A Children's Nutcracker Featuring Bianca and Erika!!!

Today was so special for me! It was the first time Bianca and I were on stage together performing! I don't know when or if we'll ever have this opportunity again, so we made sure we had tons of fun with it! We spent our morning getting our makeup and hair just right! Bianca was a trooper while I attempted to curl her hair...which actually came out great, so yay me! I even had to wrestle with fake eyelashes, which looked SO SO SO good on, but were SUCH a pain! 

oops! My makeup is a big light on her. Darn her pretty tan skin ;)

When we got to the theatre, we checked in and immediately I had to go off and rehearse with the other party parents onstage while Bianca went into the room with the kiddos. I finally got to rehearse one more time with my partner, who ended up being Ms. Farry (the organizer of all this)'s husband, who always get roped into being in it, hahaha! It was because Bobby wouldn't do it with me, so they were scrambling for another man to put me with. At first they were going to have me dance with one of the maids as like a funny thing, but I don't think she was very comfortable with it, so I was with Jeff, her husband hahah. It was all good though. It was hard to do the box steps though, I don't know if I just suck at box steps, or he did, but yeah. We just faked it and made it work. :)

Then we got to put our dresses on and finish getting ready!!!

I even had a hoop skirt on underneath! I felt super fancy, hahaha!

The adults hung out together before the show, and then we got ready, found our "families," and took our places! I'm going to miss my girls, they were so much fun and so sweet to Bianca. The show went so well! Bobby snuck in some pics, shh! Bianca was AWESOME and such a ham onstage and my dance went well as well! Woohoo! So fun!

Since we were on first, we just got to hang out the rest of the time, score! I mostly hung out with Bianca, so we could spend some time together. We took some silly pics and laughed. She got to play with a few other kids too for a bit, so we had fun! She even saw her friend Evelyn from church there, who was a mouse.

Then we all went onstage and took our bows! It was hilarious though, when the "governess" went onstage to bow with us, her hoop skirt fell off!!! She stole the show, lol! It was so funny!

she's the one in the red and green dress, lol it was so funny!

Daddy bought his girls flowers!

Then we went home to relieve the babysitter. I had like an hour at home before I had to grab some food and turn around and head back for the Sat. night performance. It was fun, but not as fun as the one with my baby girl. :) I would totally do this again, it was a blast!!

Bianca's Christmas Recital + Christmas Concert Fun!

Tonight was Bianca's JDA recital! Before we dive into those adventures though, check out another funny pic of how our 2 oldest have been sleeping. HILARIOUS!

Also, we decided to use Bianca's school pics now as her yearly pics since she's officially in school, which means I didn't get a "Bianca turns 5 photo," so we just took some silly ones. Really, I just wanted to use up pics on the photo card so I could use the new one for her recital, but it was still fun!

The boys got in on the action, lol

I say to him "now raise your arms as high as you can and say BLAST OFF" and he does it! <3

We matched!!!

So cute!!!

Oh goodness, I don't know WHY JDA decided to do it this way, but this year they had just one recital for the entire school. That means everyone crowding into the parking lot of the church at the same time. And everyone cramming into the auditorium area, which is pretty big, but not big enough for this! It worked so well with 2 recitals last year, I wonder what changed. So that was awful. We just had to stand in the back with 2 wiggly boys (luckily Micah doesn't walk yet, so that sorta helped, haha.) So THAT was fun. Luckily she was on pretty early, but what I had to do was take Micah with me and hope he sat there watching while in one hand I was recording it and the other hand taking pics with my phone, hahahaha! Micah did good though! He climbed over to the stage, but he didn't climb the steps or get on the stage, so that was a success! Cam did good for Daddy too. Here's the pics and video of her song! She was awesome as usual :)

lol here comes Micah...

Now that he made it up there, it's over! ;)

Then we visited Santa in the hallway, but Micah was NOT into it. We got a pic anyway, haha! 

Bobby's co-worker, SW, told us about a cool family friendly event at ORU that we decided to check out. It was actually super fun! In the hallways, they had a bunch of games set up for kids to play and they were handing out free popcorn, cookies, and punch. Bianca had a blast!

decorating cones like trees! Cam enjoyed eating it, lol

He LOVED the popcorn, haha

snowball fights!!! so fun!

Well...she tried, lol!

Then we went inside and eventually found some seats to watch the concert. Cameron absolutely had a BLAST!! He loved the music (Christmas carols, of course) and sat so nicely. Micah got a bit bored, so we left before it was over, but it was really neat! Hopefully this will be a Hall family tradition as long as we still live in the Tulsa area :)

His face throughout the concert <3 He was SO into it!