My daughter is an amazing Swing Dancer and last day of 4th grade!

My girls' charter school put on the most amazing event the other night. It was held at this old school in town that was built in 1901 and is now a community center that houses Payson's history, so it was the perfect setting. They put on a type of living history museum and re-created the 1930's complete with movie stars, gangsters cops, soup kitchens, boxing matches, depression era shanty towns and sooo much more. The entire building was used for this and it was incredible!

Haley was Jeanette MacDonald, a 1930's singer and actress! She looked gorgeous and even had her hair done at the local beauty college (it took 2 hours, this girl has a ton of hair) Haley and others (Shirley Temple, Vivian Leigh, Ginger Rogers and a few others) were in a room they decorated as a 1930's dressing room complete with old time radios, curlers, make up and fancy chairs and such.

The best part was the swing dancing!

At two different times the swing dancers gathered and put on a fantastic show. There was a jazz band there (not students) and as they played the kids did their thing! WOW! Wish I had video of it.

The entire evening was a blast... down to the 5 cent drinks, 10 cent popcorn, to the cops running all around pursuing those gangstas, to everyone walking around in full costume! amazing!

Here are a few pictures from the event:

Haley/Jeanette with our 2 neighbor gals.
The Hollywood room, where the girls' dressing room was.

Haley and her friend Callan made this! So cool, huh?

Haley and her dance partner, Zach.

And there the go! Her dance teacher is behind in the black shirt and tan pants, she danced at BYU (I think!) She is an amazing swing/ball room teacher!

This kid could totally flip Haley all around.. I'm tellin' ya, my girl can dance!

woo hoo!

Taking a break.

See that newspaper on the table? Those were made by a newspaper place to advertise this event. The kids put it together, and the newspaper printed it. It looked like an old 1930's newspaper and it had a ton of articles about the movie stars, the boxers, different events taking place that the kids were going to re-enact that night! Fabulous! I kept the paper, it was so interesting.






Nat's last day of 4th grade:

The three-some, Nat, Lindeon and Maddie.

Outside for the little graduation ceremony, awards and refreshments! (provided by the amazing room moms, of course!)

Super room moms! Nancy and I got our own awards for

"Best Moms"

oh yeah!

Nat getting her award for "Best Pinkie"

It was a little joke between her and her teacher, Nat always grabbed his pinkie and wouldn't let go... huh? I dunno, it just made them all laugh!

Awesome Mr. Bradley! Nat had such a fun year!

About 10 minutes before school officially ended, a party broke out on the elementary side of the school! A fun dance party to end our terrific year!