The First (and Last) Competition of the Year

We have survived another one of our big events of the spring - the Idaho State Championships clogging competition in Pocatello was last weekend. I am not a fan of competitions AT ALL (you should dance because you love to do it, not because you get a trophy, for crying out loud!) - the chaos and the crowds and the noise and the stress... give me a regular old performance any day. But the kids and the parents seem to LOVE competitions. So we compromised and let all the kids dance at one competition a year. I was not looking forward to it, but it was fairly painless and rather successful. Our kids did really well; Maggie took first on her freestyle (which consists of her moving her feet as fast as she can and smiling hard), and we took home a slew of first places and some shiny trophies (which Spencer will I'm sure destroy later) so that should make our parents feel as though their hard earned money is well invested. Oh well. Anyway, here's some pics of the kids in their costumes; I'll try to load some video on to youtube later but that's a technical frontier I have yet to conquer. Someday.

Since Sophie's tots class was the only one which did not compete, I'm downloading pics from the rest home performance we did two weeks ago too so you can see her in her little red tu tu. She is just so munchy!