Christmas Dance Program

Bella and Ali have been taking dance since September at Marlene's Dance Studio.  They LOVE going to dance every Tuesday and have such a great time.  They got to perform on stage a couple days ago and they were both so excited for the program.  Bella wanted to invite everyone she knows to come and watch her.  I limited it to her personally inviting only her grandparents.  Both my parents and Jeff's parents were able to come.  On our way there, I was hoping we would make it, because traffic was terrible.  We did get there only a couple minutes late, but I guess everyone was running late as well.

Ali  and Bella in the car on the way there

Both of them performed 2 dances each.  On the 1st one of Ali's, I think she got a little case of stage fright.  She went out on stage and stood there the whole entire dance.  There are only 4 girls in her class, so the 3 others were dancing and trying to coax her to join in, but our sweet Ali does not do something she doesn't want to do.

There she is during "Ellie the Elf" standing and pretty much didn't move until they made her walk off the stage. There were several chuckles in the audience.  When I got her from the stage, I asked her why she didn't dance and she responded, "Because I didn't want to."  I told her she needed to dance on her last one and she said, "OK I will."  That's all it took, she did a great job on her last one, "Lasso Cowgirl."

Now Bella, on the other hand, did such a good job on both dances.  She just love doing this so much.  I had my doubts after what happened in "Enchanted" last spring, but she proved me wrong.  She got up and did everything she was supposed to and looked so cute up there.

This is the first dance she performed, "All I Want for Christmas."  This was the Ballet dance.

And the next one was "Peppermint Candy Canes" with tap shoes.  I was so proud of both of them.  Their personalities sure do come out at times like this.  Of course I think they are the cutest girls up on the stage, but they really were!!!  But I don't think there is much bias going on here :-)

I sure do love my girls!!!