corbin bleu/ryan seacrest at disneyland

Saturday after the girls performed in CA adventure, we went over to Disneyland. We had heard that the Jonas brothers were there and they might be performing later that day. When we walked into the park, it was crazy you couldn't hardly move. We got there just in time to hear Corbin Bleu perform for the Disney Christmas special. I had to keep asking Melissa "who did we see perform?" For those of you like me who says, huh, who? Corbin Bleu is the guy w/ the afro who plays in the High school Musical movies (I have only seen the first one) Ryan Seacrest interviews him, and we got to meet him and shake his hand.... quite by accident, we were standing by the ropes after the perfomance and saying to each other, what should we do now... and all of the sudden Ryan Seacrest is standing near us, and then we shook his hand and got our pics taken, Sandy has the one of all of us w/ him, I'll post later. Who is Ryan Seacrest? I knew him because as a child I loved Dick Clarks new years eve special and after Dick Clark was sick, Ryan Seacrest took over for him, but he also hosts American Idol. He really is short!

The funniest thing about this whole thing to me was Melissa said she didn't really care about seeing him, since she doesn't really care about High school musical, but when we got there and saw him performing she became a teenage groupie, yelling a screaming.... pretty funny!!!

So now you can watch the Disney Christmas special and say you saw it here first.... I know you can hardly wait.... ;)

This first video is mine where I'm trying to get Corbin Bleu into focus, I kept having too many people in front of me and every time I moved the camera it had to re-focus. This was take 3... in case you were wondering. :)



This video I found on you tube, if the video was just a few minutes longer, we would be on it, we are just to the right of where the person is video taping and saw all of this happening, you can hear Ray at the very beginning of it make a laughing noise when Ryan asks which one is your wife.

Melissa and Brooklyn are standing on a fence or bench w/ Ray holding onto them so they don't fall so they could see. I couldn't see the dancers, but I could get good "pockets" from time to time seeing, Corbin. (Melissa has the black shirt on, Brooklyn the pink)

Fantasmic at Disneyland

One of the fun things we got to do at Disneyland was go see the show "Fantasmic" It was really great! We were close enough to see everything and get wet (a little) and feel the warmth of the fire when it was on the water. The only problem was I didn't know when I should video tape for the really good parts because I had never seen it before. Here are 3 parts that we thought turned out well on the camera.

The first is the beginning of the show.



This one is towards the end it has the boad come thru w/ all of the Disney characters in it.



This is what I got of the finale

These are pictures of their perfomances on Sat. at CA adventure. It was a really cool stage that was called the Hollywood back lot stage. There was really cool banners in the background of the princesses. I know Sandy got some cool pics of them close up.

This is the adult class dancing to the redneck song. It is the funniest! Lynda is one of the funnest performers to watch, I got a great one of just her. This is the class just younger than Melissa. They did a great job!! The little girls are soo cute now matter what they do! Melissa, Emily, and Brooklyn. This is the sign at Ca. adventure.

I thought since this Disney trip was all about Melissa coming to dance I should post dance video and pictures first. I'm sure there will be a lot more blogs about Disney. We were there 5 days and took almost 300 pics. (Don't worry, I won't post them all.... at least all at once) The video took FOREVER to load, so I'll just do one for now, I'll have to figure something else out... and the first time I posted... it didn't post. ok plan b, it has been uploading now for 1/2 hour and still hasn't posted, so I'm trying smilebox....

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We're home!

Boy, Melissa is fast in posting a blog!
We are home and safe, had a great time! But I am ready to sleep in my own bed tonight!
I did the most important thing this afternoon already... took a nap. Now I have checked e-mails, checked the bank account (not too scary.... but not wonderful either) and now I need to go make a real meal for dinner. I haven't even uploaded our pics yet. I'm sure lots more to come on the Disney trip!
I know Keagan is a true Washatonian (sp? - Les) The weather was warm and sunny, when we got off the airplane today at Seatac Keagan said, "ahh this feels nice" :)

I'm soo excited....

I'm soo excited... if I weren't soo tired! Tomorrow we go to Disneyland! To watch Melissa dance and have fun! Today was also my last day doing papers, my last day getting up at 1:30! (Tomorrow morning we have to get up at 3 ish, but that has to do with something fun) I don't know which one I am more excited about... disney or not doing papers anymore.

Melissa is still really not up to dancing because of her mono, I hope it all goes well. We got her a doctors note to have a wheelchair at Disney because she gets tired soo easily. She still hasn't made it to school for a whole day yet, she missed 1 1/2 weeks of school and going on 4 weeks of half days. I feel a little bad about taking her out of school for Disney.... but we have had this planned for a long time and all paid for. We have a 5 day pass at Disney so we can take it slow. The girls are perfoming Sat. at 11:30 and Monday at 11:30.

Now off to packing, going to preschool, laundry, grocery shopping... you know all of those fun things to do before you go on a trip. We'll be back next Tuesday!

Pumkin Patch

Here are some pics of our time at the Pumpkin patch. We went Thursday (the day before Halloween) because the kids and Ray had the day off. It was nice pretty much having the pumpkin patch to ourselves. We took Aurora and that was fun having a little kid w/ us. She loves the animals! They had a corn maze of the United states, but most of the signs had been taken and put different places, we ran into utah, then Rd Island, then Florida, then Alaska, etc. But we had a good time, it started to sprinkle a bit, but was fun. Aurora tried to take pics of our family on the hay stacks, but she said they kept coming out blurry. We didn't even get any pumpkins... we didn't have time to carve them that night. Melissa has been so sick that we haven't really had time to go.

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Happy Halloween

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