Broadway Beat and Lemonade

  

How was that for a random post title, but it really does go together!  :)  May 10, 11 and 13 we were busy with the Lehi Children's choir shows!  Kaylee got to play Tracy Turnblad in the older choir show's "Broadway Beat".  The younger choir did the show "Lemonade" featuring Kierra as Chicken Little and Emily as Little Bo Beep.  Taylor didn't get to do the shows this year as the rehearsals interfere with gymnastics.  It usually doesn't bother her too much until show time rolls around.  She is sad to not be a part of it, but she is the girls' biggest fan!!

The spring semester is always such a fun one!  The kids really love the mini musicals and the older choir works especially hard with a guest choreographer (my brother Dale) and a couple of extra rehearsals!  I love to see the kids have so much fun, but quite honestly, I'm much better off hiding behind the piano.  I'm not the greatest at adding to scripts, helping with a set or designing costumes, but I try my best and luckily the director keeps me around!  She is so super creative and we do have a ton of fun together!

The girls kinda do their costumes on their own!  I think we did pretty good with Chicken Little!  :)

 

 Kierra was too cute!  She got to open the whole show with her line, "The sky is falling.  The sky is falling!  Oh what are we to do?!  I felt it on top of my chicken little head so I know it is true!"  (I have a ton of youtube videos here.  Feel free to watch these cute girls!)  :)

http://youtu.be/nqKlRvDFAZU

 

 Emily had a few lines in there as well.  She is one of the oldest in the younger choir.  She always knows the show really well and the little ones really count on her and the other older girls!  :)

http://youtu.be/OjOFJYfEpJk

http://youtu.be/qeXbuGFMjms

http://youtu.be/5w1KuYEl0rk

 Then Kierra also had the last line right before the final song! 

 http://youtu.be/OYrWmkKjfQc

Kaylee had a ton of fun this year!!  She had a pretty fun part!  I love when she talks about this first part where her umbrella breaks.  She is so bugged that she didn't improv better.  :)

http://youtu.be/2rWAXdC1Glk

She LOVED getting pushed off of our friend's knee in this next part!  I love seeing them trying not to smile before it happens!  :)

http://youtu.be/EcDMNsTYChI

  She did so great on both of her solos!  I LOVE how confident she is up there.  This was their first night so they messed up a little on part of the choreography, but wow!  They were still fun to watch!  I love watching their little personalities come out more and more each night!  The final night is always a blast!

 

http://youtu.be/UuJ3QK0RRNM

Grandma and Grandpa are always so good to make the trip to watch.  Uncle Dale usually makes it too, but couldn't this year.  My Aunt and Uncle were also able to come as well as some neighborhood friends and a couple of school teachers.  It is always fun to perform for everyone and then get the yummy treats after the shows each night!  :)

 

 

 This is so much more than a part time job for me!  I LOVE these kids so much!  I love our director and her amazing family!  I feel so blessed to have been able to do this with them and with my own kiddos for 8 years now!  

Here is the older choir!  LOVE them!

 

We even love these 5 boys!  They are such good sports!

 And then the cute younger choir!  They grow up too fast!

Happy singing!  And remember...

"When life gives you lemons make LEMONADE!"

Emily's Exhibition

 LOVE Emily's little personality!  So much fun!  But then also lots of focus!!  :)

 Emily's gymnastics exhibition was on Friday May 17th!  She was so excited!  She has been on the pre-team at the Lehi Legacy center and so doesn't yet compete, but did have this exhibition.  It was extra exciting because she did get to do the opening dance/tumbling number with all of the team...Taylor included!

This first video was kinda long...I later caught on and realized I could just video my own girls!  :)  Emily starts in the right front corner, purple leotard (not the black shorts yet).  Taylor starts in the back in the blue leotard with the black shorts.  (we finally bought a 2nd pair of black shorts...oh the sharing thing!)

