get together at my aunt’s house. I do look forward to it every year and think it’s a lovely tradition. The cousin I was closest to growing up has 2 kids so it’s nice to get the next generation together as well. All in all there were around 2 dozen of us.
Afterwards I was feeling kind of Christmas-y as my aunt already had her tree up so we went to Target to browse their Christmas section. Time to get in the holiday spirit!
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Another mission
By Tara Zandra | November 8, 2011
We went on a field trip with our park group today down to San Juan Capistrano on the train. Our first stop was the San Juan Capistrano Mission which is Orange County’s only mission- as every single piece of literature is eager to tell you.
Next we walked a couple blocks to a place called Zoomars which is a petting zoo. Not just goats like most petting zoos, but different kinds of animals. We fed llamas, an ostrich, turkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, yes goats, and zedonks!! That’s what you get when you cross a zebra with a donkey and I think my new favorite animal.
Do you know how hard it is to get two very girly-girls away from bunnies and guinea pigs that let you snuggle them? Tabitha even named one of the rabbits and was making plans to smuggle it home. There was one thing that did distract them, amazingly enough. A corn pit.
That’s a sandbox filled with dried corn instead of sand. It was a big deal to the all the kids playing in it, both big and small. Easy to dump out of pockets too as opposed to sand which never completely comes out of anything. We spent an amaizng amount of time in there. Apparently it was comfy enough for a nap.
Eventually I had to pull them away so we could make the train home. They of course had to say good-bye to every animal in the place. This guy though might haunt my nightmares.
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learning is fun
By Tara Zandra | November 7, 2011
This is Tabitha’s clay model of Pangaea for science.
Not for lessons, but these are the build-your-own crazy straws we bought at the Tech Museum.
This is Tabitha’s lapbook on the Gold Rush.
Lastly, Tabitha was really intent on building a mission. Her activity book has instructions for a model of every single one and she had it in her head she was going to do them all. The supplies for this one came to $35 plus it’s huge. Thankfully she rethought her plan upon seeing how big they would be. This is her model of of Mission San Miguel Arcangel- the first mission we visited.
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Road Trip, Day 3- On the way home
By Tara Zandra | November 3, 2011
Today was time to drive home. First we visited another mission which was across the street from our hotel. Mission Santa Clara stands on the Santa Clara University campus so we had to walk through the college to get there since we wouldn’t be able to park. This one is basically their church with no museum so we didn’t feel right going inside. We walked around and read the signs and called it good.
Next on our trip home was the Henry Cowell Redwood State Park. I really wanted my girls to experience the majesty of our state tree and this place did not disappoint. We chose a very simple loop trail near the nature center. We were fairly alone and it was simply amazing. I just wanted to sit and touch the trees and really feel close to them. We were able to walk through a few that were fire damaged as well as sit in hollows. Definitely an experience I want to repeat. It goes without saying that I took me a picture or two.
We spent about 2 hours on the trail and then visited the nature center to sit by the fire as it was very cold out there. Gloves would have been nice. We explore the nature center then headed into the shop. I really wanted to get something to bring home but nothing really spoke to me. I didn’t even get a magnet which is my souvenir or choice. We then ate lunch in the car and then started the long journey back to the main road. We only got lost once.
Eventually we pulled into our last stop, Mission San Juan Bautista. What I didn’t realize was it was a state park with many historical buildings. But we had only 1 hour before everything closed. We cruised through the mission, gazed at the graveyard, then paid our admission to the museum and powered through all the buildings as best we could. It was still really interesting even at our fast pace.
We bought souvenirs and then started the looong journey home. Chris’s flight was getting into LAX around 6:30 so he arranged for his brother to pick him up and they went to the King’s game together. The goal was for us to pick him up at the Staples Center, but our drive was a bit too long for that. I think we ended up getting home around 11pm.
Overall, great trip. I do love road trips and my kids are awesome in the car. I don’t even take a DVD player, though they do have plenty of entertainment. We would definitely like to get back to Monterey to see the butterflies again and spend time in the town. I’ve only been there once before and that time was also just a stop on the way somewhere. I’d also love to take them to another Redwood forest. Awe inspiring. And now we can cross 5 of the 21 missions off our list.
