I had to opportunity to attend Disney On Ice: Princess Wishes. Man, we’ve gone to Mickey’s Rockin’ Roadshow and Ringling Bros. Circus, but I have to admit I loved Disney on Ice the best!! We had AMAZING seats- 2nd row from the floor. And as a bonus, I got to sit by my friend, Brandy, over at Not So Average Mama. I knew she would be there, but it was fun to discover our seats were right next to each other! (Fun for me anyways… you’ll have to ask her what she thought about my singing the entire show…)  I grew up LOVING Disney. We used to listen to Disney music on vacation… on purpose. So, all the songs were familiar to me and the stories too! Here are few of the better pics I got. I am a lame photographer. Every time I snapped, they bowed, or turned or someone jumped in front of me…

I loved the show and so did Sei, Taj, Liv, Isabel, my sister Ali and Isabel’s friend, Emily. Taj was worried it would be all “girl princess stuff…” Not at all!! Aladdin was the 1st scene of the show and he was loving it. But when the dragon set the ice on fire– Taj was in awe!! Sei didn’t want to go either, but got wrangled in to it. He thoroughly enjoyed himself. Thank you Disney on Ice and Feld Entertainment!!

I took the kids letterboxing. What’s letterboxing, you ask? It’s kind of like geocaching, except you don’t use a GPS. You follow clues and directions left by fellow letterboxers to find the hidden box. In the box is a stamp and a notepad. You also carry your own stamp and notepad. Once you find the box you stamp YOUR stamp in the notepad left in the box and stamp your pad with THEIR stamp. It’s kind of like collecting stamps on a passport combined with a scavenger hunt. The kids and I weren’t quite sure if it would be fun. Tristan, Alec and Isabel had been geocaching before so I was afraid it would pale in comparison. WRONG! They said letterboxing was more fun! We went several times over the Thanksgiving holiday.  We even hid a few of our own. If you go on Letterboxing.org we are “G-Force.” Our stamp is a snake with a G on it.

Stay tuned for more November updates…. I didn’t really do any Black Friday shopping, but will share a couple of Christmas purchases with you in my next post. I did attempt to go to Toys R Us, but the line TO GET IN THE STORE was 1/2 a mile long. So, I stuck with online shopping.

I am lame. For Thanksgiving I went to my sister‘s home in Kansas. Tristan, Alec and Isabel were with the ex so Sei was sweet enough to take off work so he could drive the 8 hours with me and the 2 youngest. I think he decided this when I asked him, “So, it’s only illegal for me to take my gun with me out of state if I get caught with it, right?”  and “If I have to shoot a bad guy at a rest stop am I going to get in trouble for taking my gun out of state?”  He can legally take him duty weapon whereever, so that was the better plan.

It was fun at my sisters. Taj was in heaven with his cousins and there’s a lot of cool places to go up there for kids. I also got to meet my niece FINALLY!!! She’s a chubby sweetie, that’s for sure. The food on Thanksgiving was delish! My sister is a much better hostess than I am. If people came to my house for Thanksgiving we are goin’ to Golden Corral. I kid you not- ask my mom.

I also got to hang with cool friends while I was there. Shout out to Nobody and S,  yo! I know S got some pics… still waiting on those… And S’s husband is my hero. While we were at S’s house Liv was totally sleeping HARD on the floor.  Nothing would wake her and by nothing I mean a very heavy door not attached to hinges that literally fell on top of her. S’s husband had randomly gone to lay on the floor in a room full of kids. The door fell and he dove across Liv, taking the brunt of the door in the shoulder and neck, saving not only liv, but Nobody’s Danyo, too!  Liv really would have been seriously injured if he hadn’t been there. So, uh, THANKS AGAIN for that!!

All in all it was an awesome visit. Taj cried when we left. He loves his cousins. The only thing that would console him is when we said,  “But Alec will be home when we get there!!” He loves his Alec. Thanks again Sister for the great Thanksgiving!!! (She wrote a better post about it here.)