No Way!

I know, there's no way I FINALLY have an updated blog, right? Between losing my camera and moving, I had no motivation or time to update my blog this summer. Although the majority of our summer was spent packing up our house, we did manage to have SOME fun!

Our summer started with Makenna's last competition of the year. She closed off the season with a great finish! Out of 45 dancers, her solo got 7th (and there was some TOUGH competition!) her group dances did fabulous too!

Most of our soloists! ( top row - Hailey, Madilyn, Taylor, Savanna, bottom row - Madelyn, Makenna, Bailey, Emma, Natilei)

Of course there was some time with the cousins. (Remember I had no camera?!)
And there were sleepovers... And lest we forget the time with the wii!!! Their favorite game this summer was, Super Mario Brothers. That was until we got Super Mario Galaxy!!

And there were dance clinics. Let's see, the girls went to Pinkalicious, Wags and Whiskers, Popstar and Girly Girls.

And of course there was dance class. Camden actually got to participate in this too! A new class started this year, a boys hiphop/tumble. He loved it!!! Of course I have no pictures, but I can tell you that he really got into it and wanted to continue it this fall. I am actually teaching the tumbling portion and then he gets to do a little boys hiphop. So fun!!

Here is a random picture of Laney before dance class. She, of course, loves it!)

Christian and I went to Colorado at the end of June to attend my cousin's wedding. Cliff and Emily had a gorgeous wedding!
While we were there, 15 of us went white water rafting . What a rush!! The water was 36 degrees and our feet were frozen, but it was worth it! We spent Fourth of July at our house, which would be our last holiday there. We watched the fireworks outside Camden's window, sitting on chairs up above the patio. Delaney was pretty freaked about being on the roof, I wonder if she has a fear of heights?

We went to Makenna's choreographer baby shower. Just days later little Juliana was born!

Then, of course, there was the accident of the summer. I will do a follow-up post on this soon!

And then we moved. And we moved, and we moved, and we moved, and we moved. It was only 2 days before school started that we were finally out of the house that we have spent the last 4 years in. (This is also when I finally found the camera behind the freezer.) We loved living in that house, and in many ways it was a dream house for our family, but we are happy with our decision to move closer to the "city." For now, we are living with my parents and are so appreciative of their hospitality!

And that, my friends, is our summer! I really want to keep it up again!