Summer Fun

The summer has brought many twist and turns....
The kids were busier than ever! Luckily I survived! ha ha ha
All of the kids were on the competition swim team this year. I am always amazed at how well they do, and how many ribbons they bring home considering I only dog paddle. :)
Cambri made the competition soccer team for Razzia and is very excited....she's the only girl on the team. I think she is in her own little piece of heaven.
Dallin also made the Razzia competition team again. He is excited about his juggling skills and used his own money to buy a soccer training video. I almost fell over considering he is my penny pincher of the bunch.
Dallin and Cambri both have such a competitive drive....they must get that from Chris. tee-hee
Kaili is always doing her own thing. Dance, Summer Band, Swim Team, and as always she has her nose in a book. She started reading the "Once upon a Time" series. They are the classic story tells but with a twist and as usual I have been reading them too.
I started as a checker for the Park City Albertson's. What a grr8 job. I get to meet so many interesting people each day (not to mention firemen come in every day to say hi, and who doesn't like firemen??) and I find myself smiling the whole day long. Isn't life grand!?! It's the perfect job, seeing as how it works around dance. I love it!
Dance is under way again and this Saturday we perform at Raging Waters. If you'd like tickets just let me know. I get them for $12. I'd love to see you there!
Chris is wondering what to do with his Sundays now. For the summer he took an accounting class and of course was too busy playing throughout the week so that left all the homework to Sunday. We would go to Church and teach our 4-5 year olds and then he'd spend the rest of the day reading and doing the assignments on the Internet, just to get in all in before midnight....last Sunday he looked lost. (too funny!)
Well that is the latest and grr8test! Until the next 4 months or so....MWAH!

Okay Okay so I know I have severely neglected my blog...
The Curtis' and their chaos have not calmed down!!
Cambri started activity days and actually likes going to do things with other girls...maybe there's hope for her yet. Cambri and Dallin have started soccer again. Cambri is so excited! Dallin's team is traveling all over the state and plays on several interesting days...it should be interesting. Dallin also has been involved with scouts. He has made several things and is now into a phase of trying to make some moccasins. It's a good thing he has Uncle Joe to supply his crazy wishes. I'm still not sure about all of the pocket knifes though.
Kaili has had her first clogging competition at Thanksgiving point. She is now preparing for the upcoming dance competitions with MCDA. She started Young Womens and is excited about the new value that was added. I am running out of books for her to read. She's gone through the harry potter series, twilight series, uglies series, fablehaven series, & the host. If you know of any other grr8 books out there let me know!
I am glad that drill team is over. It was a good life lesson experience, but I will not be returning. I am thinking about getting back into retail so if any of you know anything, send it my way! MCDA is doing well and I am constantly amazed at the level of ability that continues to develop with the dancers there.
Chris is working hard at trying to help me get all the kids to their various destinations. I must say it has been quite the process of planning. :) Thank goodness he is Dallin's coach.
I am trying to finish up the last minute Easter shopping. I seems that the days fly by faster and faster. Well until next time....4 months or so....HapPy EasTeR, Mother's Day, Father's Day, & Independence Day! tee-hee

Merry Hallogiving!

WOW! It seems like it was just Halloween...and here it is December!

For Halloween the kids were all vampires....Kaili was a goth vampire princess, Dallin was a gangster vampire, and Cambri was a dead soccer player vampire. It must have been because of the "Twilight" craze!

For Thanksgiving our little family ate at Del Taco...yes Del Taco! We went on vacation to California. We visited the Wild Animal Park, Sea World, & the San Diego Zoo. "I'm 50% sure!" (Melman from Madagascar) We spent a day at the beach. While we were there Cambri starts yelling "A fin, I saw a shark in the water!" I said "No, your just teasing us!" She yelled "Yah, I did, right there!" About that time 2 dolphins jumped out of the water, not 15 feet from the shore. It was pretty amazing. It was a fin....just not a sharks fin. When we went to Sea World the second day Cambri rode the shipwreck rapids ride 5 times in a row. She was drenched, and that night when we left the park she was still wet. No wonder she was walking funny the entire day! :)

We are now gearing up for Christmas. Kaili wants a straightener and a 3 barrel curling iron. Dallin wants a ripstick. And Cambri wants a Nintendo DS. Chris keeps changing his mind...soccer essentials, boxing gear, volleyball stuff. So I guess he'll just get what he gets. I was thinking of going a totally different route....camping! (tee-hee We'll see!) I don't really care what comes my way...I'm thinking a day OFF would do the trick! :}

So for those of you that are interested...
MC Dance Academy is performing at the Festival of Trees this Saturday @ 11:50am. Then we have our Merry Christ"Moose" Merriment show @ the Studio on Saturday the 13th from 9-1 with Santa coming at noon. There will be craft boutiques there and if you are interested in doing a table they are $25, just call or email me so I can put you on the list!

Well I think that's just about everything! We hope that you have a very
Happy Holiday Season!

