Eliana on stage...

If you remember, last year Eliana participated in a musical with the local youth theater group.  This year, she wanted to do that again.  She tried out a couple of months ago and got a part in the musical called Elf, Jr., which is based on the movie, Elf, starring Will Ferrell.

So she went to rehearsals regularly to learn her parts--she was an elf in Santa's workshop in the North Pole.  And also she was a "New Yorker"--the movie takes place in New York and she is a person in the general crowd in New York.

Being an elf required that Eliana's hair be curly, for some reason.  And since she has really thick and straight hair, we had to buy these plastic curlers which go on wet hair and need to stay on till dry.  This meant that she sometimes went to bed with them on, which meant that she often had a hard time getting a good night's sleep.

Here she is with the curlers...you can see that she looks a little tired!

And when they came off, Eliana had curls!

Karina, of course, was watching the whole time and decided the SHE wanted curly hair too.  So on went the curlers...

And she got curls too!

A couple of weeks ago, the dress rehearsals started in earnest.  All the kids had to put on their costumes and so here is Eliana in her elf costume, which she really likes.  The people on the costume committee are all volunteers and very talented!

And then came the big night!  Elvin went on opening night and had a great time.

He was sitting in the fourth row and got to see everything up close.

Emily and the kids went the following week.  Here is Eliana on stage again, in her New Yorker garb.

And lots of friends from church also went to see the show.  

Eliana did a great job on stage and had a great time with the show!