let someone else do the work!

family photos - we always have the best intentions, but sometimes they just don't happen as often as you would like.  sometimes it feels like you can get just one great photo with everyone pictured, and not taken as a selfie.  at disneyland, we rarely hand over our camera to a stranger to take our photo. not really because we are scared it's going to be taken, it just isn't really our style to ask.   however, I upgraded my season pass to Disneyland, and the biggest reason for spending a little more money monthly was because of the Disney Photo Pass being included.  every photo a Disneyland photographer takes is instantly on the Disneyland app, and instantly available for me to download and save.

if you are not passholders, you can still buy a daily photo pass, or just buy single images.  I believe the daily rate is about $40, which is a little steep in my opinion for only one day, but it sure does make things easy.  not to mention, the Disneyland photographers have very nice cameras, and their lighting is almost always perfect.  from past experiences, trying to get the perfect photo inside the castle meet-n-greet with the princesses is very hard due to their funky lighting, but the Disneyland cameras get it perfect!

here are some of our professional Disneyland photos... 

excited to use this perk at dapper day this year for everly's 4th birthday!!!

our last diamond celebration trip to disneyland [mini-film]

there's nothing like coming home from tutoring, thinking about the fact that you have two and a half days off with the mr., season passes burning a hole in your pocket, and being on the road three hours later for anaheim.  we of course wanted a little anticipation and surprise when we told everly, so we had told her that we were on the road for lake tahoe.   she was pretty excited and insisted on wearing and packing some of the same outfits that she had worn to lake tahoe last month.  little did she know that I had already packed her disneyland things while she was napping.  nothing like taking a kid on a 6 hour car ride right after a nap, but seriously, she did awesome.  her reaction to hearing that we were going to disneyland instead of lake tahoe, well, it's pretty much everly, and I'm glad we caught in on the camera.

here's our super short, whirlwind trip to disneyland.  the last one before the diamond celebration officially ends.  highlights definitely included everly's first autograph book that she filled with pretty much the same five princess signatures.  she loved watching them sign their name, and was always a little panicked that she wasn't going to get her book back.  good news, she always did!

getting to dance through fantasyland holding hands with Alice was also pretty high up on the list of magical moments.

thanks to that husband of mine for going along with my crazy plans!
Disneyland August 2016 from Lyndsay Lewis on Vimeo.

shot on our sony A6000
music:
"Put on Your Sunday Clothes" - Wall-E Soundtrack
"Alice's Theme" - Alice in Wonderland Soundtrack
"Main Title - Alice in Wonderland" - Alice in Wonderland Original Soundtrack

25/52

"A portrait of my daughter, once a week, every week, in 2016."

in this moment:

right now, in this moment, I'm in love with your little daddy moments.  while in Disneyland this last trip you tried your first beignet, and excitedly chatting about your beignets with your daddy and getting covered in powder sugar was too sweet. and I melted, in this moment. 

lucky 13 [disneyland mini-film]

we just got back from everly's 13th trip to the parks.  southern california was experiencing a crazy heat wave, anaheim was literally 106 on our first day. never have I been in the parks in that type of heat.  the only silver lining was the crowd index was extremely low, because seriously, 106!

this trip we battled something new, everly's obsession with souvenirs.  we've been pretty lucky and the struggle with this hasn't been a thing until this trip, and we had to really work on her realizing that we weren't in the parks to buy things.  her biggest obsession was this little purse and glove set that she saw the morning of our second day.  at this point, she had already spent her souvenir money from grammie, we had purchased her bubble wand, and now this.  nope, not happening.  it was a day long of asking, and I purposely left her little purse demand in the video, just as a reminder of her obsession.  it was all she could think about.  don't worry, we worked on her tone as well, demanding of items to be purchased is not going to happen.  she went hours on day three without saying anything about the gloves or buying anything, so then she got to be spoiled by her grandma and grandpa that were with us on this trip.  because, after all, she's three, and it is disneyland.  so, three souvenirs.  oh well, there are worse things in the world I'm sure. right?

here's our week, three days in the parks, 300 video clips, 30 minutes of footage, all wrapped up in just about 8 minutes.  enjoy.

disneyland june 2016 from Lyndsay Lewis on Vimeo.

film shot on our sony a6000

songs -
"Married Life" Up Soundtrack
"When Can I See You Again" by Owl City on the Wreck it Ralph Soundtrack (this is also their current parade song for Paint the Night)
"Alice" by Avril Lavine from Almost Alice

disneyland [mini film] again

This past weekend we visited Disneyland one more time before our passes expired.  And the best part, we finally had the stars align to take one of my favorite people of all time with us.

Disneyland April 2016 from Lyndsay Lewis on Vimeo.

And, because we are crazy, we renewed our passes for another year.

So I guess this won't be the last Disneyland mini film for a while.

silly saturday snapshots [at disneyland]

Well, when you have your camera out non-stop, you are most likely going to catch some silly faces. Typically, these photos would never make it into a trip post, but there were just some real gems this time, and a lot of them.  So please enjoy these photos, I know we did when reviewing them on our shared photo stream!

hope you are having a great weekend too!

days at Disneyland

Just today we were discussing the fate of our annual passes.  Turns out, not renewing our passes this year is meaning we most likely will be booking another trip, soon!  It will be hard to let go of our passes, but we are hoping to go again in the fall for another dapper day, maybe just doing their convention rate passes and go for the afternoon/evening only.  There are also some great rates on the resort hotels for this convention, which might be a great excuse to stay on property and enjoy the pools!

But while I figure out all of those details, here are some images from our last trip a few weeks ago. And when I mean some, I mean a ton!

all photos taken on our Sony A6000

edited using A Color Story