Let's get on with the show, Christmas Show that is!

As this was Ella's first year of school, this was also our first year of having a Christmas program at school as well as one at church. Just because its always fun to try and juggle scheduling, the programs happened to fall on back to back nights ;-)

4-year old class at Village Baptist singing their Christmas songs. Ella's insistence on wearing her hat with the Christmas dress made it very easy to spot her in the group.
(The fact that she is almost a head above most of the other kids helps too!) 

Ella in her Christmas dress made by Grandma Marian

Our pretty girl

Part of Ella's program involved singing "Happy Birthday Jesus."  Each of the kids then got a little cupcake to take home to celebrate Jesus' birthday. Small as it was, Ella was very kind to share with Aubrey.

 The church was very brave this year and allowed the 2 year olds to be a part of the Christmas program as well. Aubrey was beyond excited!!! That was, until the part of the evening when she went up on stage. They had the kids come 3 hours prior to the start of the program for practice, but at 2 years old, being at the church 3 hours for anything is about 2 1/2 hours too long before then expecting them to follow directions for an additional hour! At least I got some cute pictures of her before the program.

Aubrey in her matching Christmas dress made by Grandma Marian

Smiling as BIG as possible!

 This year's Christmas program was "My favorite things." Ella's roll was a noodle (from the part of the song "Schnitzel with noodles") and she stood on the stage shaking pool noodles. I wasn't able to get a good picture of that, but I did get a picture of her sharing her favorite thing about Christmas.

"My favorite thing about Christmas is Santa and presents."
(This was a common theme among many of the kids)

Merry Christmas from our house!