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Road Trip, Day 2
By Tara Zandra | November 2, 2011
Today we headed to one of my favorite places in the whole world- The Winchester Mystery House. My mom took me there many times in my life and Chris and I had been once together, but the kids had never been. If I could just be let loose in that house for 2 days I would be in seventh heaven. I always wonder what’s beyond the doors we’re not allowed to pass through.
Pictures are not allowed on the tour itself, unfortunately. The girls enjoyed it just as much as I had hoped. I’ll have to take the back someday to do the flashlight tour which is something I’ve never done.
After the tour we ate lunch in the car and drove to the Children’s Museum. We had been there on our last trip back in 2008, but Daisy doesn’t remember that trip at all so I promised I would take her so she could play in the water area. She was not disappointed.
Next was the art area which was astounding. It was not there on our last trip. Basically you could step into paintings.
After we were done here we walked to the Tech Museum but on the way saw this:
Apparently it’s the world’s largest Monopoly game. Who knew?
We finally made it to the Tech Museum but we were not going to have much time. We really rushed and did what we could. We got in free because of our Science Center membership down here so I felt it was worth it to go even for a short time. Our favorite exhibit was the robot that would spell your name with blocks.
Before we left we were all hungry so we ate in their cafe which was surprisingly a really tasty meal. It was a true cafe in that people from nearby businesses would come here on their lunch break so the food was definitely better than what you might expect in that type of venue. We then hit the gift shop and bought some fun items and then it was time to walk back to the car and go back to our room.
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Road Trip!
By Tara Zandra | November 1, 2011
So Halloween night Chris left for a business trip. In general I’d rather not stay home without him if I can help it, plus I still wanted a trip up north to make up for the cancelled one during puppy-rama. So at 5am I packed the car, grabbed the children and headed up the 101.
The trip was designed to be a California history trip so our goal was California Missions with other stuff thrown in. By Santa Barbara both kids were waking up so we made a quick stop at McDs which turned out to be the first McDonald’s in the country to offer the Egg McMuffin. See? History.
Eventually we ended up at our first destination.
It was so beautiful there. We were practically in the middle of nowhere, the weather was gorgeous, and it was a road trip (which is one of my favorite things ever). We grabbed a map and let Tabitha be our guide and I was pleased that she enjoyed it as much I had hoped. See, I grew up in San Gabriel where there is a mission. I went there on a field trip every year from 1st to 4th grade. Knott’s Berry Farm has (maybe that should say had) a section of dioramas of all the Missions and visiting them on Knott’s trips was one of my favorite things. I don’t know why, but I’ve always loved the Missions, so I was definitely glad to see the kids have a good time. Even Daisy enjoyed the Missions and it was very hard to explain them to a 6 year old.
On our way again after grabbing snacks from the car. We made it up to Soledad and had to go off the beaten track a bit to get to the next Mission. Tabitha was disappointed that hardly anything from the original building was left. It was very small and only had a couple graves. This is where my kids decided they liked seeing graves. A lot. I don’t do graves as a rule, but if they are old, like 19th century and earlier, they don’t bother me as much.
On our way up the kids kept pointing out the bells from the El Camino Real. I was pleased to find one for them to take a picture next to at Mission Soledad because it really became a symbol for our whole trip.
Even more impressive was seeing an actual Mission bell up close.
We then sat down on a provided picnic bench and had a wonderful lunch. Still a beautiful day and the fields beyonds provided a nice view, though pictures cannot do it justice.
Now we were taking a slight detour and going off the 101 and heading west to Monterey. At this point things both went awry and got insanely better.
The awry part would be the road construction that meant we couldn’t get on the right path to where we were going and I had no way to know what to do. Tabitha had my GPS as well as our printed directions but both were proving useless. I was able to get us to Monterey but finding the butterfly sanctuary was next to impossible. My GPS, well my phone actually, hates me. It has told me to make UTurns when I’m in front of my destination, it has told me to make left turns when illegal, and one time it told me over and over to get back on the freeway despite the fact that I was on the freeway the whole time. So it’s not the most reliable, hence the printed directions. But they only help if you can do what they say, which we couldn’t.
