Dances and Darlings

Yes, it is true. I did the Napolean Dynamite dance at our Ward Talent Show with 3 other moms. And it was hil-ar-i-ous. Actually, we all thought the most fun was having an excuse to get together and jabber and do a little dancing. The other moms were- Melanie Daw, Reesha Mitchell and Kali Later, probably 3 of the coolest ladies around!! Oh, we had so much fun! The talent show was on Saturday, and we got together for the first time on Monday to try and learn it. Which gave us a total of 4 days to learn it and get all in-synch ad everything. Was it a challenge?? Ha! We're Moms! We can do anything! (Haley was supposed to do it with us, too, but got too sick. :( That was very sad, but I'm sure we'll find some excuse to do it with her. Like at her ward's talent show!!) We all wore our snow boots and Vote For Pedro shirts. When it actually came to the performance, I think half of the people thought it was hilarious and half didn't know what to think!! When it was over, one friend of mine's little 8 year-old boy said, "Mom, that was creepy, creepy."  Success!! It really was soo much fun to practice together and die laughing watching each other and then to perform it all together. On a sad note, Danny actually never pushed record on our camera, and our video camera wouldn't work!! I think this is the curse of my life!! Someone else got it with their phone camera, so the next Monday we had everyone and their families over here (16 kids in all!) and had brownies and ice cream and watched it from their phone to our tv somehow. It was hilarious to watch it for the first time all together. And I had the ratio set wrong on our tv, so we all looked like dwarves!! But it was still so funny to watch. I have to say, I think we represent the wives of some of the coolest husbands out there. They just let us practice away and thought it was so funny and were just cool about it. It makes me snicker every time I remember it. So, even though I still don't have any video, here is a picture of us doing our "fancy hands." You will have to fill in the rest with your imagination and I will keep trying to get a video. I think you will die laughing if you see it.

Also at the Talent Show, Alex sang "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" and did such a great job!! He sang all the verses and was right on pitch. And Alaina and a bunch of other little girls sang a funny version of "I'm a Little Teapot" and all wore their poofy tutus and leotards and were so cute and at the last minute Tristan decided he wanted to sing with them, too. But he didn't wear a tutu. Did Danny get any pictures or video? No. I'm going to have to fire him as my videographer and reduce his overall pay. But, the night was still a hoot and was lots of fun. Also, Alex is going to sing at the Stake Talent Show, so we will try and tape that. But it's not like you haven't seen him sing before. But still, he's so cute when he does it!

Here's a picture of a lady who sang Mele Kaliki Maka and had the bishopric dress-up and dance in the background. Do you see them all wearing their shower caps and hawaiian shirts? Gotta love it!!

A corny picture of Kattie and I laughing while watching someone else's performance.

Linda and two other ladies played their clarinets and did really well. But it was also really funny for two reasons. One, Linda literally had not picked up her clarinet in 20 years until the day before she played. And two, her clarinet was bright green! I didn't even know they came in that color. She's in the middle here. They really did do a great job!!

Silly pictures Alex took of Alaina and Tristan. Every time I download pictures, I have to spend a long time erasing all the weird ones Alex took. And there is always one in there of me looking horrible. That always makes me feel good.

I have been very sick, and so there are a lot of Kleenex boxes around. After I loaded the dishes yesterday, I came into the room to find someone was happily pulling out all of the Kleenex!

Tristan, being a good big brother. Yea!

And some cutie-patootie videos of Emme to show how big she is getting!! She will be one on Sunday!! Oh, when I watch these I want to squeeze all her squooshiness and tickle her twinkle toes!!