The girls danced at the Civic Auditorium in Idaho Falls, Saturday night. It was the first performance of the year, and they both did such a great job! Nana flew in Thursday afternoon to spend time with us and see the girls dance. It was really fun to have Nana here...lots of eating out, shopping, movies, and catching up.

The whole dance thing always starts with getting that dang bun perfected! We used a hairnet this time and it seemed a lot easier:
This is Lauren's first year participating in IBA. She's doing the Greased Lightning dance (swing), which Emma did in 5th grade. Here she is all set to dance:
Landon, Nana and I sat and watched the kids during their stage practice time, several hours before the show. Later, Nana and Landon left to go shopping and get dinner for us. We ate Jimmy Johns sandwiches, sitting on the floor of the dimly-lit hallway of the high school that the auditorium is attached to. It was magical.Here is a poorly-executed video of Lauren dancing. She is the cute one in the middle, in the front. She's really bouncy. She eventually moves to the back and then comes back to the front again. She smiled the whole time and I was actually moved to tears with pride when I was watching her! She was just soooo cute up there.

Emma danced to Another One Bites The Dust (paso doble). Her class had only gone through the entire routine two or three times before this performance. It was a little rough, but still fun to watch. Emma loves her costume. She looks about as "bad-ass" as she'll ever look, I'm guessing. (She's at the very back, on the right side. It's hard to see her.)

At the end of the show Nana gave them each a bouquet of flowers! It was such a nice surprise for them and something they've never gotten before, so they were pretty happy.