The last school ...

The Milk Means More Jump with Jill Live Tour!

St Johns has five elementary schools, and this is the last one to get the show.

Jill and Nick sang all about healthy food and drinks, and especially did some dairy education.  We all loved it!

Meanwhile back at home ...

70 out of our first 108 calves are heifers!  These are surprising statistics.  Kris just left to help deliver and feed the 13th and 14th calves born today.  So while we're singing the praises of dairy ... we're bringing more into the world.

Some of us can't forget about dairy, ever!  My son spilled raw milk under our car floor mat and forgot to tell us.  If you're gagging, you're imagining the smell correctly.


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Milk Means More - Jump with Jill - Live Tour!

Joe Matulis, the St Johns elementary gym teacher, won a Jump with Jill assembly for two more schools!  Today was Eureka and East Olive.

The Milk Means More - Jump with Jill show is so fun.  It's informational, entertaining, interactive - and the kids love it!  Everyone is up and dancing and totally into it for the entire hour show.  And why not?  It's a rock concert! 

Jill (Laura Brown) and DJ Devon (Devon Watson) teach about dairy, vegetables, fruit, exercise, and making healthy choices.  For each of the lessons, the kids learn a catchy song and dance.  

This is the third time I've been at a show, and I love it!  It's always a little bit different every time, and the performers are so nice (and nice to my kids.)  They also always say a really nice tribute to dairy farmers.

The invite dairy farmers to introduce the show, and Joe had Fuel Up to Play 60 door prizes for me to hand out.  I asked dairy quiz questions. 

The kids were pumped.

Milk, complete with sunglasses and gold chain.  Milk has never been so chill.

The kids loved dancing.  

Karla Palmer, school nurse, Joe Matulis, gym teacher, Cari Cravotta, music teacher, and two more music teachers in St Johns - 100% dance participation!

 Jill, the milk, and me - sporting our giant J necklaces.

Jill invited kids and adults up to do the Bone Rap!  (All about health benefits of milk ... my clear favorite.)

So hardcore.

I can't say enough good things about the show, and I'm so glad Joe Matulis won it for our schools ... here's to healthy eating and daily dance parties!  Gold jewelry optional.

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Jump with Jill - brought to you by Michigan dairy farmers!

Today I went to Oakview Elementary School in St. Johns for Jump with Jill - the "world's only rock & roll nutrition show!"

They start with a salute to Michigan dairy farmers, processors, and the United Dairy Industry of Michigan.  The show is all about eating healthy and exercising.  They sing, dance, and have tons of audience participation.  The kids loved it!

It's fun to go a show and know the people on the banner ... see yourselves, McCunes and Gaspers?  (Fellow Michigan dairy farmers and friends!)

They had kids and teachers come up and dance ...

The PE teacher, Joe Matulis, won a free show for the school.  Here he is with the cast!

The kids danced, and since this was an elementary school, ALL the teachers danced, too.  It was great!

Do you see how cool this milk is?  Sunglasses?  Cannot get any cooler.

They treat dairy farmers like rock stars, too.

Great promotion, great show, and great fun!

The videos are here if you want your own little nutritional dance party right now.

Meanwhile, back on the farm ... Kris chopped corn the entire day.  This will continue for the next two weeks.  After chopping, the boys and I helped him with calf chores.  Inexplicably, the boys wore their nicest school shoes, but assured me they would "dry overnight."  After the boys went to bed, Kris went back to finish calf chores ... he offered that I could do them and he could go to bed, but I told him I'd let him do them.  I had a blog to write!


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