Kaden is a really good brother!  He takes the girls outback all the time to play baseball and football with them!  Maddie is a pretty good hitter actually, Kaden always comes in and brags about how good she is!  Malia is good and running around like a crazy person!  I was cracking up watching Kaden try to get her to run to the right bases!!

80s night

 Ya thats right we had a 80s night!!  Erica had her Birthday and we thought celebrating 80s style for the 80s born baby would be perfect!!  We went to the diner for grub and then bowling!  Lets just say it was a pretty darn good time!  There was dancing and laughing and then more dancing and laughing!  We all made for some pretty sexy ladies!!

 I couldnt get Fowler to stop hitting on me.. I think she thought I was really Brett Michaels!  And then Liz and Ang ended the night with a perfect year book photo flashback!!

Boulder Festival/ End of year

 Well I am way behind WAY behind but Im ok with that ha!!  At the end of May Maddie danced at the Boulder Festival with her Rising Stars group!  It was kind of a last hoorah other than their concert that was coming up.  What made it even more exciting was that they asked her to do her hip hop solo!!  She was a little nervous but as soon as she gets on that stage she is always on!  She is pure entertainment and just shines!  We love watching her do what she loves!
After all the dancing was over we toured the festival, got some yummy icees and Maddie did the bungee jumping thing.  The girls also went through a jump house that Malia was dying to go through!

 They played music afterwards and invited everyone to come up and dance and Malia let LOOSE!!  Everyone was cracking up at her!!

 The Dance Dimension girls!!

 On the last day of school after a day at Elitches Kaden had a end of school party.  It was awesome that they were so wore out that they hardly made any noise!!

 Finally.. and I mean FINALLY!!!  Maddie has been looking forward to this moment ever since she was in 1st grade and found out her school has a talent show every year, but you have to be in 3rd grade before you can participate. 
So she has been working with her hip hop teacher after classes for the last couple of months to learn a dance, she has been in love with the song "Tea Party" for awhile and knew she wanted to use it.  She worked her bum off learning this dance, she worked on it everyday and was excited about her costume, and once we figured out how to do her awesome hair it was just a count down to the big day!  She had to do a try out which of course she got through, she was even told she didnt have to come to the practice days because she already had it down so well.  And Im going to brag because I can AND because I heard it from so many other people... she stole the show!  She was so cute, funky, entertaining and had some mad skilz!!
She first performed for the school during the school day, it was so fun listening to the ooohs and aaaaaahs from the kids, she brought out all of her personality and killed it!  Then she performed later that night for parents and everyone else and again did awesome!  We had so many people come up to us afterward that didnt know us and tell us how talented she is and that they didnt realize real dancers would be at the show lol!  She was proud of herself and we were for sure proud of her. 
I cant even tell you how fun it is to be this girls parent, because not only is she super talented but she has the biggest heart, she never wants to hurt anyones feelings, her teachers all adore her and even have had teachers ask to be her teachers for uncomming years!!  Everyone that knows her tells us what a sweet heart she is, she makes it really easy to be her parents!!
Yaaa Maddie!!!

NUVO!!

 That is a picture of Maddie getting and autogragh from Travis Wall!!!
She had a convention/competition a few weeks ago, the last one of the season!!  It is always our favorite of the season, she had a blast and got to dance with some of the best choreographers around!!  Her dance group danced well against some amazing companies.  She always walks away from these weekends not wanting to leave!!  I was so impressed with her, while other girls were sitting on the side, taking multiple "potty breaks" snack breaks etc Maddie NEVER did any of that!  She was attentive the whole time, she worked her butt off, she wasnt worried about dancing with her buddies and actually kept her distance from them which I think helped her work even harder because she wasnt distracted.  They had an audition  where they learn a quick dance and then go into a room with out parents and audition for a scholarship.  There are amazing amazing dancers in her group and she made it past the first round, which was a huge deal because there were only a couple others they even made it that far in her group! 
She is looking forward to auditions coming up for Dance Dimensions and the summer classes and intensives!  Im looking forward to her learning more and being pushed.  She has definatley proven that she is a hard worker, and amazing talented dancer and quite the performer.  We always get comments from people we know and dont that she is so fun to watch and how talented she is!  I cant wait to watch her grow this next year!!