The Name Game

The weekend after Mother's Day is always our annual dance revue, this year called "The Name Game."  It revolved around songs with names in the title, and as usual, it was very cute! This made Annaleigh's 9th Revue!

We had an all-day rehearsal on Saturday (and by all day, I really mean it...from about 8:45 until about 3:30!), then we had two shows on Sunday afternoon. Mind you that Jason had guard drill all weekend, so Alden had to hang out with a LOT of girls ALL weekend!

Our first dance was baton and we danced to the song "Johnny B Good." Although Annaleigh had done really well catching her baton in practice, especially her one-turn, we had a few misses on stage. What made it so funny was the look on her face! She took it all in stride and was really able to laugh at herself. THAT is what's really important!

Future majorettes...

Annaleigh is in the center here, #17...yes, that's her graduation year!

Here's the group photo at the end.

Next was pointe. Annaleigh's class danced with some younger, regular ballet students. It was a LOT of girls in a short amount of stage space, but they all did really well and it was very sweet. They danced to "Hey Jude." This is the first year where the pointe was really obvious! Last year was pre-pointe and they weren't really ready to go up on their toes, but this year they did, and it was really beautiful.

Next was regular ballet danced to a number called "Daniel." The girls all looked really pretty and graceful.

This was at the Awards Ceremony right before the Intermission. Annaleigh received her nine-year trophy. If she keeps at this, she will have been dancing 15 years at her senior show!! What a goal to work toward! Now, how much money will I have spent by them?!??

The next number was Jazz danced to "Gloria." It was really one of my favorites because she is so spunky!

I included this one, although blurry, because I never get any action shots of her. We can't use flash photography during the show (some poor dancer might careen off the stage), so action shots are almost impossible! But this one was very pretty, despite the poor quality!

Another cute group shot. She's the one with her hand up.

Lastly was competition! We've seen this number numerous times, but it was still precious! These are our little rockers dancing to "Your Mama Don't Dance....And Your Daddy Don't Rock-N-Roll!

The LAST of our SIX costumes was the finale number where they wore their recital tshirts. This was the obligatory picture after the show.

This one is because she just can't take all those cute pics without throwing some goofy ones in there too!

And where was my little man during all this estrogen-fest, you ask? Asleep on Nana...where else?