What a Weekend!

We had such a fun three day weekend (teacher conference week, no school on Friday!!). Jerry was headed up to my mom's on Friday to install her Comcast equipment and earned some major Husband Points by taking BOTH kids with him! They love Grammy's house and I'm pretty sure Grammy likes seeing them, even though she already watches them three days a week. Our house was a little messy, nothing too crazy but Jerry left me strict instructions that I was to just relax all day and not clean! Sweet! I did clean out Abby's rooms and dust/vacuum the upstairs. Then I did some laundry while catching up on all my DVR'd shows for the week. They left before 11 am and then met me at volleyball that night...so I had an entire day to myself.

Abby reading her new book from the school's book fair, princess book, big surprise

She still lets buddy sit by her sometimes. Harder to get away from him now that he can get up on the couch by himself!

Saturday we puttered around the house and then in the late afternoon headed over to the Corey house for our monthly get-together with the gang. It's 4 couples + 7 kids and a new puppy, quite a fun group! We got tired of saying that we never get together as a group very often so we started a monthly gathering, rotating houses. Tony and Shauna brought there 6-week-old pup (name to be determined...I voted on Copper), and he was a huge hit with all the kiddos. Anicia's room was super clean when we got there and 3 hours later the kids had utterly destroyed it! It took three adults about 15 minutes to get everything put back in it's home....a sign of a truly fun night! We love hanging out with everyone and hope that the tradition continues!

Abby and Anicia in their princess get-ups

Sunday was the day Abby has been looking forward to for quite some time....Disney on Ice!! She did wear her Cinderella costume and she loved that a lot of the other little girls there had princess dresses on too!

Ready to go!

There were a number of princess gowns on display which Abby was delighted to see. She was pretty amazed by Snow White and Belle's gowns

There was a real princess waving to the kids while we were looking at dresses but as we got to her stage she went behind the curtain. Abby was disappointed as she thought we'd missed seeing a real princess but then...CINDERELLA came out. Oh my word she was so excited to see the real Cindy. She got up on Daddy's shoulders and waved like there was no tomorrow!

And Cinderella waved back!

Two pretty gals!

We had to sit for about 20 minutes before the show started and Abby kept saying, "It's going to start any minute guys!" Finally the announcer came on when there were only 5 minutes before showtime....and the excitement built! We were a little disappointed to find out that you could take pictures there, just no flash once the show started. On the tickets it said no cameras allowed so we ended up with just cell phone pics.

Abby and Jer before the show

Me and my Abby

So excited! We were in the 6th row, perfect spot!

I asked for a "Princess Kiss" picture

The show started with Mickey and the gang, then it was Cars, Little Mermaid, Lion King and an intermission. Abby sang along (loudly) with all the songs she knew, clapped very enthusiastically and as soon as the lights came on for the break she had to go potty...NOW! I hustled her up the stairs and how great, the bathroom was right across the hall! We were the sixth mom/child duo in line so we got in fairly fast...and holy cow did she pee a lot, it even made her laugh 'cause it just didn't stop! I think if the show had kept going we might have had a problem. When we left the bathroom the line was about 40 moms long...yikes! After intermission it was Tinkerbell. It was a pretty long part compared to the other movie parts but it's one of Abby's favorite movies and she didn't move a muscle the entire time!

Mickey and the gang!

Mater (Daddy's favorite according to Abby)

Flo, Mater and Sally!

We have a few pictures of the other parts but they're a little blurry for a blog post, just don't quite do the show justice! I'm hoping that they'll come back again next year so we can take Trey, I think he'd love it too. And if the Princess one ever comes to town we are definitely taking the little lady to that one!

It was so fun to take just Abby and not have the distraction of Trey. She was so well-behaved and sweet and funny and cute! Jerry and I were both wondering where she hides this sweet little girl at and why she can't make an appearance more often! It was great to see her so excited about something. We took her to dinner afterward and she continued the great behavior, asked to go to sleep right when we got home....and then woke up her usual mildly cranky self. neat.