Christmas Recital!

Somehow I managed to keep pregnancy from holding me back. I had my first dance recital as a studio owner and parent!!! Lets just say I would rather dance then be in charge. ha ha.

In the picture is Kaylee Kalikakis, Dustee Ellott, Abby Smith, Audrey and Adelyn Overly, Brendee Ellot, McKaylnn Edwards, Kaydence Barclay, Sheriden Sorensen, Me and Sydney Hendrickson then Madisen Edwards, Lexee Keisel, Reill Dyreng, Hallie Peterson, Karlie Ludvicson, Sarah Hill, Chelsea Wescott, Braylee Johnson, Aspen Larsen, Addilynn Anderson, Olivia Sharf and Ellie Sorenson. Paige Peterson was out of town :(. i think all the girls were amazing and made me super proud!!!!!!!!

No more appologies. I suck.

Yikes, I am terrible at this game. I am going to blame my lack of posting on.... no time. my camera being with John's hunting stuff, and a new phone. Who wants to read a post with no pictures? But here are some from our quick family pictures my mom took for our Christmas card.

Well I left you guys with the announcement of our pregnancy! So the next news is that Kaydence is having a sister. I wish I could say I had mothers intuition this time. But truly thought this baby was a boy. ha ha. But I am so glad she is a she. Kaydence is so excited for her baby sister to get here! And loves toughing my belly. She has mentioned the her sister is getting bigger. Yikes. But at 24 weeks I guess the baby should be bigger.

Kayde is now accident free for almost a month and a half! yahoo. once we got her BM's figured out she quit having problems. It is my Dance studio's Christmas program in a few weeks and I am freaking out and excited all at once. I am feeling lots better, besides this minor cold I caught. So the holidays should be quite enjoy able.

here is a funny picture I found on my mom's camera with our family pictures. We went to the Zoo this summer with my family but this year I was REALLY feeling pregnant(aka, tired nauseous and trying to act normal so they didn't think anything was up) I was only 6 or 7 weeks here. haha-

Sorry.. 15 weeks down today

Well it has been too long once again! My life has been in full tornado mode since I last updated. As most of you already know we will be adding another member to our family the end of March. We actually found out about 3 days after my last post. Yes I have been sick and nothing has been the same as my first pregnancy with Kayde. Kayde just made me sick til about noon every day from 10- 14 weeks. This little one likes to make me sick ALL day and has since about 6 weeks, but it has eased to just mornings finally at just over 14 weeks. We ask Kayde what is in mom's tummy and she will say her favorite a "baby lion", or tiger followed by wild animal hands and a growl or a baby brother.At first we would ask if she wants a baby sister or a baby brother and she would say a sister brother. but our first ultra sounds says she'll have to choose one sibling. We just made our apointment to get our ultra sound to see if our next one will be a tiger, lion, boy or girl. I really don't know I almost felt like Kayde was a girl. But I have no clue this time. I know this will sound crazy but I have already felt movements I really love that part of pregnancy! Even at this early I've only felt it once or twice but I know what I felt call me crazy. Other than that the baby seems very healthy and it better be cause I'm already looking a little more than just extra chubby. But John and I are more than excited for our new baby to join our family!
My dance studio...
Is going awesome! After I (we) made the decision to start our own thing in Gunnison I found out I was pregnant. Ha Ha. I still felt good so I really didn't think about morning sickness being a problem. ha ha. Lets save you a minute but the first month of dance was scary. But we made it through. I love my studio. Thank heavens for the amazing hubby I have who was so good to help me(ok just do every thing while I bossed). He tore out scarry shelves hung mirrors nailed cubbies together and I don't remember him complainig once! I have 23 students if you count Kayde, who is my worst student by far, yes I leave her with my mom or Susan alot so she misses the most too. Oh well, lets say she gets private tutoring at home. I teach Jazz and Clogging classes 2 days a week. And I have a lady who wants to start Zumba classes. I love my decison to go on my own and my students and parents are great people! I want to thank every one for thier support with this!
Oh just another interesting note. My due date for the baby is the 29th of march oh yes my Dance review is the 26th. Yup I'm cutting it close.
Our lives. John has been busy working and spotting Elk for his Muzzy tag. Which is going on now and he is having terrible luck! It ends thursday so hopefully tomorry brings better news. because he deserves a monster!
You already know all about me.
Kayde is a walking dictionary. Tonight for example we were watching a cartoon and there were brids chriping she looks at me and says" what some squackers, crazy birds" she is always surpising me with the things she understands and knows. She is now 2 as of the 28th of august. wow that came and went way to fast. I'll do a seperate post when John gets back form hunting with all our camera gear for her birthday. But thanks to everyone who took time out of their lives to hang with us, and also thanks for all the panties! I bet she got 5 packs of undies which came at a great time!!She decided to be potty trained around the 22nd of September. she has maybe had 5 pee accidents and is yet to poop in the toliet, which most have been my fault for not paying attinetion. But She only goes#2 once a week so that has only given her 2 chances since everything has begun. She will come find me to tell me lets go potty in the toilet. So we are super proud of her! Her favrite TV shows are mickey mouse club house. and almost anything on the am disney she even likes finius and ferb( which John will watch with her too). She will ask for flerb. ha ha. Her favorite movie is probably the swan princess and I can't find it in stores. It is on our on demand WII netflix so hopefully I can find it befor it dissapears. She will be devisstated. She can count to 10 now but prefers to just use 2678 if I don't make her really try. She loves to draw and color. she can say most of the colors and knows them but, like her numbers she will just throw out a green when something is yellow befor even looking at what I'm asking. We have started shapes she knows circles and sort of draws them( bevery thing is kind of swirls right now) We are also try the alphabet but she just ignors me. Oh well I know she is hearing me and atleast I'm trying.Her new thing is to be naked, and thinks it is funny to come to my front door if some one is at our house nude. So beware if you stop by for a visit I'm sorry.
That is all I can think of right now. But with this baby I've got pregnancy dumb extra early.

