Nutcrackers and partypeople

What an exciting day. We went to see Miss V perform in "The Nutcracker". This was a beautiful and professional production! Our seats were up close and we could see everything very well. Missy V even saw us sitting there. We took her this bouquet of two roses and a Mouse King. A little fuzzy, but this was the program. I can't emphasize enough how professional all the sets and costumes were. We enjoyed this more than the Maurice Sendak production in Seattle a few years ago!

Here is our little Drosselmeir...We couldn't use flash, so I got this with available light!

Here are Clara and Fritz fighting over the nutcracker...the boys all did great jobs at acting naughty!

And the girls were all very girly. Here they have each gotten a dolly, except Clara, who gets the Nutcracker...

Then we had to hurry home because we had company coming at 3:30. We had a small family soup and pie party. That worked out very well. Delicious and easy on everyone.

You wouldn't think soup would be so filling! We had a pot of vegetable soup, a pot of Mexican meatball soup, and mulligatawny over rice. Lots of breads and rolls and Jonny's cornbread with butter-maple spread was a huge favorite!

I caught this shot of my dad through the Christmas tree. For dessert we had "chess pie", Mincemeat pie; Lemon meringue pie, lemon bars, whipping cream and ice cream! enough!

Here's the family. Isn't W's Hawaiian shirt a nice touch?