Wacky Wednesday, Storytelling, and more!

Let me get you caught up to what has been going on in our life!  It has been so fun and busy, I haven't had time to sit down and blog for over a month!  So I will just summarize....first, Preston had Wacky Wednesday at preschool to celebrate Dr. Seuss's Birthday.  So backwards shirt, wrong socks and different shoes made it all work!  

 I snapped this quick picture on our way into Alivia's class to do Music.  They were just finishing PE.  And yes, Preston was still dressed crazy!

 That night, Kaylee had been invited to tell her Story "Falling for Repunzel" at the Weber School Board meeting.  She did fantastic and was one of only two kids invited to tell their story.  We were so proud of her!

 We stopped at Home Depot on the way home to look at tile for the new laundry room and she made me laugh when I took a picture of these foam camping pads.  It happens almost every Sunday, Preston will fall asleep on my lap during Sacrament meeting, which I don't mind since it makes it a lot quieter that way.

Carson has been such a big help to Nick on finishing the laundry room and even cut tile for him one night while they were tiling the floor.  Performance Academy is going great and I am pleased with how well the girls are doing!

Happy Birthday Uncle Chris & Brittany M!

It is a good thing our church is at 1:00 this year because last week I was able to get my singing time ready  before church.  It was ward conference and I knew someone from the stake primary presidency would be there so that just made it even more stressful!  I ended up doing a simple game of Song or Dare and it went awesome!  After church we hurried up to Matt & Nat's for dinner, if that is what you would call it.  It was basically waffles....but cake batter cooked in waffle irons.  With frosting for the topping.  It was yummy! We were celebrating Chris's birthday!

 On Monday, we were invited to help celebrate Brittany's birthday and had cake and enjoyed Family Home Evening with them!  It was a lot of fun!  I am so grateful to have such a good friend and neighbor like Brittany!

Syllabus Portion of the Competition

Once the team competition was finally over they set the floor up for Syllabus.  Syllabus is where all the kids have partners and they run heats of different dances that they judge and have top 6 winners in each category.  Sometimes they have to have several rounds because they have so many kids in that heat.  Carson and Kaylee danced the swing in the Bronze level (which means they have had 1 year experience I think).  They ended up taking 5th place in their heat, after doing 3 rounds!  They did great!  Kaylee danced the Paso and the Foxtrot with Adam in the Bronze level.  They took 3rd in Paso an 2nd in Foxtrot.  Carson danced in the newcomer level with the Paso and the Foxtrot and took 3rd in one and 6th in the other.  I was so pleased that they ended up placing in each dance they did!  That is a hard thing to do and they did it!!!  It was a great day!!!  

We finally left the competition around 7:30 and stopped at Panda with Stephen and his mom Cindy for dinner.  It was delicious!  We made it home around 9 and went straight to bed!  We were all exhausted!  

Ballroom Competition at Sky View HS

On Saturday, February 25th, the kids had a ballroom competition at Skyview HS in Logan.  We got up really early and left by 6:30 AM to get there for the team competition.  They were so excited to perform!  They did a dance to "You're Never Fully Dressed without a Smile" from Annie.  It was adorable and they did amazing.  They ended up getting 2nd place.  They scored 94.1 which is a superior rating and the team who beat them only won by 1 point.  That team was made up of some pretty experienced dancers.  I remember some of them from last year who you could tell have been dancing since they could walk!  I couldn't be more proud of Kaylee and Carson for doing such a good job!!

 I spent all day sitting on the bleachers watching the team competition and syllabus.  Luckily I had some company.  Marisa's good friend Shanda was there and we kept each other company all day!  It was great having her there.  My mom eventually joined us for a little bit, but it was mostly just us moms holding down the fort.  She had saved us some great seats, right next to the judges.

Brookdale Performance

On Thursday the 23rd, the kids performed at Brookdale assisted living after school.  I juggled my piano students around so I could take them.  Nick ended up being stuck at home with the internet guy trying to fix all of our wiring for our internet and wasn't able to make it.  The kids did great and it was a great way for them to practice for the competition coming up on Saturday.  They performed their team dance and also did some of their syllabus dances like the swing, foxtrot and Paso.  

District Science Fair

I am still teaching 6th grade music and we are still learning Ukuleles.  Carson seems to be picking it up pretty well.  

 On Thursday, February 23rd, Carson was able to go to the District Science fair held at the fair grounds.  He had to be at the school by 7:30 to catch the bus, so we dropped him off before choir, dropped of the smaller kids at Danielle's and then headed back to choir.  That afternoon I got a call from Kaylee who was upset because a dry erase marker blew up all over her favorite pants.  Luckily, with a little bit of rubbing alcohol I was able to get 99% of it out.

The girls had tumbling Thursday afternoon and Carson had Cello lessons.  He is loving the Cello, which makes me happy!  He also had a great time at the district science fair.  He mostly talked about the two cute girls he got to sit by!  It was so funny!  Friday, we had a busy day with extra ballroom practice, violin, and voice.  We had gone to the store earlier in the day and got some grapes, and Alivia made a 'fruit salad' with her grapes and an orange.  She insisted I take a picture of it.  She is a cutie!

On Friday afternoon I had also had an eye lash appt and no one to watch Preston, so I checked Carson out for a long lunch and took both my boys to McDonalds for lunch and then he stayed and watched him just a for a bit at home before I took him back to school.  It was a fun little day date!