Nutcracker

This morning R woke up early, he was excited to join Abba on the annual Saturday before Christmas men's shopping excursion.
The rest of us got a slow start to the morning and headed out in the afternoon to do some shopping.  Do you see a theme emerging?

The mall was festive and crowded.

Hannah and Nana at the mall

trying on dresses just for fun

In the evening Abba, Dad, Ethan and Grace went to play laser tag then ate pizza at home and watched movies.

UB, Nana, Han and I went out to dinner at then to the Shuster to see the Nutcracker.  The Dayton Ballet did an awesome job, it was really beautiful and we had a fun night out!

All day we were searching for a gingerbread man cookie cutter.  On the way home UB reminded us that we still hadn't found one and we stopped by Bed, Bath & Beyond, not thinking that we would find it open but it was and they had what we were looking for.  Yay!

can you believe we found a place to shop at 10:15 pm?