Christmas Around the World

Liv has been clogging for a few years now and loves it!  A little while back we received an e-mail from her director that our studio had the opportunity to participate in B.Y.U's Christmas Around the world.  She was so excited!   Making it even more exciting was the fact that two of her best friends would be participating as well.  It was such a blessing to have two other sets of parents to ease the burden of carpooling to and from B.Y.U.  There were rehearsals, a matinee performance and two evening performances.  They even got to miss half a day of school to perform for some local elementary schools.  I agreed to chaperon one of the evening performances.  It was so fun to be in the room with a bunch of giddy girls before the performance and as we waited for them to go on.  There were up-dos and lipstick galore and enough glitter spray and hairspray to wipe out a layer of the ozone.  Seriously, I haven't seen (or inhaled) so much hairspray in one place ever.

Lily, Liv and Brooklyn

They had so much fun together!  The girls behind them are playing Ninja Destruction.  There were also hand slapping games, card games and giggles galore!

I followed them downstairs when it was time to perform.  Here they are waiting for their cue to go on (the other performers were so nice to them.  When they would come backstage, they would give all the girls high 5's):

And here are another few shots from backstage:

 

 

 

 The show I chaperoned for was the final show.  We decided to go to Wendy's to celebrate/mourn.  Here they are outside the Marriott Center.

 The giggles and chortles continued at Wendy's and brought back fond memories of being  a blissful tween.  I'm so grateful that my kids have such good friends and are able to have these fun experiences.  All of the girls said they wished Christmas Around the World was every day.  I assured them that it would get old after a while (they didn't believe me), and that because they can't do it every day they will appreciate the times they get to do cool (and grown up) stuff.

Thanks for the memories, Christmas Around the World!