Disney on Ice

Never mind a post about all the craziness and fun around shopping for gifts and decorations for the house, preparing and mailing out Christmas cards, making little Christmas treats, preparing to host Christmas dinner, or the cute Joy School nativity play. Let's jump to what's most important here - well, because it was the most recent exciting event :-) And we'll post some Christmas-ey things soon. We took the girls to Disney on Ice last night!

Despite Molly’s anticipation of “Cim-bwella” coming and threatening at one point to be grumpy until she did show up (she didn't follow through on that threat, thank goodness)...and then her subsequent disappointment when the show was over and Cinderella HADN’T showed up, they really did have a great time and loved the show. We had awesome seats, so I attempted to take some pictures. None of them turned out great because obviously everyone was in major movement. But we did get a couple that are decent enough to include in the post. (Which was the main purpose in taking them, of course :-)

Before we went, we gave the girls a princess shirt to wear. They were thrilled and said, (to quote Elizabeth), "What a wonderful surprise!" Greg was teasing her earlier that day that they were going to wear their pajamas. Throughout the day, then, Elizabeth would ask me if they were really going to wear their pajamas. When I told her that they weren't and that Daddy was just teasing she would ask me, "What are we going to wear then?" I told her that she'd find out when Daddy got home. So the suspense had been building. And I think they have worn that shirt every opportunity they have had since then (this post has now been 2 days coming).


Molly wanted to touch the ice. We didn't give her permission, but we weren't paying attention for a split second (probably because I was taking this picture), and before we could pull her away, one of the security guys had already done so. Greg immediately said, "Ooooo, you're busted." He made the guy laugh and it was a light-hearted moment instead of one where we were embarrassed because we weren't watching our kid close enough to stop her before the act.

Tinkerbell came down from above and I loved the expression on Molly's face as she watched her.

The only segment that the girls weren't so familiar with was Lion King. But Cars, Ariel, Tinkerbell and Mickey Mouse and his crew definitely caught their attention and they were thrilled!

Walking back to the car on a very cold, wintry night.