Hello! Wow, it has been a while. My original goal was to blog everyday but as life grows exceedingly more hectic it becomes very difficult! I've had some very exciting events occur since the last time I blogged on here a couple of weeks ago. My graduation led off the big bang-- it was great seeing all of my family and friends. It made me feel so blessed and grateful to be surrounded by such wonderful people! It was an incredible feeling to have all of the people who were or still are very close to me at one point in my life be at my house! My family and I spent an immense amount of time cleaning and preparing for the party but it was well worth it. My mom is happy now because her house is spotless:) The most exciting thing to say about the night of my party is that my boyfriend bought me the most AMAZING gift that I've ever received in my life... my dream guitar!!!! A blue Ovation Celebrity with cutout and wings soundholes!!!! (see picture on right and be in awe!) Needless to say, it was the most beautiful thing I've ever received from the most beautiful person I've ever known. It was certainly the best moment of my life to date! I could continue talking about my amazement of this moment for hours on end, but this blog post would grow to be very large. So, I'll talk about the next great event! My mom wanted me to get some pictures taken in my pointe shoes, since this was probably my last year dancing in them because I'll be leaving for school. So I came into contact with a girl who used to dance with me but is now a BRILLIANT free-lance photographer, Stephanie Pana (http://www.stephaniepanaphotography.com). My mom helped me to pick out some extra outfits to take pictures in for the fun of it and they turned out to be pretty awesome, thanks to the wonderful photographer! Here are some of the photos from my photo session with her:
A HUGE thank you to Stephanie Pana and her lovely photography skills! Check out her website to book a session now! :) It's definitely worth it!I also have some smaller (but just as awesome) moments to share with you, like this cool photo strip I made of my boyfriend pitching at one of his baseball games:
Now on to events that I don't necessarily have pictures to go along with...
1). I've been taking an amazing contemporary dance class from the wonderfully talented choreographer/teacher Valerie Seles-Bishop. We are doing a dance to a live, acoustic version of "Gravity" by Sara Bareilles and I am absoultely in love with it! It's a dance about heartbreak and dancing it allows me to release my week's build-up of tension. You can truly put your emotion into the choreography and it's awesome!
2). Throughout all four years of high school, I was on the pom squad/dance team. During these four years, I was part of the "choreography team" for multiple competition routines! Now that I've graduated, my coach asked me back to help the new pom squad choreograph their UDA (http://varsity.com) camp home routine that they will use to try and qualify for nationals in Orlando, Florida in February. It has been a wonderful experience to be on the other side-- not a member of the team, but an on-looker. It was vastly weird to me to attend practice but not participate in it, but I truly believe it was a growing experience and can only allow more great things to come into my life. I wish the squad and all of the new ones to come all of the success in the world!
This has been my life in the past couple of weeks! More to come very soon... I won't leave you without a blog for more weeks in a row-- I promise!
With much appreciation for life and growth,
Jess
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