Where all the lights are bright....

Carly and I had tickets to The Nutcracker, so we decided to make a weekend of it and check the whole family into a hotel suite downtown. We went swimming then headed back to the room to get ready for our big night! Neither of us have seen the Nutcracker before, and she's been in ballet for three years now. I was excited for her to see a real ballet performance...and so was she!

We sat on the second row, and she loved every minute of it. But if you ask her what it was about, she'll say, "it's about a little boy and a little girl who pretend to be married". Miss Liz (the student teacher that gives the demonstrations in her ballet class) was the snow queen, so that was pretty cool too. Still, the most important part of all was that she got to wear her new dress, except we forgot her shoes, so she had to wear her boots. She thought people were going to laugh at her...they didn't! We curled her hair, and I let her put on my lipgloss and perfume - FaNcY :)

While we were at the ballet, Frank took the boys to dinner and a show downtown. We all met up again at the hotel. The kids loved the little things:

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

COOKIES IN THE LOBBY

THIER OWN TV AND BED

THE ELEVATOR

SWIMMING POOL

HOT TUB (rolling in the snow first!)

DOWNTOWN!