Dickens Festival!

Dickens was sure a different experience this year.  For the past 5 years my girls have been involved with the Oliver and Scrooge plays.  They have loved it and it had become such a fun Christmas tradition, but with their director Matt going to Salt Lake for work and to run the Dickens Festival up there my girls and their 9 other cousins and friends that have also been involved decided they didn't want to do it without Matt.  So this year instead of practically moving in for the week and watching 10 performances we just had 3 dance performances to watch this year. 

Sadie, Gentry and Kassi (cousin) danced with their dance groups on Friday night.

Gentry - 7 years old

Sadie - 10 years old

After their dance perfomances we hung out for the rest of the night, eating shopping and watching the plays. There were still quite a few of the original cast that were still involved so my girls wanted to go and see everyone and also, my sister in law was in it this year as well, so that was fun! AND guess who we saw...Matt! He had come down to help his family run this one before Salt Lakes opened next week.  We asked him if he was sad or honoerd that no one wanted to do it this year without him. He said, he missed seeing them up there performing but was honored.  Even without the plays Dickens will always be a fun Holiday Tradition.