Festival of Trees

Charity got sick of waiting for mom to get the tree decorations out, so she used her fabulous creative skills and did it herself. 

Dad thinks she took inspiration from the Festival of Trees this weekend where she had her first public dance performance and, following in the steps of her three crazy sisters, did very well and went off stage saying,

"That was fun!"

You know you are a dance mom when . . .

You have a bunch of these to fix--



Who knew this would be my life?!  =)

This year between four girls, they have

17

hours of dance and gymnastics!

And . . .

I'm now a preschool gymnastics teacher!

My first introduction to dance started at BYU when my roommate Rachel would teach me the dances she was choreographing and then would roll on the floor with laughter while I clumsily tried to do what she asked and failed miserably at it.  Thanks Rachel for preparing me to be a dance mom!  =) 

I may be clueless and it may not have ever been in my life's plan when I was 16 (when Jana and I would make fun of the cheerleaders and drill team and the "deodorant" move), but

I LOVE my dancing addicted girls!

BYU Football

5 BYU Football Tickets - $139.46

(Charity got to go home with Chance!)

6 2010 T-Shirts - $30



2 Hoodies and 1 Hat - $59.18

(Thanks to a Seminary 20% off coupon!)

1 Frozen Lemonade - $4

(The girls said it was definetely worth it!)

Allie's reaction as we walked in the stadium - Priceless!

(55 more minutes, 54 more minutes, 53 more minutes, 52 more minutes, . . . Thanks Rach!)

And to top it all off, it was a full loud stadium

and we won the game!

Not to mention, we saw Jake Heaps!  Aaaah! 

And some band members waved at the girls! 

And the cheerleaders did amazing stunts -

guess what our new life goal will be now!

It was definetely worth every penny spent

and the pain of a late night drive home!

This game lived up to every expectation and more!

We love BYU Football!

Gotta Love Oakley!

Can you count them?  1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 little girly heads. 

We loved August at the pool when we had our own private pool.  This was actually the busiest August they've had in a while-there was actually another family or two there when we were there, but you just gotta love those days when you have the whole pool to yourselves!



Back to School

The 6th Grader

(Tears!  One more year and it's Jr/Sr High.  Yikes!)

The 3rd Grader

(She's loving it and I think this is her year to fly!)

The 2nd Grader

(A happy girl to be back with all her friends!)

The Preschooler

(Our baby is big now! It's her first time for pigtails,

her first day of preschool,

and her first day of dance.  Craziness!)

Payback . . .

Okay, remember a while back on the McBloggers? A few of you tried (in vain) to make us feel bad for missing out on ice cream? Well, here is my response. I had a great birthday. I mean, who wouldn't with 6 precious quarts of heavenly cold stuff?

Love,

Ben

Zumba!

Check out what Ben's been doing this summer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhY0FsBatVo

That would be the videoing not the dancing!

The girls LOVE Zumba.  Mom tolerates it with them occasionally (I'm trying to like it, but remember--the coordination and dance skills of my children did NOT come from their mother!).

Charity doesn't like it.  She wants to go to the ZOO not to ZUMBA!