Silly Tilly Goose

Kaydence is always being a goof!!!!She loves to pose for the camera. She stole johns hat in the first picture and said whats up guys. Then we were camping and she had to have her sippy and new baby with her any time she went on her 4 wheeler. Then we have been working on potty training and she wanted to put both pair of undies on at the same time. ha ha. then she ran around say "penguin walk penguin walk".

Kaydence Turned 2

Kaydence is so much fun to have in our home. She can push all my buttons at the same time.

She was lucky to have such a fun bunch of people come to our home for a BBQ birthday. My parents, John's parents, Grandma Rene, Zack, Mindy, Atley and her NEW little brother McCoy, Scott, Steph and Casen, Cody, Ali and Maddy and out of state"ers" Teresa and Doug, Randy and Sharon. Sorry if you came and didn't get listed. SO with all these party goers meant TONS of gifts!!!! Kaydence was so funny she was super careful with each gift and wanted to take a break after opening it. I think the main thing was I got my old kitchen out and cleaned it up, and bought new pans, food and things for it. My parents got her a new bike she is still figuring out). She also got TONS of panties... our next milestone i guess. I made Kaydence a Mini Mouse Cake this year. I thought it turned out well. It was a lot easier this year with both hands(last year my wrist was in a splint).

Thanks everyone who came, and brought gifts and helped out with food.

I'm starting something!!

Well as most of you know I have taken a huge leap into the small business world! I am starting my own dance studio this year. I have got my business licence and building, it is probably the scariest thing I have ever done(& that is scary I am married to John who is like evil con evil). I went to the previous owner of Dance Works studio to see if I could take over, ans she seemed more than excited that I wanted to step in her place. We decided to have a meeting with all the other teachers and an other teacher wanted in also. so all in all Jeana couldn't hurt one of our feelings by choosing 1 rightful owner so it came down to pick a number and the person who won called the coin toss. Well the other lady won the number and called the right way on the coin toss so she won the studio! I am very excited for her and I wish her the very best.
But it kind of left me with the option of teaching with her or doing my own thing. So I decided to go out on my own. I have been busy finding a studio, getting my mirrors, cleaning up my studio, and Advertising! We did 3 parades over 24th of July and handed out over 400 flyer's( that was all I ordered) I am very excited to announce Stepping UP Dance Studio will be starting class the week of August 23rd. check out the studio blog for more info, registration forms and anything else you may need. steppingupdancestudio.blogspot.com

Mountains and rodeo!

We went up the canyon with Ken & Lindsi, Her brother James and all our kids. They filled the back of the truck up with bean bags and blankets, so the kids James and John rode in back and Ken Lindsi, Gunner and I rode in front. It was a nice trip up to some waterfalls.

Ken and his cute family!

Our little family.

Playing in the water.
I was the assistant girls camp director this year for our ward. It was so much fun. I forgot my camera, but we spent 4 days up fairview canyon at Camp Shinob.

John's company had their 2nd annual golf tournament the day I got back from camp. So I showered and headed over the Palisade's golf course. We had some of our Bountiful friends down so John decided to get the boat and take them to the res. Kayde and I stayed home, we were tired, and she had gotten an ear infection while I was at camp. They got back from the lake and we headed to the UTE STAMPEDE. One of my favorite rodeo's! I have went almost every year since I was 16.

Ute stampede, I did the money race( they throw out about $100 in 50 cent pieces in the stadium after the rodeo) I got 3 dollars.

They had some very cool Motorcycle trick riders I have never seen.