Gingerbread Houses & Nutcracker Ballet

Sarah (my mother-in-law) made gingerbread molds for the kids to decorate. She does this every year and it is very time consuming!!! The kids love it.

There was frosting and candy everywhere…

It was messy and there was a lot to clean up but they enjoyed it.

I took Z (our Foriegn exchange student and another FES) and my 2 older girls to the Nutcracker ballet dance at the high school.

I met up with a few friends (Lindsey D, Stephanie R, and Camille B). 20 minutes into the dance my oldest turned to me and said, “All the dancers look the same.” Then my younger of the 2 said, ” Is this all they do the entire time is dance. This is going to put me to sleep.” I thought it was good and the dancers were great but I’m glad I wasn’t the only one thinking the same thing… I did enjoy the music and some of the dances were really good.

I really enjoyed the 2nd half (better than the 1st half… For me.) My girls seemed to like it better, too. A lot of time and hard work went into this production.