Dance

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Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another. ~Author Unknown

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. ~George Balanchine

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. ~Martha Graham

Dancers are the athletes of God. ~Albert Eisenstein

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I love dance. I can't live without it. Even if its in my bedroom, the gym at school, or in the studio itself, I cannot stop dancing. I tap at school, dance lyrical at home in my bedroom, do jazz dance turns in the mall, and do ballet while I am walking. I leap in the hallways when no one is looking, or I shuffle ball-change in my classroom. I can't stop dancing, nor can I live without it. I love the thrill of getting those open turns perfect, get a triple turn amazing, or get those splits down all the way. I love it when I can balance for a long time for scorpion contests, or getting platinum in competitions. I love being elected team captain twice in a row.

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I love telling the story through my movements in lyrical, or hearing 'Point{e} your toes! Straighten your knees! ' from my teacher, or laughing when it takes me three times to spell 'point' 'normally'. I love giving it all I got in jazz, or mastering new moves in tap class for the first time. I love getting those new ballet shoes and sewing the straps, claiming that the new tap shoes are better because they aren't arched at your mom laughs. I love dancing and stretching so hard that I pull a muscle every two weeks, and then I am sore and can't walk at school.

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I love watching the older girls in awe as they do their company dance. I love hearing my ballet teacher's stories about her dance lessons in Russia, and getting to see pictures.

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I 

love

dance.<3

Oh Gingerbread Houses,

Today we made our gingerbread houses. We wanted to wait until after the holidays to do them. (: I know, I know, they aren't the best houses you've seen. . .but come on! We tried! :) 

I cut up gum for shingles, and we also used Dots, Skittles, and Hot Tamales. 

Front view of my house.

The red brick road. (:

Side view. :)

My shingled roof. (:

Uhh. . .a heart?

My snowman?

My twin brother's house. 

My day two of 366!

My family will also be having my FAVORITE dinner tonight, noodles and meatballs! I love my mom's recipe for them. Noodles are my all time favorite food. (: This has been the best Sunday ever! I hope that the {rest of the} Sunday and your  Mondays will go well! :) I hope you had a good weekend as well!

Day One {and some sad news}

Picnik is closing! The amazing site I edit so many photos and make all my banners on is closing! I am so sad. The good thing is that everyone can use every premium feature! (:


I will be starting a 365! {plus one, because of leap year} I will post it on this blog. I might not get every single day, but I will most likely take more than 366 photos this year. (: I will be putting my watermark on them, and I will also be putting the number photo it is.

i'm loving it

brothers and sisters

face it. you might fight with your siblings, maybe a lot, or maybe a little. you may scream at them, get into an argument, or maybe you don't want to share. who knows!  :) but, you know {this may sound cheesy, but it is true!} that deep down, you really do love your brother or sister. you can feel what they feel at that exact moment. if they are sad, you can sense that and you then are sad. i have burst out crying when my brother was sad many times. whether you are a twin, quad, or just plain ol' brother and sister, you feel it, too. if you think about it, you probably haven't been mad at your brother or sister for very long. before you know it, you are now playing a game and laughing your heads off and just ten minutes ago, you had a fight. sound familiar? :)

next time you and your brother or sister get in a fight, and you just can't say anything nice to him, don't worry, it won't last long. like i said, before you know it, you'll be brother and sister again. forever. :)


{dedicated to my twin brother, gresh. love you! :)}