Dance Festival

One of the things we have come to love about being here in the Boise area, are the extra activities that are offered to the Youth. Every 4 years multi-stakes get together and have a Dance Festival. This year it was performed in the Taco Bell Arena on the BSU campus. You have to be 14 to participate, but our stake was short boys so they allowed the next 4 oldest Deacons to take part. Graison was reluctant to volunteer, but after I pushed...just a little...he agreed. The theme for the YM/YW this year is "Be Thou an Example of the Believers." So the theme for the Dance Festival was Dance to a Different Beat. There were 6 stakes involved which equals to over 1500 Youth. I was shocked to see that within a 10 mile radius we have 6 stakes!! (Can you believe that Sikeston??!!)


















(graison is 2nd in line)


(yes, a little blurry sorry!)









The youth from our stake





Each stake was assigned a different dance style. Some had the Salsa, the Tango, Swing, and Cha-Cha. Our stake was lucky enough to get the Country Swing/Line dance. Hard to believe i had not been to 1 of the practices. So I had no idea what the routine looked like. But I have to tell you that I was amazed at how well they all did! It was awesome!

Besides your stake dance routine, the entire 1500 youth performed an Opening number to "You Can't Stop the Beat" from the movie Hairspray. It was so much fun seeing all these young adults dancing and having fun.

Road Trip

Today was a beautiful sunny warm day here in Boise. So our neighbors, the Tibbitts, and our gang decided to take a road trip. They have 2 little girls who we absolutely adore! Their little one, Reese, loves Graison and it is so cute to see how sweet Graison is to her.




We drove to Twin Falls, about 2 hours away, to the Shoshone Falls. It is said that this waterfall has more water flowing over it than Niagara Falls. So we packed a grill and snacks and made a day of it. We had so much fun, and enjoyed spending time with our friends. Both of our extended families live far away, so we have come to rely on each other.


















YES, we brougt Max. But he was looking for shade everywhere! We forget that he is an old dog!

UPDATE....

Just thought I would post an updated picture of Graison's eye. They do say things get worse before they get better. I hope this is the "worse" part! Now... off to another game! haha

There's No Crying In Baseball....

Graison's baseball team, the Texas Longhorns, had a game Saturday afternoon. It was a beautiful day, the sun shining, a nice breeze blowing.

Things were going great. Graison had 2 good at bats, and got on base. Our team was in the field, and Graison was playing 3rd base, which is where he usually plays this year. The batter was at a full count, and there was a runner on second. The batter made contact, and the next thing we saw was Graison on the ground!

Graison took a line drive to the face...right to his eye! Luckily the sunglasses he had on saved his eye. He went down in a heap, and was down for a few minutes, before getting up and finishing the inning. He has a nice bruise, and his right side of his face is pretty swollen. He said his teeth even hurt!

Here are the pictures.....

Saturday after the game

Sunday Morning before church

Pictures...

A few weeks ago, I posted an "update" of all the things that we had been up to. Well, finally I am now posting pictures to go along with that post!

Fitting that the first few pictures are of "bunnies, chicks, and goats" from Scott's Easter shoot that his studio did. We had to babysit the bunnies, chicks, and ducks for a few nights. Needless to say all the kids in the neighborhood thought we were so cool.

I have to admit, that they little goats were so cute. They were only 3 weeks old. They would just follow you around like little puppies. I wish all my nephews and nieces could have seen them!

BASEBALL SEASON....

Today was Opening Day for the St. Louis Cardinals. I was recruited to become a Cards fan when Scott & I moved to Missouri 12 years ago. I have loved every minute of it! We have been lucky enough to have the chance to go to many of the Cardinals games. One season, we even went in with some others and bought season tickets.

On of the few draw backs to moving to Boise, was that we won't be able to watch many of the Cardinals games on TV. Not that this will discourage us from proudly wearing our Cardinal Red on game days.