Nutcracker 2014

Every year since Ella was 3 we have had a tradition of going with my mom and sister Natalie to the Nutcracker ballet at Christmastime. Most years we go downtown to the performance, but occasionally when time, schedules, and ect. don't permit we find a smaller ballet company and attend that for the year. This year we had the Kingwood ballet performing right at the Atascocita High School right by me and since Ragnar had a basketball game every Saturday in December, we decided to give it a try. 

Ella LOVES the music and was so excited to go.

This year we started taking Channing along and she was excited to join.

We went to the Olive Garden before and met my mom and Natalie there.

This is the only shot I have with Grandma and Natalie.

And....this is how we felt....we waited and waited and waited......The performance started 30 minutes late....who does that? So although the actual performance was fine enough, me being the person I am who cannot stand when things start late, had a hard time focusing because I was frustrated. Then, the intermission was twice as long as it was supposed to be! Ahh I was dying! There were tons of kids there...did they really think they would patiently wait for them to get their act together? Anyway, we will be spending the money and going downtown again next year. We do love the Nutcracker tradition though! Glad we get to continue it with Channing now! She did great....besides asking me 100 questions throughout the whole thing....that girl is going to be one rough movie date when she gets older!