Nutcracker Weekend

The past few days have been wonderful, exhausting, magical and amazing as the Nutcracker took the stage at the Peace Center!!

This year S is a soldier(like last year) and a Polichinelle(this was the part that she was really, really wanting to get and was ecstatic when she found out that she'd gotten it!).  M, making his Nutcracker debut, is a party dad!

Wednesday was the first rehearsal.  S had been sick and out of school the past couple of days and this was the first day she was feeling even a bit better, so she stayed home and skipped the rehearsal(which I honestly think she was more sick about missing that than she was about feeling ill!).  M went solo and got his first taste of life behind the curtain at the Peace Center.  Luckily, they let the party parents go early and since he didn't have to wait on S to finish, he was able to be home at a decent time.

Thursday they had a DOUBLE rehearsal from 1:30pm - 10pm!  Whew!!  S was feeling much better and was so so so glad to get to go and join her Nutcracker buddies!  It was a long day for them both for sure but they both loved every minute of it and they felt good about their parts when they got home that night and were ready to perform!

Dinner break

Party Dad

Soldiers - S is 4th from the right

Polichinelles - S is Oli the Poli - because she's in the olive dress, get it, haha!:)

Friday - show #1!!!!  They made it through, no mistakes and smiles all around!  C and I were signed up to sell merchandise, so we were at the Peace Center all evening as well and heard the orchestra from the lobby but still had not seen the show.

Probably one of my favorite pictures of all time!

Party Families

M's "Family"

Polis make such pretty pictures - like Skittles!:)

Nutcracker Cast 2018 - S is just behind the baby mice as a Polichinelle and C is in the back just under Mother Ginger's
left arm!

Saturday - show #2!!! They felt like old pros going to the Peace Center!!

S's friend, Halle, went to see her perform and snuck a quick picture:)
S is in the back on the right!

Sunday - show #3!!!!  And I finally got to see it!  All the grandparents came to support them and enjoy the show as well!  And what a show it was!!!!!!  I can't wait to get the video so that we can watch it over and over again!  Bravo to our two performers!