Disneyland Holiday Party & Santa Claus

This year we decided to go to the family holiday party at Disneyland... no strollers, no diaper bags, just kids and lots of fun! We got down to Anaheim about 6pm (the traffic gods were not very kind) and checked into our room. We headed to Downtown Disney for dinner at the Jazz Kitchen. It was very delicious. Matt had a couple of mint juleps and everything was fine to him :) After dinner we headed to the party...


Here is Sleeping Beauty's castle all done up for the holiday season. It's really quite pretty. They had snow on Main Street and the usual holiday decorations.



Small World was all done up in lights as well. We thought about getting our picture taken in front, but changed our minds when we saw the long lines...but it's still very pretty.



Sarah took Emma and Brandon on Dumbo. Ben went in his own elephant. It's nice that the kids are older and we can just watch and enjoy the rides from the ground.









The morning we left, Santa was taking visitors at the tree in the lobby of the hotel and the kids got to tell him what they wanted for Christmas.