DISNEY ON ICE: TOY STORY 3

I took the kids to see Disney On Ice: Toy Story 3 last weekend. It was my first time going to one of those and it was AWESOME! I couldn't tell who loved it more, me or the kids! :P Every time one is in town, I never find out about it until after the fact, lol. This time was perfect, Jeremiah was gone to Reserve duty all weekend so it was a great thing for me to do with the kids while Jeremiah was gone. Joley was absolutely amazed, I loved watching her reaction to everything. She kept waving at the characters and asking if she could go hug them. Too sweet. ♥ :) Caleb loved it too, but since he's older he wasn't quite as excited, haha!

Of course we bought the overpriced souvenirs, but that's all a part of the fun, right? Joley picked out a Jessie cowgirl hat and Caleb got a light-up Buzz Lightyear sword. Caleb got popcorn and Joley got cotton candy, and the cotton candy came with a little Toy Story alien hat, so Joley let Caleb have that. They also got the souvenir Woody cups, because popcorn and cotton candy make ya thirsty and the lines for other (probably cheaper) refreshments were ridiculously long. But hey, again- all part of the fun. ^_^



I couldn't figure out what was wrong with Buzz's eyes. I thought the actor was intoxicated or something, it looked like his eys were rolled back into his head. But once I got home and edited my pics, I could zoom in and see it was actually a crap-ton of white make-up right under the dude's eyes, which made his eyes look freaky during the show, lol.




Joley's favorite one!




After the show... both kids unamused at me wanting to take MORE pictures, and Joley was seriously lacking a nap. ;)


The show was FANTASTIC. I loved every minute of it. The only thing that sucked was the cramped seating... I wish they had spread the chairs out a little more so I wasn't sitting in the lap of the person next to me. :P we bought really good seats too, right on the ice! I cannot wait for another show to come to town, that was soooo much fun!

BUSY BOY

With the school year coming to an end and summer close, Caleb's been a busy boy! His school finally had their Field Day (the previous date was rained out). It was super hot and muggy that morning, but the kids enjoyed it!

A classmate and Caleb


Caleb and Joley


Parachute! I used to LOVE this when I was a kid!






Caleb also had hs last soccer game of the season. Hard to believe its over already! He did really well that game... my little defender. :P





His "why are you taking my pic?!" face :P


LOVE this! Focused!


Last team huddle!


Tonight Caleb's school had their End Of The Year celebration thing. We went to the classrooms and got all his artwork for the year, talked with the teacher, etc. It was a good time, and totally hard to believe my little man will be a 2nd Grader soon! *shock*

At his desk!


Caleb and his classmate

EASTER

We never pass up an opportunity to bake some goodies for holidays. Easter was no different. ^_^ Joley and I made a bunny cake.







Easter was all Joley could talk about for the past couple weeks. She asked all sorts of questions about the Easter bunny and the baskets he delivers. The night before Easter she decided she did NOT want the bunny coming into her room at night, because "that's scary". I guess as a kid I was too excited about the festivities to worry about how creepy it was... Santa coming into the house to leave gifts, the easter bunny leaving candy and baskets, the tooth fairy leaving money and stealing your teeth. I guess when you look at it that way, it is creepy. Leave it to my child to look at it this way. :P So the night before Easter she kept getting out of bed, asking all sorts of crazy questions about the easter bunny. Finally, she had this conversation with my husband:
Joley: Daddy, I want you to make the easter bunny dead.
Jeremiah: What?
Joley: I want you to make him dead.
Jeremiah: Joley, are you saying you want me to kill the easter bunny?
Joley: Yeah.

!!!! Geez. So I promised her that I would stay awake long enough to tell the easter bunny NOT to put the basket in her room, to leave it in the living room. Apparently that was enough reassurance, she went to sleep not long after. Easter morning she came into our room, bright and early, and we went to hunt down her easter basket. That bunny left them in the living room, near the fireplace, just like I told him to do! Good job, easter bunny!





Of course, we had to try out the bubbles!


We got all cleaned up before heading to my dad's house.






Caleb was with his dad for easter morning, but was coming with us to my dad's for easter lunch and an egg hunt, so we brought Caleb's basket over there. Like Joley, he loved all his easter stuff.





Forget the Star Wars Wii game, he was most excited about his new watch!


Caleb and Joley with their cousins, Joseph and Jeremiah. Caleb thought the boys were too cute, all dressed up in suits!


Caleb got a kite from grandma and pawpaw.


Ready to hunt eggs!


Pawpaw let the little ones get a head start...








I see it!!!


All done!


Caleb found the silver prize egg!




Inspecting their loot.


Family ♥


Typical.


Me and the kids with my dad.


Bubble time!

BEST WEEKEND EVER!

I had 5 days off work this past weekend. We were supposed to visit Jeremiah's family in Texas, but plans changed and we ended up staying home. I wanted to make the most of it, since its rare that I get this much time off. And I think we had a pretty fantastic time!

