Gianna and her Dad

Starquest pictures

Gianna in "All Aboard" (far left)...

(2nd in from the left)...

(again 2nd in from the left)...

(way on the left by the sign)...

Gianna in "Big Noise" (leaning way back off the prop on the left)...

Creative

Julia loves doing crafts. She is forever watching DIY videos.  Here are just a few things she has made for her bedroom...

She took an old picture frame and added the craft paper as the background to create a tray...

She filled a vase with some silk flowers and added sand and seashells to a smaller vase to make a candle holder...

She spray painted a seashell silver to use for her jewelry...

Some yarn and silk flowers...

She took pages from an old paperback book to make these flowers for her wall...

She made a magazine holder from cork board...

The fish she painted in Cancun and she added pink glitter to the inside of a mason jar...

I think this is so pretty. She painted a wood letter "J" and glued some sparkly blue flowers to it..

Sand, seashells and some twine to a mason jar makes a summery decoration for her bureau...

And her craft closet...

Oh...and she's also super creative when it comes to nail design too.  She did this all by herself...

Love my creative girl.

Starquest weekend

My girls had their last regional dance competition this past weekend.  Of course all of the dances were amazing!

"Can Can" was beautiful and so much fun as usual...see little Julia there in the center? 

Gianna's duo with Victoria won a platinum!! Yay!! And best of all...they won not one...but TWO special awards!!!  One was for "Broadway Bound" and the other was the "Fusion Award" which is for great teamwork.  They did a fabulous job! Very proud of them.

Gianna warming up with her teammates...

Gianna's lyric "Amazing Grace" placed 3nd (her jazz "Big Noise" was 2nd)...

and Gianna's tap dance "All Aboard" won big again this weekend! They placed 1st in the junior large group category AND they also won the Apogee Award which is the highest scoring routine out of all the 12 and under dances in the entire competition!!

Part of the group...

more of the group...



Here they are accepting the Apogee Award...

Julia's jazz dance "Boyz" won platinum plus! She really stands out in this routine...

Gianna's acro team "Devil Went Down to Georgia" looked fantastic!! It also won platinum plus and 1st place!

Julia's solo "Homeless" was fabulous!  She finally got a platinum PLUS!! This is her fifth year competing a solo at Starquest and the very first time getting a platinum plus!! So well deserved!  There were 100 teen solos and they announced the top 20...and she placed 15th!!  I know you might think...oh just 15th...but no way.  This was probably one of the hardest competitions she has ever done with so much incredible talent. Her placing 15th was amazing!!  Our studio has 16 teen soloists and only 5 of them, including Julia, placed in the top 20. 

Coming up...Nationals at Mohegan Sun the end of June! 

Top Select Teen Solo

1 - Thiago Pacheco - EFX - McKeon Dance & Gymnastics Center

2 - Hannah Winship - Stay - McKeon Dance & Gymnastics Center

3 - Kimberly Quirk - Imprints - Paula Meola Dance & Performing Arts, Inc.

4 - Alaina Gobbi - The Last Blues Song - McKeon Dance & Gymnastics Center

5 - Natalia Lee - Man Of Lamancha - McKeon Dance & Gymnastics Center

6 - Angela Corio - Fall For You - Stephanie Kemps New England Dance Academy

7 - Alyssa Boucher - The Last Stand - Stephanie Kemps New England Dance Academy

8 - Laina Cleaves - Summertime - McKeon Dance & Gymnastics Center

9 - Cassidy Baratta - Old Skin - McKeon Dance & Gymnastics Center

10 - Brooke Hill - Imagine - McKeon Dance & Gymnastics Center

11 - Emma Graveline - Garden Of Eden - Stephanie Kemps New England Dance Academy

12 - Samantha Ladner - Let Go - Paula Meola Dance & Performing Arts, Inc.

13 - Amber Epstein - Runaway - Kathy Blake Dance Studios

14 - Emma O'Connor - The Best Is Yet To Come - Artistic Dance Conservatory

15 - Julia Digiacomo - Homeless - Stephanie Kemps New England Dance Academy

16 - Julia Hall - The Way You Make Me Feel - McKeon Dance & Gymnastics Center

17 - Emma Cummings - Heart Cry - McKeon Dance & Gymnastics Center

18 - Ava Guarino - Hope - Stephanie Kemps New England Dance Academy

19 - Shealagh Boyajian - Tell Tale Heart - Sheila Rosanio School of Dance & Gymnastics

20 – Victoria Cruz – Too Good – Encore Dance Academy – Erica Vining

The Boston Town Cup

Nicholas played in the Boston Town Cup tournament and our town won!! What a great weekend of hockey!  Our team was comprised of some of the best players from our town.  It was so much fun watching these boys battle it out against some really great competition.  They worked hard and came out on top!

And our boy was AWESOME in net...

He stopped all kinds of shots and was quick as a cat...

Two boys on each team were ejected right at the end of the game for fighting...but the boys didn't forget about their teammates behind the plexiglass...very funny...

Oh my heart...

This was exactly ten years ago...and now I'm looking at him eye to eye. Why do the years have to go by so fast? Simply the cutest...

Tulips

Gianna's sweet friend, Lily, invited her to go Tulip picking yesterday.  How fun! It was an absolutely gorgeous day...

I love Gianna's friends. She has chosen them well.