I know it has been a lot of dance pictures lately but I have been super busy. My girls have been to two competitions. Jump was a very high caliber competition/workshop with amazing judges and instructors, Melanie Moore the 8th season winner of So You Think You Can Dance, Nick Lazzarini (1st SYTYCD winner), Kenny Wormald, star of the new Footloose, Mia Michaels, and others! It was a long, fun weekend! Ashlynn won a scholarship for outstanding performance during the classes. They had classes for 5-6 hours on Friday and Saturday. The competition (where they only competed one of their dances) was Saturday morning. Right before the last class Saturday night Ashlynn came out (during break) and collapsed on the floor by me. I wanted to leave and just skip the last class but she adamantly protested. Kaylie was done. For some strange reason I let her stay and do it. She has really grown into dance this year loving it. During the last part of the night (about 9:30) Kaylie was curled up in a ball moaning from exhaustion and I think a little bit of dehydration so I packed them up and left. It was right after that when it was announced that AShlynn won a scholarship. I'm thinking it was for ballet but when Gerti gets us the certificate I will let you know.
During the competition I was reminded again at how lucky my girls are to be able to do dance. Almost EVERY single team wore what I consider immodest clothing. ALL of the Utah dance teams had their girls dancing in sports bras or other extremely revealing clothing. Only our team and one or two other teams from Idaho had their girls covered. They would not be dancing if we didn't live where we are living. Thank You Gerti and Sam. So grateful.
Pictures are from the competition Dance Factor
We were not allowed to take pictures at JUMP.
Ashlynn was in heaven. The older girls lifted her up and she thought it was something quite fantastic. I failed to mention that Kaylie's Paris dance won first place at Dance Factor.