So we drove around and found a lighthouse. I figured we’d park and go up and ask. There were people in the parking lot who I asked first, but they were also from out of town. We went to walk up to the lighthouse, and it was closed on Tuesdays. *sigh* We turned around to go back to the car and saw the most amazing sight to our city-slicker eyes.
Deer in a cemetary. Dozens of deer roaming around uncaring to humans who want to get close.
Unbelievable. But we couldn’t stay long as the butterfly sanctuary was going to close in 45-minutes and we still hadn’t found it. So we headed off again and luck was with us this time. Even after seeing a sign, it was still in an odd location sandwiched between houses. I don’t feel so bad about not seeing it the first (second, third, fourth) time we drove by.
Monarchs migrate every winter and they go to the same Eucalyptus trees in California every year. There are thousands of them and it was truly amazing.
All those orange spots are butterflies clustered together.
Since it was so hard to capture on camera, I put my lens up to the telescope to get a better idea.
We walked the nature trail and I just tried to take it all in. I would love to just sit there for an hour and observe.
By this time it was later than I would have liked. We were supposed to head on to San Jose via a redwood forest but I really didn’t see that happening so Tabitha and I discussed it. We decided to go back to the cemetary with the deer and hang out there for awhile and then go straight to our hotel in San Jose.
There were still a ton of deer and interesting trees, rocks, and, of course, graves. The girls both brought their sketch books and I brought my camera.
We finally tore ourselves away from the experience and went on to our hotel. We had an uneventful night, though my bed sucked and I had left my pillow at home so I didn’t sleep well. Thankfully we did not have to get up early the next morning.
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Finally, Halloween!
By Tara Zandra | October 31, 2011
You wouldn’t think we’d still have too many firsts going on in our house, but today we had 2. First, we dressed up the dog and took her trick-or-treating.
She looks so embarassed, doesn’t she? Not sure how we became those people, but somehow we did.
The other first would be I dressed up. I took an old Greek chiton costume and repurposed it. Grabbed a belt, put my hair in buns and voila! The world’s most unflattering picture of me!
But I did have fun so whatever. It looked better in person.
The girls looked great, of course.
And each posed with thier pumpkins.
So finally Halloween is over. We celebrated for a very long time and I’m glad to be done with it.
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Boo!
By Tara Zandra | October 30, 2011
At the Zoo, that is. We hadn’t been in a few years but we finally had a membership again so I wanted to make the most of it. I will say it wasn’t quite as good as in the past which is too bad.
First we visited the creepy-crawlies
Obligatory pumpkin patch photos
Freaky clown in the games area. I told the girls to act terrified but I don’t think they got what I was going for.
Then we came home and the girls carved pumpkins.
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park time
By Tara Zandra | October 27, 2011
Today we had our annual Halloween party at park. We had a pretty good turnout and the kids were dressed very cute, of course. The parents scatter around the park on chairs and then all the kids go visit each one to trick or treat. Afterwards we have a potluck lunch. Always a lot of fun.
The girls still had dance today too and this week it’s encouraged to dress up for dance class. Well, neither kid could dance in their actual costumes so we made due. Daisy went as a cat and Tabitha just went with a Halloween outfit as opposed to a full costume.
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the land of disney
By Tara Zandra | October 23, 2011
Seriously, how many times did we go to Disneyland? Just one pic this time, you all know what the characters look like.
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Wrap it up
By Tara Zandra | October 22, 2011
So when you have a very patient child with super long hair and your other child gives instructions on how to make Lady Gaga’s bow hair
what choice did I have but to try it myself?
Next time I’ll try leaving some of it down like Lady Gaga.
