disney on ice 2019

we love love love love looooove disney on ice! i started taking madeline when she was 2 and we have been every year since. this year however, i got in within a few minutes of the tickets going on sale and we got vip tickets, just six rows from the front. worth every cent!

every year i have my friends asking me why i didn't message to ask them if they wanted tickets, so after multiple calls around, we bought 8 tickets... and only two of them were actually for kids. crack up! we had one friend that only has boys who are all teenagers, two friends without kids, a friends mum even! (we love you nannaleah!) and one other mum with a kid haha. what a bunch.

mickey and friends opening the show 

when you look this fancy, a bathroom selfie is a must. how cool is my daughter? i swear she is going to overtake me any day now.

as close to the ice as you are allowed to get! maddie has always worn princess dresses and the likes, but this year she decided she wanted to be minnie mouse. too cute. i love the sparkly red shoes!

after the show, our grown up gal gang took the most ridiculous photo by the ice, if you look closely our arms all form a six pointed star (very bad lighting...!) and we were so busy laughing it took us forever to work out how to do it and could barely keep it in place.

my favourite girl and i after the show. oh how i love her little face (most of the time...)

disney never ever disappoints and we loved this year again... my favourite was definitely the moana segment (yes! they have finally included her in the show, hooray!) and we also loved rapunzel and ariel who both rocked out an ariel routine with their princes. disney is legittt with their routines. so much effort!

last but not least... squad goals! i had the best time with these girls and cannot wait for next year! ♥

disney, we love you!!

disney on ice 2018

the tradition continues... every year since madeline was two, we have gone to disney on ice together! we love it, it's a special night out for the two of us, we get dressed up and sing our heads off. sometimes it's just the two of us, sometimes we take other friends... this year we went with aunty dom.

(side note... anyone that knows me, knows i hate to spend money. there are lots of cool things to buy at disney on ice, but they are just soooo expensive. this year i saved myself a cool 20 odd dollars per person by grabbing these glow stick mickey ears from the local reject shop for $1.50 a pair. maddie has learnt over time that i just won't buy anything unless it's super cheap (so something really small) and although she does like to have a look at what's on offer, she doesn't really ask or get upset when i won't buy her any of the souvenirs they have at the show. phew!)

my happy girl and i

all of the photos!

took me a while of convincing, but somehow i got her to wear her flowergirl dress from aunty niques's wedding... she was a bit taken aback when i suggested she pair it with her pink converse, but threw them on quick smart (i think she thought i was going to change my mind haha) and was good to go. so glad that dress has been worn more than once!

i was chuffed with the show this year (other than the fact they always spend so long on frozen... i mean seriously, we get it, it's on the ice, the movie involves ice, yeah yeah, moving along - can't wait until they are over it!!) when they included friend like me from aladdin with 20 skating genies!! ohhh i love aladdin so much!

and they did some scenes from mulan! pictured is let's get down to business. yayyyyy!

as usual there was a finale full of princesses... i love it! disney, you've done it again. can't wait for next year - i have my fingers crossed for moana to make an appearance! ♥

frozen on ice

madeline and i have been to disney on ice everytime it's in perth since she was two years old. so, this year was our fourth time! this year was super exciting for pretty much every little girl on the planet, because this time, they decided to do frozen on ice! frozen is great (although not my personal favourite) and they would be silly passing up doing frozen on ice, wouldn't they!

madeline and i went with aunty dom for a girls night out... and had a blast as usual. the three of us always have a good time, so adding disney into the mix made it even better!

my favourite part of the night was olaf's song "in summer" where he was surrounded by bees, butterflies and flowers, so so cute!

 

during the intermission we found madeline's friend brooklyn from school, so they had to dance about, do some spinning and sing in the foyer. crack up kids.

elsa and anna dancing up a storm

of course, the highlight for madeline was seeing elsa sing "let it go"... as usual, disney did everything to perfection, you really can't fault any of their shows.

i must admit though, i am much more excited about the shows that they do when they change the theme/ story every 10-15 mins or so. i love being able to watch multiple stories and seeing how they put each one on show. for this reason i am especially looking forward to next years one, which is apparently going to be an anniversary show. hooray! can't wait.

we love you disney on ice! ♥

disney on ice: magical ice festival

disney on ice, we love you!! this year is the third time madeline and i have been to disney on ice at the perth arena and all i can say is wow! they just keep getting better. this year was no exception and we loved every minute of the show.

