A bit of crazy...

Wow- hello May.

How are you half way over?

Our life since Thursday has been a marathon...

Ready, set, go!

Thursday was my birthday.

The big 26- I know, I know. 

One step closer to 30.

Don't remind me ;)

I tend to have a mid-life crisis every birthday. 

But that's a story for another day!

Jon made me cinnamon rolls...

 And we opened some presents...

Photoshop Elements- yes!

 Hilarious b-day card from my fam...

 Along with a one pound box of See's chocolate.

Oh yeah.

After our morning celebration... I had to take Jon to the airport.

Everyone feel bad for me... it's ok ;)

Thankfully- my friends saved the day...

Old mission companion took me to Thai food for lunch which was DELICIOUS!

 My naughty sweet kids made me b-day cards.

 For dinner- my cousin and his wife took me to Niko Niko's... the best Greek food ever.

They even brought me cupcakes kuz they were worried I hadn't had a cake... and they were right! 

No birfday cake for me this year.

Friday I had a clogging performance in the morning... and then the rest of the day went a little like this... cleaning, packing, cleaning, packing, cleaning, packing, cleaning, packing.

Luckily my friend Nicole saved me from the madness and took me to get ice cream at the mall.

I'm all about birthdays lasting all weekend :)

And then today was recital day. 

Oh yeah- 14 hours up on my feet, running around after sweet little dancers is just how I love spending my Saturdays.

I'm exhausted and my husband is in Switzerland for a conference.

I think I'll catch a plane to Switzerland and see him tomorrow.

Yeah- good plan :)

Here We Go a Clog-ging

Every Mother's Day weekend our clogging team performs in San Antonio!

So here we are again- kickin' it in San Antone...
We caught a ride with some of our other team members-
and of course had to stop at Buc-ee's.
The biggest, nicest rest stop I've ever seen in my life.
It's a Texas phenomenon.
This place has 49 toilets.
Really- it's big!

Once IN San Antonio, we did some...
Walking along the Riverwalk

 Our stage! Wahoo!

 This building is crazy! It looks like it's just single faced...

These policemen were escorting this mama duck and her baby chicks down to the Riverwalk!

 They had traffic stopped and everything- so funny!

We did some eating!
(TOO much eating... oy)

The Ellsworths came to San Antonio, too!

 Addie LOVED the salsa.

 Eating with our team...

 Jon became known as the "Garbage Disposal"...
he ate everyones leftovers!
See all of his plates?

We did some "remembering" of the Alamo ;)

 Our annual Brame photo in front of the Alamo...

 We promise- this was NOT planned!
(and yes we are wearing almost the exact same thing)
hahaha

We did some wandering in the mall...

and dressing up like Jack Sparrow....

We definitely watched a lot of clogging!

Oh yeah- and I guess we did some dancing, too ;)

These videos are for our mommas who we know WOULD have been at our performance if they could have been! Happy Mothers Day! We love you!

Our intro dance... everyone either has a solo or duet.

Jon and I are the ones in green!

This dance Jon and I choreographed :)

Just a good ol' classic clogging routine

Time bomb... 

Everybody

(If you listen closely you can hear the people video-ing talking about one of the girls losing her tap on stage. The stage was brutal! It would rip our taps right off of our shoes! We lost three taps in all...)

My Kids

I'll bet you all thought that I didn't have kids yet...

WRONG!

I have nearly 80 of them!

And they are the cause of stress and frustration everyday, bless their little hearts.

But at the end of the year, when they're all dressed up and dance their hearts out-

they're pretty darn cute and sweet :)

This wasn't our BIG end of the year recital...

(that's next weekend... oy...)

but we had a small recital with an awards night for my kids.

Isn't that little boy the sweetest thing ever?

 Yep- they sure did their dance teacher proud!

Oh yes- we clog

It's true.

Jon and I still clog.

What is clogging? It sounds hokey, doesn't it?

It's not- but we may be a little biased :)

It's a lot like tap (in the fact that you make noise with your shoe)

But instead of one tap on the sole, there is a double tap on the ball and heel of the shoe.

We performed this past weekend with our team at the International Festival in downtown Houston.

It was sure hot and sticky- but a good time was had by all.

 We get to be partners a lot :)

 I love how we're ALL looking the same way... minus two people.

Oops!

 I dunno what our faces are doing...

 Woo!

 Hello Jon- look over here... it's me!

 Good-bye!

 

Tune in for more clogging as we take the stage next weekend in San Antonio ;)