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There was an old lady
By Tara Zandra | October 19, 2011
One of my friends is running 2 classes a month for the kids. One is American Girl Mysteries and the other is Public Speaking. Daisy’s a tad too young for AG and definitely too young for Public Speaking and there are other siblings who are also too young. So I came up with the idea to run my own class at the same time based on the “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” book. There’s a lapbook for that book but there are also other books in the series that I’m making my own activities for. Today we did “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat.” The kids seemed to have a good time and I’m happy I came up with this class.
First we did lapbook activities based on the original book, then the kids took a break. That part didn’t occur to me, but one of the moms has a 3 year old and requested it. Glad she did because of course she’s right, they can’t do table work for 2 hours. She led them in Follow the Leader and then they ran around for another 10-minutes before we started the next book. The activities for this book are more crafty since they already did paper and pencil work for the lapbook. I had them decorate a bat cut out and also eat bats. Basically I made cinnamon sugar tortilla chips cut into the shape of bats. They all enjoyed that.
Once we were done there it was a normal day at home with lunch and lessons then dinner and dance. There may have also been cupcake decorating in there as well
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rockets, a tooth, and floats
By Tara Zandra | October 17, 2011
The girls had a rocket class at the Science Center today. Daisy still makes me stay in class with her which was probably a good thing as some of the rocket building was a tad difficult and I helped 2 other kids besides my own. I didn’t jump in though until the teacher was practically begging parents to help as I do want to be able to leave Daisy sometime in the future.
The little kid classes were just a half day but the big kids made rockets to actually launch which was going to be done after lunch. There were a lot of kids and Tabitha wasn’t picked for well over an hour.
How Daisy spent most of her time waiting.
When it was finally her turn, Daisy and I went closer to watch and I was videoing it. Nothing happened. She had to wait for the next round. Nothing happened. They changed her motor and then she tried again with the next round and it finally flew and launched her parachute guy. At that point it was a bit anti-climatic.
That evening we had more fun in store in the form of a special event at Disneyland. Annual Passholders wer invited to an upclose vew of the floats in Mickey’s Soundsational Parade after park closing. But first we stood in line to get treats and sat down to enjoy them. Then Daisy tasted something odd in her mouth which turned out to be blood because her tooth had just come out and she swallowed it! That was the second tooth lost at Disneyland and third in a Disney venue (she lost one on the cruise). She was distraught over having swallowed it but we assured her the tooth fairy would understand and still come. The tooth fairy must have really understood because she brought Daisy 5 Disney Dollars.
Next was parade watching time. I really like this parade so that in itself was fun. We then had to wait for it to end and then they brought out most of the floats and parked them on Main Street and the characters and dancers came out as well. We waited in lines to take pictures and even though there were a lot of lines, they moved quickly and it was totally worth it.
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A whole different theme park
By Tara Zandra | October 15, 2011
One of Tabitha’s favorite activities with her Girl Scout troop is to spend the night in Sea World. This is a big deal for her because her old troop never did any overnights. Since it’s still kind of a novelty with her so she really appreciates it. We decided that Chris, Daisy and I would go to Sea World on Saturday so Daisy could do the Halloween stuff and then we’d just bring Tabitha home with us.
First off we let Daisy play a game where you are guaranteed to win because this kid loves stuffed animals and rubber duckies so she was going to be happy no matter what she won (2 rubber duckies).
We also visited a field of pumpkin fish.
As well as Oscar the Grouch. I was way more excited to see him than Daisy appeard to be.
Then Daisy discovered that scattered around the park were octopus tentacles holding candy. At this point she made it her goal to take posed pictures with all of them.
We also stopped at all the treat stations for candy, rode the rotating tower thing, and watched otters frolic. Then we saw the Sesame Street Halloween show which cracked me up because so many of the songs were from the dreadful Elmo Says Boo DVD that we watch every year.
We then grabbed dinner and Tabitha and then the park was closing so we headed home. Not without one last picture.
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Did you know we went to Disneyland at Halloween time?
By Tara Zandra | October 9, 2011
I did not sew new outfits this year for Halloween (or for anything really). We recycled old outfits for our day of pictures. For the first time, Daisy wore something I had originally sewn for Tabitha. I had to take the waist in a little bit because Tabi was 8 when I made this. We put Tabitha in her evil fairy costume from last year minus the wings and knee high shoes. Turns out both outfits are made from the same fabric so the girls matched which is highly unusual and in fact, discouraged.
