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This weekend me, Grant, Monet and my parents went to California to watch Chloe cheer at Nationals and to take Monet to Disneyland for a couple of days.

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She was full of excitement, and this was just at the airport! We flew in Friday, ate dinner, shopped at H&M. Then Saturday we went over to Disneyland.

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In line for Snow White, the first ride of the day. She was so happy because walking through the castle she met Snow White, Belle and Sleeping Beauty. She thought that was pretty amazing.

Then we get on the ride and we all had forgotten how scary it was and Monet (right after this picture) started crying and crying. Poor thing. She was traumatized within the first five minutes of our trip! It's no wonder the lines are shorter on that ride than all of the others, no one wants to go on it! But we quickly made it up to her by taking her to the princess show. She got to run around and dance with the princesses. Then as we were walking out we saw all of the princess dresses and bought her the Belle outfit, she loves Belle, and to my surprise she loved the dress. We went to the convention center in the afternoon to watch Timpview. Chloe did awesome and they made it to Finals, which was great.

We went back to Disneyland. Nana bought Monet this Toy Story balloon, which you can tell by the expression on her face, was pretty cool.

We spent some time in the "movie room" and let Monet run and sing and play with her balloon. She was in heaven.

Her favorite game was going into Grandpa's room and calling our room. Funny where they find entertainment.

The next morning she had to watch Beauty and the Beast next to her dress. (Where does this girl come from, she cracks me up.)

At breakfast she made a new best friend. She was calling her Snow White. They played together for about 45 minutes. When it was time to leave Monet wanted to give her a hug and a kiss on the lips. It was hilarious. She wants to make friends with every kid that walks by her.

Chloe came with us in the morning before she competed. We went to Toon Town to let Monet get a look at the characters, since that seemed to be her favorite thing.

She kissed Mickey and Minnie on the noses and is still talking about it.

We had a BBQ lunch. Monet got involved in more singing and more dancing.

She liked the Winnie the Pooh ride. She hopped like Tigger for the next thirty minutes.

Then we went back to the Convention center to watch Chloe again. Timpview did so awesome this time. They couldn't have preformed any better. There were 8 good teams in their category. They ended up with 3rd (easily could have been 2nd.)

I was so proud of her for sticking everything and not having any mess ups. She did great.

Afterwards Chloe came with us back to Disneyland. We ate dinner at the same place both nights (gluten free eating forces everyone to be flexible... thanks guys). Then we bundled up and went back out. We caught Tinkerbell's firework show. Monet loved it.

We went on Nemo, which we all kind of hated but of course Monet had her face pressed to the glass with joy. We hung out by the castle, went to the Tiki Room, saw another show. Went on a few more kid rides. Monet was going strong, even at 11:45 when we left.

Monet was very sweet and very cute. We had so much fun just relaxing and hanging out with her. It was a great trip. It couldn't have been any better.

Monday, we went to Hollywood to meet my Aunt Joyce. She took us to lunch at Barneys and walked us around the store. Amazing. The clothes were so pretty I didn't want to touch! (We should have brought the camera but it was packed away. )