The Nutcracker

Sunday we started what I hope will be annual tradition. We went to the Lone Star Ballet's Nutcracker. The story is timeless. The show is fairly short. It was great fun for these two girls. We left the boys at home to burp and scratch and play the Wii to their hearts content. Perfect for everybody!

I wasn't going to buy a new dress for Phoebe for the occasion, but then last Tuesday I saw THIS on sale at our local Gap. Even more on sale than the Internet! It was love at first sight. I knew she needed for The Nutcracker.

She looked beautiful...if only she had acted as beautiful! She had a bit of a rough day. :(

But we were determined to enjoy ourselves!

I had bought her a Nutcracker at Hobby Lobby with intentions to sparkle it up a bit (because, really, what's a Nutcracker without any sparkle?), but I ran out of time and decided I could just buy one of the Nutcrackers the Lone Star Ballet was selling in the foyer. My time was worth it...this time anyway.

When we got to the venue, it was crazy packed. But I elbowed my way past some other crazy moms to get to the counter. Phoebe chose a sparkly green and pink Nutcracker that was $30 and I was getting ready to pay (I think this is when my diamond fell out, btw). And then she saw a sparkly read one that she wanted even more. It was only $13!! Score! We bought the Nutcracker and watched the show.

She couldn't figure out why were going to watch a show about a Cracker, though. :) She was disappointed when the show "paused" for the dancers to rest and get their costumes changed.  It was all good when they "hit play" again!

One of the gals in our Huddle had several major roles and Phoebe spent most of her time looking for Baylee.  Thank heavens she was in almost every scene!

Phoebe's dance teacher was also in the show. That was very exciting!

We had lots of fun (except for the diamond losing part...post coming soon about that!) and I think she's already excited about next year.

My brother always says I have holiday OCD because I like to do the same things at the holiday in the same way year after year. It just doesn't seem like Christmas if you don't! This will be a nice symptom of my OCD tendencies. :)