Kites

Emily's new fascination this Spring is with kites. She begged her dad to get her some, so they went to the dollar store and got a pack. She broke immediately because they were so poor quality, so Kenny went to Wal-mart and got some better ones. Emily has loved it. Anytime it's windy she asks us to go out and fly the kite. Ashley likes watching hers, but wants Daddy to fly it.

Emily flying her kite

The cute lady bug kite she was flying. It's very hard to get a picture of her and the kite flying at the same time.

I finally got a picture of her and the kite, but it crashed right as I took the picture. If you look carefully, you'll see Kenny on the ground trying to avoid being struck by crashing kite.

St. Patrick's Day

Emily was super excited for St. Patrick's Day this year for three reasons:

1) She got to wear all green

2) St. Patrick's Day is close to Easter and that means she'll get her new Easter dress

but most importantly,

3) Classic Skate Night for my school!!

We had never been to a Classic Skate Night until the Halloween one and ended up there as a fluke, but I'm so glad we did because Emily LOVED it!!!!!!! She has asked numerous times every week since, "When are we going back to Classic Skating?" So when the note went home about it last week, I showed it to her, she jumped up and down (A LOT) and started counting down the days. Once again we had a blast and this time so did Ashley. We brought the Wiggle Cars in and Ashley can do those herself. It was once again a great night.

Ashley on her Wiggle Car

Emily on her Wiggle Car. She rotated between her scooter and this.

Ashley taking a break from skating and eating her dinner

Princess on Ice, again

Princess on Ice came again to the Energy Solutions Arena and we of course had to go. We went on opening night and got an AMAZING deal on the tickets, so it was definitely worth it. There were only two stories about princesses this time, so the girls weren't quite as enthralled (especially during the Lion King), but they still had a blast. Before the show started they had the Princess ball gowns set up which the girls liked, but they also had the "real" Princess Tiana and Cinderella there waving at the girls and posing for pictures. That was wonderful for the girls, especially since Emily was dressed as Cinderella. It was once again a great night.

Smiling by Cinderella

Princess Tiana's dress and room

Snow White's dress and poisoned apple in the back. Ashley went crazy over that, since this is her favorite movie to watch right now and then reenact.

The cute flower hat that came with the cotton candy. The cotton candy tasted awful to us, but the girls liked it.

Emily trying on the hat

Ashley dancing to Kiss the Girl. This was her favorite story!

Marathon of Fun

Many of you know that Kenny and I are coupon people. You may laugh (Vickie, I hear you :-), but why go somewhere and pay full price when you can use a coupon! In September we bought some Take 5 cards that gave us free or half price things. We realized last Saturday that these cards expired on Monday the 1st, so last Monday we decided to use all the valuable coupons that we had left. First we went to Weinerschnitzel and got the two girls free corndogs. Then we headed over to Fuddruckers where we had coupons for a free hamburger. We then went to Trafalga where we had free golf for Emily (Ashley's still free) and we had a 2-for-1 coupon for us. We hadn't been to Trafalga in a long time. They've redone it to be glow in the dark blacklight underwater scenes. It's really cool and Emily and Ashley had a blast. Emily also was quite the little natural golfer. She actually beat me by one stroke (hard to admit, but true). She's asked us almost every day since, when can we go golfing again. You'd think we would be done, but NO, there's more. We had 20 free tokens at Chucky Cheese so we let the girls go on a few rides and still brought home 15 tokens for a later use. Then we went to Coldstone and got us all ice creams with our coupons. Whoo, we were finally done and the girls were so happy, but ready for bed. We did all of our night for less than $10!

We called this night our marathon of fun. It was so much fun and super cheap!!! The girls had a blast as did Kenny and I. It's the most amount of time we'd spent together as a whole family in a while too--that was my bonus. I love my family so much! I also love coupons! :-)

Can you believe it? I didn't bring my camera! Luckily Kenny has his iPhone so we got a couple of snapshots. Not the greatest, but you at least get the idea.

Before their final shot. Emily started crying because she didn't want to give her ball up. She had so much fun!