SCHOOL'S OUT!!! not..

I got out of Spring Semester the last week of April and I am pleased to inform you that passed all of my classes, and I am now a member of the 4290 Ballet class (that means I moved up a level). Three cheers for Hannah!!

HIP HIP HOORAY
HIP HIP HOORAY
HIP HIP HOOORRRAAAAAYY!!!

This is really worth cheering for because they are making tons of changes in my department right now. Teachers are getting more strict, and lots of people in my class got held back :/ so I'm considering myself a LUCKY LUCKY girl.

I had about a week and a half of a break of no school until summer school started.. BLAHHHHH. Never doing this again.
Ok so I shouldn't be complaining because this is my last day of my two week long class but let me just tell you, this has been a LONG two weeks. I am currently taking 3 classes: One online class, one 3.5 hour class on Tuesday's and Thursday's and last but not least a two week 4 hour long class M,T,W,H,F. YUCK. Good thing it is pretty interesting. It is the Study of Families. I had REALLY long days on Tuesdays and Thursday's for two weeks. 9am-4pm being in only 2 classes is HARSH. That is why I am grateful for my Mac :). Going through my first week of summer classes, I also had rehearsal after rehearsal for the Sleeping Beauty Performance that weekend, and on top of THAT, I had to still teach my ballet classes. BUSY BUSY BUSY!

But lets start with a few things that happened during my crazy busy schedule.

I went to my first funeral a few months ago for my Uncle Brad. Am I the only 20 year old in the world that has never gone to a funeral? So it would seem. There were so many things about funerals that I just had no clue about, and it sorta made me nervous. This is when I hear dad in the background saying "What is yuh ignernt?!" but really, I learned a whole lot and it was a great growing experience. Hot tub Hannah is a big girl now! It was not nearly as horrible as I always thought my first funeral would be. As a matter of fact it wasn't horrible at all! It was a very sad but also very happy that families are forever and I'm glad that I belong to a church that knows that this is true. I learned so many things about my uncle that I never knew and I want to become as great of a person as he was. I will strive to be more helpful, caring and giving like my Uncle Brad.



Next, EASTER! The Easter bunny was so good to me this year.
New Toms. My others are basically shot. Journey is the Destination.



Dear Easter Bunny, please bring me these next:
Crochet Toms. Awesome.



We had a fun Easter Dinner and egg dying at Leslie's. I love Leslie Food, and I rock at egg dying. I should be professional.







My Roomy turned 21. We celebrated by going to a non-alcoholic lounge and dressing up all fancy. It was awesome! I gave everyone make overs and we drove down to Provo, went to the lounge, got ice cream, and then slept over at Leslie's house. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEBBIE!









Harrison had a birthday party!!! I highly doubt any of the kids had a better time than Rachel and I... We are still kids right? It was Transformers themed.




The cotton candy was more fun to make than to eat but then you feel bad not eating it after you make it.






There are too many of these awesome jumping pictures to post them all. Ridiculously funny. Check Leslie's blog for more awesome photos of Harrison's party.






SUCCESS!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRISON!!!


Last but not least, Sleeping Beauty.
I love Ballet's because telling stories are better than doing showcases that just show a hundred different dances. I was supposed to be Red Riding Hood who comes to Aurora's wedding at the end and does a few dances for her. It was so much fun to do in rehearsals because I got to put personality in it which I LOVE. It was a partnering part which is always a good experience. Welllll one of the fairies got injured... I was the only one that was eligible for the part because the rest of the fairies were University students and the real understudy was 13. They thought a 13 year old doing Red Riding Hood would be better than her dancing with college level ballerina's. It was very sad because I really wanted to do Little Red but I still had fun being a fairy. Again...



The college students were allowed to assist in rehearsals which I LOVED. These are the cute girls I assisted!!



I also had MANY great family and friends who came and supported me! I think that this is the most people that have ever come to see me in a ballet show. It really means A LOT to me. I've always had shows and aside from my parents, grama, and some family members I never have this many people I know in the audience! You dance so much better that way. THANKS GUYS!

Roommates Dibbie and Courtney and fellow Ballet Major Emily:



My roommate Annie and her niece that actually met a REAL ballerina.



The Henlines!



Cambry was lucky enough to get a picture with all of the fairies.



