Graduation Party #1

This was quite the weekend of graduation parties- below are pictures of Saturday night's festivities on our porch with Anna's friends from the Edge.  

cake brought over from Amy Young for the centerpiece and for the celebration 

Jane, Ellie, Carston, Olive, Mary Margaret and Anna 

Anna, Ellie, Mary Margaret, Jane, and Olive 

While the girls were on our porch, the moms went over to have appetizers at Brooke's house. 

Rite of Spring Audience

We were delighted to get all dressed up with our friends Guy, Etta, and Olive Tucker who came to visit and joined us for watching Anna's Rite of Spring production on Zoom yesterday afternoon. 

Poppy was a fast favorite for Olive and Etta 

Click here to see Anna's amazing dances! 

lessons after the show 

Anna's final bow 

Fiona (one of Anna's favorite teachers) who came and gave her flowers! 

Two and Three

Anna's two dances that she choreographed and performed were debuted during the Rite of Spring today with Dance Fremont, and I could not be more proud of her creativity and vision for these pieces.  As I was sharing about this senior project with a friend the other day, he very wisely noted that it was such a wonderful thing that she got to work on this as it was such an embodied project that she did in such a disembodied year.  She began working on these at the end of February, and she went each Wednesday to the studio to dance all by herself (which was such a different experience than being on Zoom and dancing in our living room). 

She danced to the instrumental versions of the songs "Two" and "Three" by Sleeping at Last, and they were especially meaningful as she most identifies with these types on the Enneagram.  In "Three," the song is about being an achiever and the struggle to be enough, and her choreography was in essence a way to embrace all of herself with radical love.  In "Two," this song highlights those with personalities who love and serve others well, and she created different combinations that she embedded through the dance that honor the family and friends who have shaped her to be the person she is.  

What a perfect capstone to her time at Dance Fremont and to the dancing she has done since she was three years old as these pieces capture the grace, beauty, and strength she has developed through dance through the years. 

"Three" filmed at UW Campus at Sylvan Grove Theater:

 https://youtu.be/fOhmvcbVxck

"Two"- filmed at Magnuson Park on Kite Hill

https://youtu.be/_xs_Cu1hdLs

Prom #2

Anna finished her last AP test this afternoon and headed over to her friend Mallory's house to get ready for Prom #2 with friends from the Edge. They got all dressed up for a fancy dinner and were excited for a fun evening together to celebrate being done with senior year! 

Anna and Mary Margaret 

Anna and Olive 

Anna and Ellie 

Anna, Carston, Ella and Mary Margaret 

Olive, Mary Margaret, Mallory, Ellie and Anna 

Anna, Ellie, Mallory, Ella, Mary Margaret, Olive and Carston 

Last class

 Tonight was the last class that Anna had with her wonderful ballet teacher Ms. Charlotte. I will admit that there were tears from at least three Huff family members tonight when noting this fact. We are so grateful for the way Anna has been shaped by Dance Fremont in more ways than we can count.  (Please note that Poppy showed up for class as usual.) 

Still my heart...

I still love this bear that I sleep with almost every night, and I still love this girl.... Still my heart.... 

picture taken in March 2003 

City Sights

 The other night, we picked up some random picnic food and headed over to Bhy Kracke Park on Queen Anne that Anna had gone to a few months earlier that I had never been to. It's such fun to keep finding treasures like this in our city that we have missed even after all these years.