Beauty and the Beast

The Kalaheo school play is pretty much the most amazing elementary school play on the planet. I'm sure of it. In the last three years they have done Charlie and the Chocalate Factory, Annie, and now Beauty and the Beast. Our friend Jackson was the beast this year. He did such a great job. When he changed from the beast into the prince he was laying on his back and lifted up off the stage. The rose had petals falling throughout the play. For the forest scenes they had a sheer stage curtain so you could see sillouettes of the wolves attacking Crazy Old Maurice and then Belle. We continue to be more and more impressed every year with this play. We took the kids on Saturday of opening weekend and then Holly took Naiya and the girls the next Saturday. They went especially to try their hand at the raffle for the beautiful yellow Belle dress. On Tuesday my friend Dawn (Jackson's mom) called and asked if we were home because she had a surprise for Kyleigh. She walked in with THE DRESS!!!! I screamed. Kyleigh isn't a screamer when it comes to surprises so she gave her sideways head tilt smile then ran to put it on and has hardly taken it off. I thought for sure it had been rigged for Kyleigh to win, but no, she won fair and square with her one little raffle ticket. I knew Holly would be so excited about it that I was going to take a special trip to her house just to surprise her. We called and she was leaving Costco. She ended up coming over here. When Kyleigh walked out in the dress she SCREAMED. She was holding Aliya, who promptly started crying. I held her while Holly admired the dress. Ridge saw Aliya crying so he started crying and came over to give her a hug. Really that has nothing to do with the dress but it was such a cute little hug. We are so excited to have won the raffle. That dress will make four little girls happy, one at a time.

Kyleigh at the play with Belle and the Beast.