....Girls just wanna have fun-unnnn....

That is the song that the girls were singing, totally straight-faced, at the top of their lungs. As you can see, they also accompanied themselves on the piano!

We met up with some of our favorites yesterday! (Linda & Sarah, Debbie & Noelle, Christy & Emma and Joy & Riley) Everyone had a great time! We were all laughing at all the different personalities! Sarah is the karaoke diva and usually randomly bursts into song which makes for some hilarious moments...Noelle is Ella's animal buddy. They usually can be found off somewhere together playing a variety of animal-inspired things. Emma is the sweetest, most polite little girl I think I've ever met and Riley is the spit-fire of the group! Interestingly, all their little personalities mesh extremely well together. We were together for most of the afternoon/early evening and we had very little drama! ;) The girls played until dinner time when we decided to have an impromptu dinner together. We packed up the girls (and Carter, too!) and headed to a nearby pizza joint, Vendetta's. It was DELICIOUS! Linda and I shared the most amazing pizza with garlic and artichoke hearts!! Thankfully we have plans today, or I would be bribing her to go back with me ;) The kids all behaved great and had such a great time together! Thanks girls, we had a blast!

Calling all Fairies...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Ella was invited to Riley's 3rd birthday party last week. It was a Fairy/Princess themed party and all the little girls were asked to wear their favorite princess attire. Ella chose her beautiful, puffy fairy dress. It was SUPER cold that day, so thankfully she didn't mind being a layered fairy. We paired her dress with a leotard and leggings and she was all set! Riley's house was decorated SO adorable!! (Seriously, Joy...November 15th, right?!) I was holding my breath about how well Ella would participate with all the girly, princess-y things, but thankfully, she did great! Riley's mom, being Martha Stewert's twin, had the neatest craft all set up for everybody. They each got to decorate their own Repunsal-esque hat with beautiful beads, stickers and glitter paint! This was Ella's favorite part, ofcourse. She was also quite proud of her name writing skills and insisted that she do it herself.

Hard at work..

Ella and Noelle modeling their masterpiece

After the craft, we all gathered for a treasure hunt. All the girls were told this adorable story about lost treasures in the woods, ect. We all pretended that Riley's living room was the "woods" and the girls searched for their necklaces and pirate coins. They all totally got into it and frantically tried to recover the missing treasure ;) Finally, each girl got a turn to try and "Pin the Tiara on the Princess!" I was laughing SO hard watching Ella, blindfolded, wobbling all around trying to make it to the Princess. Amazingly, she stuck that tiara in exactly the correct spot! ha!

After some pretty darn good sparkly, pink cupcakes and a looooot of candy from the pinata, my fairy was a pretty happy camper!

Miss Priss.

Enough said! This is a proof sent to my email, but I just couldn't wait to post it ;)

My, how you've grown!

Halloween '06

Halloween '07

Halloween '08

Disney on Ice!!! :)

It's 2 days later and I'm still awe-struck! On Thursday night me, Ella and Guppie went to see the newest production of Disney on Ice. It was absolutely amazing! A-m-a-z-i-n-g!!! When we got to the arena, Guppie suprised us with front row seats! We literally had the best 3 seats in the entire arena! Right as we took our seats, "Cars" took the ice and Ella's face was just priceless! As Mater and Lightening McQueen swirved and drove on the ice, she was in awe! As they raced, they played her FAVORITE song, "Life In The Highway" and she sang and smiled like I'd never seen before! After Cars, Lion King took the ice. It was amazing to see these elaborate costumes and props literally 5 feet from your face. Ella loved Simba, Nala and Mufassa, and kept her eyes glued to the ice the entire time. We also got to see a Little Mermaid number. "Ariel" was beautiful and a phenominal skater. We have the Little Mermaid on DVD, so Ella was familiar with the songs and general plot. Again, it was just mindblowing. The whole production was out of this world and just SO firstclass. Last was a new part of the show featuring Tinkerbelle and all the fairies of Magic Hollow. The whole show was something that we'll all never forget!! Here are a few pictures of our night:

First, the obligatory "arena-offered-picture-with-a-Disney-prop" picture:

Here are a few random pictures of the show:

And finally, the post-show pictures!

Terrific Tuesday.

Ahhh, Tuesdays. Sort of a "lost in the shuffle of the week" kind of day. Not hectic Monday, not a day to mark the "hump" of the week, not a day that comprises 'TGIF' and certainly not weekend-day quality. So, I've decided to do my part to spice up Tuesdays ;-) Here are a few interesting little facts to jumpstart your Tuesday:

If you yelled for 6 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat up one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it, huh?)

Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

A flea can jump 350 times it's body length. That's the equivalent of a human jumping the length of a football field.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Right-handed people live, on average, 9 years longer than left-handed people. (Score!!!)

The catfish has over 27,000 tastebuds.

Pretty interesting, huh?

In other news, Ella is thoroughly enjoying the month of October. She's been working hard on lots of crafts that can help decorate our house. She's made my windowsill above my sink adorable :)

She also made a piece of foam board into the perfect Halloween decoration for her room!

*For all of you wondering about the drawing to the left of the pumpkin, that is Ella's "Halloween Horse" ;-)

Today we're just hanging out and getting a few things together for the rest of our week. Thursday night we're super excited to be going to "Disney on Ice!" I haven't told Ella yet so she'll be SOOOO excited when I tell her. This version of the show includes Cars AND Lion King. She'll be in heaven! Check back for pictures :) Friday we have a "Princess Party" at Ella's friend, Riley's house. All the little girls are going to show up in their best Princess get-up and head on over to Riley's castle. We will see how long Ella will tolerate her costume. LOL! After the party we will head over to "Trunk-or-Treat!" at a local church. The members line their parking lot with their decorated cars/trunks and the kids go from car to car "trunk-or-treating." We went last year and Ella had a ball. They have hayrides and inflatables and all kind of fun games. So we're looking forward to that, too. Saturday I'm thinking about taking Ella to get her pictures taken for Halloween. We'll play it by ear.

We hope everyone's having a great week! Ella is insisting on including Rudy in this post, so I'll leave you with this picture! :)

Funny.

I absolutely love this picture sequence!! This was from my birthday! LOL