Griffin's First Recital

Two weekends ago Griffin had her first dance recital and it was so so so sweet!

She had a rehearsal on Friday afternoon and Dave snapped a couple of pictures of us before heading out.

The recital was being held at our old high school and it was the first time I had been back since I graduated in '02.  The weird thing is that the school has undergone HUGE renovations and looks NOTHING like it did when Dave and I were there.  I felt like I was in a strange twilight zone.

So. Much. Precious.

I picked her up backstage and had a total moment because I performed on this stage DOZENS of times and the auditorium hasn't changed at all.  So weird!  I had solos on that stage, performed many a concert season concerts on that stage and used to SWEAT IT OUT having to improv during Jazz concerts on that stage.

We walked out one of the side doors to the stage and found ourselves in the hallway that connects the band hall and choir room to the rest of the school.  It was absolutely surreal.  Dave and I met in this hallway and so many memories took place in here.  You'll have to ask Dave about the time he skipped school and got caught coming back in those doors and landed himself in ISS :) hahaha

Saturday morning she was ready to hit the stage with some of the sweet girls from her class.

These are the two best photos that I got. hahaha  

She's on the far right.

Picking her up after the performance :)  MOMMY!!!

G and I hung out while we waited for everyone else to join us during intermission.

Daddy brought her flowers (sigh!)

Papa MAC!!!

She was so excited that Baby Beau was there too!

Stephen and Cynthia, as well!

And her two great grandmothers :)  I mean!

How blessed are we to have BOTH of Dave's grandmothers close by!?!?!

Don't her brothers look thrilled to have just sat through an entire half of a dance recital of which their sister performed for about 45 seconds??? :) hahaha  #firstofmany

Uncle Mark (my brother), Aunt Diana and Baby Beau 

When we were leaving there was a little "wind tunnel" near the entry.  The kids thought it was AWESOME!!!

It was such a fun morning with our sweet girl.

When we moved to the U.S. in 1991 we left all of our extended family, so when I had performances and such growing up it was pretty much always just my parents and brother in the audience.  So it's not lost on me how special and awesome it is that there is a SLEW of people taking up and entire row just to see our girl stand on the stage and shake a set of bells ;) 

As of right now Griffin is LOVING dance class (she asks us every single day if it's dance day) and so the plan is to continue it as long as she's still enjoying herself.  She has another recital in the Spring and we're already excited.

I don't have a video of the actual recital, but here's a little video of a few of her rehearsals :)

Happy Wednesday, friends!