Just Us: Princesses on Ice

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Princesses on Ice

Samantha turns 4 this month. This year she opted for taking three of her friends to see Disney's Princesses on Ice as her party.

For the invitations, we went quite literal. I got some Princess dolls (like polly pockets) and froze them in a block of ice.

We put the ice in a Princess party bag, tied it up, and delivered it to each of the girls with their invitation. So each girl received a Princess on Ice, inviting them to Princesses on Ice. (I thought it was quite clever.)

The night of the party we quickly ate, did birthday cake and then rushed out the door to get to the show on time. We ran out of time so Sammy opened the gifts in the car on the way there.

Once we got there it was a Princess Extravaganza!. All the girls wore Princess dresses and every little girl there was dressed also as a princess. All the girls were so good. They were completely taken in by all the skating and costumes and music. It was just so fun! Even for me since a good friend came along. That ended up being a huge blessing because when we left, there was freezing rain. It was so nice to have an extra pair of hands. We each grabbed two little girls and made a mad dash for the car.

We got all 4 girls home tired but in one piece. What a fun way to spend Samantha's 4th birthday!

1 comments:

Cassidy said...: It really was a clever invite idea. Megan had the best time there. What a fun birthday!!; January 22, 2012 7:30 PM

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The Things Kids Say...

Sammy's favorite saying is "Cause I say so." It can be used to answer any question such as, Why aren't you eating? Why are you crying? and my personal favorite Why are you naked?! Oh, did I forget to mention she loves being naked?

Brianna was crying because Brandon pushed her. I asked why and he said "Cause she's fighting with me. She's trying to kill me!!!" Brianna only got out "nu-uh," before Brandon blurted out "Liar, Liar, fur on fire!"

Last night in family prayers, Brianna blessed Spirit Week at school.

We were outside when I saw a lizard, and pointed it out to Brandon. I asked what it was and he responded a lizard. I told him he was right and he promptly asked, "Can I kill it?"

Sam and Brianna were taking a bath when I heard Sam start to cry. I asked Brianna what happened and she said, "Sam was trying to get out of the bath and she hurt her VIRGINIA."

Brandon told me he loved me so, I told him I loved him too. "No, I love you more," he says. I laughed and said "Brandon, you're a good boy." "Yea," he says.

I told Brandon & Sammy that they were going to have friends over. When I told her it was Brandon's friend Sam and Sam's little brother Max. She complained that she didn't have a friend coming and I told her she was. I said, "What about Max? You are in the same preschool, he's your friend." To which she replied, "Nu-uh, I hate that guy."

Brandon is very eager to grow up. We've had some very odd conversations with him as a result. Most recently he's begun showing us his armpit and asking if he has any hair there yet. The other common occurrence is for him to ask his dad to spray him with "man spray" aka cologne.

At Brianna's birthday party this year I told her to be sure and introduce her school friends to her church friends. She went in, sat everyone down, and told them to go around the room and say their name and one thing they like about her. She's insane!

We always make our kids try a couple bites of something new before they say they don't like it. One night as I am insisting Sam try some new food and she is protesting adamantly, claiming it was disgusting. Eventually, she took a bite and then exclaimed, "Hey, mom! That disgusting stuff tastes good!"

We adopted a friend's birthday tradition this year. We each went around and said something we liked about the birthday person. Sammy liked everyone's eyes (It was kind of random). But my favorite was when Brandon told Brandt that he liked that his Dad farted a lot and picked his nose. We all died laughing!

At dinner we were discussing the origins of Halloween. Hailey said that it used to be a celebration of the dead and that we still do that. As I was thinking, trying to figure out what she meant when she said we still do that; Brianna scoffs, "Yeah, right. Like we would be like, It's Halloween, let's go to the Seminary." I nearly died laughing. I know she meant cemetery but I went to early morning Seminary and I know I have seen the walking dead there!

Okay, this isn't really something my kids said, but a kid did say it, so it qualifies...

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We were in the hardware store and got Brandon two of the 5 gallon paint stick stirrers. He loves using them as swords. He handed me one and says, "Here Mom, now we can have an epic battle!"

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