For Your Viewing Pleasure

I was reminiscing about our Ugly Dance Party this time last year, and thought I'd share this little gem-of-a-piece from about a month ago when Rikki and Kevin were visiting. I think our talent traces back through the Purdy line for sure!!

Ugly Dance Party - Behind the Scenes

Looks like all of our fans are screaming for more!!

Did you LOVE the Ugly Dance Party?

Do you wonder how it all began?

Have you stayed up late just to watch the video one more time???

Check out these behind-the-scene videos from a night never to be forgotten!!

Jess has always had some pretty sweet ugly moves.

Here's some more.

This ugly move by Dionne is just so addicting.

Dallas has got some ooogly talent.

Maybe our inspiration began on our trip to Georgia. Or maybe it just runs in the family.

David Does Riverdance

Raleigh and Grandpa Bear (aka "Bo Bo") do their signature dance. (This dance is reserved for vacations only.)

Ugly Dance Party Part One

Be prepared to be mystified. And watch for the synchronized toe touch towards the end. You won't be sorry. This is how we bond with our family. (That's Jess with us here in VA. He's on a little trip.)

Speaking of the Dentist . . .

Say "Hello" to Cavity Girl!  

I hate to say it, but I have gotten some good laughs at her expense with this video.  Hey- she's cute with a half-paralyzed face!  I think we should play this one at her wedding someday . . .

We Go to Stores for Fun Sometimes

The sisters wandering through Cabela's to see the "aminals."  I think Choobs is so lucky to have TWO older sisters!  I always wanted at least ONE.

Raleigh commented, "If I was going to be an aminal, I wouldn't want to be the half-kind," pointing to the mounted trophies on the walls.  Yeah, I bet those guys don't like being the half kind either.

I like Cabela's better than the zoo, I think.  Yeah, I'm pretty positive.  Not a big fan of the zoo.  I can make myself have fun at the zoo, but it's not natural - if you've seen me at the zoo having fun, I am probably bluffing.  But if you've seen me at Cabela's having fun, it's because I am.  If this video would ever finish loading, I would stop rambling.

Here is Kensington enjoying the fish in the stream.  She is such an animal-lover - that's why we went to Cabela's in the first place.  Her reactions are priceless!  She was cute in this video, but the best is when we are in the grocery store and walk past the giant swordfish hanging over the seafood section.  (Which, by the way, is the only time you will see me purposely walk past the seafood section.)  She is in love with that swordfish, screaming and pointing at it the moment it comes into view.

Okay, here is another random thought while I am waiting for my video to load.  (I could be here all night.)  I've been a little grossed out by meat lately.  It kind of comes and goes for me; I'll go through phases of vowing to become a vegetarian, but then we'll drive by a burger joint and my mouth will start watering.  But the whole meat-prep thing really gets to me.  

Whenever I buy meat, I come home and freeze it as fast as I can; I do much better with frozen meat.  Sorry, I hope this isn't too gross.  But do you ever get grossed out by eating a ham sandwich?  I can barely stomach it sometimes!  Wow.  Be glad my video just popped up because this paragraph was about to get really nauseating.  But this is the final question: do you ever see a cow, chicken, or pig, and say, "Wow!  I am hungry!"?  Sick, huh?  And how, exactly, did I get on this subject?  

No, we did not get hungry at Cabela's.

Choobers' Sweet Moves

This is kind of a long video, but if I had taped this in its entirety, it would've been twenty minutes.  (Pardon the sermon going on in the background- we were home sick from church, watching the BYU channel.)  If you can make it through the whole video, you can see some pretty sweet under-the-leg moves.  Maybe she's going to be into basketball???

The Q-Tip Bandit

Breakfast with a Marsupial

I have been trying to get this video to upload for weeks!  I think it is just precious, and it is finally here!  This is Kensington eating breakfast with her little marsupial.  I try to call it her "koala bear," but Raleigh informs me that "koalas are not bears, Mom; they are marsupials."  That's a great public education, I tell you!

After discussing thrift stores tonight, Madeline added some wisdom to our conversation: "A man's treasure is another man's not-treasure."  Thank you, Madeline!

We are not an interesting family these days.  I've had a couple of migraines this week.  American Idol was fun to watch- the SLC episode was funny to see- reminiscent of our EFY hookups (my cousin Jessi & I) with the Osmond boys when we were fourteen.  That was fun.  Great memories.  Taxes are done.  The girls and I went outside for like 10 minutes today and hung out on the freezing cold driveway.  I shoveled slush.  Raleigh was the first to go back inside.  Then Madeline.  Kensington was the only one who loved me and stayed outside the longest!  It's been boring, but I enjoy boring sometimes.  We ate a really good dinner: homemade sweet & savory chili with all the toppings.  (Please pass the fresh guacamole!)  And then we had a dance party in the girls' room to the Remember the Titans soundtrack.  We were all busting a move.  Even Kensington.  Should've taken a video.  Didn't.  I guess this is what I sound like when I ramble.

Locked inside Our Snow Cave