There have been so many questions thrown at our family lately and we wanted to respond somehow. Because we don’t want to force anyone to watch endless vlogs if they only want to watch and hear our music, we started a new YouTube Channel! Introducing VlogginEleven! We aren’t quite sure what is going to happen on this channel, but we want to entertain you and have fun. Here’s to new beginnings, new channels, and new videos!
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This is our 13 yr. old sister Maria singing a Beyonce song.

We were asked to introduce ourselves by several people over the last few weeks… We took their advice and put this video together. Even though it was a lot of fun, it was also a lot of work! Betsy and Jake developed a love/hate relationship with the computer while they tried to create this video. It turned out well in the end though… a small glimpse into our crazy lives

It took us a while, but it’s finally up and running! You can now download our MP3′s for free. Click on the Downloads tab and you’ll be able to download any song we’ve put on YouTube. It’s our way of saying thank you for supporting us! We appreciate the subscribers, comments, and now all the thumbs up!

A few days ago we saw our YouTube numbers start to rise a little bit – we knew a family video must have been posted somewhere, so a small search party was assembled and we scoured the internet. We were ecstatic to see that Shay Carl had twittered about us, which led to a huge jump of 200 subscribers over the next 20 hours. For us to have reached 500 subscribers was unreal.
As we talked about the excitement from his Twitter post and started to think about how we could celebrate our “500th subscriber”, our brother Jake called us and said, “Something is going on. I don’t know what’s happening but go log in to our account.”
We ran over to the computer to see 1,000… 1,050…. 1,100…. every single time we refreshed we saw a jump in numbers. Words cannot explain how confused, shocked, and excited we were….
At first we thought it was YouTube filtering from the night before and assumed it was all a crazy “Shaytard” catch up, but the comments kept flowing real time. “Shay sent me.” “Shaytards unite!” “Ha! Look at your subscribers!” “You are getting 25 every minute!” It was a mad search for WHAT WAS GOING ON!
An HOUR later…
Jake finally landed on the Shaytard blog and saw our link posted in his sidebar. That must have been it, right? It was crazy seeming that 25 people a minute are reading that link and subscribing, but ok! That’s our answer!
….and then we watched his video. (7 min. 56 sec.)

Some of us yelled (at the computer), some stood quietly with their jaws on the floor, and others denied it was happening. We cannot express how incredible the last 48 hours have been.
Thank you Shay Carl, we will WELCOME the chance to stand around you and sing any time.
Thank you to all the Shaytards!
And thank you Claire and Katie – we owe you everything – fans from the beginning.