Monson Family Trip

The Surprise

A few years ago the Monson's decided that in 2012 everyone was going to plan a trip to Disneyland together. Well It finally happened.  Plans had been in the works for over a year...(you need to start that far ahead when you have 6 different families involved).  Grandma and Grandpa Monson where the masterminds behind it all.  They found the places to stay and the deals.  We (Dean and I) decided we were going to wait and not tell our kids and surprise them.  We just didn't know how.  Well the plans were to leave Sunday June 3rd-9th.  Dean had to finals he had to finish before we could go Sunday morning.  Dean kept the kids kinda busy Saturday so I could get all the packing done.  When the kids went to bed Dean loaded the car.  We woke up Sunday morning, and Preston was already dressed and ready for church.  He also let us know we couldn't eat because it was fast Sunday. We told all the kids we were going to go on an adventure that day.  Dean before hand had got the address of where we would be staying from Dad so we knew the numbers.  We told the kids they were going to choose where we went.  We asked Preston what number was on his baseball jersey 1, we asked Shaylee how old she was 6, then we asked Addison what the numbers where on dad's Hockey Jersey 00. So we types in 1600 and headed off on our adventure.  The navigation system said we would arrive at our destination in 6 hours and 30 minutes.  The kids thought we were heading up to Bear Lake.  They had now idea.  When were were getting close to our exit I turned around and had them guess.  Finally Preston saw Angel stadium.  So he yelled out California.  I told him he was right.  I told the kids we were heading to Disneyland for 3 days.  It was funny, they were all yelling and excited then Shayless goes "REALLY"?  We also surprised them with all the cousins and Grandpa and Grandma Monson being there.  We pulled up to the hotel and Dean got out.  As we were waiting the kids saw Grandma Monson and yelled "That lady looks like grandma Monson".  We then got out and they saw everyone.  They were so excited.  I'm so glad we were able to go on this trip with everyone.  Overall it was an amazing time, and great memories were made.  

So we arrived Sunday evening, and we went to dinner. Everyone went where they wanted too.  We ended up at the Cheesecake Factory with the majority of the family.  So good.  We then went back to the motel to  watch the Diseyland park fireworks from our hotel roof top.  Then we went to bed get a goods night rest for the next 3 days of fun.