For New Beginnings at Church this year we did a "Red Carpet" night. accept actually it was hot pink. We had the girls dress as if they were coming to walk the "red carpet" it was so beautiful! We had Addison as the doorman. No one opened a door for themselves. All the girls loved it and of course he was in heaven too. :)
I am over a year behind...:( I have decided I could try to catch up.....but I'm not going to. I am going to start with 2012 and then will only have 3 months to catch up not 11.
2012 Started off with a trip to Disneyland. Yes we have been a lot over this last calendar year but we had season passes so were able to do the trips.Even after being raised in Southern California I had never been to Disneyland during the Christmas Season and seen the Christmas Lights. John and I decided to not get each other anything for Christmas Day and our gift would be a day trip to Disneyland to see the lights. A friend of mine found out what we were doing and said if your kids have never been there at Christmastime take them, you wont regret it. Then, a close friend of the family (consider him my brother and my kids have always known him as Uncle MyViet) told us we were crazy to try and do it all in one day so his Christmas gift to us was a motel room. So, I packed food for two days and we got up and drove down to Southern California and headed to Disneyland. After we walked through the front gates, John, Vincent, and Addison headed straight to Star Tours so they could get fast passes and Nicholas Eliza and I headed to Fantasyland to ride Nicholas and Eliza's favorite ride the Carousel, and then the tea cups.
It was SUPER BUSY!!!!! Disneyland wasnt prepared for the size crowd they had that day as it was after the new years and most schools (of course ours wasnt) but most schools are usually back in session and they didnt have enough staff in. While in line for the tea cups the cast member (what Disney calls their employees) they said they were offering overtime for anyone willing to work over and trying to get anyone and everyone who wasnt at work to come in. By 1pm they were almost to max capacity and would have to close the gates (if that tells you how many people were there) Even though it was that busy I wasnt stressed because we were there for the Christmas experience not that many rides because this was our third trip and our 8th day to the park. After we were done with the tea cups it was lunch time and they were already starting to rope off the area for the parade so we found our area for the parade, laid out our blanket and had lunch and waited for the Christmas Parade to start. The nice thing about Christmas Season is there were street shows and Disney Magic Music Days going on, so we got to watch the Toy Soldiers from Santa's Workshop do a street drumming show, the music box ballerina to a street show, and a High school from Canada march by all while waiting for the parade to start, so that hour and a half wait went by fast.
After the parade we headed to Big Thunder Ranch where we found Santa's Reindeer, and Pluto dressed like one of Santa's Reindeer which Eliza found so funny. He had a bow on top of his antlers so he kept playing with Eliza's bow and so his Disney Helper asked him if he liked her bow since it was like his and he shook his head yes and licked her face.
Some friends og ours joined us at this point and joined us for the rest of the day. We would meet up and break off and take the kids on different rides throughout the evening. We ended the evening watching the Christmas Fireworks and Fantasmic.
On the second day as we were getting ready Eliza reminded us she still had never met Minnie Mouse. As I had said this was our third trip and never once had we found Minnie Mouse. I told her I would see what we could do (But in the back of my mind didnt quite know what we were going to do). We went to Cailfornia Adventure First and after walking through the front gate we headed to Bugs Land and turned the corner and guess who we found?!?!?!?!?!?!
MINNIE MOUSE!!!!!
The boys and Daddy then went to Goofy's Sky School so Eliza and I went out to the Pier and found Woody.
Then it was meet back up to the boys and head back over to Disneyland one last time before we left to drive home, and right through the front gates once again we found Minnie Mouse in her Christmas Dress. Eliza wanted her picture again so we waited while the boys went to go see if they could ride Star Tours one last time before we left. Unfortunately they were rushing everything though the Minnie Mouse line and I didnt realize until I got home and downloaded the picture that Eliza's eyes werent open all the way :( 
We had dinner and said good bye to Disneyland for this trip. So much fun and I finally got to see the Disneyland Magic at Christmastime, and all it cost 6 of us for two days at the Magic Kingdom was $120 :)
