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Grip Your Seat for The Finest Hours: Movie Review

January 29, 2016 by Danielle

I was able to attend an early screening to facilitate this review. All opinions are 100% mine.

I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the new Disney movie that hit theaters last night – and you can probably guess it’s quite intense! Be ready to Grip Your Seat for The Finest Hours – because you’ll be taken for a ride in this amazing film based on an incredible true story!

First of all, let me say that this is one of those movies you do NOT want to leave for a bathroom break during pretty much any of it! After a short ‘introduce the story’ bit at the start, your taken through a terrifying adventure with these brave men. In 1952, an oil tanker split in half during a crazy storm – leaving 32 survivors on board miles from any land, in half a ship. They’ll have to work together to buy themselves some time, hoping someone will come to the rescue. Luckily, genius Ray Sybert (Casey Affleck) has some ideas to overcome the impossible.

With winds quickly approaching hurricane strength, and 70 ft. high waves getting more fierce by the minute, four members of the coast guard take on what would likely be a suicide mission in the hopes of reaching the ship in time. Led by Bernie Webber (Chris Pine), a by-the-book type of guy who had just gotten engaged to his sweetheart, Miriam (Holliday Grainger) they head out in a small lifeboat in the frigid temperatures.

Even though some of the team had their differences in the past, they have to overcome their issues if they stand a chance at survival, much less a rescue.

Miriam gets her first glimpse into what life as a coast-guard wife would be as she fears never seeing Bernie again. She was one of my favorite people, though, with her spit-fire personality and no fear of standing up to the men!

Guys, I’m afraid of water – so watching the insane storm at sea these men went through – when they had every excuse to turn back – really made me ache. I can’t even imagine! During the long drive home after the movie, Hubby and I talked tons about the different aspects, such as the in-half boat, the methods they used to survive, and how in the heck a small boat could even think of taking on these waves….

And when I say the lifeboat was small – it was made to fit TWELVE people, including the 4 coast guard members already on board. There’s 32 survivors on that half-a-ship. I don’t want to ruin the ending – but trust me you’ll be on the edge of your seat for almost the entire movie, and may even shed some tears like I did!

If you saw The Finest Hours – let me know what YOU thought!

Here’s more Disney films coming out in 2016…

NYC Sunglasses Printable from Norm of the North

January 11, 2016 by Danielle

This post was sponsored by Lionsgate as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central.

Our family loves movies, and are super excited for some amazing ones hitting theaters this year – like Norm of the North on January 15th! As we’re getting ready for a family night out, I thought it’d be fun to make a fun New York City Sunglasses Printable for the kiddos. Now they’re just like Norm!

The latest movie release from Lionsgate introduces a big-hearted, talkative polar bear named Norm. Going from his home in the Arctic to NYC, he’s on a mission to prevent his beloved home from being overrun by developers looking to profit from the land. With some crazy-yet-helpful friends, Norm takes on the Big Apple, big business and a BIG identity crisis as he tries to save the day!

After we watched the trailer, the kids asked me ‘wouldn’t a polar bear be afraid to go to New York?’ I would think so! That led to a deep discussion about how sometimes you have to do things that scare you – take adventures – to kind of find not only what you love and what makes you happy, but who YOU are. I can’t wait to see the film with them so we can go further down that rabbit hole of a discussion!

Of course, we also had to discuss adventures WE’VE taken as a family – such as our all-of-a-sudden job switch for hubby, then moving an hour away from friends and school. It was terrifying, to be honest! But we learned so much as a family – working together, including the kids in the packing and planning, and making NEW friends. Through the whole process, we talked about how we could either be grumpy and make it even harder, or embrace this new adventure. We chose the latter, and now the whole family is better off for it!

For these printable sunglasses, first Download it Here. It prints onto an 8.5×11 sheet with TWO sunglasses cut-outs per page. Let your kids color them, help them cut-out the eye parts, then use a whole punch and yarn/ribbon so they can put it around their head.

Super simple, but the kids LOVE it! Now they’re begging me to see Norm of the North IN New York City – oh, if only!

What adventure has YOUR family embraced lately?

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MARVEL’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron Printables

October 9, 2015 by Danielle

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Woot woot! My family has been eagerly waiting, and now we can celebrate the Blue-Ray/DVD release in style with these MARVEL’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron Printables! Nab them for your drinks, snacks such as popcorn boxes or candy tubs, and enjoy the humor, action and suspense of the newest hit!

The timing couldn’t have been more perfect, since we were heading to a big family vacation with my side, and everyone else was just as excited to watch it together. There’s about 20 of us here, which means one SUPER movie night with lots of snacks and drinks! First, we had to swing by Walmart for the Blue-Ray/DVD . Since half of us are kids, it made the night even better to have some costumes for our ‘little Avengers’!

I couldn’t get over how awesome the Hulk Buster add-on for the regular Iron Man costume is, and our little spidey-lover was having a blast! As you can see, our little Hulk was a bit short for the size we picked – but it works out best so that all the kiddos can enjoy it. Kind of ironic that our kid who is ‘Hulk’ wanted to wear the Hulk Buster first!

They even come with a fun wrist-band ‘watch’ that has a holographic character on it – so fun! This is the one that came with the regular Iron Man costume….

Whether you’re enjoying a Dr Pepper, some juice packets or a bottle of chocolate milk, these drink labels are fabulous with your favorite characters from the film! Then there’s the larger labels – they were perfect for a cotton candy container, box of chocolate, and a popcorn box!

Download the Drink Labels Here: Sheet 1 and Sheet 2 and Sheet 3

Download the Snack Labels Here

Which MARVEL character costume are you most excited to grab for your own movie party?

