Wreck It Ralph Dinner Movie Night

Last week for our Friday night ritual we watched one of the hubs and I's fastly approaching favorites, Wreck It Ralph.  This movie cracks me up.  Maybe because I grew up with a lot of the games in the movie or I have the mentality of a five year old.  That's still up for debate.  Anyways...

The girls and I started by making our candy cars (The characters in the movie make a candy car).  Of course this went over famously.  The only problem was keeping them from eating their car before it was finished.  I just used graham crackers, marshmallows, frosting and leftover Easter candy I had laying around the house.

What do you mean I can't just eat straight icing?!?!?!

Then we snacked on "Fix it Felix's hammers" (pretzels and cheese cubes).

The main course was Felix's favorite meal, pie... Mommy twist, pot pie.  Not as fun but thematic.
(Didn't take a pic cause well... it was just a pot pie)
Dessert was their cars and our "Hero Medals" made from cookies and nerds licorice.

There you have it! Ton of fun.  This week Winnie the Pooh...

Arrrrrr Pirates Friday Movie Night

We have started a new tradition in our house, Friday Night Movie Night.  It actually has sinister ulterior motives.  To our girls it's a fun themed treat night.  For Daddy and I, it is motivation to not spend money going out to eat, an excuse to sit down and secretly enjoy watching kids movies and a reward/incentive for the girls to be on their best all week.  The hubby and I choose a movie of the week before I go to the grocery store so I can plan accordingly :)  Our first choice was The Pirates movie.

Our girls have had this weird "boy-like" obsession with pirates because of their infatuation with Peter Pan.  So, we figured a new pirates movie would be a good fit.  I whipped up a pirate themed dinner to eat while we watched and the girls LOVED it.  The plus was that it really was easy to make, wasn't expensive and our house was SILENT for 1 1/2 hours with stuffed mouths and zoned out movie PEACE :)  Here was the menu...

~ Hot dog octopus:  Just slice the bottom 3/4 of the hot dog into "tentacles"
~ Raman noodle ocean: Raman noodles (minus the rediculous sodium flavor pack) with blue food   
   coloring
~ Blueberry canonballs
~ Hard boiled egg pirates ship:  Hard boiled egg cut in half.  The sail is made out of a pretzel and
   triangular shaped cheese slice
~ Ocean jello dessert:  Blue jello with Swedish fish

This week is Wreck-it Ralph!  Post and pics to come soon.