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June in Snapshots
We are only days away from entering into one of Ballet Magnificat's busiest and most exciting times of year! This coming Saturday begins Ballet Magnificat's 4-week Annual Summer Dance Intensive (SDI). This summer I will be busy teaching ballet classes and leading Bible studies. I have also been put in charge of looking after and counseling 11 girls with which whom I will be living with on The Belhaven University Campus for this whole coming month. I can't wait to meet them! As excited as I am for our summer dance camp to begin I find myself sitting back in bewilderment asking, "Where in the world did the month of June go?" June is one of my favorite months. Aside from the fact that it is my birthday month, ^_^ I just love June because the companies do not go on tour this month. Instead, we stay home in Jackson, MS to focus our energies on planning and preparing for SDI. This means I am able to attend my own church consistently and invest in my local friends and community and I just love it, even as much as I love touring!
Follow along with me below as I share through pictures of what fun things I've been up to this month that were dispersed among the less fun and less interesting intense periods of daily toiling that I will spare you from hearing about. Here we go:
A Special Dinner With This Couple
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| During our first weekend back in town from May Break, I got to get together with these two, Micky and Samuel, and prepare a special dinner of tasty salad, rice, and BBQ ribs for us to enjoy. The ribs were so good! I used my Dad's special recipe I will be sharing on here sometime soon. This dinner was very special as it was the last one we would share together before Micky retiring from Ballet Magnificat at the end of this month. They will be moving away from Jackson onto newer exciting things. I don't think they know how much they've blessed me during their time here. |
A Summer Picnic With This Dear Friend
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| Alissa is a longtime good friend of mine living in Jackson who is currently enrolled in Ballet Magnificat's Trainee Program. I love catching up with her any chance I get when I am in town! |
A Birthday Celebration
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| Celebrated my birthday this month and got lots of sweet little gifts! |
Sarah Hill became Sarah Krazit !
Ballet Magnificat company member Sarah Hill got married on June 10th and changed her last name to Krazit. She made a most beautiful bride and her whole wedding was seamless and stunning.
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| The venue was a gorgeous little chapel in the Town of Livingston, MS |
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| I loved the simplicity of her cake. |
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| And there were chickens which were popular amongst the kiddos! |
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| Micky and I |
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| A beautiful happy ever after |
Tara Thibodeaux Drew Comes To Town
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| The choreographer of Ballet Magnificat's The Arrival is at it again setting new contemorary choreography on both the Alpha and Omega companies for our upcoming 2017-1018 tour season. It's gonna be good! |
Work Day / Cleaning Day
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| After dance class on Monday in preparation for our summer dance camp coming up we had a cleaning party! The ministry bought us pizza and after enjoying it we got to work around the studio and tidying up in preparation for all our visitors that will be coming this weekend! Pictured here is one of my favorite people Ingrid who is working on re-taping the floors. |
Saying Goodbye To Our Tour Bus
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| Our beloved Prevost tour bus finally returned to us from the shop this month, so on Monday we also spent some time cleaning it out and making it suitable for sale since we will be without a driver for it next year not to mention it has become too high maintenance. Saying goodbye to our bus was a big deal. It's the only mode of transportation I've known in my five years of touring with Ballet Magnificat and I've become quite attached to it. It was like saying goodbye to a good friend. Pictured here is Abby with her pizza sad face. |
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| Catherine finds some sentimental card-playing score charts on the bus . |
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| Emily cleaning the bus refrigerators |
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| Filling up our bus crock pot with other sentimental finds to save and keep from our past touring adventures. |
Tomorrow Is Counselor Orientation
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Have You Read... Tuesday, June 13, 2017
You Say It's Your Birthday, It's My Birthday Too!
Thanks to all of you for the love you've shown and for all and sweet birthday wishes, and inexpressible thanks to GOD for His faithfulness in my life.
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I feel like June is a popular month for birthdays! Check out this fun, easy-to-make-and-in-no-time, recipe. If not for yourself, I'm sure you could think of some birthday girl or boy to whip this adorable recipe up for!
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup of boxed cake mix
- 1 egg white
- 2 tsp. of vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp. of water
- 1 teaspoon or so of candy sprinkles plus some for garnishing
- frosting
Directions:
- Spray a microwavable mug with cooking spray.
- In a separate bowl, combine cake mix, egg, oil, and water and mix well .
- Add sprinkles folding them well into the mix.
- Pour mix into mug and microwave it for about a minute. Cake mix with rise and about double in size. Cake is done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Let it cool down for several minutes before adding frosting and garnishing with sprinkles.
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| ...Why yes, I found that frosting on sale for an incredibly awesome price! ^_^ |
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Note: I actually slightly altered the ingredient measurements in order to fill my mug of such large size.
Have fun experimenting with measurements and ingredient proportions. It's hard to mess this one up!
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Buen Porvecho!
Have You Read... Monday, June 5, 2017
June's 30-Day Hand lettering and Illustration Challenge
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