Spring Break - St. George

For Christmas my mother in law booked a big house for all of us to go down to St. George for spring break. It was a lot of fun and a good relaxing week. The guys golfed a few times, the kids swam a lot, and we did some hiking. One of the afternoons while the guys were golfing I took my girls for a serendipitous afternoon. We grabbed lunch, went on the short and scary hike, had a dance photo shoot at the top of the hike, went bowling, laughed a lot, and had a perfect afternoon. It was a great week and fun to be with everyone! (Pics are out of order but there were too many of them to rearrange lol).

 

One Rhythm Dance Competition

What a great dance competition! This was a nice break from the longer dane conventions that we normally go to. We have never been to this one before and besides them being behind on the first day I really really liked it! The girls all did their solos on Friday, then team dances on Saturday. The girls did SO good on their solos and sister number. The sister number took 2nd overall for Junior small groups!!! Britney took all the highest awards for the minis and placed 1st overall! And Brynlee got her first 1RM ranking on her solo (a near perfect routine...every competition calls it something different) and she placed 1st overall!!! She has wanted that ranking for SO long and has never gotten one so she was on cloud 9. Her face was priceless when it was announced. A trip to Leatherby's on the way home was a no brainer. The girls work SO hard at these competitions and I couldn't be more proud of how good they continue to get!

 

Minerettes!!!

We've been preparing for this week all year! Brooklyn has gone to many drill prep clinics, private lessons, and has done everything she can to be ready for tryouts. For months I've even asked her interview questions on the way to school every morning and she was thrilled I got to stop. It was an intense couple of days and I was sick to my stomach the whole time. The first day they learned combos and did a lot of technique.  After it was over and she got some dinner we headed to the studio to practice for a couple of hours. We ended up with 6 girls that were trying out and had asked Kenzie to come help. They were there til after 11. The second day of tryouts Brooklyn spent a good portion of the day working on the combos that they had to audition. She was at Bingham all afternoon and evening at auditions and I was so nervous I couldn't think about anything else. After tryouts all the girls hang out in the parking lot waiting for the list to be posted on Instagram, then those that make it run into the school to celebrate and have their first meeting. All the girls wanted to be a part of it so we all sat in the car with Brooklyn while we waited. As soon as we saw her name she jumped out of the car and ran to hug all her friends. It was really fun to be a part of and I loved watching Brooklyn get welcomed into this new life with so many open arms. Congrats Brooklyn!!!

 

Good Luck!

There are a lot of girls at the studio that are at the age where they can try out for high school teams. Brooklyn's team has been the best friends for years, so they are all extremely sad knowing that everyone is now going in different directions as they try out and make teams at their high schools. They have cried a lot and spend a lot of time supporting each other through all of it. I loved getting this picture of girls from her team huddled around telling the girls trying out for Bingham's drill team good luck. And I love that one of them wanted to capture the moment as well by taking a selfie. 

 

Reflections

My girls love entering the Reflections contest at school every year...and every year at least one of them makes it to the state level. They used to spend the whole summer choreographing a dance to submit, but now we don't have time for that lol. So I take them to the studio and give them 1 hour to improv to a song 2-3 times then we enter the best one. It's been awesome to see how much their improv skills have improved year after year. The last 2 years Brynlee has taken 2nd at state and this year she received an honorable mention (this year she was against the middle schoolers). South Jordan recognized the state winners from South Jordan during one of the city meetings, so it was fun to take Brynlee to that. 

 

St. Patrick’s Day

Lucky the Leprechaun visited our house again this year! I could hear the girls in the morning running around the house looking for the treasure he left behind. I'm going to miss this stage...

 

Braces!

No kid ever wants to get braces, but they always are excited at the idea of straight teeth. Now it's Bryn's turn. She was pretty nervous and afraid she would look bad with them, so she was pleasantly surprised that she doesn't look horrible! She will have these braces on until her canine teeth grow in, then they will consider Invisalign.