Ballet Recital 2012: Seasons

We survived one of my least favorite / most favorite weeks of the year!  Ballet Recital Week!  I dread it because I literally spend hours driving Hannah to and from extra practices.  I LOVE IT because for two nights I get to sit it a darkened theatre and watch my only daughter take the stage and amaze me. 

This year's recital was titled SEASONS.  The show was divided into four parts:  Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring.  Hannah was in the Autumn portion of the show.  Since ballet seems to always be symbolic of something, I guess she was supposed to represent the arrival of the autumn colors . . . her dress was stunning.

We have a very poor video of the Fall Waltz . . . we have a better video, but you will have to come to Toronto if you want to see it.  For the beginning of this dance, Hannah is front row stage right.  She then leads the girls around in a circle.  She then is in the front center. She finishes the dance in the back row stage right.  Are you confused yet? 

During the second Act, they eleaborated on the season of Spring with portraying a garden filled with flowers . . . Hannah was one of the blue flowers.  And YES, this is the mystery dress that I photographed a few weeks ago!

We have a terrible video of this dance too.  For most of it, Hannah is second row stage left.

So . . . the recital is over until next year.  Hannah was kind of sad when it was all over . . . exhausted and sad.  The boys gave her a big bouquet of flowers after the show.  We then stopped for ice cream.  A nice finale to a long but rewarding week.

Good Night Moon . . .

Every photo blog that I read encouraged me to photograph the moon tonight so here it is.  I'm not thrilled with the result but I'm too tired to stay up and take any more photos. I'm going to bed.

Hannah's 12th Birthday!

Hannah celebrated her birthday today.  Sigh.  I LOVED celebrating Hannah's birthday when she was a little girl.  I loved Angelina Ballerina themed birthday parties, princess themed birthday parties, and American Girl themed parties!  The more PINK, the better!

Today was fun too!  I took Hannah and two of her "BFFs" to a local pottery/ceramic studio.  They each chose a ceramic piece to paint.  I was really impressed.  They painted for almost two hours - and the end results were beautiful!  The items still have to be fired and we can't wait to pick them up in 7 days!  I'm sure they will be beautiful!

Hannah chose a Locker Bank.  She still loves the color pink!

Celine chose a Cake Trinket Box.  She did an excellent job with the "sprinkles"!

Katie chose a Present Trinket Box.  It was a lot of work painting all the stars!

After all of that hard work, we celebrated by having lunch at Texas Lonestar which is the closest thing we have found to TexMex in Toronto.  Hannah even agreed to let us sing "Happy Birthday" to her while she wore a 10 gallon hat! 

Happy 12th birthday to Hannah!