School Happenings

May always promises a busy month full of events, recitals, and happenings.

Here are a few from school:

The Renaissance Fair: 

An annual tradition for 6th graders. Such a pain in the behind...but such a fun day for the kids. It involves an extensive amount of time and energy - for both the students and the parents. Sam's group made a booth called "The Swaggin' Dragon" and sold stuff like Flaming Cheetos (Dragon's tongue), Dragon Balls (Atomic Fire balls), Smokies (Dragon's toenails), and Dragon eyeballs (meatballs). This was a whole different experience from when Millie was in 6th grade. Girls are WAY more into this kind of thing and have more fun with it. But these boys did a pretty great job on their own.

And most importantly, they had fun at the festival sold all of their loot.

Seth, Ethan, Tristan, Jacob, Sam, Cade, Breckon

The Ridgeline Run

This year it was called "Run the Ridge" and the kids got to ran around the neighborhood instead of just behind the school. BS and I had fun volunteering at the stations and cheering on the kids. Sambo finished in the top 5 of the whole school. Way to go!

Here he is running with Addison. She might be his girlfriend ;)

Will and his buddies Kalob, Issac, Matthew after the run.

And Quin just ran her little guts out and did it with a smile. She is not the quickest but she didn't give up and kept going until the bell rang. Good job Q!

Dads and Donuts:

BS couldn't make it this time so I was the substitute Dad. But Will didn't seem to mind.  I know I didn't! It was fun to see what it was all about.

The Dance Festival:

Such a fun yearly tradition. BS and I went early to save good seats and always have fun sitting by friends watching our kids out there dancing.

.4th grade went first and danced to "I get a good feeling"

This is a costume gone bad. The tinfoil is supposed to be covering his hat like a gangster or something. I guess I should have helped him with that.

But look how cute he is anyway! And he danced so well!

6th grade did a medley of popular songs in neon shirts. He's got good rhythm and looked good. I love that even the 6th graders aren't too cool to dance.

2nd Grade did a fun four-square number. She was absolutely darling and of course didn't miss a step!

6th Grade Celebration:

After the Dance Festival, it was time to party! At least for Sambo and the rest of 6th grade. We as parents helped put on a fun graduation party since this is their last year of elementary school. My job was to make cotton candy, grill hot dogs, and take some snapshots. Of course I volunteered BS to help me since he is the one with cotton candy making skills.  And my friend Kari too. She's always so nice to help me.

His teacher Mrs. Rose

Timberline Dance Recital:

For Millie's "Dance 2" class, they performed a couple of dances at the recital. 

Of course she danced awesome and looked great.

McKenna, Livy, Chloe, Jessica, Millie, Liv, Sydney

Darling girls and even more darling friends

Spring Dance Recital

This year the dance recital was extra neat because both Millie and Quincy performed together.

Millie danced 2 jazz, 1 ballet, 1 contemporary, and 1 novelty.

Quincy danced 1 jazz, 1 ballet, and 1 novelty. The novelty number was the dance finale that was a production number from "Newsies." It was so good! Millie was quite emotional because this was her last time dancing with this company...at least for awhile. She decided to take a break from dance (outside of Timberline dance company at school) to focus on tumbling and other things. It is a very strange thought to think about Millie not having dance competitions or recitals this year!

Anyway they both did a great job and it's always fun to watch them get dolled up and perform on stage. Proud of you girls!

Dance Comps!

2014 was such a great dance year!  How fun to have both my daughters dancing together at the same studio! Quincy is so luscious in her dance clothes and costumes and just marches right on stage with confidence and sass!  

Millie, as usual danced her heart out and it paid off...

Her dance company (Firelights) won the best award possible AND....

SHE MADE THE TIMBERLINE DANCE COMPANY!

Seems like just yesterday she was performing at her first dance recital:

Pointe

Look who got new pointe shoes?  When I was dancing we called them "toe shoes."  She thinks that is so weird!  I am so proud of her hard work and look forward to seeing her dance around in these shoes.

Dance Festival '13

I say this every year, but I swear the time between the annual school dance festival is getting shorter and shorter.  I feel like I was just posting about the one last year!  Sheesh, time needs to slow down!

This year's festival was, as always, really fun to watch.  And the weather was beautiful.  Quincy danced first to "Lollipop, lollipop, oh lolly lolly lolly...."

She looked adorable and did a great job!

Then it was Will's turn.  He danced to "Feel this Moment" by Pit Bull and Christina Aguilera.

I was a little surprised about how he got really into the dance and wasn't embarrassed at all. 

What a cool dude!

And then it was fifth grade.  They danced to Footloose, the Blake Shelton version.

The first half, they danced on their own but then the second half they danced with partners.  Sambo happened to get paired up with Lilly, his "crush."  He was such a gentleman and they did so good! 

 

This was the first year that Millie wasn't dancing {junior high} and we didn't have a little rugrat watching with us.  I can't believe we have reached this point already.  But I can't complain...walking with Sam to the school and sitting outside in beautiful weather watching our kids perform ain't too bad.  

 By the time the festival ended, it was almost noon and getting hot.  So we checked the kids out of school early, grabbed some lunch and a Snoasis, and went to the local splash park to cool off.  Quincy's buddy Connor came with us too.