Schleiquist Talent Show

 For the 4th year, we were thrilled to be invited to our extended family's amazing talent show! This idea was originally brainstormed and organized by my nephew Ryan and has been a big hit ever since. Their family has hosted this wonderful event each August.

My nephew Ian always creates the event program. We look forward to seeing what creative "acts" each family member will come up with each year. Here was this year's program.

We missed Andrew and Sarah's family this year! Even without their family, however, we still make up quite a crowd. Here is the Schleiquist bunch.

Ian was first up on the program. He wowed us all with his amazing talent on the Rubix Cube. Ian passed the cube around the family circle and asked each person to mix up the cube for him. He then proceeded to solve the cube in under 3 minutes!

Adley and Jason went next and sang "I Lift My Eyes Up," a song that Jason often loves to sing to Adley before her bedtime. Adley knows every word!

Grandma's talent displayed many hours of her hard work sewing this quilt for Jon and Chelsea's new baby girl (due to arrive any day!). We enjoyed seeing her beautiful labor of love.

Noah showed the family how well he can do somersaults.

Grammy and Papa had a special musical talent-- playing songs by clinking glasses. They worked together to play several fabulous, easily recognizable songs. How fun!

Nathan has quite a remarkable mind! He recited all of the words to Dr. Seuss's The Foot Book. Even when this rhyming book got a bit complicated, Nathan didn't skip a beat... or a single word. Amazing!

Chelsea and Micah continued the literary theme by reading together the book Dragons Love Tacos. Little Micah loves this book so much that he has pretty much the entire thing memorized! He recited the words right along with his mama as she read the book. What a smart 3-year-old!

Jaden and Cody's talent was next. These two created a dance routine to go along with one of their favorite songs, Crab Rave. They rehearsed this song quite a bit at home and even created the little scenery. The boys purposely planned out their matching red shirts (so they'd look like crabs!) and got some great exercise as they hopped and danced around!

Here's an abbreviated video of their performance. The full-length video was too big to upload, but you can still get a great idea of what they did.

My talent was showing the family how to make origami frogs, a skill I taught my 4th graders when I was a teacher. The frogs were quite tiny but could actually jump! I had made enough to give one frog to each of the kids.

Kim and Matt entertained the whole family by performing a song from High School Musical. These talented singers showed us some beautiful harmonies in their song, and they had us all chuckling as we watched their dance moves. What fun!

Ryan's event was the first one outdoors. This acrobatic kid showed us some great moves on his jungle gym. We could all tell that Ryan loves his time outside!

For some reason, I didn't get any photos of Isaiah's event, but this video showcases Isaiah's great tennis serves. He is quite the tennis stud for only being in 2nd grade!

Uncle Jon also had a tennis talent. His act involved placing a tennis serve in specific locations-- knocking down cones and even going through a flying hoop. Wow!

Grandpa closed out our 2022 talent show with a performance on the guitar. Grandpa is always so great at getting everyone else singing along, and that's just what he did for his act. He taught all of us the words to his song, and then he accompanied his newly formed choir. What a great musical leader!

Following all of the talent acts, we enjoyed a yummy dinner and time to play and talk together. We sure have a fun and talented family. What a great evening! Thanks, Matt and Kim, for planning yet another fabulous family talent show!