Desperately Seeking Santa

This is another ABC Family movie about Christmas. In this one, the main character is a PR manager for a mall and she hosts a contest for a new hunky Santa that she ends up falling for. 

It certainly isn't the best Christmas movie ABC Family has had to offer, but if you are one of those people who just love watching random Christmas movie after random Christmas movie, then here you go. (and you are in good company) 

Cyberbully

Cyberbully is one of ABC Family's more dramatic and serious TV movies. It is about a girl who gets her own laptop and joins a social media website. She ends up getting bullied by her classmates online and has to learn to deal with the bullying.

I didn't used to cry during movies but ever since I had a kid it doesn't take much anymore. This one had me crying and the struggles kids deal with these days with the online bullying. 

Cars 2

Time for the Pixar sequel, Cars 2. This one focuses a lot more on the sidekick, Mater.

Mater can be funny, but I prefer him in small doses. This film is still good with the added bonus of a lot of spy-fun! Lots of our favorite characters are back and new characters to love and hate, too. 

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2

Continuing with the Beverly Hills Chihuahua series, we move on to the sequel.

Disney loves doing the talking-dogs thing, and it doesn't seem to get old. This movie was cute and there were definitely some funny parts that the kid enjoyed. I'm noticing a theme with the dog movies - the dogs always end up being a hero and catching some sort of bad guy. Interesting. 

One more in this series to go! 

African Cats

It happened. We finally reached a movie I couldn't find anywhere. Typically when I don't own the Disney Movie I rent it from the library, know someone who has it in their stash, use Netflix or Amazon, get lucky and find it on TV to DVR for later, or rent from Disney on Demand or Google play. This time I was not so lucky. So, A Tiger Walks, we will just have to watch you another day and move on to the next movie. Perhaps by some good luck you will be unvaulted or whatever in the near future. 

On to African Cats! So exciting - our first documentary from the list with a Disney Nature movie!

So I watched this while I was crafting and thought I would just multi-tasked. It turns out this movie was way more interesting than I thought it would be (having just watched that Tale of Two Critters movie!) and I ended up sitting down and getting completely sucked in. I loved it. There were some slightly frightening and heart breaking parts, of course. I would definitely watch this one again. 

We invited some cousins over and hid my old Beanie Babies around the loft and had the kids go on a Safari and look for them like an Easter Egg Hunt. I don't know what it is, but kids always seem to like the challenge of having to find things that are hidden.