Graduation, Dancing, Music, and the Beginning and End of June

My computer is back. FIXED. Apple is a genius company; no pun intended. Though I am a little bitter that it just died randomly, apparently from age. It was slightly minted to get it fixed, but it was well-worth not paying the price for a new computer. So I'm satisfied; and I'm back to the blogosphere.

May, June, July. As we've seen so far, these are very busy months. The beginning of Summer is a hot mess of events as everyone squeezes in all the major life events before people head off on their various trips, work, and vacations. Mine have been no different. And if I'm overwhelmed now by how much I need to catch you up on, it's my own fault for not blogging faithfully, in real time.

As the title of this post indicates, the last two weeks have a theme: Graduation, Dancing, Music. My younger sister graduated high school last weekend, which meant much more than just a graduation ceremony. The first weekend of June, she had her Senior recital. That was also the day of my students' own ballet recitals, so I had to be elsewhere. I had one class perform in Thumbelina and one class perform in Alice in Wonderland. It was a long, eventful, and wonderful day!

Last weekend was even more eventful, so brace yourselves. Saturday morning, my sister graduated from high school (woohoo and congratulations!) Unfortunately, once again I had to be the studio's recitals working (though I didn't have any students performing this time around). The recitals were still fun to watch, and it's a great feeling seeing all the dancers' hard work play out on stage! My youngest sister performed in one of the recitals, too!

And on Sunday of last weekend, I managed to make it to some of the Graduation Celebrations finally with my sister's big grad party! Family, old friends, neighbors; it was a great afternoon!

So you would think I took a deep breath this week, right? Think again... more events coming your way soon! (As soon as I wake up from this nap....)

I had to dance with my littlest Thumbelinas! I was the old woman, they were the Tulips.

A little Q-tipped lipstick for the ballerinas before they go onstage to perform their Alice in Wonderland!