Friday was the best day I've had in a long while. Jeremiah and I decided to spend the day together (sans kids), which we haven't done in quite some time! Then my mom was kind enough to babysit for us that night, so we got to have a date night! During the day we hung out, went to the mall, had some lunch, shopped around a bit. I finally convinced Jeremiah to buy a sportscoat, something he's been wanting a while. We both decided to kinda dress up a bit for our date night. I loved doing that! We had dinner at Carrabba's (best food EVER!) and then relaxed at Starbucks and talked a while. It was wonderful. ♥



Saturday I got up bright and early and headed over to Caleb's soccer game. I love watching him play, its so amazing seeing him improve over the years. The kids aren't supposed to keep score at this level, but we do it anyways and our team won 7-2, hehe. :P

After soccer Jeremiah, Joley, and I spent the day together. We got grocery shopping knocked out, and then we were on the hunt for a bike trailer. Joley's outgrown her baby seat that fits on my bike, but she's still too small to handle a bike of her own and be able to keep up with us... heck, Caleb can barely keep up. So we looked for a tandem bike to attach to the rear of one of ours, but she isn't quite big enough for that yet and it just seemed like a waste. So we searched for a bike trailer and found one. To my surprise Joley LOVES it! I figured she'd hate sitting back there, getting pulled around. But she was soaking it up, like the princess she is, haha. I told Jeremiah that she looked like a little pet monkey or something, being pulled all around, haha. :P

Saturday afternoon I met up with Angie to go get our nails done. That evening we were having a GNO! WOOHOO! :) Much needed, haha. After getting our nails done we had sushi. It was my first time going somewhere for sushi, seeing as how I only recently popped my sushi cherry, heh. ;) It was FANTASTIC. LOVED IT! After dinner we headed downtown and had a blast! Great night! Too bad I got tired quick (I'm so OLD! Ack!) so we called it a night.


Me!


Angie looking all pretty!




I loved Angie so hard that night for telling me the red things on mine were fish eggs. :X hehe :P



Sunday my lovely husband let me sleep in since I got home so late the night before. He's wonderful like that. :) After I got my tail up, we went to the park with Joley, for a bike ride and to try out the trailer. Jeremiah had taken Joley to the park the night before (while I was out) and said Joley did great! I was eager to see too! She loved it, of course. We had a lovely little afternoon at the park.






Beautiful day!








Snack time!

Sunday evening I decided to treat the kids and went over to Blockbuster and rented Joley Beauty and the Beast since its new to DVD (need to pick up a copy of that for Joley for Christmas!) and got Furry Vengeance for Caleb. Both kids were ecstatic, of course!

Yesterday was a relaxing day. Caleb was at school and Joley was at daycare. I got my car washed and all spotless and purdy! I got some chores done around the house. Then I went to Starbucks and got a drink and read my book for a bit before it was time to pick Caleb up from school.

I finished Joley's halloween costume! She wants to be a butterfly, so I let her pick out some wings and then I made a matching tutu! She'll wear black pants and a black shirt underneath. Too cute! I'm hoping she'll let me paint her face as a butterfly too (like this) but I'm not holding my breath on that one. My child is definitely quirky, and she freaked when I showed her pics of butterfly face paint, lol. *shaking my head*


I'm hoping to get the tutu to flatten a bit... right now its WAY poofy!



Today has been fun. It started out as a cramped day. Didn't have much time to get anything done because it was Early Release Day for Caleb's school and I promised him I'd have lunch with him today, so I had all of 3 hours to take care of whatever needed to get done around the house. Instead I mentioned to Jeremiah some wooden cubbie/organizational things I'd seen at Target, so we checked Caleb out of school early and took him to lunch, then went on a crazy chase around town, trying to track down the best solution to our clutter, lol. We plan on moving once Jeremiah graduates in the spring... even if we stay here in town, I'd atleast like to get into a home of our own. I haaaaate not being able to paint and redo things in this house that I despise.

So after looking all around, Jeremiah agreed with my take on how to redo our rooms. We decided to first start on the living room and Joley's room... the two that need it the most. Our room and Caleb's room are ok for the time being. Joley's room has been an absolute mess for a while. The child has way too many things and not enough space. Her room is the smallest in this house though.


Living room before... GAG! We've had that TV stand since we first moved in together! We could never decide what we wanted to do with this room, really. Or just never put much thought into it. What we had worked ok. But now its soooo much better!


Living room after! Love it!


Joley's room before... a total cluttered mess. I couldn't find any good way to keep her things organized because her room is so tiny.


But now its PERFECT! Soooo great, I love it so much!


Her little cubbies are too cute!

Next will be Caleb's room, and then hopefully our room. The great thing is that no matter if we move or what, we can always use these cubbies... you can arrange and rearrange them, tons of possibilities!

Time for bed now. All good things must come to an end, as tomorrow begins my work week.