Holiday Piano Recital

It was quite an evening for Samantha's second piano recital. That night, it was one of the first try-outs for the SB Club Soccer team. I polled a few parents in the Club and asked whether or not it would be a big deal if she missed it and all feedback pointed to us making it work to get her out to soccer to be evaluated. So....

This is how she looked 25 minutes before she was supposed to be at Soho ready to play the piano. 

This was my text conversation with her piano teacher reminding him not to put her near the beginning of the program. Anyone who knows Gus knows that he truly did not remember where he put her in the program so I was not banking on walking into Soho and not having Samantha go directly on stage that night. 

A quick change and a quick run through of her song and then we were out the door. 

Gus was thrilled that Samantha arrived without her sportswear ;) 

Ahhhhhh, bumping into our old neighbors. 

The line-up was in our favor because she had some time. Also, Gus rarely calls Samantha anything other than Sam which is totally fine because she goes by Sam as evidanced by the program. ;)

This is the semi-nervous anticipation before hearing your name called on stage. 

And this is what you look like when you are finished and you WOWED the crowd with your performance, not to mention the gigantic temporary tattoo we forgot to remove from her arm.

I mean, check out that ending!