We spent Father’s Day weekend camping, boating and hiking near and around Devil’s Lake. What a beautiful view.

Camp is set up it’s almost time for bed! Mama picked up a really cool (and free!) “adventure guide” at REI for me to journal about the camping weekend. I can’t wait to fill it out and use the stickers!

On Saturday we spent most of the day at Devil’s Lake either eating lunch in the boat…

watching some jumpers for entertainment and…

climbing the steep and rocky steps of the lake’s west bluff!

Are we there yet?

Ahhh…water!

Check out this crazy tree we saw!

Thank you Auntie Robyn for a great family photo-op!

Once we were back at the campsite…we spent some time getting reacquainted with simple outdoorsy kinds of things…like bubbles…

frisbee…

Watch-out, Mama!

campsite posts…(I totally thought I was going to be taller than this post!!)…

upside down chairs???

and Uno of course!

Papa even relearned how to make food over an open fire…

and for dessert we made mouth watering s’mores—-Uncle Pete…you have to get your own chocolate!!

Sunday morning was Father’s day and the morning started out great! Uncle Pete made me chocolate pancakes and Auntie Robyn made Papa his favorite breakfast…

CORNED BEEF HASH!!!!! Take your time, Papa!!

Then we gave Uncle Pete and Papa their Father’s Day cards…I thought they were awesome.

Then Mama had a few surprises up her sleeve for Papa that I didn’t even know about—like this awesome new t-shirt…

and what?…who is that a picture of?

Papa’s favorite celebrity (“He’s been through so much…”), Bret Michels. (I know him from the 80s hair band, Poison.) Wow! What a great weekend! I think I even came home with less than 5 mosquito bites! I hope everyone had a great weekend…we’ll see you again soon! (P.S. If you find yourself in WI on Wed., July 28th then come by the Middleton High School and see me in a play! My part is small, but I have the play’s punch line! It’s going to be a blast!!!)

Since last September, I’ve been taking a hip-hop dance class. It meets once a week at a nearby dance studio. This past January we started learning a dance routine to perform at a show. I wasn’t exactly sure what that meant, but now that I’ve mastered my first stage performance… I’m ready for more! Check out some of my stage moves during our rehearsals and the actual show below. If you’re patient you’ll even get to watch us live via flip video!!

We had to practice running onto the stage. I was first in my row.

We also had to practice exactly where we were supposed to stand. I think I’m doing pretty good.

We also practiced our routine. We used part of a Justin Beiber song–I thought it was cool.

This is my famous squat…I was the only one that consistently made it almost to the floor for every squat and back up again. My teacher kept commenting on it!

We even had to practice pointing at ourselves!

We also had some freestyle minutes during our routine. I love doing the robot.

Can you believe I had to skip forward and backward? Now that was kind of tricky!

Whew…thank goodness the rehearsals are all over…

I can’t wait to take my trophy home!

Ta-da!!!

What the biscuit??? Mamaaaaaaaaaa…..

What a great show! I can’t wait to do it again next year!!

If Mama has done everything correctly…you should be able to view video footage of the hip hop dance recital HERE–soon.

Here we are at the Riverside Theatre in Milwaukee…waiting, waiting, waiting…

First up was Allison Iraheta—another American Idol singer from Adam Lambert’s season. She did a great job too…and she even had a duet with guitarist (and singer) Orianthi.

Whoa! Orianthi is great, but a little loud for me. When is Adam coming out????

Holy cow! Check out all of the lasers. I kept trying to touch them, but they were a little too high!

No, he doesn’t like costumes at all!

He even did an acoustic type set of his Waddya Want From Me…it sounded great!

He rocked the house. I didn’t want the show to end! I hope everyone had a great week! We’ll see you next time—I’ll have a whole post of our family camping trip!