The Nutcracker and Grandma Susan's

Aaron's wife Jeanette danced the Nutcracker with a traveling company this year. They mainly dance in Aspen, CO and Santa Fe, NM but they also traveled to Arkansas to dance as well. She was away from Aaron for a long 6 weeks. I went with my parents and stayed overnight in Aspen to visit her and see her dance. She is a beautiful dancer and it was such a fun production, I don't think I had ever seen the Nutcracker before. Since I was over that way Addison and I spent several days at Susan and Al's house. We will not be able to visit them for Christmas so I wanted to spend some time there and let Addie do some fun Christmas things with them. We hit the mall for some shopping and to see Santa Claus. Addie is not a big fan this year, she talks big and gets excited but when she is standing near him she loses that excitement quickly. The only thing she is asking for is books, I find this cute and it also makes me happy that first my child likes to read, and second she has such a simple request. We also decorated cupcakes, Addison decorated 24 cupcakes with not much help and was upset when there were no more to decorate. It was very cute!

Notice we did not catch a photo of her anywhere near Santa!

Too busy to look up for a photo, this is serious decorating!

I think that smile is why her Dad rarely tells her no!

Cute newlyweds!

My brothers thought it was great to be in Aspen since Dumb and Dumber was filmed there and they were reinacting scenes the entire time! Yep they are dorks but I love them anyways!

waiting for the show

Jeanette is a beautiful dancer and has already agreed to give Addison private lessons. I love Aaron a lot he is one of my best friends, I am so glad he found such a wonderful and talented person to marry!