With Hannah starting back to school in 2 weeks, and us going on vacation next week, today was the last weekday Hannah could go to Disneyland, at least until she goes off track come the end of September.
I always love taking pictures at Disneyland because the landscaping makes for beautiful pictures, here are some I took of Hannah today. 
Today marks a week since Wendy's passing. Overall, Hannnh is doing good. But from time to time, she does cry and say she misses Wendy. She's suggested a few times over the past week that we have a funeral for Wendy. Gramma suggested rather than have a funeral, let's have a celebration for the good dog Wendy was and make it a happy occassion. And that's what we did.
Gramma and Hannah went and got a red heart balloon and Hannah had been drawing pictures about her and Wendy all morning. When Papa came home for lunch from work, the celebration took place. Hannah and Gramma both shared happy words and then Hannah released the balloon in the sky and cheered for Wendy. 
After watching how high the balloon went, we went inside and celebrated with cupcakes!! 
After seeing the movie and having lunch, we drove through Griffith Park, leaving Rachel to finish her nap in the car with Gramie, Hannah wanted to get out and play on the fun looking structures. 
Griffith Park is so beautiful. There are tons and tons of nice picnicing areas, shaded by big beautiful trees. There were a lot of people enjoying the grounds, despite it being near 100 degrees. Aside from the play structures and some museums, Griffith Park has a Merry Go Round. Gramie treated us to a ride on this Merry Go Round that is over 80 years old. 
It was this exact Merry Go Round, that Walt Disney sat on a bench, watching his daughters, that gave him the idea to create Disneyland, a place where parents and children could come and have fun together. I know I have fun and enjoy being with my kids at Disneyland!
Today, we drove into Hollywood to the El Capitan to see the new movie, Cars. Hannah and Steven both said they liked it. I missed a little less than half the movie because Rachel apparently didn't like the movie and wouldn't sit still, so I took her out. LOL. 
One of the added bonuses of seeing the movie at the El Capitan was the real pit crew demonstation. It was pretty cool to see how quickly those guys can move and change out things on a race car. Although, I'm sure the boys in the audience enjoyed it much more than our two girls. LOL. 
My Dad sent these pictures to me. Hannah took Wendy for a walk one morning last week when she spent the night with Gramma and Papa. My mom said this was Wendy's last walk. They are such sweet pictures I had to share. 
Daddy recently 'celeaned' up one of our old computers for Hannah to use. It's set up for her to play games on and she can instant message Gramma and Papa and a few other people. Other than that, it's pretty locked down and takes permision being granted from a parental unit in order to do anything else. Needless to say, she LOVES having her own computer!! 
