Shawnee, the Black Haired Girl

So.....I realized that my blogging time has now been taken up by "writing to Devin" time each Sunday. In an effort to keep up with what has happened in our lives since he left 5 months ago--I'm going to start posting again...AND I'm going to go back and re-construct the last 5 months...so bad! All I have to do is re-read his letters since I tell him our high points. :D

This week has been busy! Shawnee had Nationals with her ballroom team this week at BYU. She had to have her hair dyed black, a french manicure, and tan. So..she's been working on the tan for about a month at a tanning salon, and we dyed her hair with a semi-permanent color on Wed. nite. It sure was messy!!! And...it didn't take as well as we had expected...but it was good enough for her competition.

Shawnee danced the standard medley with her team and they received 5th place. I was SHOCKED. We had them pegged for 1st or 2nd place. They were completely in sync...every line straight...every turn in sync..no stumbles. It was beautiful. Even their coach was very excited! Other teams stumbled, were out of sync--etc. I found out today that they took 5-7 seconds too long to exit the stage--and that's why they placed 5th (last). How disappointing to put in all that hard work. But Shawnee sure looked beautiful and had a great time!