Surprise Day...Disney On Ice!

On Saturday we had our first Surprise Day in the Stahl house. We woke the kids up telling them it was Surprise Day and that we had a special scavenger hunt planned for them to find out what the surprise was.

(Brad and I were super excited to get tickets to Disney On Ice. The entire month we made sure to pick Disney movies for family movie nights and also checked out lots of Disney books at the library, so that the kids were more familiar with the characters. The movies featured were Cars, The Little Mermaid, Tinkerbell and Toy Story.)

Working out the surprise was lots of fun. We did a scavenger hunt to get the tickets, with each step of the hunt involving prep for our leaving. The first clue's answer was Lightening McQueen which led them to their clothes, so they had to get dressed before we did the second clue. The second answer was Tinkerbell, and we had baggies under Lorelei's Tink doll to put their special breakfast into for the drive. The third answer was Woody's cowboy hat and we had the car keys under the hat. Then the last answer was a fork, so they found the tickets in the fork drawer. (Disclaimer: our actual tickets were ugly and had to have the full page of paper printed, so my amazing husband quickly photo-shopped some cute tickets for the kids. :) So thankful for his talents!)

Two kids excited to see the show! :)

I got a few short clips of video just to help us remember (and in case you want a glimpse at what we saw) and for some reason did not get one from the Tinkerbell part! (I didn't want to spend the entire show videoing rather than enjoying it. But very hard to get any good pictures since they are moving so quickly!) They were all AMAZING!!! We all really enjoyed it and had a hard time deciding what our favorite part was! The day was a success! :)