Ice, Rocks and Grass

Saturday was a wonderful day! It was filled with all things family and fun. We started the day by going to Disney on Ice. I was really excited to go since this is something Disney that we have never done. When we got there we of course had to head to the souvenir kiosks and have a look. There wasn't a whole lot that we were really interested in except for a program and some sno-cones in light up glasses. :) When we were all souvenired up we headed to our awesome 4th row seats!

The show started out with the Fab 5 plus Daisy talking about going on a trip around the world and the first place they wanted to go was Africa. Which Disney character lives in Africa?

The Lion King


Simba, Timon and Pumba skating to Hakuna Matata. I was fascinated by Pumba. That is a person skating on all fours! How uncomfortable would that be?!

 They went through the whole movie ice skating to the most popular songs. There were really fun props and scene changes between the songs. It was awesome!

After Africa they wanted to go "Under the Sea"...


Under the Sea was awesome! The whole rink was filled with skaters dressed up as all different kinds of fish with bubbles falling from the ceiling.



Ursula was sooo cool!

The Little Mermaid, Chet and Liv go waaaay back. When Liv was about 3 she looooved this show. Her favorite scene was when Ariel saves Prince Eric. Since we lived in an apartment with a pool whenever we would go swimming she would make Chet act out this scene with her. Chet would lay floating by the stairs and Liv would rescue him the rest of the way to the stairs and then she would hurry and dive away mermaid style with her feet together to make a tail. Such a Daddy's girl!

From the ocean we went to Hawaii to see Lilo and Stitch. This is actually one of the few Disney movies that we have never seen so we had no idea what was going on. It was still fun to watch.



The final stop was London to see the Darling family.



Harris was so excited when Peter Pan flew in!

It was hard to get a good picture because of all the spotlights on him.

During the song "You Can Fly" Peter and the Darling children "flew" around the arena heading to Neverland.

After their flight to Neverland, Captain Hook and Smee came out. With the crocodile close on Captain Hooks heels. :)

They cut a lot out of the movie and headed right to the ending. The pirate ship was huge! It took up about half of the rink.

To tell the story on the ship they broke it into three parts to make it like the whole rink area was the ship.

A Pirates Life for Me

Capin' Hook telling Wendy to walk the plank

Of course Peter and the croc defeat Hook





They made it back to London to be with their parents and Nana.

The show ended with Mickey and friends heading back to Disneyland...

It was such a fun show and I can't wait to see another one!

After the show we had to rush to the other side of ABQ to get Liv to her friends rock climbing birthday party. She was really nervous about rock climbing because she had never done it before. I think she ended up really liking it since she hasn't stopped asking when we can go back!

When we got there to pick her up the party wasn't quite over so Chet took some video of her climbing. She's pretty good. :)

When we got home from the party Harris was wanting to play football and since we don't have grass we packed up the fam including the dog and headed to the park. Chet was also dying to be outside since it was 75 and sunny. :)

All the fields were filled with soccer games so we made our way to the grass on the baseball field to play football.

Harris showing me how far he can kick the ball...

Liv is a big tease and stole the ball from Harris and took off. Well Harris took off after her and they both tripped and fell at the same time! It was so funny! Chet said, "man my kids are coordinated."

Liv got up and took off again with the ball and now Harris was really mad...


When Harris finally got the ball back he decided it would be more fun to throw the ball at Chet.

Chet took it right in the head...



After that they went back to tackle football...

When we were all done with football we went to the pond on the other side of the park to feed the ducks. I told Chet they probably wouldn't be hungry because of all the people that had been there. I was wrong. They swarmed us!

They just kept coming and coming even flying in from somewhere and landing in front of us. There were probably about 30 or 40 ducks there.

Eventually there was so many in the water they ran out of room and had to came up on the dirt next to us.

When we ran out of bread and they decided to seek more from the people on the other side of the pond.

It was the most wonderful day! I am so grateful for all the family time we get to spend together here in New Mexico and all the wonderful memories we are making. I can't wait to make another one.