Kick-Off Classic

We competed at the Kick-Off Classic at NNU this weekend. It's a National Qualifier, which means that if you get 1st you're in for Nationals, which are at Lagoon in May. Yay for us--we got a 1st in both our dances! For The South(advanced division), we got a special award because we had the highest score of the division, as well as a 1st place. In both divisions we competed in, Boise Cloggers were the highest scoring team of the division. We also got 1st in our other dance Let's Get it Started (championship division). We had a great time watching other dances and performing our best! We've got a lot of performances coming up so that will be a lot of fun! :)

The South (my debut on this one!)

Let's Get it Started

Adult Advanced/Championship Team with our high score trophy

More Boise Cloggers with our 2nd all-around high score trophy (I'm hiding in the back)

Of course my wonderful husband came to watch--luckily districts got over by the time we performed. Collin's parents were in town so they came to watch too--it was great to have some personal fans!

Wrestling Update

Check out Collin in the background!
Coaches Robertson and Blue

Centennial went to districts this past weekend. Unfortunately they're not exactly one of the front-runners for being a winning team this year, but they still did pretty well, all things considered. :) They had 12 wrestlers qualify for state so they will be working hard this week to prepare. State is in Nampa at the Idaho Center this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Valentine's Day

We had a great Valentine's Day. I still had to work and teach all my piano lessons, and Collin had school and had practice (districts started the next day) so we didn't do anything special during the day. But in the morning I got up early and made Colli his favorite breakfast, eggs benedict and decorated the table and gave him a few things--jerky, candy, and a book. :) Even though we didn't get to see each other much during the day it was fun because all my piano students brought me Valentines and treats and a few friends came by to drop off treats. I'm glad I have such great students and friends.

Anyways, so that night Collin brought home some empinadas and brought me a bunch of chocolate (yess!) and gave me one of my favorite movies that I've always wanted to own but have never bought. We just chilled at home and watched a movie together. We've been so busy lately that we've seen each other for like an hour every night, so it was great to just hang out together for a whole evening. It is SO great being married to your best friend!

Collin with his Valentine's breakfast

Snow, Snow Go Away!

This is what we have been waking up to here almost every morning. I know to all you people east of us this looks like no big deal, but for Boise it is! And gosh darn it, I am getting tired of brushing and scraping off my car every morning! Seriously, though, this is a "snowier" winter than Boise has had in the last decade or more. It's still nothing compared to an Eastern Idaho winter, but I say, enough is enough! I moved here for a reason--and that's to have snow only like 5 days out of the whole winter! :) We've been finding lots of things to do for fun inside though. We went to the U of I vs. BSU basketball game last weekend, and of course BSU creamed them so it was no big deal.
It was weird because this was the first time I actually went and bought "regular people" tickets--we didn't get student tickets.


I busted out the sewing machine that my grandma gave me for Christmas--I had to add a couple inches to some pants for a clogging costume. It took me over 3 hours for that simple thing! But I was really glad I actually figured it all out--and I haven't forgotten as much as I thought I had about sewing!

Of course Collin has been spending a lot of time with the good old Patriot wrestling team--there are 2 weeks left in the season. They haven't had the best year but it's been fun going to matches and cheering anyways, and he's made a lot of good friends with the guys on the team and his fellow coaches this year.

My clogging team is gearing up for Boise Kick-off, our first competition of the season. I'm competing in 2 dances and I'm pretty excited. We've worked a lot on our dances and it will be good to get going. This comp is a qualifier for nationals so hopefully we will qualify! The comp is this Saturday at NNU in Nampa.

We saw The Kite Runner--it's really good. If you get disturbed by "sensitive" issues, it might not be for you--but really, it was good and we really liked it. Now I want to read the book! (I know, I'm probably one of the last people on the planet to read it)

We've also been to a few BSU Wrestling matches--of course. Collin's been to more than I have, thank goodness. :) Actually, it's fun to see how much I've learned about wrestling and I actually get into the matches way more than I used to.

This picture is so funny--I found it when I googled "BSU Wrestling." See that guy walking away right behind Randall's head? That's Collin! This is a way old picture! But what are the odds, eh!

Yes that is my husband. Am I a little relieved that I couldn't go snowboarding with him and the Dickinsons and be seen with him looking like this? Am I allowed to answer that question honestly on a blog he'll read? Are you really wondering what my answer would be?

Here he is a little more cleaned up, what a handsome dude!