Mom, Can We Go Flying for Our FHE Activity?

Family Home Evening Activity Fun!  This is what the kids beg for when it is their turn to pick the activity...

More window jumping!

More 7 Peaks with Family

A few days later we got to meet my newest nephew and go to 7 Peaks with Krista, Adam and their kids.  Gotta love all the inlaws bringing their kids to the park together!  We had a great time with more family!

After, it was off to my cute niece's 1st birthday party!

Look how cute this is!  Mrn and Chad are so great at throwing parties!

Love the freedom of summer to spend good time with family and friends!

Neighborhood Slip and Slide

The day of the dance recital was also the neighborhood slip and slide party... ALWAYS A GREAT TIME!!!  Fuzzy was in all the shows and Missy was helping with them, so they didn't get to come.  Alli went down once, I think.  Scotty went down maybe 3 times.  What is wrong with my kids???  I couldn't go enough!

So I went down with other kids!  

I cut myself out of this frame.  Man it was fun and fun to get the action shots with the waterproof camera!

Corry and Jeff trying to get Warren to go down...

Eventually they got him!

Super fun day!!! We love the giant slip and slide and our wonderful neighbors for putting it on!

7 Peaks with the Cousins

 We had the chance to go to 7 Peaks with the Tuckers and it was so much fun!  I love that our kids love each other a lot and get along so well.  I love that we have similar values and that I don't worry about what my kids are learning from them.  Love these cute kids!

 Gotta love parking lot picnics!

I think this became the highlight of the kids' day... Rolling in the tube!

Dance Recital June 2012

It was dance recital time again.  It is about the busiest week of my life, but I love it!  This year was a bit bitter sweet because I have decided not to teach next year.  It was a really hard decision to come to.  Really I have never thought I was very good at anything.  There were always too many different things to do and to try that I never really became good at any one thing.  Including dancing.  I was OK, but never great at it.  But teaching dance, that was something that I actually feel like I am good at.  Then why quit?  Because I believe my life is not about me being great at something.  My life is about my family.  This year was hard on my family for me to teach.  Getting a sub is difficult, and I think it is not very fair to the girls in my classes to do it as often as I did.  They need stability.  But, there was my mom's treatments, Corry's surgery and several other things I needed to miss for.  But even with missing that much, I missed a bunch of the kids things.  I didn't get to go to field day.  I missed Scotty's field trip, I missed Scotty's storytelling festival.  I wasn't able to help out at the junior high as much as I would have liked.  Bottom line was that I felt like I was excelling at something, but at the cost of things that were more important.  So I quit, after much prayer and thought.  But, I still will be involved next year, because it was a great chance to be with my girls too.  I will be a mentor teacher to Missy and Fuzzy as they take over teaching one of my classes.  I have to go into their class once a month for 10-15 minutes.  Can't get more flexible than that!  I will also be helping with the dance wear in the studios and with the recital at the end of the year and whatever else comes up along the way!  I am excited for my new role and that I get to be mom.  That is my favorite role!  As I talked to a few friends about what I was thinking, one friend pointed out, "Would I ever regret not teaching vs would I ever regret missing out on things the kids are doing?" That was a great way for me to look at things.  

Anyway, onto the show!!!   The girls did great!  I love watching them!

Spanish dance:

Check out Missy's extension in the back left!

Getting ready for birds - my favorite dance of the show!

Fuzzy as Tweedle-dum in Alice and Wonderland's Tea Party

They both had awesome friends that came to support them!

After the jazz show

Love this lady that gets to teach my girls and love that she has become such a dear friend!

Missy's awesome teacher!  I love these wonderful women I have gotten to work and associate with!

Fuzzy had this move in her dance.  My little ballerina doing a little hip hop!

The ballet shows were the next day.  It was a little crazy with some changes were weren't expecting, but it was all good in the end.  SO proud of my daughters and all they have accomplished!

I love dance and the confidence it has brought my daughters!