Priorities

This post is gonna be a double whammy.

Burnin’ The Floor
We have observed, over the past 6 years, that LaGrande has become increasingly serious about her dance.

Last weekend she participated in her 2012 kick-off performance for the competition season called Burnin’ The Floor.
It is put on by the parent’s association affiliated with her dance studio and ticket sales contribute to fundraising for the nationals competition this year.
It also gives the dancers some non-competition, real-world, friendly audience experience.

I frequently ask her things like

Is it still fun?

Sometimes the answer hurts my ears it is so emphatic.

Here are some snapshots I took from the videos I made of her dances – other more quality shots can be found on Facebook at Allegro Performing Arts Academy.

Boats and birds – Lyrical – Small Group

Jazz – group

Jazz group – end pose

Newsies – Musical Theater group

Newsies – Woops – lost her hat on the front roll. Next time – more pins.

Nice quick change TheMommy. 🙂

Then – that was all over and then came…

Freezin’ The Floor
If you live in the Northwest, and not in a bubble, you may realize that we’ve had snow for a couple days.
That night, while TheMommy and LaGrande were still watching other dances at Burnin’ The Floor – TheWeeOne and I motored home to find something altogether different.

Without a moment to spare – TheWeeOne and I got straight to work on our traditional snow sculpture. I wasn’t sure, you see, whether the snow would stick around long enough for another shot at it.

TheWeeOne? – she had other priorities.

We finished the cupcake, you can see in the background, just in time for TheMommy and LaGrande to come home.

The next day being MLK day – we celebrated the freedom of which he so eloquently spoke, by hitting the slopes at our local baseball diamond outfield.

It’s amazing how much fun can be had on a worn-thin hill.

Priorities being what they are – we hadn’t yet taken off LaGrande’s show make-up.

Action Mermaids!

Today I worked and then – after that left the camera at home and we all hit the slopes hard, with the neighbors, for a good old huzzah! to winter – you gotta have priorities.