Max's Birthday at Fat Cats

On July 9, Kendrick and I went to Max's 6th birthday party at Fat Cats.  All of the grand kids were there and we had a great time bowling.  I wasn't sure if Kendrick would want to do it, or would do it.  Especially since he fell asleep on the way over!  

 But, Kendrick decided to give it a try and ended up loving it!

 He had to take turns though--he wanted to go every time!

 Everyone having fun!

 Kendrick using the kiddie ramp to bowl.

 Showing off his bowling shoes!  At first, Kendrick didn't want to put them on, but as soon as he saw everyone else wearing them, then he wanted them on too!

 Kendrick wearing a party hat!

 Pic of the grandkids - well, most of them!

 A few more in this one.

 More in this one, but still not everyone! :)

Max's cake.

 

It was a fun party and I'm glad we were able to go.  It was a busy day with PDC camp and Kendrick having swim lessons too.  But, I'm glad we were there.  I think Scott, Kendrick, and I will go bowling soon for a fun family outing!

4th of July

I love the 4th of July, but I usually feel summer is all down hill after the 4th!  This year, again, I had to work at the Stadium of Fire with my drill team too!  I wouldn't work it if I didn't have to!  BYU Concessions makes your group work it, or you lose your contract for football season.  We make pretty good money working concessions, and it doesn't cost us anything, except our time, so I don't want to lose this fundraiser.  Also, my assistant couldn't work it, so I had to!  One of these years, I'll have freedom on the 4th of July! :)

We decided to get up and go get lunch and take Kendrick to the splash pad in Spanish Fork before I had to go over to Provo.

Kendrick in his festive shirt!

 His third 4th of July!

 Here we are showing our 4th of July spirit!

 Kendrick, playing on the playground at the splash pad park.

 It was hot - can you tell by his red face!

 He had a yummy festive sugar cookie in his kid's meal from Kneaders.

 He has a sweet tooth!

 Doesn't matter what it is, if it's sweet, Kendrick likes it!

 Didn't want to put it down for nothing!

Going down the slide, another one of Kendrick's favorite things!

 

The splash pad was closed for repairs?  What, on a holiday?  Not cool.  There were other people there not happy either.  They were heading to the splash pad in Springville, which according to them, is a lot cooler than the Spanish Fork one.  We didn't have a lot of time, so we just let Kendrick play on the playground and then headed home so I could get ready to go to the Stadium of Fire.  We'll have to go to the Springville splash pad another day!

 

The Stadium of Fire wasn't that bad and I enjoyed listening to Kelly Clarkson sing.  I also thought the Stadium of Fire dance was so fun this year.  They did this dance with props/scenery that made the field look like they were dancing on the deck of a ship.  It was so fun!

 

Happy 4th of July!  Summer's all down hill from here!

BDT Camp 2013

On June 24 - 26, my drill team went to Basic Dance Training Camp at Park City High School.  I couldn't believe it was time for camp already!  School just gets out and then next thing I know, drill starts up and we're going to camp.  I love BDT camp though!  It's fun to see the team start learning things and work together. 

Working out!

 This year, BDT had a lot of different work out classes for the coaches too!  I went to all of them--it was a challenge, but fun too!

 Team massage circle while waiting for the next class to begin.

Later that night was the Performance Night.  My team was performing their hip hop routine.  There were a lot of other great performances that night.  We were there with a lot of great teams!  The team performed great and I thought it looked the best I had seen it so far.  My favorite part was seeing them so happy with their performance when they came off the floor and were all hugging and celebrating!  That right there was enough for me, no matter what the end result was.

 Pics from the performance.

 Brittney and Jamie had some awesome hip hop facials going on!

 Love how they were getting into it!

 Lots of energy!

 

When they announced the team that won the performance night trophy, it wasn't Maple Mountain.  Hunter won it, and they had performed a pretty tight hip hop too!  

 The team with their performance night certificate.

 We won an Esprit de Corp award on the first night!

 

The next day was another full day of learning routines, technique, and workouts!  Here are some pics from the camp:

 Kickline in Camp Dance.

 Lauralyn, trimming the Velcro on the neck of our practice tops.  It was rubbing on their necks and making a red mark!

 Team hug!

 Day three began with a team cheer with our sister team, Granger.

 Lunch time!

 Always fun to have a little break from dancing and to eat good food!

 Jamie likes it!  HA HA

 Three girls made it into the drill down finals - Brooke Coleman, Brittney Peterson, and Bryn Starkey.

 All five of our "Top Corp" girls made it into the Top 40!

 Working on military technique.

 Kierney and Lauralyn were our instructors for our Be All You Can Be class.

 Our team won a military technique award, a hip hop master class award, and one of the main awards - Most Inspirational Team! 

Jamie Topham, our team president, was named one of the Top Corp dancers.  There were only six dancers chosen from this camp.

 

I was very proud of this team for all that they accomplished at BDT this year!  I'm so excited for this year!  Teamwork makes the dream work!

June is Here

Well June arrived and school is out!  We've been busy with some drill team events and some family events.  I decided to do one post about all the little events in June.  Then I'll do separate posts on the bigger events.

The first Saturday in June the drill team had a yard sale for those girls that wanted to participate.  My sister Annie had some stuff she wanted to sell and so she came and set up at our yard sale.  She did pretty good and sold most of her stuff!

While she was there, I wanted to go to the Springville parade, which was that same morning.  So, we took Jake and Ryan with us to the parade.

The theme of the Springville city float was "Celebrate".  So they were passing out these blow whistles.  Here's Jake, Ryan, and Kendrick trying them out.  It took Kendrick a while to figure it out, but he did.  They had a great time and were really good about going out and getting candy that was thrown from some of the parade entries and then coming back to the curb.

 

On June 9, the Ropers had a birthday party for Keaton, who was turning 8 this year.  Here's some pics from the party.

 Amy makes some pretty awesome cupcakes!  For this party, she made chocolate mint ones and cookie dough cupcakes!  I tried them both and they were so good!  I think my all time favorite one she makes though is the peanut butter cup ones!  I love that peanut butter frosting!

 Blowing out the candles!  Happy Birthday!

 My mom, Casey & Paula, Joseph & Emilee, Amy & Jason and Me at the Manti Temple.  We went and did sealings for members of our family that Emilee had been researching.  We also did sealings for others while we were there.  It was a cool experience.  The sealer used the word "gathering" to describe what was going on there that day. 

 Summer Drill practices officially started on June 10th.  This year, we added a ballet class on Wednesday mornings.  Our first teacher was Kate Griffin.  She was great.

 She worked the team hard and I was very impressed with her!

 The team is looking good so far!

 We'll continue the ballet classes in July, but with a different teacher because Kate is moving.

 Kendrick gets to come to practice at 7:30 a.m. every day when Scott drops him off on his way to work.  Kendrick does pretty good and is a good sport about it.  We bring movies that he watches on the portable DVD player and snacks, etc.  Here he is wanting his picture taken on the day I was taking pictures of "the girls", as he calls the drill team.

 He really does do a good job at being quiet and keeping himself entertained.  I asked the basketball coach if he could come in to basketball practice instead. HA HA Maybe some day when he is older!

 On June 19, my friend Sheri Bartholomew Johnson's daughter Jessica got married.  We went to the reception.  It was great to see Sheri and the reception was so nice!  They have a nice house in Mapleton with a great yard!  I need to go visit her more often!

 On June 22, the drill team had their first car wash of the summer.  Kendrick came down for a visit and wanted to help, so we put him to work on Scott's truck. 

He had a great time spraying the window cleaner everywhere! :)