Where Dreams Come True

Here are some of my favorite photos from our trip to Orlando. Since the real reason we went is for the National competition I have included some dance photos. It was so hard to get good action shots! They kept moving around ;-) The lime green outfits are from their modern dance which won them a first place trophy and a Grand Champion trophy. The turquise and black outfits are from their kick routine which took 2nd place. The red and orange outfits are for their big production number where they also first place. I love that dance the most. The song is 'Standing Outside the Fire' and the whole dance is designed to look like flames. The effect is really stunning. Katie is the tall flame in the back (orange skirt) She wanted to be one of the dancers in the front but since she is a rookie and a 9th grader she got cast as a flame. Because of h er height, she ended up as the center flame and then the shortest were on the outside and that added to the effect.

Even though the girls danced from 9 am until 10 pm, they were still all smiles all day. This is really a wonderful group of girls, all really sweet and kind.

We really weren't expecting to win anything. This is a really young program and still feeling their way. The day of the competition the girls were just on fire. I have never seen them dance so well. It didn't hurt either that the competition in our category wasn't too bad. Mostly, the girls just out-did themselves.

We got to have a character dinner at magic Kingdom and the girls had a blast. You are never too old to have fun at Disney.

The animatronics just keep getting better too. The dinosaurs in Jurrasic Park were incredibly life-like. This T-Rex tried to eat us! We barely escaped. Eeek!

I have a little bit of news, and I hid it at the bottom of this post. Yesterday PBJ's agency told me that we have been in PGN 6 weeks with no knockouts. That means they have reviewed it and there are no errors. The 3 cases submitted by our agency the week before just got final signatures. They said we are next. Any day now we will get the call that she is legally ours. I can't believe it. In fact, I won't believe it until we get the call! Because of the Holy days in Guatemala in mid-March we probably won't be able to pick her up until early April, but that's OK. I still can't shop. Not quite yet. I don't want to jinx it!!!