Friday, May 17, 2013

Are you tired of dancing posts yet?

There has been a lot of dancing in our lives, I guess for the past 12 or 13 years.  We still have a bit to go this school year with the last recital coming up.

Anyway, back on topic.  Our elementary school has a dance festival every year.  It is a lot of fun.  Each of the grades do a dance.  Here are my favorite, only because my cute kids are in it.  Ha ha Okay, I guess this is another post that only a grandma will love.


Here is Mia with Kindergarten.  Mia and Breanna are so dang adorable.  

Now on to 2nd grade.  Whoe doesn't love a good Macarena?





No 4th grade year is complete without square dancing (EWWWW, touching a boy, ick.)
 

I have to throw in a video of Beyonce. It was so adorable and she did the worlds best air guitar. I love this girl.

 

And last but not least, here is James with the 6th grade that reminded me of growing up in Idaho. Line dances anyone?

 

There you have it!!  Was that fun?  I am going to add one more video.

After all the grades were done, they turned the chicken song on and all the kids were dancing.  The babies had a blast.  Jonah disappeared but it all turned out ok.  They were so fun to watch.  Especially when the big girls went to go dance with the babies and the babies thought they were taking them away and they wouldn't touch them.  Ha ha


Did I bore you to death?
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Dancing Queen Numero Dos

Without going into a way long story that will probably get me in trouble, Cassi should have been on the jr. high school dance company this past year.  It is sad that she wasn't.  She missed out dancing with her sister and 2 best friends.  She is amazing and I won't go into how even adults bully.  I will just tell the good news.  

Cassi is a fabulous girl who tried out again this year.  She was pretty nervous for the tryouts.  They were going to post the results before 7pm the day of tryouts.  So about 6ish, Becca saw on instgram that the results were up.  James was at ball practice and the kids were playing outside with some neighbor kids, so I had them all come in and left Andy and An in charge. We were running around the house saying, "No one check the internet!!!  No electronics!!!"   John, Becca, Cassi and I hopped in the car and sped over to grab Allie and Jessie.  And we nervously hustled over to the Jr. High.  

Poor Cassi said, "I have a bad feeling about this".  We pulled up to the school and the other girls ran ahead.  Cassi did the slow, nervous walk that must be genetic.  Next thing we know, this is happening. . . 

She made it!! 





(The funny part about having girls that dance, tights and the little dance shorts are an always worn item at out house. Like yesterday, Becca did drill from 5:45-7:15.  Dance company for 1st period and then more drill from 4-7.  So needless to say, they are always in dance clothes!!!)

We are so proud of Cassi for persevering through all the hard times last year.  I am proud of her for trying again and not letting people get her down.  I am also thankful for a principal who was a part of it this year so we knew the results were not rigged.  

Love you Cassi, have a great and amazing year as a freshman.   
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Monday, May 13, 2013

Dancing Queen

 Becca tried out for her High School Drill Team.  She worked really super hard.  This is her waiting for the list to be put up so she could find out if she made it.  She is with her friend Courtney.
 When it was time, she was too nervous to run up and check out the list.  She hung out and walked slowly.  Courtney ran back and was saying, "We both made it, We made it!!"  Talk about a stressfull moment in life.  Ugggg.  I am so proud of her but little did we know the hard part was still to come.  She is getting up in the 4 o'clock hour and is out the door by 5:30 am.  Everyday of the week.  Already.  Even before she goes to that school.  Ick.  Poor Girl.  Luckily she is responsible enough to get herself up.
 Everyone crowding around the list.
 The list.



Becca is finishing up her Jr. High School Dance Company.  Here are a few of her dances.


This first one is a partner dance choreographed by Becca and Courtney.




(BTW- the pyramid was supposed to fall, it just didn't come together right.  The next night, it worked perfect.  But that is the night John went.)




These 3 girls are my favorite on the team.  Woo woo


 She had such a busy couple of weeks.  She also danced to a symphony with Miss Margenes.  


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It has been so long since I blogged that the babies are starting preschool!!!

This is my view as I write this blog post.  




  We are having gorgeous weather.  We are going to be almost 90 today.  Since I am a cheapskate, we are playing outside instead of turning on the A/C.

Anyway, so little Jonah and Joshua have been diagnosed with a moderate developmental delay.  So they are starting in our school districts special education preschool.  Sadly, Jonah was pushed through faster so he already started, but Josh will be close behind him. 


On Jonah's first day, we had a little photo shoot.
 Mia had put body stickers all over everyone one.  She was showing hers off.  Yes, Jonah started his first day of preschool with a One direction Tattoo.  That is how we roll here.    
 Sweet twins.  I love this photo.  A new one for the frames.  
 Oh, this boy melts my heart.  How cute is he?  
Yep, the original twin terrors.  This is also one of my favorite pics.  These 2 keep me on my toes for sure.  But I am very thankful to have them in my family.  If not, my youngest would be in first grade next year, and who would entertain me for the next 3 years?  
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Monday, April 8, 2013

SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!! We are going to Disneyland!!!!!

So, back in Septemberish, I was talking with my friend Kim.  We were talking about going to Mexico.  Then we decided to spend the money on the kids.  John and I have been dying, absolutely dying to surprise the kids with a trip to Disneyland.  After our last trip, we told them no more Disney until after our Disney world trip  in 2 years.  That will be a huge expense for a family of 11.  


