Pixie's Competition Yesterday

We have been so busy with Pixie's dance classes and preparation to go to Portland. She leaves the morning of the 16th with her teacher and other advanced students to compete at the Western Regional.. This one is the BIG ONE of the year in the US. Sadly I won't be going along. Can't afford too, but she will be in good hands. Luckily they video tape the Drama portion, so I won't totally miss out.

So yesterday she competed at the Colorado Fall Feis in Loveland. There were some 800 competitors total. In her age group she did 6 dances -- which had roughly 30 competing in each dance. She placed in 4 out of 6!!! She walked away with:

1st / Hard 2 Hand Reel

2nd / Single Jig

3rd / Reel

3rd / Light Jig

The 2 she didn't place in were the Slip Jig, and the Hornpipe (hard shoe set). She knew when she messed up in both, but recovered so well that her father and I did NOT catch it. Oh well.. the judges did though.

They wouldn't allow us to take pics during comp, so we took a few before hand. Here are her posses.








Afterwards, we took her out to dinner to celebrate her sweet victory. :) Here she looking extremely tired, but happily wearing her metals.

She was tickled pink with herself, as she should be. It was a good day. It sparked a fire under her butt, and even made Loki want to return to class. She's going to be taking on an extra class.. so Monday and Thursday will revolve around a drive to Lakewood. I can't wait till we move to Golden, then i'll only be10 minutes from the class. Right now, i'm about 35.

So there's a little update on my busy life.