Bishop Zoo

Monday, November 7, 2016

This past weekend, I went to a Christian Dance Convention in Dallas with all of my Company Dancers from the studio. We actually were missing one dancer from Company, but we brought a few others that were not on Company. I was the only teacher there to represent the studio, so with 20 dancers, their parents, and even some siblings, it was a bit stressful to feel in charge of that group.
But we had an amazing time.
We stayed in the Hyatt Regency at the airport. It was a huge, beautiful hotel and all the classes and events were right there. The first night they had a big dance party. The theme was "Decades" and they encouraged everyone to dress up. Which we did.

Hana with her friend Lili and Becca with her friends Brooke and Delaney.

Me with a couple of moms who are also friends of mine.

Most of our girls.

Becca and Hana with some of their teammates.

Becca in jazz class.

The girls right before going on stage.

On stage.

Victoria did this cute hairdo for Hana.

My Platinum team prepping to go on stage.

The first night and part of the next day it was just Becca, Hana and I that came from the family. But the 2nd day Steve and the rest of the kids arrived. It was great to be together. Celeste stayed home from the trip though.

Charity and Jonah snuggling in the hotel room.

Becca in class.

I love my dancers!

And this last photo is just one that Eden took for her photography class that I thought was funny.

What a week

We started out our week with Halloween. It was not terribly eventful. I just walked around the neighborhood with our youngest 4 and our neighbor Lynda. The big kids all did their own thing. Some had friends over to our place for pizza and root beer floats.

Two days after Halloween, Andy suddenly got very sick and by the end of the day he was in the hospital. They even admitted him overnight. He has never really been sick that I can remember. This was a weird and scary and stressful fluke. The doctors were looking for things like Meningitis, but in the end, he got better rather quickly and there was no real solid answer what had happened.
Celeste had also had her wisdom teeth removed, which I do not have a photo of. She was pretty miserable for a few days herself!

The day after getting out of the hospital with Andy, we were invited to the school to honor Charity and Hana who both received big awards! Each month they award one student from each class to be knighted for being a great example of a character value. And both Hana and Charity both happen to be chosen for their tolerance. This was cool because it is a large school and their teachers had not known that they were both chosen.

How they do this award ceremony, is they actually call up the parents and tell them not to tell your child they are being awarded. When we got to the school, they put you immediately in a room off of the office so that the kids wont see you come in. In that room, they have all kinds of treats to serve you and a big screen of the assembly being live streamed for us to see. When it comes time to call up your child, they bring you backstage and you come out as your child does. And then they take photos for you. It is pretty cool and the girls were very excited!