Printable Quotes from Pitch Perfect 2

September 24, 2015 by Danielle

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Who else is a huge fan of Rebel Wilson? I seriously LOVE her – so of course I had to grab her newest movie the day it hit stores! Just like it’s prequel, it has so many memorable and hilarious lines in it – I couldn’t resist making these fun Printable Quotes from Pitch Perfect 2!

I would love to know how many of the lines were scripted, and which ones were improvised because it was ACA-HILARIOUS! I’m so glad I grabbed the Limited Edition Blu-ray combo pack from Walmart that even includes a soundtrack with 8 hits from Pitch Perfect 1 and 2!

I’m not ready for my 9-year-old to see the movie, but she’s THRILLED about the awesome soundtrack! She loves singing and dancing, so this is right down here alley (mine, too, but she’s actually GOOD at it!)

One of my absolute favorite lines in the movie is “I’m gonna remember you weirdos” – it’s like the story of my friends and I! Seriously, it’s not the competitions, the awards or prestige you remember in life. It’s the people by your side – whether they are completely weird and crazy or not! Although I personally think it’s more fun with crazy people 🙂 I cut out some of the printables from this SHEET DOWNLOAD and attached them to little packs of cookies I could share with my own ‘weirdo’ friends.

Head to Walmart to grab the exclusive Pitch Perfect 2 Blu-Ray/Soundtrack combo pack. The soundtrack includes some of your favorite songs from Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2 (while supplies last) – pop it into your player and sing along!

Getting Ready for Family Forward with Minion Bingo Free Printables

September 3, 2015 by Danielle

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I’m writing this a week before we head to Orlando, Florida for an AMAZING social media event at Universal Studios! I can’t tell you how excited I am, and we’ve been having fun Getting Ready for Family Forward with Minion Bingo Free Printables! #FamilyForwarrd #UniversalOrlando

It’s been planned since we bought tickets to Family Forward MONTHS ago, and the best part? We haven’t told our kids! We’re going to wake them up early on the 3rd (when you’ll probably be reading this), tell them we’ve got a surprise and head to the airport. Neither hubby or I will say a word about this great adventure until we land. Woot woot! Fingers crossed I can keep my mouth shut until then. And big SHOUT-OUT to my sis-in-law for staying at our home while we’re gone to keep our dogs and everything safe!

Even though the kids have no idea why, I’ve been doing more things involving the trip – Minions, Harry Potter (squeal!), Transformers and more. Another Dallas blogger and her family are going, and it turns out we’re on the same flight there – and her girls are about the same age as my Black Widow! They’re going to have so much fun – and she’s keeping it a secret, too.

With all the extra things I’ve been doing, I pulled together these fun Bingo cards because, well, why the heck not?! There’s three pages, and each has TWO different Bingo cards for a total of SIX different cards.

Minion Bingo Sheet 1 Minion Bingo Sheet 2 Minion Bingo Sheet 3

Between exclusive time at the parks, a VIP tour, performance from The Blue Man Group and more, it’s going to be an AMAZING event where I plan to make so many great memories with my family. We’ve been so busy lately, we’re definitely due for some quality time together! I have so many more ideas, recaps and such coming your way so stay tuned – and ‘hello’ from Orlando (where I’ll be when this post goes live!) 😀

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Disney’s Descendants Free Printable Memory Game

August 21, 2015 by Danielle

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My daughter has been non-stop excited for months now, anxiously waiting the new The Disney Channel Original Movie, Descendants. We made sure to catch up on the classic movies with the original villains before it released on July 31st – have to make sure we can match people up, right?! Now you can do even more matching with this fun Disney’s Descendants Free Printable Memory Game!

Not only did Descendants come to The Disney Channel, but also on DVD at Walmart – so for those of us without cable it wasn’t a heartbreak situation! We nabbed that up, along with the official movie soundtrack….Black Widow was SO happy because we literally grabbed the very last soundtrack they had in stores! See some of the empty shelves? Yup, we grabbed that sucker and she wouldn’t let it go until we got to the register!

Now, I said that she was excited – but I’ll freely admit that I was also really eager to see this movie because – hello! – Disney villains with kids? That’s gotta be fun, right? You’ve got Maleficent; how could she not be the poster mother, after cursing a little baby 😉 – Jafar; his temper would surely be great dad material – Cruella De Vil; her animal hatred surely wouldn’t get in the way of her kid having a pet – and The Evil Queen; what a great role model at inner beauty! I hope you noted the sarcasm there – but really, I just had to find out how this whole thing would work out between the favorite villains I grew up with, and a whole new generation in a ‘modern’ world.

The DVD at Walmart even has a special bracelet in it, with a little charm for each of the four villain kids! I told Black Widow she could wear it awhile – but honestly don’t know if I’m ever going to get it back. I think she set a new record for high-pitched squealing when I told her they also had dolls at Walmart of the characters! There were so many fun ones to choose from, but we ultimately decided on Mal (Malificent’s daughter) and Evie (Evil Queen’s daughter). Think my girl’s grin could be any bigger – and they weren’t even out of the box yet?!

She loved that each of the dolls had neat little details – from the clothing to the shoes, plus the little ‘extra’ like Mal’s spellbook and Evie’s Magic Mirror.

They did so great at adding different and fun personalities to each of the villain’s kids – and you’ll LOVE the music that goes along with it!

Now get in on the fun with this Free Printable Descendants Matching Game!

Download Sheet 1 Here

Download Sheet 2 Here

I tried to include everyone – from the main villains and kids, to the Fairy Godmother, Dopey’s son Doug and even Mulan’s daughter Lonnie! Seriously, you’ll be amazed how many of the classic movie characters they were able to tie into Descendants.