Anniversary Bash

On January 8, 2010, we celebrated 2 years of Jazzercise in Spring Hill at our current location in Fun Fitness Factory. What a great reason to party (Jazzercisers will party for any reason)! At the end of 2009 I had given all the students a ballot in which they could vote for their favorite routines of 2009. I decided to make up a set of routines from the winners of those ballot counts. Everyone was excited about that because they knew it would be songs they loved! Plus I decided to have some gifts to give away and we wanted to have food. My two associates, Emily and Carrie, were planning to be there as well, so we came up with a menu, complete with champagne (aka sparkling grape juice).
The night arrived, and Emily, Carrie and I got there plenty early to get everything set up. We had balloons all over and I had made gigantic "2's" to hang around the room. It looked so festive! Everyone started arriving at about 5:15, with the class due to start at 5:30 p.m.
Here is the list of songs we did that night: I Gotta Feeling by Black-eyed Peas,Fire Burning by Sean Kingston,Womanizer by Brittany Spears, Fuego by Mad Washer, Rockin' In The Country by Daryl Singletary, Heavy Rotation by Anastasia, Rockin' in the Free World by Chris the Greek, Smooth Criminal by David Garrett, Single Ladies by Beyonce, Walk the Dinosaur by Queen Latifah, Healing by Summerwind, Cue the Rain by Queen Latifah, Manos al Aire by Nelly Furtado, Move That Body by Chi-Love Vibe,and Live and Let Die by Escala As you can see, it was a great mix of music!
We actually started the night "practicing" I Gotta Feeling because I had seen in the newspaper that Black-eyed Peas was going to do an audience participation thing on the Grammy's at the end of the month, and they were looking for people to send in videos of themselves performing that song. Well, I thought what fun it would be for me to video us doing that song and not only singing it but moving to it as well! I figured it would be unique, and surely we would be put on TV. I got everyone all excited about this, which is why we decided to have a practice run first before the video take. Everyone was so into it!!

Unfortunately, I found out after the fact that they were only accepting videos of single people rather than groups, so that was that. Dang.
After the class the party began! We had a toast to our success and to many future years of Jazzercise in Spring Hill. Here, here! We ate all the goodies and prizes were awarded. I think everyone had a terrific time, and I am already looking forward to next year's party!