What have you been up to?

Hey everyone

Life has been keeping me pretty busy. I started working as a dance teacher this fall, teaching summer cooking camps, redecorating, just to name a few things.

What have you been up to?

Back on the Dance Floor

Getting back into the swing of things with dancing has been interesting to say the least. In the last 2 months or so, I have had moments of almost falling on my butt, my feet going one way while my body went the rest of the way, and then snap! The dances finally coming together! As soon as I was in tune with me, the music, and the steps, a few days later, I broke my foot. I went into a dancing with drawl because I couldn’t go to class or workout for 2 weeks. What do you do when all of a sudden you can’t perform your passion?

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If I could dance anywhere...

I love the beach! The sound of the waves crashing, the seagulls squawking as they fly by, the feel of the sand beneath my toes. At an impromptu trip this summer I imagined how amazing it would be to dance at the beach.  Here are a few of the pictures I took.

If you could dance anywhere, where would it be?

Beautiful Me Fridays

Every Friday will be Beautiful Me Friday where we will talk about bringing out our inner and outer beauty. 

One of my favorite scriptures that talks about beauty is from Proverbs 31:25 "I am clothed with strength and dignity and I laugh without fear of the future."  (I always put the scriptures in first person to make me see that yes this is talking about me not just to me).  Beauty is not only on the outside by on the inside.  And we should show both.  We shouldn't hide our beauty from the world.  Let it shine as bright as the sun!

A few of the topics we will discuss are jewelry, clothes, accessories, scriptures, exercise routines, healthy foods and their recipes, building our character, inspiring people, quotes, and taking care of me plus the places you can find everything we talk about. 

When I think of something that is beautiful, some of the things that pop in my head are happy, enjoys her own skin, can be happy in wearing blue jeans or a dress, shoes or no shoes, enjoying her passions, and just loves life, living it to her fullest laughing like there's no tomorrow. 

I love the way Audrey Hepburn talks about beauty,
"I believe in pink.
I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.
I believe in kissing, kissing alot.
I believe in being strong even when everything seems to be going wrong.
I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.
I believe that tomorrow is another day and
I believe in miracles."

To you, what makes something or someone beautiful?  What are some topic ideas you want to talk about on Beautiful Me Fridays?

Have a beautiful weekend!
Dancing joyfully,
Kelli Marie  =)

And around and around I go

Good afternoon!

I hope you all are well and having a wonderful day!  It is gorgeous and warm out here today.  I am loving the spring weather. 

Since it has been a while....here's what has been happening in my dance world:

~My broken foot is completely healed.  I can dance in my ballet shoes and everything! yay!

~The foot work that I had a hard time with because of my foot I can do now (taking a break from dancing paid off).

~Our dance class is getting more people every week.

~We are working on new choreography that is stretching me and I'm loving it.

~We just started taking our adult dance class to the kids.  I have never seen kids move so energetically and have so much fun dancing before.  It blows my mind everytime we go!

~I saw the Nutcraker in person for the first time ever!  And felt like I was 5 all over again.

~I'm looking for another place to teach dance.  I can't wait to see where I land.  =)

What have you been doing?  How has dance or any other passion of yours captivated your world lately?

Joyfully dancing,

Kelli

How does it go again?

I have been back dancing with my foot for 2 weeks. The first week, I have never felt freer. I felt like I was going to slam my hands through the floor and then out the window into the brilliant sunny sky. I was floating on air. Now, as I am trying to go back to crazy foot work, my feet don’t move in the same direction. It’s like I’m learning to dance all over again in some ways. I’m thinking I need to hit up the dance DVDs and some yoga a little more. Maybe working it out more will help my feet to find their rhythm again? Have you ever had to retrain yourself? How did you do it?