Dance Competition Cruise

The week before Mike and I headed to Kaua'i, Caiteyn and I went on a four day competition cruise with our dance studio for Nationals. We had a ton of fun with all the other girls and moms, and it gave Caiteyn and I some time to hang out, 'just the two of us'. Caiteyn especially loved the fact that she could have soft serve ice cream at any time during the day, my only request, that she eat something that I would approve of first...the first couple of days that we were home, we were both suffering from soft serve withdrawals :)

All of the teams competed very well and there is talk of doing Nationals at Sea next year...I can't wait!

Hope and Caiteyn...TOO COOL!

Hope, Arianna and Caiteyn before we left port.

Goodbye Long Beach...

Hope and Caiteyn in Catalina.

When we reached our first port of call in Catalina, we were walking around the little town when we noticed a tent that had "Locks of Love" written on it. One of the girls from Caiteyn's team told her mom that she wanted to donate her hair (I guess it's something that she has been wanting to do), so Hope walked over to the tent and let the women know that she would like to donate her hair. After the women made sure that it was OK with Hope's mom, she sat on a stool and had 10 inches of her hair cut off. Hope's generous donation inspired two other girls from our team to donate their hair as well...by the time we made our way back to the ship, only four donations had been made, three of them being from our studio.

Hope about to have her hair cut.

Hope's cute new cut!

Caiteyn and Arianna hanging out with the bison.

Silly...

Night of the Captain's Dinner.

Some of the dancers and teachers of Studio Elite.

Dance Recital

The girls recently took part in our studio's dance recital and while this was Caiteyn's fourth recital, it was Carlie's very first one. Carlie has been on stage before as part of the studio's competition team, but this was the very first time that she danced on stage without her sister standing next to her! They both did such a great job and I couldn't be any prouder of them. It was a very long day for us with MANY costume changes, but it was all worth it to see their faces light up when they were performing.

My day consisted of changing one of the girls pretty much every other song (and therefore I was only able to see their performances from the wings-so thankful for DVDs!) so I was only able to get a few pictures from my camera. Most of the pictures are from Papa and Nana who enjoyed the performance from the audience, and here are some of those pictures for you to enjoy :)

I'm so proud of you Caiteyn and Carlie and I LOVE watching the two of you dance!