I called up my mom to make sure they could go and help with the kids.  But we didn't tell the kids Grandma and Grandpa were going to be there.  We can't go to Disneyland without a grandma and grandpa.  Then after some debating and some traveling with the babies, we decided to ditch them.  I know, I know.  Judge away.   But after you have spent 2 mins. with them, you wouldn't blame me.  ha ha  So Aunt Michelle agreed to take them.  

We had a big ice cream party with Kims family to announce a big trip for both families   But we told them we were going to St. George.   They were so excited to go.  Now fast forward . . . 2 weeks before, Kim had some medical issues come up so they backed out.  Our kids were so bummed.  They didn't want to spend all their spring break with just family . . . again.  

It was so hard to keep the secret and really, we didn't do a very good job.  We blew it a few times. Such as me complaining about my hair while I walk around disneyland!  Oops.  It was hard to get them to pack the right stuff.  It was really hard. Then when you did slip, you had to have a good lie to cover it up.  Turns out I am a really, super bad liar.  


Here is the video of when we told the kids.  We told them that we were going to go climb some mountains in St. George.  We got to St. George, met Uncle Bean at the In and Out burger for lunch. 


They were not happy campers to get back in the car to keep driving.  It was earlier than we expected to tell them, we were going to wait until they were wondering where the mountains were and we were going to ask if they wanted to do Splash, Space, or matterhorn first.  But after we got back in the car and they were whining, we spilled the beans.  Here is the video. Just click on the link.  




Then we got to the hotel and made all the kids wait to go up together.  I am still kicking myself for not recording it.  But we opened the door and my dad was in a back bedroom talking in some weird accent through a fan.  "What chu doin'?"  The kids were freaking out. I was even wondering, "what the heck?"  It sounded like he was behind the couch.  Here are some photos I took.  





Ok, well, the kids are tearing down the house, so I guess I will get a few photos a little later.  Let me know what you thought of the video.   :)


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Thursday, March 21, 2013

My first world problem of today. . .

actually it was last night.  But the moment when it is midnight and I am headed to bed and I check on the babies and WAM . . . the smell kills you.  Yep, I had to do a smell test to 2 babies butts.  Then wake up said culprit.   Yep, I have a tough first world problem.  What's yours?

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

I guess I should start this post out with "I lied!"

Let me start out by saying, yep.  I lied.  I ended a blog post a millions years ago with this . . .

 I will never run again, not even if I am being chased, I will not run.

Let me explain.  I have never liked sports. I am crappy at them.  I prefer being lazy.  Then I had 6 kids in 9 years with a hole in my heart and hashimotos.  I am not using this as an excuse for the way I look, but it does have something to do with it. I have never been able to lose weight. I do enjoy exercising in a gym with a fan blowing on me.  I like zumba and pilates and kickboxing.  However, I have a few of these . . .



and it is hard to get to the gym.  And with little kids still at home, it is hard to get there and the daycare at the gym is a joke.  Anyway, back on track . . .


Here is the link to my old blog with my running experience.


So, now on to why I lied.  I started running last October. My sister invited us to run in a color race.   I still hate running.  It is just the easiest way to exercise.   My motivation is running in one of these races.  


Who's in with me?
It will take place in June?  
But I still won't like running.  
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Calling All Psych-o's

(This dang blog is taking forever for me to write.  So when I say this weekend, I mean sometime in my past. ha ha ) 

One of our families favorite show is PSYCH.  We have watched it since the beginning and loved every episode.  The writers are so clever and the actors are super hilarious.  This weekend, they had a sleepover.

 

Sadly in my timezone, it started at 1 am.  I had a hard time deciding if I should stay up.  Here is my facebook status for that day.


I need advice on today's first world problem. I just found out that the psych sleepover marathon is on at 11 eastern, 1 am mountain time. I thought it was 11 mountain. So do I channel my inner teenager and stay up all night or be the old fogie that I am and just DVR it for another day? What to do, what to do.
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So, guess what?  I decided to stay up.  So 3 of the Crosby girls came over; Sammy, Allie and Jessie.  The funny thing is that the teenagers took a little nap before the show.  Only Cassie and Allie cared to wake up and come and join the party.


1 AM

Here is the sleepy heads when we went to wake them up.


 Another funny thing is that Mia and Jason were still awake in the green room.  ha ha
 The party is going to start!!!  We started it a few mins. late to miss commercials, but our DVR wigged out and we missed the first part of the show.   That happened to me my 2nd favorite episode.  But, oh well.  We just missed the first few mins.  John ended up going to bed as it started.  He was getting a headache, so he joined the party poopers party.
 I scrapbooked for the first few episodes, but the I was getting brain dead so I ended up on the couch too.



Sugar anyone?

We are still going at 3 am.  And we still look fabulous if I do say so myself.  


 They woke up for the 4am hour.  These crazies.  Didn't last long, but they get an A for effort.  


Yeah, we made it to the end!!!  It is now 6 am.  Last show.  It was such a super fun night.  Definately one for the memories.  


Here we are, sideways, I know, but the 3 of us did it.  We might have dozed a bit at one point.  (Okay, I slept from 4:00-4:30.  But hey, I am old)

Thanks Psych for the fun sleep over and thanks to my kids for letting me feel young at heart!!!  
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