Craziness-Beginning with Dance

Jillian and her BFF Carly

Modern Class

Company Legs - Motivational

True Colors

Well unfortunately I haven't posted anything in a couple of weeks as it literally has been insane in the Ackerman household. Our visitors have all finally headed back to their respective homes. I don't really know how to recap all of which occurred. It looks as if it will be split into a few different blogs.

I will start with Dance Recitals. We survived 3 long afternoon/evenings of dress rehearsals and 6- 2 hour shows. Yes, that's correct 6 shows. There are over 800 students and Jillian is in the company so they performed in all.

We were so excited that Jared was able to dance. Two weeks prior a young man decided not to follow the directions in PE class and decided to tackle Jared in a game of flag football. Jared ended up fracturing his foot. Thankfully it was not a supporting bone and he was able to go into a boot. He did 1 dress rehearsal in the boot and the day after he was told he could dance by the orthopedist. Thankfully his doctor is the same doctor for the Carolina Ballet and he is familiar with the sport. Jared does ballet, tap and jazz which he has been doing since he was 5. (He will turn 13 in July.) He finally has realized how attractive that makes him with the girls.

The overall craziness of the recital weekend was well worth it when Jillian was awarded 1 of 2 full scholarships for the upcoming season. YaHoo!!!!!! We are so proud of her. She has worked very hard, and she finally had an opportunity to see that it pays off.