If you're Happy and You know it- Dance!

I enrolled the middle three in Summer Dance School. They LOVED it!

Carson was giggling.
Maybe a hair brush would have been in order?

Check out the snappy socks in the tap shoes. The striped socks and tap shoes give him a bit of the Wicked Witch of the West look.

So Sweet!
Next up was Kels. It was amazing to see how much control it took to do the steps. Get the brain talking to those feet. He was awesome.


Keep your head up Olivia!
The little ones are looking up to her.

Moooo

On of the things about my job I have always loved it that it has allowed me to spend a lot of quality time with my kids. Sometimes if the job is right I can even take them with me. Like on this night when I drove to a farm to photograph my sister in laws parents. I knew they wouldn't mind a few little distractions.

They even had a chance to feed the baby calves. Pretty cool for city kids.

"OOOooohhh look at them drink."






Carson says, " Ewww they have poop on their butts"
Ellie found a great game to play. She would take the golf balls and throw them. Then she would hold your hand do a lap around and throw them again. I am sure she could have done it for hours.

This is what Ellie thought when the game was over and it was time to go home! (Check out my toes. Thanks Mom and Ida for the pedicure)

A Date with Pat and Jon

Last Night Pat and I met up in Regina. We put on our acid washed jeans and back combed our hair for the concert event of the summer. I like to tell my kids that I dated Jon Bon Jovi in high school. They believe everything I say. Nice of Pat to take me to watch my old boyfriend's band. It was an awesome night. Kid Rock was amazing too if you weren't under the age of 10 because he swore a lot and if you weren't over the age of 30 becuase he took of his shirt and put all the fellas to shame with his rocker physique. But the highlight of the night was seeing Jon, the object of every 1980s teenage girl's fantasy. Although he didn't fly out over the crowd on a wire with a leather jacket with tassles, ripped jeans and a scarf he did look mighty fine.

Some cool highlights of the show were that the snowbirds flew over to start the show, one of the downtown buildings "wrote" the word Bon Jovi by turning on select lights in their offices, the band sounded amazing, Jon's blue eyes when he put on that blue t-shirt, pretty much the whole experience. I can't believe I dumped Jon in highschool. What was I thinking? Well I have to say I am pretty happy with the guy I have now for taking me to see Jon!

Here is the encore that they taped the video for called, "This is Our House" Jon and I think this will be a great theme song for the Saskatchewan Roughriders!

Bon Jovi set list

1. “Blood on Blood”
2. “We Weren’t Born to Follow”
3. “You Give Love a Bad Name”
4. “Whole Lot of Leavin’ ”
5. “Born to Be My Baby”
6. “Lost Highway”
7. “It’s My Life”
8. “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead”
9. “We Got It Goin’ On”
10. “Bad Medicine”/“Pretty Woman”/“Shout”
11. “Love Is The Only Rule”
12. “Lay Your Hands on Me”
13.“(I Want To) Make A Memory”
14. “I’ll Be There For You”
15. ”Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night”
16. “In These Arms”
17. “Work For the Working Man”
18. “Who Says You Can’t Go Home”
19. “Keep the Faith”
Encore
20. “This Is Our House” (twice)
21. “Wanted Dead or Alive”
23. “Livin’ on a Prayer”

The Griswolds at Dragon's Den

The encore editions are playing over the summer of the Rokochy families' favorite show Dragon's Den. I am hoping towards the end of August they will start showing "teasers" of Season Six which will start Sept 22nd. We are so excited for the show to start up again but are grateful for the time to get things rolling before we do like manufacturing and website design.

We are sworn to secrecy about what went on in the den. I can't wait until the episode airs because I am the worst secret keeper in the world and it is killing me not to tell everyone how it went. We will be notified two weeks before the show airs. That will give us time to let everyone know.

Here we are in the set up area. Our wake up call at the hotel was 3am Saskatchewan time. We arrived at CBC at 4 am our time. One of the producers gave the kids Coke! We had to intercept. I guess hyper kids would have made for better TV than a bunch of Yawning.

Heading into the Den where the magic happens. To the left there is a prop area. I laughed when I saw the deer from the previous season where the pitcher was trying to sell deer calls. The kids recognized the inflatable deer right away.

Look at the picture below closely and you can see the guys from Rugged Man. http://www.ruggedman.ca/ They have pieces of carpet on their head attached with an elastic. They call it a complete hair replacement system. It would be a great gift for that balding friend of yours. They were hysterical.

I am sure we should be paying attention to the rules like don't leave the blue dot and go into the Dragon's space unless you are invited to do so. Gotta protect that money.

The superstars with their shades are trying not to be recognized.
The isolation room where you consider a deal.
We asked if we could sit in the chairs....Nope!
I told you they were tired. Maybe I should have let him drink the Coke after all.
Me and mini me. Love the shot from behind.
Our happy family before the pitch. Wish us luck.

Proud Mama

Brag Alert!!

We recently celebrated two graduations!

Here is Ellie all dolled up for Carson's playschool grad.

Playschool Grad. His Dragon's Den outfit came in handy!
The parent of the year again goes to me as I took Carson to the wrong time for his grad. When I was video taping their cute little songs I realized I didn't recognize anyone on stage. I brought him to the wrong class.


This is my work experience student who drove to Swift to work with me. She is a great girl and will be studying photography in the Fall. She received a prestigious scholarship where they flew her to Toronto to interview her and chose her from a number of candidates!
Patrick celebrated the re-opening of the newly renovated Cabri branch. It was a lot of work but it was worth it for how great it all turned out. I was very proud of him as he made his speech!






The kids love the cake!
Have to dress Ellie in Innovation green. Her shirt even had a butterfly on it!

Another proud member.
Ellie and I attended Levi's grade 8 graduation. If the next four years go by as fast as the 3 he was in Irwin then High School will be a blur.
I made him cry the first day of Irwin when I wanted the traditional first day of school picture. He was more accommodating for this "grad shot"
There I'm smiling take the picture already you're embarassing me!