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We had a good day taking pics all around Disneyland and were pleased to see Jack and Sally together.
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We went into the Big Thunder Ranch area where they have the petting zoo and found out the spider fabric was very popular.
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I just love getting thier pics every year even if they are the same. I know someday it’ll be fun to compare how they changed through the years even though the decorations mainly stay the same.
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food trucks
By Tara Zandra | October 8, 2011
Today we headed out to the Inland Empire for a food truck festival. Good grief there were a lot of trucks! Tabs and I lucked out and found a truck with vegetarian sushi and more than one option at that! The family had cake pops, waffles, ice cream, tofu sandwiches, tacos, I don’t even remember everything. We shared most things so we wouldn’t overeat. The one downside was none of the places took credit cards even if they normally did so we had to pay a fee to use an ATM. But I would go back again, I felt there was a large variety and it was a very low admission cost.
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Lanie
By Tara Zandra | October 7, 2011
Tabitha had a slumber party to attend this evening and was told to bring her American Girl dolls. In the end she only wanted to bring one of them but she wasn’t happy about her decision. So I told her we’d all take care of Lanie and make sure she had a good time. In all seriousness, the child did make me promise to dress her in the morning and do her hair, lol. Tabi goes through phases where she takes care of the dolls and sets them up in a scene on a daily basis but then ignores them for 3 months before spending a week setting them up again.
Anyway, we thought it would be funny to show Tabitha what a good time Lane had at home with us.
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Mickey’s Halloween Treat
By Tara Zandra | October 3, 2011
Time for the Halloween party at Disneyland! First we have the history loving child going as Cleopatra.
Next we have a little unicorn. This costume was sewn for my sister by my mom around 1992. Thank goodness my mom saves sentimental stuff! It’s such a cute costume. I did have to remake the hooves because it poured horribly that year, but again, my mom had the pattern still so no big deal. I even made the hooves extremely sturdy so if my sister someday has a little girl and wants her to wear this costume, it’ll be good to go.
We spent the evening visiting characters and getting more candy than any family should have. Seriously, we have 4 grocery bags full. They insisted on giving candy to Chris and myself, not just the kids. We’re going to stil have it come next Halloween.
We also watched the Halloween fireworks and watched the parade which I thought was pretty fun. Of course, I took many, many pictures throughout the night, so I’ll just share a few.
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Start the halloween celebration!
By Tara Zandra | September 30, 2011
Disneyland was all decked out and ready for Halloween so we decided to just go with it. No matter that it’s still September. Truth be told, we actually decorated last weekend anyway.
We got up nice and early this morning to get into the park at opening. The girls begged for Splash Mountain so we let them go by themselves twice. I know the laws of physics will hold Daisy in, but I was still nervous not holding onto her. Obviously they did fine. We were pleased to see characters that only come out for Halloween and we made a visit to Mickey in his house in Toontown because we hadn’t seen him in a while and felt we needed some good hugs.
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Paradise Pier
By Tara Zandra | September 29, 2011
Chris was on another mini-vacation from work so we decided very spur of the moment to stay the night at Disneyland’s Paradise Pier Hotel. First stop after checking in was the pool! They have a water slide which really upped the wow factor as far as the kids were concerned. We then had a nice meal of Mickey sourdough bread, cheese from my cheese of the month shipment (a very cool gift from my mom and sister), as well as crackers and grapes. I then took Tabitha to ballet while Chris and Daisy went into Calfornia Adventure to get soaked on Grizzly River Run.