Anyway...in this first video you can kinda see both girls.  Emily has a tumbling pass at 1:06...then Taylor does a group tumbling pass at 2:11....THEN!  Emily told me she was so nervous to do her back handspring...she didn't have it very well, but earlier in the day she said, "Mom...I'm just gonna go for it!"  And at 2:24 she totally did!  I was so excited for her!  I wish she wasn't hidden behind the big mat, because I can just imagine her big smile!  :)  It was fun to hear everyone cheer her on!

http://youtu.be/Am8ekU4aR-I

THEN there was Taylor!  This tumbling pass was a total surprise for everyone!  Thus the screaming in the crowd when she nailed it!  Her first back tuck!  She had had a 2 hour practice before this event and she had been trying to decide if she should do it in the opening number or not.  I LOVE her coaches!  Always pushing them to the next level.  I LOVE watching the girls set these goals and work so hard to make them happen! 

 

http://youtu.be/M9Ki3nqUSHY 

  

Maybe I'm living vicariously through my gymnasts, I don't know!  I could never do stuff like this and I did grow up in the days of the "Magnificent 7".  I had their poster and their Wheaties box up in my room!  :)  But even now as I write this, Emily is debating trying soccer, or volleyball or even horseback riding.  Kaylee is in swimming!  I just completely enjoy every part of watching my kids in their activities.  Emily works so hard in gymnastics and I was excited to finally see her "Go for it!" 

Here are her actual routines:

Vault

http://youtu.be/exnmaI1Nfso

Bars

 http://youtu.be/x0_R6uOKkyA

Beam 

 http://youtu.be/Ru4P5j_BUJ4

Floor

 http://youtu.be/T4iHw6RK7UE

Emily!  We sure loved watching you on this day!  You are too fun and you work so hard!  Keep giggling and smiling in all that you do!

May Mayhem!!

Yep!!  That's the only way to put it!  Ready or not...here it is and I'm about to blog ALL about it!! :)

To start this crazy May stuff on the right foot I needed a weekend away to be spiritually fed and just hang out with the girls!!  We had a such a great time at Women's Conference!  It was just the 4 of us, but we were still able to catch up with everyone at dinner on Thursday night!  I LOVE women's conference!  2 days of self reflection, service and classes about teaching our children to love the scriptures, missionary work, becoming Christlike, Never checking our religion at the door NOT EVER, Prayer, even menu and meal planning (but definitely not a financial class! he he!)  ;)  We even broke some sort of Guinness Book of world records record...or something...for singing Row row row your boat in a round!  I have the video below!  :)

The theme of the whole conference was Doctrine and Covenants 100:12 "Therefore, continue your journey and let your hearts rejoice; for behold, and lo, I am with you even unto the end."  I am thankful for these friends of mine...so beautiful inside and out...who help me so much through this journey!  I learn so much from them and love them like sisters!  Thanks for a wonderful weekend girls!  :)

Also in May we took a quick trip to what we endearingly call Rawlins, America!  :)  Matt's brother is the last one of Matt's family to leave Rawlins.  He was able to baptize his boy...the kids' cousin.  It was fun to see family...even if it was a really quick visit!  My girls LOVE their cousins, aunts, uncles, Grandma, Grandpa.  Lots of laughter and fun times! 

May was full of some big activities that I will blog about in the next 4 posts, but it was also still full of the simple things like Library Story Time:

Playing dress up with Mom's old prom and homecoming dresses:

Trips to the Park, waiting for sisters to ride home from school:

Dinner group activities with new friends:

And of course Mother's Day!
My parents were here for Mother's Day weekend which was so perfect!  My girls love both of their Grandma's so much!  Their Grandma's make them feel soooo loved and special! We are always happy to be around them and I am especially thankful for my mom and for all that she does for me and for my family!  At the end of May our family was camping out of cell range for a whole weekend and as we came down out of the mountain and our phones started beeping again, this picture of my parents coming out of the Logan temple popped up!  I am so thankful for my mom's strength and her testimony and her example of unconditional love and service to others.  We love the spirit that she always brings with her into our home!  It was a wonderful Mother's Day....a perfect break from all the May Mayhem!  My kids and hubby spoiled us pretty good!  :) (I wish I had gotten Matt and my Dad in the Mother's Day picture below!  I do LOVE the picture though with my mom, me and the kiddos!  Maybe next time boys!)  :)