Recital 2011

Well dance recital weekend this year turned out to be a family affair!  Well, almost, I just couldn't convince Aaron to let me find him a spot in the show!  That's alright he took good care to play host to all the family members that turned out to support us!
It started out to be a crazy weekend with the Bon Jovi concert in Milwaukee with my friend Tiana.  The concert was a Valentines Day gift to her and I from her husband!  What a guy ;)  Anyhow, we had rehearsal that evening with the agenda of me getting to do my practice stage run as quickly as possible by 6pm to be on the road to Milwaukee for the 7:30 show.  We accomplished our goal and had a great time hanging out with John and Tiana and I got to see my childhood crush, Jon for a 4th rendezvous!  A great show as usual!

Sunday morning we rushed back home to get ready for the next performance!  I was feeling pretty confident for my big recital debut since 1995!  I had joined up with the class only 5wks. before the recital and had been practicing at home enough to be able to smile through deep concentration on stage.  I am happy to say I accomplished my goal and enjoyed performing on stage.

Owen also had his debut in the freestyle break dancing.  He got to do a little freestyle duet with another little boy in his dance class.  He was a little shy compared to what I have seen out of him.  Apparently according to him he was scared of one of the students in the group dressed as a Gorilla!  Even though he knew it was Adrian in the costume from the beginning.  He eventually got into it putting his hood on his sweatshirt up half way through his dance to look the part!

Grace of course shined as she always does.  It was a little bit of a treat for me this time around to see her do a dance I had never seen.  She did a jazz dance with her class on Tuesday nights when I am at work.  The dance was combined with another group of older dancers which was a cool thing for her to dance with the older kids!  She of course did her hip hop and jazz competition dances as well.  They always rock the house with their hip hop!  Grace also did the freestyle break dance and had a whole self choreographed number that she got to show off!

Thank you to all the family that came out to watch, it was so great to have you all there!  Special thanks to my Mom and Tom for once again making the long trip down for such a short stay!  Aunt Linda (Aaron's), hope that you seriously think about those tap classes, you don't know what your missing!