Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The rest of Disneyland

So the rest of Disney we didn’t take that many pictures.  Partially because I had a flakey battery in the camera and I am a loser and left the extra batteries in the car. 

But we rode a bunch of rides.  We mainly stuck to the Princess area as that is what Sariah is obsessed with right now.  Sariah loved pretty much every ride but one.  After each ride she would ask if we could do it again.  There was a boat ride that took you through the miniature versions of all the places the stories take place.  But the ride starts by going into the mouth of the whale from Pinocchio.  We happened to not get to this ride until it was dark. Needless to say, umm there were tears and screaming that she didn’t want to go into the scary whale.  The lovely people working the ride gave her a magic flashlight so it wouldn’t be so scary.  She did well once we were past the whale until the ride came back around and this was the only time she didn’t want to ride a ride again.  She will still tell you about the scary whale at Disneyland.    

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We had Ben in a sling much of the time.  He wasn’t so sure about riding on Daddy’s back.

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Sariah would only get in the stationary Dumbo.  She was too scared of the flying ride.

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Here we are waiting for the Dumbo train- Casey Jr.  The closed down the train right before it was our turn.  We decided to wait it out even though they said it could be a half hour.  As it turned out it only took like 10 minutes!  We were glad we stayed.

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James and Walt are pretty tight. 

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Doesn’t he look like the best daddy in the world in the picture below.  See that pure joy on her face?

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A lovely Asian couple asked if we would take their photo and in exchange they took ours.  I’m so glad!  I love this little family photo at Disney.  What a priceless trip!

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DISNEYLAND PRINCESSES

Probably Sariah’s favorite part of the trip. We stood in the Princess line not once but twice so that we could get to see her true favorite princesses.  And I’ve already posted the cute exchange between her and Cinderella. 

So here is my Cinderella meeting her favorite people! And well I think Ben enjoyed it too!

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Round two included Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White

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Generations

Here was  another priceless picture moment for me.  From left to right- Grandma Darlene Ransom- 90, Mark Ransom Sr- 60, James Ransom- 30, Ben Ransom-1.  And Grandma Ransom told us her dad would have been 120 this year. 

Also I’m not sure what faces we were making at Ben, but man that kid was loving having his picture taken that day!

 

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More California

So believe it or not, I’m still not done with pictures from California.  I haven’t even gotten to the really good ones- Disneyland. 

For one fun day we went to Santa Barbara.  This was one of our favorite places from the last time we went.  And it was a blast yet again.

 

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The Surrey Carts.  This was probably one of James and I’s favorite things.  We did it last time and this time we introduced his parents to it. They are just a fun little bike/cart that you can ride up and down this extra wide sidewalks along the beach. 

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Another mission in Santa Barbara.  This was was huge!

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Fountain out front.  I think I might just have to print and frame this one.  I love this!

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Okay this part seriously cracked me up.  They had little cutouts that you could pose in outside at the mission.  I mean talk about having a sense of humor with your religion.  I laughed so hard at this.  And of course we had to take some pictures in them!

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Check out my photography blog

So I'm trying to do a photography blog. I have a regular website at www.ransomphotos.com, but it is very time consuming to update. So I'm trying a blog for a little while. The address is

www.ransomphotos.blogspot.com

So let me know what you think. I'm also hoping this will encourage me to get my camera out more and do more shoots for me personally. And I just posted some photos from a recent shoot with the Kanooth babies if you want to see how big they've gotten.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Dancing

Sariah hopped up on the table to "dance" with Ben this morning!