I Survived Last Weekend!

I've been meaning to post the fact that I made it through last weekend unscathed, for the most part. So I thought I would post a brief summary of how things went along with a picture from each day/night.

FRIDAY:

Courtney had her preschool Christmas musical and it went as well as it could. It was hard to see her because she was in the third row of students that were on the stage and not on risers. It was fun to see her singing and doing all the motions this year as it was sporadic at best last year. It was fun to have all our parents as well as the (Great) Grandparents McCarthy, Aunt Maureen, the Hoopers (who had Josh and Madi performing as well) and the Shoemakers in attendance. Below is a picture of the four of us after the performance.

SATURDAY:

This day started off with Courtney's rehearsal for the Christmas program at church. It lasted an hour and went well as they went though their program three times, twice in the sanctuary (ok, worship center). Then the first performance was at 5:00. We only stayed for that part of the service since we would be back the following day at 9:30 to see the whole service, which included the elementary program. The picture below is of Courtney outside the worship center in her beautiful dress that she enjoyed wearing and is looking forward to wearing again on Christmas Eve.

SUNDAY:

This day was chaotic at best. As mentioned above, Courtney had two more performances at church in the morning. Traci left after the 9:30 service to go and get ready for the Candlelight Procession at Disneyland. After church, I brought the girls home, had lunch, changed, Courtney's clothes and then took off for Disneyland. As suspected, Disneyland was busy, but mainly for the two performances. Traffic was at a standstill once we got on the off-ramp. However, we got in the park about 3:30, two hours before the first performance started. We found our place to watch the show from and established our territory. Fortunately, I brought the girls' Leapsters to play with while we waited as well as some snacks. Unfortunately, Skyler needed to make two bathroom trips after we had our spot. Fortunately, there was a very nice lady in front of us who watched our spot both times. By the time we got back from the second trip, it was about 10 people deep from front to back in the viewing (standing) area. Try that with two little ones in tow! All the seating area was reserved for those who bought dinner packages. Ont thing that really sucked was that they made us stand the whole time from about 4:00 on. Although it was a challenge to get through the performance, right before which Skyler decided to have a meltdown. (At least she calmed down once the show started!) Afterwards, we grabbed dinner in Fantasyland and then proceeded to get on two rides before heading out of the park while the second performance was going on. The picture below is of the second performance as we were passing it while we were leaving.