flitting fairies

last weekend we had the great honor of participating in our friend lisa's wedding! she is a wonderful friend from the dance world who i've made some fond memories with over the years! she & rob had a midsummer's night themed wedding & lena & i were among the many beautiful fairy attendants present! we all flitted through the forest in her back yard, with bike riding & trampoline-ing, story telling, and dancing, lots of dancing! i wish i had taken more photos, but i was holding a baby fairy most of the time, but this will give you an idea.... it was a wonderful celebration & reflection of two incredible people deeply in love! a special night!

the beautiful bride

flitting through the forest

my fairy

(photos above by eric brady)

little flower fairy

with our friend beth

the couple riding off into the sunset ;)

my friend shaleigh

vanessa... a bit blurry, but still beautiful

shals heading down to the strobe light bike disco

2009 wrap-up

we've been through so much this past year......

i started the EPI program to help with my teacher certification & am so happy to say that a year later i "graduated" & passed all the tests - general knowledge, subject area (Physical Education K-12, doesn't make much sense i know, seeing as i've never played a sport in my life, but that's just how we had to do it in FL. i'll also receive certification for Dance K-12 too) & prof. ed. i'll have the official certificate arrive any day now!

our sweet nephew cohen joined us in jan.... such a cutie!!

jeff left for BMT in feb......

at the recruiter's office, lots of tears.....

graduated in april & then was held over at lackland until the end of june. such a crazy story, he trained for CCT (combat controller) for over a year & had a contract for that when he went into BMT. one doctor at lackland decided that because he had a minimal concussion when he was 12 from playing soccer that he couldn't receive flight status. so they kept him at lackland doing testing & crap for months, until they decided he couldn't go for CCT, so then he chose to go into photography & finally got to leave to go to tech school........

his flight

we performed cinderella.....

me, katia & jen

ugly step-sisters (sans wigs & extensions)

performed with pensacola opera in aida......

me & my slave boys

performed with a beautiful elephant!!!!! she was the star of the show!!!!

we lost our sweet baby boy tag..... he was sick with a kidney disease since birth, but only really was affected at the end. i miss him everyday.......

showing off one of his tricks

sean & i created a new piece together called 'touch'...... love dancing with him, miss it....

we had an awesome summer season, so much fun!

boating....

grilling....

beaching....

kayaoke-ing.....

beach & bubbles photo shoots.....

goofing....

jeff graduated tech school in the fall......

in october, i quit my job after 5 years. i have been very lucky to have a job that i love since i've been out of high school..... dancing, teaching & setting choreography for various companies & schools. i'm hoping to continue teaching & doing choreography, & i would love to continue to train & perform as well, but i have yet to seek out what opportunities are available on guam.

jeff found out in november that he did receive flight status & could cross train into CCT in about 1 & 1/2 years if he wants..... but while he's doing photography, flight status will help allow him to do arial photography. so funny how things work out.

& now we're in guam! happy 2010 to all!

joys (aka deliriums) of moving

ah the moving preparations..... the house is a crazy mess. still no orders. but we had an "awesome" yard sale on saturday.... only lost $13. to explain, the ad in the paper cost $26 & we made a whopping $13, so.... oh well. not entirely a bust, we had lots of laughs & allowed boredom to influence our already silly tendencies.....

waiting.......

trying to fit into the bottom of our tv hutch.....

so after moving the majority of all our sale items back inside, we hung out until it was time to party halloween style...... jen had us all over to her house & then we went to the coast to toast.

the artist & the grafitti

me and adam ant (mr. todd eric allen, my boss)

jen & amanda messin

rubies

had so much fun this past saturday! the ballet had a fundraiser at a jewelry store, "wine & rubies".... in celebration of our 40th year! & guess who got to model the most beautiful jewels? of course, yours personally & my two sidekicks. jen had on a necklace that cost over 100,000! amanda's necklace was 80,000, mine was cheap compared..... only 22,000! but i had 80,000 worth of diamonds in my ears! it was AWESOME! but so hard to part with the jewelry at the end of the night! here are the highlights.....

posing it up

diva who?

kimalee & i

do we have to?

in case you can't see..... it says $80,000

the goods.......