Baggett Basics: Dancing the Weekend Away

Annaleigh has been dancing with the same studio for 9 years, but this year, we joined the Competition Team in addition to regular dance classes. Right now, she takes baton (gearing up for majorette tryouts next year), jazz, ballet, pointe, and the competition class. These are our dance pics this year...or at least some of them. We have never had this many costume changes! She is wearing a total of 6 different outfits if you count the finale! That also has varying hairstyles associated, so I will be a very busy dance mom come recital day!

Jazz - Dancing to "Gloria"

Competition - Dancing to "Your Mama Don't Dance"

Waiting at the photography studio...These are the pointe costumes.

Regular ballet costume

Annaleigh and friend have danced together in the exact same classes for 8 of the last 9 years!

The lady at the studio always makes cookies for picture day each year! How sweet! These girls are getting a bit delirious from all the waiting! These can take several hours!!!

Now they have lost it!

Competition has included 2 weekends of dance at the beautiful Alabama Theater in Birmingham, and this past weekend we were at the Roy Acuff Theater in Nashville. Yes, that is the same weekend that Nashville received 13 inches of rain and the whole city is flooded. There were several deaths also associated with this flash flooding. We were some of the lucky ones who did actually make it home in time and weren't stuck there in the city. We did see some terrible conditions, though. From what I understand now, the very place we were performing is now under water! All of the area around the Grand Old Opry as well as Opry Mills Mall is under water! It was still a fun weekend despite feeling like a duck the entire time!