Soccer has been crazy! Dallin has practices on Mon & Wed and games on Fri & Sat. Cambri has practices on Mon and games on Sat. They both are having a "Ball". Cambri's team wins almost every game...then again they have played together for 3 years now. And Dallin's team is just beginning to mesh. Last week was their best game and it ended with a tie 1 to 1. Hooray!
The kids are also gearing up for their Halloween performances with the dance studio. We will be the mid day entertainment at the Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point in 2 weeks! And then in another week performing at Fright Night in Kamas. :} Call me if you want info on attending! :0
The Studio will be having it's Mish Mash Halloween Dance on Saturday the 25th from 6:30 to 9 It is $5 a person or $15 a family. Come dressed up and ready for some spooky fun! (BOO!)
That's about it for updates...if we don't see you before Halloween then,
WE hope you have a SpoOky good time! :}

Holy Cow!

So WOW! We have all been sick, I mean really sick this weekend.
Chris woke up with a cough, Marie is do dizzy she feels like she is trapped on a merry-go-round, Kaili had a little congestion, Dallin & Cambri have the croup.
Thanks to Kaili we have all been eating...I think she likes cooking! :} Which is a good think considering Mom can barely stand. We've had our day full of Football, as we've all slipped in and out of consciousness at one point or another.
Marie's Mom & Dad are headed to Boston and will be gone for 18 days.
Chris' Dad & Jennie and her family are headed to Disney Land. After a rough start with vehicle problems I think they are finally on their way.
So while our parents are out having fun, we are Quarantined! At least we weren't supposed to be going on any trips right now. :}

ps if any one you still want a kitten we have 2 left. One light gray with stripes and one with 3 different colored stripes. They are so cute...I wish I could keep them...Chris said NO! :(

School has begun...& Cambri's getting Baptized!

Wow! Has time flown by or what. I can't believe it's already almost September. School has started and so has dance, soccer, piano, scouts, and activity days...whew!
Chris spends M and W nights at Hunter Junior High for soccer practice. Their first game is next week. They travel this year so he will be here and there until snow covers the ground.
Marie gets up at 5:25 each morning for Drill Team, leaves the school around 9. Heads home to get all of those last minute daily things done and then picks the kids up at 3:15 to head to SL for dance. She rolls into bed around 10:30 and wakes up to do the whole thing again the next day. She just finished Breaking Dawn for the 2nd time. (when she reads aloud, she doesn't internalize everything, so she had to read it again for herself) Yah..yah..she's a little bit nuts!
Kaili has started Middle School. She is learning to play the clarinet and just started back up with all her dancing. She is on 2 competition clogging teams, a competition jazz team, a competition cheer team, takes tumbling, and technique, squeezes in a solo, starts piano lessons, oh and did I mention keeps up with her homework at school...one of these days she's going to snap. When I asked her what she'd like to drop, it seems the list only gets bigger. She unstoppable! :}
Dallin is loving the 4th grade. He does soccer M and W with his dad, scouts, hip hop, & tumbling. He would much rather stay at home and watch the wildlife in action. Did I mention there is a bear warning just on the mountain side above where we live. Dallin, and his dad have gone to look for it many times...I know stupid, I keep telling Dallin he only has to out run his crazy father.
Cambri just turned 8! She is going to be baptized on September 6th at 9:00am at the church on the main road between Kamas & Oakley. (It's the only one.) You are all invited to come and if you'd like to bring anything...just do a salad or a dessert. :} She is very excited. Her kittens are growing so fast and are just about ready to find loving homes. (I tried to take pictures to put on the blog, but they are lost in the computer somewhere.) Soccer and dance have started for Cambri. I have to chuckle because every year she tells me that she's not going to do dance and then somehow every year she still does it. (you all know I am smiling inside!!)

Well Hello Hello, I have emerged from the Book. Well ok ok I started the book "Breaking Dawn" and read straight through Saturday...into the night and finished it about 4:30 in the morning. I think I would have been done faster if I had not been reading out loud to Kaili, Kyrsten (neice), CarrieSue (sister) and Susan (my mom). They one by one feel asleep on me and I lost the last one about 3am so hooray then I didn't have to read out loud anymore and I breezed through the rest. I loved it. Kaili and Kyrsten woke up Sunday morning and finished it together. :}

Chris was very patient. He went up the mountain looking for bears. Then he went with his dad, Doug, & Dallin on a hike. He made me break away from the book for an hour while we went to dinner (yep, you heard right he took me to dinner...I didn't even have to find something to cook) and then he kept the kids in the other room and watched a movie. He was grr8!

Kaili was right with me every step of the way...until her eyelids couldn't take it anymore. She was just as excited as I was and would go online every day to see what the phrase of the day was. As I read she was so cute and promptly told us all when one of the lines had been covered. We had a super time.

Dallin was just glad that his dad was around and even more excited that he was able to go with him.

Cambri spent the night at Matt & Amy's (her uncle & aunt) and came home late in the afternoon. She didn't want to be a part of the book reading so she played with the kittens and watch "The Avatar". She thinks she Saka...which of course is a boy!

Well, k, so if you've had the chance to read "Breaking Dawn" I'd love to chat...and if not I don't want to ruin it for you. Call me when your finished! Hopefully I'll pick up...between soccer, swimming, Drill team, & Dance. See you all soon! *Marie