RECITAL INSTRUCTIONS!

Dress Rehearsal will be held this Friday, May 14, at 6:30 p.m. at the DeQueen High School Auditorium. PLEASE be fully dressed in your costumes, with hair and make-up complete! Jason will start taking pictures at 6:00 p.m.

All girls MUST be backstage at the auditorium no later than 6:30 Saturday for the 7 o'clock showtime.

Parents, we will NOT present flowers to students onstage. Please hold them until after the recital is over.

I will announce this again at dress rehearsal, but I need all girls to stay on stage after the finale during dress rehearsal for a group picture.

Individual Class Notes

Be Our Guest class: Please wear plain white tights, hair in buns (Moms, as long as their hair is up, you can decide amongst yourselves if you want to do something different). I will have bows for the girls to wear. Straps are to be criss-crossed in the back.

Monday Jazz Class: Hair down and curly. No shoes. Black, cropped leggings.

Pirate class: Sides of hair pulled back, the rest down (for scarf). No shoes.

Let's Get Crazy: High ponytails...no bows. No shoes.

Beat it: We'll wear plain, white tees with the sleeves cut off (I'll have those for you). White socks, black jazz shoes. Hair down and curly. Black pants WITH the chain. White fedora.

Circus: We'll wear cap-sleeved white tees (I'll get those also). Bow ties from Joanies (7.50 each if you've not yet paid). Black jazz shoes again, with black socks. Silver top hats, no chain on costume.

Country Song Backwards: Any jeans and western shirt, cowboy hat, hair down.

Please sell your tickets! Entry is $3 for advanced ticket and $4 at the door. Be sure to keep the portion with their name/phone info for door prizes. All profit will be donated to Arkansas Children's Hospital in memory of Kassi Hinton. So SELL SELL SELL...even if the buyer isn't planning to come! :o)

If you have any questions, please email me at carltonmelanie@yahoo.com

Love you all!

Hollywood Studios!

Look at all of us who were brave enough to take on the Tower of Terror! Well, all but Katy...she was too busy rockin' it out on Rockin' Roller Coaster. The girl who "hates roller coasters" rode this one twice and also adored Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom. Who knows what she'll do next?
Here we are waiting to see Muppet Vision 3-D.

And some pics from the Beauty and the Beast stage show. It was fabulous as always!

Epcot!

Don't have lots of pics from Epcot, so I'll try to get more from the moms later!
Here we're in Morrocco! Aladdin was absent, so we took his place.

Oh! And here's our gift from Disney! Cute, huh?

Danielle, of course!

Miss Melanie is the Queen! Hooray!

And KaLee is a...???

When we visited Epcot, they were having their Flower and Garden Festival, so they had lots of topiary sculptures that were just awesome!

All were super-tired, so here's us heading out to go back to the hotel for a swim!
...and simply for your viewing pleasure...

Magic Kingdom!

These pics are in no particular order, but here's a taste of the fun from the Magic Kingdom!

Below: Hannah and Danielle are inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. ARGH!
Danielle as Sorcerer Mickey

Miss Melanie, Hannah, Danielle and Miss Donna in our own style of fashion show!

Bethany and Erin, waiting in line for Peter Pan, which all the girls agreed was NOT worth the more-than-an-hour wait.

KaLee in line...

Danielle and Hannah, still in line...

Katy and Bailey...STILL in line!

Miss Melanie, wandering through Tomorrowland and loving life!

Bailey in Tomorrowland, post Space Mountain.

Enjoying Dole Whips in Adventureland, followed by a tour of the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse.

The ultimate photo op: Cinderella was on stage and KaLee was crying.

The whole gang in front of Cinderella's Castle.

Just Miss Melanie and the girls.

Erin and Bethany riding Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Woo Hoo!

Erin, in the next thing I plan to have installed in the mini-van.

Love this pic of Bailey, KaLee and Katy!

The Big Day!

The day of our performance! The girls were great...as you can see from the videos...and we were all rewarded with a "Mousecar" trophy. The girls also received cute little backpacks! I was and am soooo proud of them!

Below are videos of all performances except twirling. I'll try to get that on later! Please note that though it looks like there's no audience, they were there! The seats were wet from an earlier rain so everyone kind of crowded around the area.

Walt Disney World...the Trip to Florida!

Just a few pics from my mini-van, Ursula, from the first day of our trip!

Yes, those are gummy bears, licked and stuck to my window. We were running out of roadtrip games. On our second day of travels, we got stuck in a major traffic back-up. Below is the RV of some Arkansans who just happened to be stuck right next to us. And they were kind enough to let me use the W.C. :o)
We hung out in the cars for a while, but after about 20 minutes, we decided to get out and stretch... ...and practice our routines! We even drew quite an audience!

The rest of our caravan...

We made a stop at Prime Outlet to visit the Disney Character Warehouse for cheap souvenirs and almost picked up a mascot. After checking in to All-Star Sports Resort, we learned that our neighbor resort would be showing a movie on a big screen at their pool; so we surprised the girls with a fun outing! The movie was Wall-E, and not too interesting, but as you can see, they had plenty of fun in the pool!
Above: Hannah and Danielle; Below: Danielle
Below: Erin Mitchell

Below: Bethany Babb
Below: The group's bodyguard, J.C. Mitchell, with his entourage.Below: Bonus sponsor, Alisha Mitchell
Up next, our performance at Downtown Disney!!