The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Lily starred in our community play the last couple weekends. She did a fantastic job. She worked very hard for 2 months memorizing her lines and understanding her character so she could play the part well. She nailed it! 

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is the story of a woman who is directing her church's Christmas play and gets some unexpected visitors...the town's very most roudy children....the Herdmans. 

This is the opening scene with Lily (Grace) and her family. Her husband is actually a girl named Chloe.

In this scene Grace is selecting parts for the pageant when the Herdmans show up. They shove other kids out of their chairs and Grace says wide eyed "Wellllll, let's just make some room for the Herdmans...." Note that many of the "kids" in the pageant are taller than Lily...even in her high heels! She's such a shrimp.

Here's a video clip. After the Herdmans show up (they were told there are unlimited deserts at Sunday School...this is why they come), Grace has to help them understand what the Christmas story is. She's explaining it to them here.

 This was a very cute scene. All the kids go tearing through the church screaming because it's full of smoke. Turns out, Imogene Herdman was just smoking cigars in the lady's room.

Here Grace is telling the Herdmans that "break a leg" is just a theatrical saying after they had just tried to break their little brother's leg...

As it turns out, the Herdmans end up having their hearts touched by the Christmas story and they don't even eat any of the deserts after the show. It was a very cute little story.

Here is Lily leading the cast in the bows. 

I was feeling so much pride for Lily when I realized what great actresses both of my girls are. They both had their first part as a supporting role in their first play and then in their second plays, each of them got the lead part.

Ana as Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls.

The kid in the white suit was Ralph Herdman in Lily's play.

I love having my kids in drama. Especially when it's a musical because they get exposure to acting, singing & dancing while they're there. And they LOVE it. Ana's next play starts in January. She is the youngest amongst the seniors now, so she is just in the ensemble. She will play a cocktail waitress and a nun in the same play..... 

Anyway GOOD JOB LILY! WAY TO BREAK A LEG!!!

Grandma Mary came to see it this last weekend. It was super fun to have her here. We walked through Candy Cane lane after the play on Saturday night. Here's a blurry picture of us. (Thanks lady who snapped it for us. Grrrr).