Rockin' Around the Clock

This year is the 50th anniversary of when Peanut #1's elementary school opened! There are many fun celebrations planned for the upcoming year to celebrate the 50's and the first one was today! The students and staff dressed up in their 50's outfits for Spirit Day.

Big D looked so cute with his hair slicked back!

My dance partner: Mr. A (6th grade teacher)

Kelsey and I had fun doing the dance. I hope our boys weren't too embarrassed to see their moms dancing with some of the teachers!

Mr. T, myself, and Mr. A

A few teachers and parents performed a dance to the song "Rock Around the Clock" at the Jog-A-Thon Rally! My friend Gina is heading up the Jog-A-Thon committee again and she asked if I would help choreograph a simple dance to that song and I was so grateful for the opportunity to let the creative juices flow and to give my dancing feet a chance to move! I think it would be fun to teach the kids how to swing dance!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGT7Jyy-QFc (click on this link if you would like to make the video bigger, the side of the video got

cutoff in the blog)

It turned out so good and it was so fun to see the kids all dressed up in their 50's outfits!

Happy Birthday to Cowan, Megan

p.s. click on "dances" in my label cloud to the right to see some other fun dances that I have participated in!

Dancing Fever

Last night at our Stake Trek Activity we all learned some new "pioneer" dances that we will perform at the hoedown that we will have up on the trail in August. I was so happy to see the youth enjoying themselves and really participating. Most of us wore our pioneer clothing and I have to say seeing almost everybody in their period costumes helped me to get real excited for the trek!

There was one point in the evening when one of the "dance instructor" got up on stage to announce that there will now be a demonstration of our next dance. To those in attendance this was the BIG SURPRISE. A group of us women, had prepared an "Evolution of Dance" of sorts and instead of showing them the next dance we performed our dance. It was received with applause and laughter! I think some of the youth were surprised to see their leaders doing some of the dances that are popular today - like the Soldja Boy!

After watching the video I am so happy with how well it turned out. We learned it rather quickly and for some in our group this was their first time dancing to certain types of music. I personally had so much fun putting the music and dance together and working as a group to fine tune it! It made me realize how much I miss being with a dance studio, where you can create and perform regularly!

Totally Rad

Saturday night's 80's Dance Party was so much fun! I love to dance and the music was so good, props to my homie Fiva T, who DJ'd for us! He did an amazing job.

It wasn't a large turnout, but those who came had a nice time. There was Atari to play, Karaoke, and there was even an 80's Trivia Game, with the winning couple receiving a Rubic's Cube!

See how many you answer correctly (I put the answers in the comment section): 

1. Which dancing screen great was born in 1899 and died in 1987?
2. In the 80s Afghanistan was occupied by troops from which country?
3. Whose 70th birthday concert did Whitney Houston sing at in London in 1988?
4.Which Martina dominated tennis in the 80s?
5. Which San Francisco team did Joe Montana play for through most of the 80s?
6. In which 80s comedy did Dustin Hoffman play an actor who pretends to be a woman to get a part in a soap?
7. Whose name followed Dirty in a 1980's No.1 for Michael Jackson?
8. What goes after Milli in the name of the late 80s act?
9. Which Brit, Phil, was at No.1 at the end of the 80's?
10. Which fruit gave its name to a desk top computer in 1984?
11. At which Lake were the 1980 Winter Olympics held?
12. In 1988 which city had the highest murder rate of any in the US?
13. Which hospital was Ronald Reagan taken to after the 1981 attempt on his life?
14.  Who had an 80s No.1 hit with Karma Chameleon?
15. Which all-girl group had an 80s No. 1 with Venus?
16. Which spacecraft exploded on take-off in January 1986?
17. Who released the single "Secret Agent Man - Jame's Bond is Back" in '87?
18. Who released the top-selling album Guilty in 1980?
19. Who did Magic Johnson play for throughout the 80s?
20. In 1987 the Russians and the Americans signed the Washington summit agreement to limit what? 

Thriller Night!

Oh how I loved MJ back in the day! You know you used to do the dance to THRILLER in your room. I know that I did, until I had it memorized. I wish I could still remember it though. Maybe after watching the video a few times I will have it down! Stop by and we can practice it together ;-)

Enjoy the music video to his song Thriller - things are getting spooky around here! 

I know, I know....

...you've been wondering where your little orange peanut has been!

Busy - that's for sure!!!

Let's see:

July 25-26 - I enjoyed an overnight High Adventure activity with the young women. We were at Granite Arches Indoor Climbing Facility and it was a blast!

July 26 - Youth dance at the Cannery (we had the dance in the parking lot). It was so much fun and I wish I would have brought my camera!!!! You know I was dancing and having a great time!