doug and i bought madeline an "elsa" dress a few weeks ago to surprise her with before the show. she was so excited and her little face lit up as she squealed "is that for me? did you buy it?" and ran to grab it from doug and put it on at lightning speed. (well my love, i certainly did not stay up for the last few weeks sewing it for you haha)

it added that much more fun to the night to be dressed up as a princess, especially when we referred to her as your royal highness all night. she was loving the attention!

she was so excited though, when she saw that i had dressed up too. i was about to put on jeans and a tshirt when i decided last minute that it would be fun to dress up too and pulled out my red skirt and minnie ears that i had stashed in our dress up box. it was a winning combination and madeline was very excited about it. oh mum! you're minnie!!

i love this girl so much it hurts

my minnie get up haha ♥

my favourite this year was tangled... if i could possibly pick a favourite disney movie, i think that would be mine. i love the lanterns, the songs and most of all the sarcasm. best disney prince ever!

mads was also super excited to see the frozen section. what little girl wouldn't be. especially when we saw the signs in the foyer saying that next years show is frozen on ice. wild horses couldn't keep my girl from that one!

elsa doing her thang... let it gooooooooooo

maddie kept asking where her friends were (we went in a group last year and she was missing her little mates) and as the most crazy thing ever, we ran into them across the road when we headed to the car.

it had been ages since they'd seen each other last and it was quite the reunion... i love how much they love each other!!

a photo with the chicks... what an awesome night!

we love you disney on ice!! see you next year! ♥

disney on ice: dare to dream

tonight we had a girls night at disney on ice: dare to dream at the perth arena. i went to disney on ice with madeline last year and when i told mum how good it was, we decided we would all go this year ans it was an awesome night out. yay! some of our other friends joined us too, as well as dougs aunt and cousins daughter who arrived this morning to visit from melbourne.

elsa and anna from frozen were chilling (get it? hahaha) in the foyer, taking pictures with people as they arrived... i am hoping this is a hint that frozen on ice will soon be coming to perth!

and my favourite of the modern princesses... rapunzel, had her own little photobooth upstairs as you went into the show.

i was absolutely thrilled to see that this year, one of the major sections of the show was dedicated to tangled, which i am obsessed with i mean seriously, find me a girl that doesn't have a huge crush on flynn ryder...

the finale was amazing as always, including a dance with all the disney princesses and princes on the ice together and even a few mini fireworks. i loved every single second, because i'm clearly a big kid at heart. i think i'll have to take madeline until she begs me not to.

my favourite little one and i  :)

madeline showing off her rapunzel flag that we bought. i must admit, it is possibly more for me than her... hahaha.

and a shot with her cousin emma overlooking the rink. what a wonderful night out.

thanks mum!

disney on ice!!!

today maddie and i went to the perth arena to see disney on ice!! we had such a good time and i am so glad for my spur of the moment online ticket purchase after seeing an ad on tv one night. my little girl is completely and utterly obsessed with all the disney princesses (and a lot of the other movies too!!) so i knew it would be well worth it. 

she was captivated from the opening scene, toy story - and loved alice in wonderland and peter pan that followed before the intermission... the lion king was afterwards and i was so impressed with what they did for it (please go and look up disney on ice treasure trove the lion king on youtube, if there's a good copy, it's well worth the watch!) all the costumes and effects were so good. maddie got so excited and was adorable calling. "hey! hey!" and waving at the characters. they then did snow white and aladdin, which was the end of the actual story blocks... but there was still plenty of time for a song and a piece from the little mermaid, tangled and the princess and the frog before a finale with 9 of the princesses and their princes singing one day my prince will come. i was beside myself when they did aladdin which has always been my favourite of the movies, but when tangled started both maddie and i were cheering, she lovvvvves tangled ('punzel as she calls it...) and it's certainly my favourite of the new animation style movies that disney have done. it was so great to watch, and i loved the way that the characters interacted with the audience waving and smiling as they ended their piece. disney certainly never scrimp on anything and it was all presented with absolute perfection.

after the show we bought a princess balloon which maddie was thrilled to bits with, we walked in right as the show began, so we passed the stalls with merchandise and just looked - and then did the same during intermission. amazingly enough maddie was happy just to look - wow that's crazy... my two year old didn't want everything for once? but the balloon was great! she happily took it and walked up the street with it to meet daddy and joseph at harbourtown, where she showed it to everyone we passed.

it was so nice to spend some time with just me and her, i think sometimes she feels a little neglected when joseph constantly has all my attention, so it was nice for us! she told doug over and over about disney ice and keeps asking when we can go skating (this will be interesting for sure...) so obviously she enjoyed herself. i also saw when googling later on this afternoon that they currently have frozen on ice in progress so i guess that will be next on the agenda! i'm sure we'll be lining up for that one!! ♥