Vegas Dance Convention - Day 1

This year The Dance Company decided that all Elite team members would participate in West Coast Dance Explosion National Convention and Competition. We will be here for four nights...so it's a pretty big trip! So far, Jo/Lex have performed their lyrical "Ms. Invisible". Hannah said she thinks it's the best they've ever done! And Lexi has been working so hard on improving her facials...that she said she almost felt like she was going to cry! That's bringing real emotion into the dance!

The next three days the girls will have workshop classes from 8-2 each day. Even though Peyton is not on the travel team, she gets to also participate in the workshop classes for her first time. They are very intense so I'm anxious to see how she will do!

West Coast Dance Explosion -Long Beach

This weekend we have another dance convention. It was in Long Beach California. Dance conventions are fun and intense because they are filled with so many classes from so many awesome instructors.

We make it a family affair and we all support the girls. I think Peyton gets a little bit bored, but she does a really good job. The girls did great, they got five stars on Applause (junior jazz small group) and Miss Invisible (mini lyrical small group), and four stars on Turn to Stone (junior lyrical trio).

Miss Jessie running through Turn to Stone before going on stage.

The junior ballroom taking classes from 8-2pm!

See what I mean?

This is why Berta calls Lexi "flexy".

Feedback right after Applause.

Went to dinner with the Trigueiros in between award ceremonies.

Tucker and Jimmy ate oysters...eeewwww.

Eddie taught musical theatre...best class!!

Our room was very comfy!!

View from our room.

Peyton got to go to the aquarium with daddy!

Open house, Mission Projects and Friends!

It is pretty rare to have a Friday afternoon with no dance, and no real plans. So couple weeks ago, before open house, we had one of these. I asked Nataly and Suzanne's mom if I could pick them up from school with my girls and spend the afternoon with them, taking them to stores, and shopping for items for their open house projects.