Nutcracker Recital

Clara lives and breathes Nutcracker during the holiday season (okay... truthfully, it's all year long) but this year she wasn't able to participate in any of the local Nutcracker productions due to her role in the play. Thankfully, one of the places she takes dance has started having a Nutcracker Holiday Recital each December. She loves the music and just loves being a part of it.... especially when she gets to dance with her friends.

Here she is as a snowflake...
That dance was her favorite of the two she performed. This is the second year that she has been in class with almost the exact same group of girls and they have such a good time together. It's amazing to see a group of 6 or 7 girls who all take their class seriously but are still able to have fun together at the same time.

Her second dance was the clown dance...

She didn't enjoy this one as much as it was more acrobatics than dance (in her opinion)... I thought it was fun (but of course I was just watching versus being the one lifting my leg over my head and doing the splits).

It was a really fun evening of dance and cookies. The only glitch in the party was that apparently we left half of our belongings there (thanks for alerting us to this fact Tracy!).

I have some photos to edit from the kids' day of cookie making with grandma.... hopefully I'll have those up soon!