Baby Madison Anne Hogan

On the 25th January 2012, our daughter Leanne gave birth to a beautiful little girl, Madison Anne Hogan weighing 7lbs 2oz,  Leanne & Ben were very secretive about the baby's name they had chosen, but they picked a beautiful name, Mother & Daughter doing very well and will be coming home on Sunday after spending 5 days in hospital. I will post some pictures very soon.

Queensland Holiday

February 11th to 10th, March I will be taking a vacation to give my daughter a helping hand with our new addition to the family.

Most of the classes will have an instructor to carry on with the dances that have been taught, so a big thank you to Carol Locke, Margret Pacitti, Jenny Landsberry, Chris Boese, Vivien Coburn and standing in also  are Kathy Pryor & Janet Connelly.

I have updated the diary section of this blog site, as usual the calendar fills up with many socials, demo's & outings, no wonder the year goes fast.

Hope you all enjoy the classes while I am away.

Happy New Year

I everyone, hope you all had a lovely Xmas & New Year, I can't believe the last time I wrote anything on my blog site was last November, the time has gone so fast with Xmas and all the socials that have been on, life is just so busy, (but I wouldn't have it any other way).
December saw a few Xmas Parties with Milton, then Huskisson, then our own on the 12th December, what a great night we had and congratulations to the Best Dressed Table(Pat, Eva, Joan, Marie, Margaret, Elsa, Fae & Rosie all looking dapper in their matching outfits to boot.
Our lucky raffle prize winners are 1st Prize Joan Baker, 2nd Prize Collette Staples, 3rd Prize Jeff McConnell. We had lots of wonderful dances, old & new to keep everyone on their toes.
Thanks to all our visitors who came down from Sydney, Margret & Richard Pacitti with some of her class members, also Maureen & Phil who will be moving down to Cudmirrah near Sussex Inlet.

Best Decorated Table Winners 

Pauline & Angie Enjoying the Night

Most Consistant Dancers Val, Sonja & Marianne with their Gold Medals

Gladys wins Best Dressed 

Encouragement Awards

Bomaderry Bowling Club Dinner Night Out

Thanks for coming along everyone, we had a lovely night, great food & a little bit of dancing with the entertainment for the night.  About 31 ladies & Jack attended There was no special occasion for this night out, just the end of the year social get together. Pictures will follow soon.

Also will be having another dinner night out with the ladies & gents from Coastal Waters & Sanctuary Point classes, again everyone is welcome to attend this night out. We will be going to Vincentia Mexican Restaurant, and meeting at 7pm.

Homebush Ball is coming soon, I need to have payment for those who are going.

Dinner Night Out

For the Shoalhaven Heads & Bomaderry classes, I have organised a Dinner Night Out at the Bomaderry Bowling Club on Saturday 5th November, 7pm. Please let me know if you are going, as the club needs to organise the table settings.

October Holidays

Hello I have just returned from Brisbane, after spending 2 weeks with my daughter Leanne who is now 25 weeks pregnant and glowing she looks beautiful with her baby bump now well & truly showing.

No dancing for 2 weeks really tests the memory when you get back to class, after a couple of attemps at a few dances the brain finally kicks into gear and we are now back on track I think.

I would like to thank Jenny, Kathy, Chris and Carol for taking my classes over the last 2 weeks, I may have to call on you again in the future when Leanne & Ben have their baby, around February some time.

15th Birthday Celebration

What a fabulous night of dancing and entertainment. This year we had my family, The Sirenics and D'Ban Jac singing songs that we could dance to, they did a great job learning all these new songs and with Debbie & Jacii  changing costumes to suit the songs, they looked great. Serenity sang for our skit and was very excited to learn this new song  and had already sung it at other gigs in preparation for our social, Simon had to sing more songs than the others, as most of the songs are sung by men, he did a great job learning them all, he's a man of many talents, he also did our sound and lighting for the night adding to the mood of the social,  we can't thank you all enough for helping make the night a fantastic occasion.

Another talent in my family is my husband Rob, who painted all our stage props and cup cakes decorating the isle of the hall and all the party signs, it looked absolutely stunning. He is already planning next year's theme for the stage (he's on a roll).

A big thank you to all the ladies who helped decorate the hall.
The committee worked very hard to make the night so memorable, what a committee we have.

Tracie Lee hosted the workshop this year and was very well attended, learning 4 new dances, 1 intermediate, it has great music, waltz intermediate and 2 beginner to easy intermediate, all interesting dances.
Tracie has a great personality and she is a fabulous teacher, thank you Tracie.

Our Friday night social with requests was a success, this will happen again next year.
Saturday night social had over 200 people, from Lithgow, Orange, Dubbo, Mudgee, Cowra, Sydney, Canberra, Milton, Sussex Inlet and our local area, thanks to you all for travelling such long distances to enjoy our annual social, hope to see you again next year.

We raised $3,100 and this money will go to our local hospital and the Australian Natural Disaster Relief Fund. Thanks to all who supported our raffles. The BBQ & 7 Piece Dining Setting was won by our committee member Lorraine Martin, congratulations Lorraine. Lorraine and her helpers spent nearly every week selling tickets for this raffle, once again thanks to everyone.

15th Birthday Celebration Social

Don't forget the social is coming up soon, this is our annual social but this one is a celebration of 15 years of fun dancing. If you click on the links area on the right hand side of the page, and open up "Shoalhaven country Line Dancers" this web site will have a flyer with the times & other details.

We have not done this before, but we are holding a "Meet & Greet Social" on the Friday night for all those travellers & locals that are keen for a fully weekend of dancing.

Tracie Lee will be hosting the workshop on the Saturday afternoon and on Saturday Night there will be plenty of Singing to Entertain you if you are not dancing, The entertainers are Sirenics(Simon & Serenity) D'Ban Jac(Debbie & Jacii) this is my family and they are looking forward to the night.

The theme for the night is "COLOURFUL", so wear plenty of colourful clothes, maybe you might like to come as a cupcake or bottle of champaine, get the imagination going, all we ask is for everyone to have a good time.

See you all soon.

Ulladulla Social

Hi everyone, well we are half way through the year and still plenty of socials & functions to attend.
First off I would like to wish all those that are travelling this great land of ours a happy & safe trip. Some of our travellers have already come back and are back in to dancing, it's good to see you back.

Rhonda my little secretary has called me from sunny Queensland and they are having a great time, after 6 weeks away she is now missing us all. Rhonda & Ken will be off to Darwin to visit family, then travelling through WA & then making their way back home, we miss you too Rhonda.

Milton Ladies had their xmas in July social, this was held at Ulladulla Civic Centre, what a great dance floor and plenty of room for everyone. They raised $2,500 for the charity. Well Done. A lot of the ladies from Bomaderry/Shoalhaven Hds & Sanctuary Point classes came along(some their first social) and really enjoyed themselves.

Pink Party & BBQ

The Pink Party and BBQ was a great success. Thank you everyone for coming along and making this a very enjoyable evening with Linedancers and Rock and Rollers kicking up their heels on our new dance floor under the stars. Thanks to Kaysan for the photos.