Dance Recital!

Loren has taken a "creative movements" class at our local dance studio this year.  It was on Tuesday afternoons and my Mom typically took her because it was hard for me to get off work and pick her up and get her to the studio by 3:30.   Anyway, they had one "number" towards the beginning of the show.  Apparently, this required two very lengthy rehearsals!  The actual recital was three hours long! Not very easy to keep a three month old calm and quiet during all that time in an auditorium.

Loren's Aunt Meagan (Andy's sister) is a cosmetologist so she did Loren's hair and makeup for the dress rehearsal and recital.  Thank you Meagan!  She also helped me get her dressed and then Meagan, Uncle Ben, Cayden, and Noah came to see the show too.  This was no easy feat for their family either because little Noah is about 8 months old. They brought Loren a cute little ballet elephant.

 Loren's Mimi and Papa also attended the recital as well as sweet Mrs. Cheryl who has kept Loren for me while I worked for the past four years!  She will be keeping Arden starting in the fall.  Mrs. Cheryl brought Loren some super cute bright colored daisies.

On a side note, high school auditoriums are not built with infants in mind.  There was no changing table and Meagan and I each changed a poopy diaper on the floor in the lobby with the general public looking on in disgust!

Loren did great in the recital and we are so proud of her.  It was such a feeling of pride and joy when my sweet baby girl got on that lit stage in her costume and make up!  My heart jumped and my eyes teared up!  Andy ordered the video of the recital and we had  professional pictures taken a couple of weekends ago.  Other than that, these are the only photos I think we have. (Do you have any Andy?!)  These are courtesy of Uncle Ben!

Loren's group.  She is the second girl from the right.  (Come on, you couldn't tell that from the awesome quality picture?!)

Grand Finale

Posing with Cayden.  The weird smile is likely do to sheer exhaustion.  They had her there from 10am until about 2:30 pm!

Loren has already said she wants to dance next year.  I guess this Mama better toughen up when it comes to recital and rehearsals!

UPDATE:  Andy had sent me this video a while back and I am just now figuring out how to post videos.  Enjoy!