Disney on Ice

Last week we took the girls to go see Disney on Ice. It's come every year (which I think it does come every year to KC area), but we've (I've) been wanting to take Kayley especially since every year Ariel comes, but we finally went this year and I was glad we waited as Cora is now old enough to love and be into princesses too. She's not quite as much into Ariel as Kayley is and has been since she was 18 months old, but she does love princesses and loves Ariel the best only because her older sister does!

It was a crazy night! I started out driving even though I had asked Nick to because I hate driving in the city because he's more daring than I am and we always get into an argument! So, finally after driving around for 15 min, we switched and he dropped the girls and I off to get in line while he did the stressful parking. Note...he hates to pay for parking, so he will drive around forever until he finds cheap or next to cheap parking! It about killed him to pay $5 to pay for parking for Phantom and it made me crazy that he took so long to park because we were about to miss the show!! So he finally got a spot as we had finally waited in line for 15 min and found our seats. Then he calls me and tells me he has to run back to the car for the 2nd time because he left his set of keys (since he was driving with my set) in plain view and of course he parked in no-man's land because it was free...but the first time he had to take back his conceal carry gun because they had metal detectors at the door. So he actually only barely missed the very beginning and then we got to enjoy the show with him.

Here are pictures of Mickey and Minnie's introdution:
Here's pictures of Cars...they were pretty impressive cars I thought...

The much anticipated, Ariel. Kayley wouldn't talk to me during this, she was so embarrassed that she was liking it so much! It was cute to watch how excited she got!

Lion King pictures...neither one of our girls have actually seen this movie, so it wasn't as exciting to them...but Nick got a little bit of his own excitement about this time as a kid behind him ended up throwing up on the back of his head. I didn't hear it and he didn't say anything about it until Cora mentioned that she had to go to the bathroom and Nick said he'd take her so he could wash out the throw-up. Apparently the parents didn't even apologize, but I'm not really sure they knew their kid had thrown up on him either. I was just glad Nick didn't throw up trying to clean himself up in the bathroom.

The Tinkerbell pictures...it was actually the longest of all of them. I think just because it's the newest of all the Disney movies. By the end of it, both my girls were ready to go home. They should have ended with Ariel and they would have wanted to stay the rest of the night!!

And the MAIN EVENT...our girls! Cora dressed up as Tinkerbell and Kayley dressed up as Ariel, or at least wore her Ariel dress. I forgot to get a picture of them all dressed up before we left, but I did get a picture of Cora in her outfit, Kayley refused to take her jacket off during the event. And at the very beginning some small fireworks went off during Mickey and Minnie's debut and Kayley from then on until the very end plugged her ears. It was cute and took lots of coaxing to get her finally take her ears down. It was a great night and we all had a lot of fun!

Rice Fun

Well, I can't take credit for this at all as I got my idea from my cousin's blog http://hersheykissed.blogspot.com/2010/03/preparations-for-rainy-day.html She had done this with her girls and it was a huge hit, so I thought it looked pretty easy so I thought I'd attempt it. Anytime I mention doing any type of craft with the girls, they both get SO excited! But they had tons of fun making the rice and even watching it dry! Once it was dry and I was ready to let them play (I have to have the floor completely picked up so that it's easier to clean up afterwards)....they dove right in and couldn't stop playing!! They ask me to play with rice almost everyday! You would think that I would make it easier on myself and let them play outside and let the birds/animals pick up the mess, but our dog likes to eat the rice too, so I had to nix that idea! So that means I get an extra clean carpet each time they play with the rice, which is almost everyday...but that's good for me too because I know some of you might think I'm crazy, but it's very therapeutic for me to vacuum and I love nothing more than a freshly vacuumed floor...especially with a dog in the house! So here's some pictures of the rice drying after we dyed it (by the way, you can find all the directions on my cousin's blog above). Here's some pics of the girls enjoying watching the rice dry as well as playing with the rice! It really is one of their favorite things to do now! It even replaces chalk with a water paintbrush outside...which they love to do too! Thanks for the idea Sarah!!

Welcome Emmeline

I didn't want to post about this until I for sure had the correct spelling, but on Monday (the 8th) our newest niece was born, Emmeline Sarah Reall or "Emme" for short. Katie was induced on Monday morning and everything went well with everything. Emme definitely looks like a Reall to me, apparently baby pictures she looks more like Sam...either way, she's just cute! She was 6 lbs 14 oz and 20 in long I believe. Perfect size in my book!! Here are some pics of the family meeting Emme...apparently Ellie still calls her "Baby GG"....which was what she called her the whole time Katie was pregnant with her! She's a funny girl! We are glad all went well and are excited to hopefully meet her soon someday! She's the first born of the three due in my immediate family this year...so far anyway, apparently Mallory has been working on Edward telling him she wants a real baby! We'll see what happens!!

Aloha!

Ok...I'd like to say that we are saying Aloha after coming back from Hawaii, but we aren't! Sadly we'll have to live through the experiences of others until we get to go to Hawaii someday ourselves. Grandma came back from Hawaii this week and brought the girls some souvenirs. They both got a shirt and a necklace. Well, of course Kayley would be the one to be a sour puss about the color of the shirt. She wanted Cora's pink shirt so she wasn't a good sport about taking a picture with them on. Cora on the other hand could have probably cared less, but her shirt would be too small for Kayley and vice versa. So here are pictures for Grandma of the girls showing off their prizes! Cora even tried to get Kayley to smile, but it didn't work. Sadly, I'm afraid to say that she got that from me. Oh well!

Once Upon a Time...

Last week Grandma (Nick's mom) was in town so we decided to meet Michelle and Grandma at the Crown Center for their "Fairy Tale" display. I really wasn't expecting much of a display as I wasn't as pleased with the last display we went to with Legos. I was mistaken on this one though...it was pretty much a play place of make believe stories. It was great and the girls loved it! I'm now looking forward to the Clifford display in May as well as the girls...we love Clifford at our house!

Here's some pictures of "The Three Little Pigs" (upper right), "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" (two bottom right), "The Princess and the Pea" (bottom left), and our cute Cora (top left), which is not make believe cause she is really cute!
Here's pictures of Kayley, Ashlyn, & Cora (top left) in Cinderella's Carriage and Cora and Preston also in the carriage (bottom left). The girls trying to climb the beanstalk from "Jack and the Beanstalk" (top right) and the girls holding onto Rapunzel's hair (bottom right). Then Kayley just being cute (left middle) and also not make believe as she is really cute in real life too! The girls were way excited about Rapunzel's hair as almost every night they request Nick to tell them this story as their bedtime story once they are tucked into bed. It's pretty cute! So we took this picture for Daddy who had to work while we were having fun!