Performance Week

It's been a crazy busy week full of end-of-the-year performances and events. . . 

Katie and Josie both had their ballet recitals this week -two shows and two rehearsals made for a LOT of dancing! They were both so very good though, it was a joy to watch them perform and admire their abilities. Josie even won an award  for "showing enthusiasm and promise within her pre-primary ballet class". Of course we are very proud of both of them, here they show off their flowers from Daddy after the show. 

Between the two nights of ballet performances we had the Musical Stars Christmas show. Both Meggie and Katie had solo parts and had to memorize lines and again they did well. 

Here's Katie with her class doing a  Christmas rap (Katie is in the middle).
Meggie performing a funked-up version of "Away in a Manger". She's on the far left and they are all in their pajamas as the show begins during a slumber party.
Katie sings her solo in "When Christmas Comes to Town".

And Meggie does hers in "Silent Night".
Dugald and I also attended the prize-giving for Queen Margaret's College. Lloyd and Julie's eldest daughter Bella was the head girl there this past year and so she gave a speech. We were honored to be there and so proud of her, she is a wonderful speaker and very inspiring to her fellow students. We enjoyed dinner with Lloyd and Julie and their family as well as Margaret following the ceremony. Bella won several awards and she has also received a full scholarship to play water polo next year at the University of Arizona.

Finally, we are very pleased to have found a lovely house right around the corner from where we are currently living. It backs right onto a park, it gives us a bit more space and we are grateful to have found something before Christmas!! I went over today and had tea with the homeowner so she could show me where things are and how things work and I was pleased to discover a few added benefits that I hadn't even noticed when I had a look around the first time.