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puppy free
By Tara Zandra | September 25, 2011
As of today we are free of puppies. We found a close home for one of them and a faraway home for the other. As in, he took a plane ride. I know the kids may be a smidgen sad, but I’m good. This whole experience has made me realize I will never have a puppy on purpose. Especially not 2. We don’t know the circumstances our Biscuit came from, but we know she’s over a year and wasn’t spayed which should not happen. I’m glad we took her in and she didn’t end up having the puppies on the street, but I am more glad that the puppies both have homes that are not here
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Aquarium
By Tara Zandra | September 22, 2011
Thursday was homeschool day at the Aquarium. I love that they do this. One of the problems with visiting museums and such during the school year is we often feel pushed out of areas to make way for a school group. The Aquarium hosts 2 homeschool days in September every year. Not only do they give us a great deal on tickets, but they don’t book any school groups. It’s still crowded because there are a lot of homeschoolers who take advantage, but at least it’s not giant groups. We go very early and head to the back of the Aquarium first because they crowds come later and start at the front. Then we work our way forward and go home when we get hungry. We do it every year and have the plan down now
This year we were very happy to see the lorikeet area open as it was closed last year. It may have been open, but those birds were not hungry. We must have spent 20-minutes in there with nary a nibble. Nobody was having any luck and frankly, they should have stopped selling the nectar. Eventually, some of us taller people were able to entice birds down from perches. It still was nowhere near what we’ve experienced in the past but I did hear a few workers saying something was spooking the birds and hawks could have been flying over head.
Pictures from the day:
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One more time! Disneyland!
By Tara Zandra | September 21, 2011
Today we attended a birthday party at Disneyland. Before we left I asked Daisy to check if all our passes were where they belonged. As we pulled into the Disneyland parking lot, I reached for the passes and they weren’t there. Turns out she checked if they were in their pouch (they were), then proceeded to take them out of the pouch and put them all on the table. *sigh* So I had to pay the $15 parking fee and then stand in line at guest relations to get one day passes. Turns out they would have refunded the parking fee if I hadn’t left the ticket in the car but I didn’t know that. It really wasn’t that big of a deal other than it almost made us late.
While we were at guest relations, one of my friends who was also attending the party walked up to renew her and her son’s passes. He was done first but her’s was still processing so she had me take him in so I could hopefully get all the kids to the party on time. I put Tabi in charge as “leader” and told the 2 younger ones to follow her. She did an excellent job and practically had those kids running- though not, because that’s not allowed at Disneyland 
We did make it, thankfully.
First up was Jedi training then Autopia, followed by Astro Oribiter, the train, Casey Jr. and Tea Cups. Somewhere in there was lunch at Redd Rocket’s and we ended with cupcakes at the birthday celebration thing at Plaza Inn. Apparently Daisy really enjoyed that part and told Tabitha that’s exactly what she was going to do when she turned 7 because it’s what Tabitha did at 7. Precedence, you know. Thankfully Tabitha told me that Daisy expects it so we’ll make the reservation when it’s time.
As soon as the cupcake party was done, we raced home, packed the kids’ dinner, dropped Tabitha off at tap, dropped Daisy off with my in-laws and then headed to the Staples Center for a preseason Kings game. It’s always nice to go out just the two of us and I didn’t get to a single hockey game last season so it was doubly nice.
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Disneyland followed by, Disneyland
By Tara Zandra | September 11, 2011
Chris and Tabitha went to the Kings Hockey Fan Fest today so Daisy and I spent our time at Disneyland. When it’s just the two of us I let her dictate anything she wants and I follow. Today this meant 30-minutes of taking pictures in Mickey’s house followed by 45-minutes of goat petting. Seriously, 45-minutes of goats. I felt the crowds were rather light, so once all of us were home again, I cooked dinner and then we all went back to Disneyland to wait for Fantasmic. We hadn’t seen it in a while so the girls were happily surprised. We had to wait quite a while but we made the best of it and thoroughly enjoyed the show.
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Someone got bigger
By Tara Zandra | September 6, 2011
5 weeks, 3 days
Other puppy could not be coerced into photo.
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Three Bears
By Tara Zandra | September 2, 2011
Today we had another meeting of Daisy’s play group. Today they put on Goldilocks and the 3 Bears for us. They were very good with getting into their roles and doing more than just reading. Too cute! We have to put them on hold for a few months though as our regular book club starts back up again next week.
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