July 27 - Big D created a fun game that is played with a ton of cups set up on two sides of a table. There is one player on each end and they take turns bouncing the ball across to the other side in hopes of making it in one of the cups. If you make it in the cup, you get to remove that from the table. The first one with no cups (their cups are opposite them, in front of the other player) on the table wins! Very fun!

July 28, July 30, and August 1 - Big D participated in the Kid Olympics hosted by my friends 2 oldest children! I was very impressed with how organized they were! So professional and fun!


Aug 1 - We hosted the Elders Quorum party at our house (guess that's what happens when your husband is the Elders Quorum President). Those that came had a fun time playing Outburst, boxing each other on the Wii, bowling, and laughing, hard!

Random picture of Little C! Isn't he cute! He's holding a magnifying glass to his face!

Soooo cute!

The Henry's getting ready to box each other!

Aug 2 - Went to a baby shower for a friend! She is so beautiful and so wonderful at pregnancy. Maybe she can be my surrogate?

Aug 3 - I was asked to be a zip code supervisor for the protect marriage campaign - Proposition 8 (protectmarriage.com). That is going to keep me real busy until November!!!!

Aug 4 - The boys and I left for our family vacation to beautiful, and cold, Fort Bragg, CA. After a 4 hour drive we arrived at our cute little cottage!

Aug 5 - All aboard!!!! Little C was very excited to be on the Skunk Train! We took a 4 hour ride into the Redwood Forest. Wow those are some big trees! Big D kept asking what state we were in. We explained several times that we were still in CA just in a different city. He's so use to our vacations out of the country (to warm destinations) and our own city being so dang hot that he couldn't believe there was some where so cold in CA. We also enjoyed a fun game of UNO.

Aug 6 - We searched the tide pools at MacKerricher State Park, watched Carson climb a tall rock (I 'bout had a heart attack), skipped rocks into the ocean, drove to Mendocino, saw the Point Cabrillo Lighthouse, ate dinner at a yummy restaurant in Fort Bragg, and watched movies in bed!

This is a small eel that Little C found!

Aug 7 - Drove home. It was a fun vacation, but seriously, anyone have any ideas on how to get a small 2 1/2 year old to stop screaming!!!!! He does this all day long and I am running out of ideas!!!!!!

Well - that's what I've been up to, can't wait to check out everyone's blogs and see what you've been doing.

Leave me a comment and let me know what your favorite summer memory has been!

{Tush Push}

I love to dance and country line dancing is one of my favorites. While I was in college my cheerleading/stunt partner and I would go out dancing and I loved it! I began line dancing while I was in high school but in college I learned a lot of dances and how to do couple dances too.

Well, last Tuesday night (July 15th), a friend called me up and asked if I would be willing to teach the Beehives (girls ages 12-14) in our ward to line dance. And, of course, I will not turn down a chance to dance, so I got really excited to dust off my boots (it has been way too long since I last wore them), wished I could still fit into my Wranglers or my Rockies (types of jeans), and donned my shiny belt buckle! It was great!!!! Yeee hawww!

I was excited to teach them one country line dance that is universal, meaning it can be danced to pretty much any type of music. "What dance is this?" you ask. Well that would be the Electric Slide. They learned it very quickly and after dancing to a great Faith Hill song, I turned on Gwen Stefani (Sweet Escape) and showed them that we could do the same dance to this song. They were impressed. They were doing a country line dance to a mainstream song!

I then got to teach them one of my favorite country line dances - the Tush Push!!! Oh yeah! Don't let the name scare you - it is a good dance. This is me we are talking about, no gross dancing here! It was great to see them try and a few of them, leaders included, got this dance!

So by the end of the night, we all almost looked like this (not as old as these women, but as good as them)....



I wanted them to realize that music and dancing can be fun and good, so long as we follow the counsel we have been given from our Prophet in the "For The Strength of the Youth" handbook (click on the "Music and Dance" link). Keep it clean and wholesome and you can have fun! So, if you want to learn some fun dances and listen to some great music - come on over!

How to do the running man dance!

In a post from a few weeks ago I said that I taught some of the youth how to do the running man dance! It's a dance that was made popular by Vanilla Ice in the late 80's! After receiving a comment and a few emails regarding the dance I decided it was time to add an "80's dance how to" section to my blog. So keep checking back to see people doing the dances that I loved and some that I could never figure out!

In this video Will Smith does an awesome running man! He starts with the running man then does a few other dance moves. Basically the running man looks like you are running but you are staying in one spot! I hope you like the video and the memories!

Enjoy,

Your 80's Dance Coach