BENGAL CHEER CLINIC

Burklee wanted to participate in the 2012 ISU cheer clinic with her friends.  The girls were supposed to be four years old but they let us sign her up anyways. The clinic involved a two-hour practice Friday night followed by a halftime performance at the ISU basketball game on Saturday.  During the practice they split the girls up into little groups and then they rotated to each station to work on their dance/cheer routine (I don't know what you call it). At the end of the two-hour practice they put all the girls together so they could run through the routine as a group.  As you can tell...

Burklee was not happy.  For the most part it was because they kept bringing her back to the group every time she ran off. She wanted to be able to roam free around Holt Arena.  One time she ran off and one of the cheerleaders ran over to her, being cute and playful and as soon as they got close to her she pointed her finger and yelled, "NO!" The poor cheerleader didn't know what to do with her...so embarrassing!

The crazy thing about this whole ordeal was how nervous it was making me.  I was stressing out about what she should wear, how to do her hair, what I should do for her make-up (they told the girls to wear some fun make-up) and whether or not she would actually dance. So after a lot of stress I finally got things planned out.  We got to the game and I made sure she was looking good.  Next thing I know Jeff took the kids outside and got their faces painted.  As I saw the kids come back they were covered in black and orange paint.  There went the make-up and the clean white shirt.  I looked at Jeff and said "are you kidding me!"  About five minutes later she wanted the paint off.  We had to scrub it off with a wipe which in turn made her face super red.  To top everything off, she got into some lip gloss and rubbed it all over her face just minutes before they had to perform!  WOW!  As far as I am concerned this girl is going to be a runner...I can't handle this cheer/dance stuff!!!

I was super nervous at this point thinking tha she was going to bolt or start running through the group during the dance. 

 She always seemed to be about ten counts behind the rest of the group.  Her somersault did look nice though.

 She also loved to go up front and stand right next to her friend Ashlee (cheerleader).

Thanks for taking such good care of her.

 I think she is finally on with the group :)

Burklee's Friends

Cami Schaack, Kira Jolley, Burklee Tingey & Kennedy Munns

NOT TO OLD...

TO TRY SOMETHING NEW!

I have been snowboarding since my freshman year of college.  I kept telling myself I am to old to try to learn to ski.  Finally after 12 years of snowboarding I decided I give skiing a chance, especially since Ammon has been learning to ski. Jeff did such a great job teaching me. I immediately fell in love with it and have had a huge desire to get better. I think Jeff is now regretting his decision to teach me because I am addicted. 

JR. JAZZ

This is Ammon's first experience playing basketball.  He has really enjoyed it although he seems a little lost at times. He is very good a dribbling but other than that we haven't taught him a whole lot. When the coach told him he was an animal out there, Ammon said "what kind of animal." After he made his first basket he ran over and said "mom did you see me make a goal."  It has been so fun to watch him lean new things. I love his desire to try everything!

ART FAIR

Ammon was so excited to participate in the art fair this year.  The theme was "Our Colorful World" so he decided he wanted to show all the colors that he sees on Papa's farm during each season. He worked on his project every night for a week. We were about ready to pull each others hair out. Finally I decided to not care so much and let him do his thing and it worked out much better. I was so relieved once he finally turned it in. He didn't know he won until we arrived at the art fair. Once he spotted his artwork he ran over and looked at it and was so excited to see it hanging on the wall. It took him about 30 seconds to realize he had blue ribbon on it.  Once he noticed he turned around and looked at us with a HUGE grin...it was priceless!

JANURARY 2012 RECAP

Lots and lots of Bengal games! 

 The kids finally sat still long enough for me to snap a few photos. It was also pretty amazing that all three still looked decent after three hours of church.  I guess it was my lucky day! I feel so blessed to have three wonderful, happy, healthy and energetic kids in my life. I love these three kids so much!

 This picture doesn't do the sunset justice...it was so beautiful.

 Burklee was quiet for a few minuets so I thought I better go see what she was up to...colored chalk in the fish tank = dead fish! Sorry Ammon, I know how much you loved Disco!

 I had to put this picture on the blog for Kellan.  He loves this picture because it looks like he is going "super fast!" He call his plasma car a "skater boy" so if you ever hear him tell you his skater boy is so fast you will know what he is talking about.

We love our cousin.  We don't get to seem him often but when we do we have a blast together.