Aunt Falene, and my cousins Cindy, Maryann, Emily and Bailey came!!










Uncle Boyd



Mother Dearest



Grama! My #1 fan. Always makes the most effort to come see my shows.



Leslie Annie


I dunno who this girl is but we matched and I thought this picture was cute. I felt like a Disneyland character. Every little girl (including the little girls actually in the show) wanted my autograph and a picture with me. It got to the point where I never wanted to pass anybodys dressing room cause I knew I would get surrounded by tons of little girls. I'm flattered really, it's good to know somebody looks up to you and that I was once in their shoes :)



My good friend of almost 6 years now was Carabosse (the evil which). She was SO GOOD at her part and I gladly got to do her hair. After the shows were over we went and got our nails done. Shellac nails are the new thing. They aren't supposed to chip and are supposed to last like 2 weeks.







That is all for now. Sorry that I have the longest posts in history but as you can see, my life is sorta hectic so I hardly get time to do frequent posts. At least I do post sometimes cough AIMEE cough.

Hello, I am a Ballet Major at the U.

I wasn't kidding, I'm actually in the Ballet Department. I'm not entirely sure how my photographer made me look so good because looking at these now, I wonder how in the world I did some of these positions. I was sore for a week after, especially the leg I broke. It felt like I had to go through therapy again because I could hardly walk down stairs let alone walk at all. But,

TOTALLY WORTH IT. Here's the story:

I had seen plenty of dance photos that my dance friends and cousin Dayna had been tagged in on Facebook that were VERY COOL. They were all taken by the same guy and I didn't actually know him. The pictures were all SO good and I was sup jeal (super jealous) because my past experiences with dance photos were not so great in my eyes. Funny story though, on the way home from Christmas break, there was another ballet major on my flight. Guess who came to pick her up from the airport? The photographer that had taken all of these amazing dance photos of my friends and cousin. When I met him he was very sweet and nice so when I got home I messaged him on Facebook and asked him if it was possible to take pictures with him sometime. I told him I met him at the airport and he took pictures of my cousin Dayna and I loved his work. He responded saying that he danced with Dayna in the Utah Ballet department and she was his favorite. He also said that he remembered me from the airport and that he would love to take pictures for a good deal if we could find a time to before he moved to Portland. We scheduled a time to take the pictures and I borrowed some tutu's from the costume lady for the Sleeping Beauty performance I am doing in May, and some leo's from friends. When I got there he was asking me what kind of pictures I wanted, and I had shown him a few pictures I liked that I wanted to modify to make my own. In one picture I found on Google, there was a chiffon fabric wrapped around this girl while she was doing some cool pose that I wanted to try. When he looked, he said he has always wanted to try chiffon fabric in photos. I was jokingly saying there was a Joann's about a block away and he excitingly said, "GREAT! lets take a five minute break and go get some fabric!" Whats great though is that I accidentally left a leo at home by accident and I asked if my new roommate Annie would bring it by. When she did, we gave her money to go buy us some fabric at Joann's for us HA! I like my new roommate. Anywho, Because of the fact that he was also a dancer, he could tell me what to fix (point my toes, straighten my legs, fix my arms etc). He likes photos with hair down cause it shows the flow of the movement. The shoot was SO MUCH FUN and he was great to work with. My problem is that I have a lot of layers so my short layers ended up in my face majority of the time. Darn. However, IT IS THE ART AND MOVEMENT that I was going for... not so munch the face. Please keep that in mind.

Christopher Peddecord is the photographer, and I give him SO MUCH CREDIT for these amazing photos. ENJOY!

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#4 Doesn't look like it hurt, but it did. YOWIE!


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#9 Don't mind the tan line..


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#12 Top 3 in my opinion.


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#14 might be my absolute favorite.


#15 Made it on his profile picture! WOO HOOO!!!


#16 This one might be moms absolute favorite because I'm smiling... This is the color test photo. Sorry I didn't smile more mom, it is hard to hold a position and smile at the same time. :)


#17 My failed attempt. Only regret is my face. I look dead. This could have been OUTSTANDING if I looked like I enjoyed what I was doing. Maybe looking up and smiling maybe? BAH! I wanna go back and try again dangit! Just picture a better face and maybe you will like this one.


P.S. I numbered them so that you can tell me your favorites!

"Alvederzane" -Heidi Klum, Project Runway