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Dancing With The Stars Is Back!

We are big Dancing With the Stars fans so imagine how excited we were last night for the Season 8 Premiere. Cameron had softball practice, but we had dvr’d it so we were still able to watch it all.  (yea for modern technology).  I was anxious to see it because I heard that Julianne is not the only musical talent this season. Her brother, Derek, and Mark Ballas  are now moving into the singing world.  I’ve loved Julianne since first hearing her voice so I couldn’t wait to hear these two guys voices. 

These two men are accustomed to success and after hearing the first couple songs on their new album (that was released today by the way), I’m convinced they may be about to lineup another success besides Dancing with the Stars to their resumes.   Their first single is Do It For You – listen below and let me know what you think:

I think it is going to grow on me real fast!  It’s reminds me of some of my favorite bands from high school.  I’ve only listened to country pretty much the last several years, but I think I could grow to like this.  

Want to find out more about this? You can find them on their video channel, facebook, and myspace sites.

As for my DWTS favorite? I’m rooting for Julianne for as long as she’s going. I liked watching them dance. 

Dancing with the Stars – Regrouping

We found out last night that in fact Misty had been injured and her and her partner were leaving the competition.  Unfortunately, due to storms in our area, my Dancing with the Stars was continously interrupted by severe weather reports by our local news so I didn’t know until tonight what was happening.  As it turns out, no one was eliminated this week.  How cool is that?  I was excited to see that as I love watching everyone dance – well almost everyone.  Because of Misty’s leaving the competition, this week’s scores and votes will be combined with next week’s scores and votes to decide who is eliminated next week. I’m anxious to see the results as I’m ready for one couple to leave (I won’t say any names though I’ll tell you it wasn’t the couple who was listed as currently being in last place).

NFL Training = Ballroom Dancing Training?

I have to admit the season that I truly began to LOVE Dancing with the Stars and started doing my best to not miss an episode was the season that Emmit Smith was on there.  I truly LOVED to watch him dance.  It made my night to watch him. It did help that I was already an Emmit fan of course since my favorite Cowboy period thus far was the Troy, Smith, Irvin period.  But I was so amazed every week at just how good Emmit was, and his enthusiasm and glowing smile….you could tell he was genuinely loving it, and so you loved to watch him.

Last season I went into the season knowing very little about Jason Taylor.  I had seen him play, yes, but really his name didn’t mean all that much to me, and I probably couldn’t have picked his face out if shown a picture of his team.  But he quickly won me over too.  It seemed like he too just got better and better, and while he didn’t have Emmit’s charisma, he still pulled me in each week, and I enjoyed his dances.

This season – Warren Sapp.  Now even though I did become an Emmit fan and slowly was won over by Jason Taylor, I still wasn’t expecting to be impressed at Warren.  I mean come on, how could this 300 pound man move the way these dances require? It truly doesn’t make sense to me, but he’s good.  He’s d$mn good, actually.  I’ve been blown away that he has been able to take on and make each of the dances so far look good.

So this got me thinking tonight, what about these NFL dancers makes them good ballroom dancers? It just doesn’t seem like it goes together to me.  Rough manly football player and polished smooth dancer?  I don’t know, but I think someone with some spare time on their hands should research this and find the correlation.

Dancing with the Stars Headlines!!

It seems Dancing with the Stars is making headlines this weekend as rumors surface of an injury coming to Misty May-Treanor this week that might make her unable to continue the competition.  If this proves to be true, all the followers are predicting what will happen.  I’ve read everything from a fellow teammate taking over for her to Kim coming back, but those fortune tellers are not stopping there, they are also predicting who will be the replacement’s partner.  

I’m not sure what will prove to be true.  It seems that my normal sources of information all of conflicting reviews, but I can guarantee we’ll be glued to the television screen tomorrow to see what happens.

Dancin’ Is back

Even though I’ve been exhausted, I’m so excited that maybe my number one favorite show is back!!  Dancing with the Stars.  And I’m so impressed with all the dancers.  It really seems like they get better and better each season right from the beginning. So tonight I’m sitting here working on my to-do list and watching the second episde of this season – hoping they will soon call our pick – Julianne and Cody.  We almost have a favorite before we see them dance and then as the season progresses, we’ll also pick up a favorite/best dancer.  Because of Cody’s acting on Hannah Montana and our love of Julianne’s music career, there was absolutely no doubt that they would be our first pick of the season.  Any other DWTS followers out there? How are you liking the dancers this season?