Monday, January 3, 2011

The Nutcracker

After the party at the grange, Stephen, Susan, Madison, Brooklyn, and Hudson came home with us to stay the night. Matt and Holly came over for a little while as well. The kids played so well together, and so nicely in our playroom downstairs. In the morning, Ben made breakfast, then we got ready to go to the Nutcracker.
We always take lots of pictures...
Then, take even more in front of the tree at the opera house...
Taylor, Brooklyn and Madison...we loved having them at our house!
Taylor in her seat waiting for the Nutcracker to begin.
During intermission, grandma bought Taylor a chocolate cookie and a glass of wine for me.
After the ballet we took some additional pictures...
Then we walked over to the Olive Garden for dinner. Taylor was pretending to ice skate...
It is so much fun to dress up and enjoy this holiday tradition. Now that Taylor and I have been going a few years we can (at least I can) appreciate the different companies that perform. My favorite part of this years performance was the lady with the huge skirt and the 10 children/dancers who came out of it. She was so funny with all her little antics as the children were performing.

Maddie, Sharah, Jade, Mariah, Tammy, Jeanette, Cathy, Jan, Madison, Julianna, Julie, Kimberly,Kelly, Ava, Krianne, Yeo Won, Sara, Paula, Kate, Taylor, me, Susan and Brooklyn.

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