Dance Competition season is here!

With much anticipation, the dance competition season has arrived and is in full swing! The girls are enjoying it so much! They are on the "Mini" hip hop team at Simi Dance Center with 8 other girls. They performed in their first competition 2 weeks ago and did awesome! The team won the diamond award (which is the highest honor one can receive for total awarded points) and won 4th overall (out of 10 groups) for the "large group rookie" dance. Not bad for their first time out! All the girls did a great job and it's been so fun to see them in their costumes; each one very unique!

Today they performed at the Hall of Fame Dance Challenge at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center. It was even better the 2nd time especially since their Daddy was able to attend. It made it that much more special! Another early day (up at 5:15 am without a single complaint) to get started on hair and make-up It is so worth the entire 2 1/2 minutes they are on stage! They did even better than they did 2 weeks ago! Both girls have great facial expressions and were totally into the dance. Their team won an Achievement award for "most entertaining" and got "platinum" which again, is a high score. We couldn't be more proud of our girls! Seeing how much they love the entire experience makes me so sad to leave Simi Dance Center. It has become our 2nd family and the competition experience has been great! We want to continue supporting the girls talent and hope that we can find a dance studio in Albuquerque that offers the same experiences. We hope you enjoy these pictures as much as we do!

What a difference 2 weeks makes! From the 1st competition to the 2nd....Miss I went from having a bit of stage fright to becoming quite the performer! Look at that face! =)

Miss M means business!

"Let's eat some berries"