Can't Touch This...

Since March I have been teaching tap at The Pointe Academy in Highland, UT. On my second day my boss asked me if I wanted to choreograph a piece for their show. WHAT FUN! I knew just the song I wanted to use. The only problem was I only had four weeks until the performance and for one of them the studio was closed down for spring break.

Let's just say it was the craziest/stressful three weeks in dance hisory.

I was told before I started teaching that the group was an advanced level. Most of them were. For four of them, though, it was their first year of tap dancing, EVER!

After 4.75 hours of teaching a dance that was WAY to hard for half of them show day was here. During the dress rehearsal their head director took out three people and one poor girl sprained her ankle while on pointe (ballet). 11 down to 7.

So, here is the finished project. I will admit that I was super nervous about being labeled as an awful tap choreographer/teacher. I was ready to be fired on the stop for having an atrocious dance. I was ready to go through all the programs and black out my name.

I thought it was really fun though. The kids did a great job of hamming it up. My kind of tap.

I am super proud of them.

ps...seeing as I still have yet to get paid by the studio I am claiming this as my only evidence of having the job. This video and my program of the concert.

ENJOY!

Graduations...

A year ago today my name was read off and I walked across (without tripping, thankfully) and was handed an empty diploma case. That was it for my BYU education. The funny thing I remember about making my strut is I thought people were boooing me after my name was called. During dinner I later found out that it was just my brother giving a Chewbaca chant.

THANKS CHEWBACA!

Two weeks ago Chewbaca himself made the big walk across the BYU-I stage. The family gathered up in little Rexburg to see this monumental event. Graig and Nicole showed us a good time watching McIlroy and Tiger crumble under the green jacket pressure, Scum games, 1st grade fun, and delicious KFC. Congrats Graig!

BYU vs. UVU

While all the BYU students who live near me are doing this...pic

...because they are already done with finals.

I am still doing this...

pic

...because my finals don't start till Monday.

This picture is actually pretty accurate to my current situation. Replace the coffee with WIRED, the radio and headphones with Pandora (Sara Bareilles station), and the pizza with leftover candy and you got my set-up at the kitchen table.

It could be worse...I could be starting classes in a week.

...wait second...

rats

Spring Break...

OH BOY!!

It has been a while, hasn't it?

About a month a go I went down to Florida...

Florida=very first spring break my college history!

I got to check off an item from my bucket list...

THE WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER!!!!

It was AMAZING!

All the of the line waiting was worth it. I was living life at Hogwarts and Hogsmeade(OK it maybe was 4 hours, don't pop my bubble)! It was truly a dream come true. I can't wait to go back!

Thanks Mama for enduring the heat and motion sickness to spend the day with me. You are the greatest.

Went to Walt Disney World for the FIRST TIME!

David and I discovered a new little gem in Provo. Provo Beach Resort at The Riverwoods.
This place is pretty cool. They have bowling, miniature croquet course, a ropes course, laser tag, pinewood derby...etc etc etc.

You think those things are cool...they got this too

INDOOR FLOW RIDER!

I thought it was going to be a lot like wake surfing behind a boat. Oh man was I wrong. I fell down a lot before I got the hang of it. Pretty sure I almost lost my suit a couple of times.

Those currents can be pretty tricky.