Start Your Week Off Right

Each week I post a quote from Walt Disney, a Disney movie, ride, etc. to keep the Disney spirit going... even on a Monday!

"Yes, the past can hurt, but the way I see it, you either run from it, or you learn from it." 
~ Rafiki in The Lion King

I think this is a very inspirational quote.  Big or small, if something or someone has hurt, embarrassed, or just upset you in any way, take the lesson that it offers and know that tomorrow is a brand new day.  Treat it like a new start!

Here is some great trivia... check out more at imdb.com!

* Originally the film was going to be about a conflict between lions and baboons, and Scar was going to be the baboon leader. Rafiki, the only baboon in the film, was instead going to be a cheetah.

* The wildebeest stampede took Disney's CG department approximately three years to animate.

* In early drafts, Scar was a rogue lion with no relation to Mufasa. Eventually, however, the story writers thought relating him to Mufasa would be more interesting; a threat within. This is why Scar and Mufasa differ so much; They weren't originally designed to be related.

Movie Night - The Lion King

Now that we're at least a little more settled, I wanted to start up movie nights more often! I want to do one a week until our upcoming trip. We started last weekend with The Lion King!

image from allbestwallpapers.com

Since we have little wiggle room in the house at the moment (we have SO. MUCH. STUFF! and we are going through and trying to find places, donate a lot of it, etc.) so we're keeping things a little low key and using the things that we've unpacked so far. :) Anyway, for one activity I printed out a picture of Pride Rock and gave Ashlyn some animal stickers to put on it. She said most of the animals wanted to be in the trees. :)


I also found a tiger mask that Ashlyn had been wanting to make. Yes, I know, there are no tigers in The Lion King, but she had fun. :)


For dinner we had Simba's Pot Roast, Roasted Broccoli Trees, and Cheese Toast (I didn't have a cute name for that one ;) ).


For dessert I wanted to make monkey bread, but I completely forgot to look at the recipe before we went grocery shopping so I didn't know what I needed to get (and we were having the movie night that night so I didn't really feel like running back out lol) so we just got coffee cake and said it would be our monkey bread. lol Hey, it was yummy, so it works for me. :)

Our next movie night will be Bambi! Ashlyn picked out a Bambi book from the library this week and has recently rediscovered (aka we just unpacked it) her stuffed Bambi so it'll be perfect. :)