Good Bye 2008

Happy New Year!

I hope that your year was a good one,

full of good things and good people.

I can honestly say that I'm thankful

for each & every day, yes..even November 4:)

May 2009 bring you health, happiness, prosperity

and lots & lots of love!

New Years Eve

My mom & I are going to see Neil Diamond in concert

tonight at the Save Mart Center.

http://www.neildiamond.com/

2008

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December 2008

we loved this movie!

http://movies.yahoo.com/holiday-movies/Bedtime-Stories/1809973784/trailers/152

CHRISTMAS

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

What to open first??

NEW SHOES!!

Mia & GiGi

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Auntie Cleo, Uncle Vern & Mia

Uncle Bobby & Mia


Practicing again...

Merry Christmas Mia!

Reading Santa's letter...

Lucky Girl, Santa even left her

a present under the tree in her room!

A Suite Trip!

I wanted to get in one last trip before

Disney's Year of A Million Dreams

came to a close.

I just had a feeling that we might get lucky...

During all of our trips over the past year, we were lucky

enough to win Dream Fast Passes many times, once we got to stay after closing time and have the park to ourselves....way cool!

On another day we were given special Dream mouse ears and pins.

However...

nothing was quite as suite

as the Dream we won on this trip.

* * * * *

Mia, Lexie and I drove through the snow & over the grapevine to make our

Christmas trip & to celebrate Lexie's Birthday

at Happiest Place On Earth.

Yes, I said through the snow....we left Fresno at 4:00 AM and at

6:30 we were on the grapevine, and it

was snowing...I was nervous because I had

never driven in the snow,

in fact...I've only seen it twice, I had no chains

and I really wanted to get to Disneyland! Thankfully

we made it over the ridge before they closed.

I always stop at the same service station to

get gas...right at the bottom of the grapevine

on the LA side & this time was no different.

So at about 6:50 I pull in, (the girls had just dosed off)

I noticed a KTLA TV van but thought

nothing of it....until they hopped

out and came over to me for a live interview!

Yes...I was on Good Morning LA! Live TV at 6:50 AM!

They wanted to know why I was out in the

snow, where I was going,

how driving over the ridge was and

what time I had left home..I told them this was the best

time to go to Disneyland because no one else

would be there, they thought I was crazy!!

Anyway, I did the interview while

wearing rain boots & pumping gas...

so very glamorous! Not!

The girls happen to wake up just at the

camera man shined the camera

right in on them...then I got to tell them they

were just on TV! Ok..back in the car and on our way, it was

pouring rain so it took a bit longer to get down

to Anaheim, but we did get there. At 8:45 we arrived

at the Paradise Pier Hotel, parked and went in to check in.

After the snow & rain I was hoping for a room to be ready...

I wanted to warm up before going out into the rain

again..even though I knew it was going to rain

the whole time..I was hoping for a bit of

Disney magic....and I got it!

The desk clerk had gone to check on something and

came back with one last "Dream"! We had won a

family suite with full concierge services and all kinds of goodies!!

Balloons, gifts from the hotel, sweets waiting in our suite,

reserved seats at the parades & shows and best of all...

it was ready and waiting for us right then!!

So after we were warmed up we went to breakfast

at the Rainforest Cafe....it was still pouring out and

even though it was supposed to rain for days, I just had

a feeling that it was going to stop. At breakfast they sat

us at a big round booth and the girls had fun with the

gorilla that was right behind Mia. After breakfast we finally

made it into Disneyland....and about an hour later the

magic showed up again and it stopped raining!!

I was very glad we had the rain boots, there were

puddles everywhere!!

Here are lots of pictures from the trip....enjoy:)

The girls quickly claimed the living room..

The view from our room...of the rain...

normally this is really a pretty view.

The girls with Santa

Everyone thought they were sisters...they liked it:)

Pretending to be asleep on Space Mountain!

I hate that she has no fear, she could have fallen out!Making Wishes!!After a day of rides and puddle jumping, we went back to the

room to warm up and change, then it was time for

Lexie's Birthday Dinner!

Make your own Pizza'sHappy Birthday to you!!

Nighttime at the parkTo finish off the day, we went to Build a Bear and built a few bears

for Lexie's birthday!

Happy Birthday Lexie!

Mia with Jolly & Lexie with Mrs. Claus

Day 2

Sunny & Dry!

Beautiful girls

There are quite a few pets that live at the resort....

they are well taken care of by all of the cast members:)

I stopped for a few minutes to let

them play in the snow, or what

was left of it on the way home, then it started

snowing really hard so I rushed them

back in the car so we did'nt get stuck!