Dance Videos: Officer's Ball

August 12, 2016 - Salem, IL - The Howards family hosted another ball this summer to honor the lives of our active servicemen and veterans.  

Honoring and praying for those in the service

Thanks (again) to the filming work of Rachelle Howard, I hope you enjoy the 15 (15!) videos I've posted from the ball below:

1. Laura's Waltz
2. Key to the Cellar
3. Yellow Stockings
4. The Scottish Polka
5. Lovely Nancy
6. Comical Fellow
7. The Ragg
8. Bare Necessities   
9. Pirate's Waltz
10. Red House
11. Duke of Kent's Waltz
12. Hole in the Wall
13. Barbarini's Tambourine
14. Spanish Circle
15. Juice of Barley

Dance Practice (Videos)

March 11, 2016

1. Downriver to the Sea
2. Irish Washer Woman
3. The Hole in the Wall
4. The Ragg
5. Duke of Kent's Waltz
6. Young Widow
7. The Scottish Polka
8. Jack's Maggot
9. King of Poland

A Dance, Rotator Cuff, and an Invitation

December 11, 2015 - My very first post with photos that I took during a dance. 

I spent most of the evening watching from the sidelines, because I was still healing from a rotator cuff tear (there's a story behind that.)  The inability to raise your right elbow definitely makes dancing all but impossible. However, I say "all but" because I did participate in a few dances - including the Scottish (there's a story behind that.)

Anyway...enough of me.  Enjoy the photos and check out the invite at the bottom of the post.

See? No break or fracture.

Someone's in the Christmas spirit!  

These lines were posted on the three doors - of which, only one will open.

Our patient dance caller, Jeremy Suermann

Look like fun?  Well, join us for the New Year's Ball...details are below!

Jesse & Meghan's Wedding

June 20, 2015

Photo slideshow as the wedding begins

Jesse accompanying his mother...

...and mother-in-law to their seats before he takes his place: