Beautiful Clara and the Nutcracker...

We where so excited to get a phone call and a personal invite from some very special friends of ours to the Nutcracker this year. I watched the Zimmerman kids for about 10 years while I was in high school and college, and miss Cristina Zimmerman now age 12 tried out and got the part of Clara in the Nutcracker. Kathryn (the mom) was so sweet to think of us, she tracked me down after several phone calls and offered us tickets and we got to go up to their house for dinner after. Cole couldn't take his eyes off Cristina, and we also got to chat and have dinner with two of the Principal Dancers the Sugar Plum Fairy Heather Hawk and the Snow King Jared Hunt, as well as the Ballet master Alex Ossadnik, and the Artistic Director Peter Anastos. We were in some pretty amazing company so I thought I would drop a few famous names in the ballet world :)The ballet was so good and Cristina did AMAZING. Both the kids loved it so much.

Winter Piano Recital

Lexi had her Christmas Piano Recital today. She did even better than last time :) She played Jingle Bells(she was going to play it by memory but got a little nervous and brought her music along)and Jolly Old Saint Nicholas which had a little hand cross over move that she was also nervous about, but played PERFECTLY. I am still amazed at how well she plays after just a year.

A SNOW DAY...WAHOO!!!!

and a SNOW DAY is called...
The phone call came in from the school district at
5:20AM and Lexi heard the call and came smiling into the bed with us. So here we are at 8:00AM out in the snow before I have to head to work. We will see how well that goes, I am not sure I can even make it out of the neighborhood.
LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW!