Laura Vegas

for the past few years, 2 of the 5th grade teachers have put on a "thriller spectacular" right before halloween. they work with their two classes and teach them a dance routine set to a medley of michael jackson songs. sarah's teachers is one of those teachers, so she got to participate in it this year. be forewarned. these are your typical, not-so-great school gym photos. i did the best i could. edited to add: for some reason, i feel the need to clarify this. only because i read this post again, and thought that last comment wasn't even true. i did NOT try my best with these photos. lol! i literally just took out my camera and snapped a few photos. didn't even check settings or use my external flash. that might have helped. just sayin 😉

they practiced this routine for 6 weeks together. sarah would come home from school and be dancing around the house, practicing. never to music though. i kept telling her to find the music. but she would just do it all in her head. for their preformance, they all wore black jeans, white tshirts, and their teachers had one black glove for each of them. they performed this quite a few times that day. they did the lower grades in the morning. sarah said that they were doing them first, so that if they messed up, no one would really notice. lol!

the parents came for the last performance of the day. we were in there with the junior high kids, so it was really crazy in there. the kids did such a great job, and the crowd loved it. times like these when i wish i had a video camera. but we're able to get DVD copies from the school, so i'm doing that.

sarah and her two BFF's, natalia and tawny. on another note, the 5th graders went to science camp last week. sarah opted to stay here and not go. i was kind of bummed, because i know how much alyssa LOVED science camp. but i also know my girl. and she's not one to leave mom and dad quite as easily as some kids. if it had been a night or two, i might have pushed her more. but it was 4 nights and 5 days. and i knew my girl couldn't handle that. so she stayed, and still went to school. and she missed her two BFF's more than anything. i felt so bad for her. it was the longest week not having them at school with her. so i know she was so excited to go to school yesterday, and see them again!