Sydney's 9th Birthday

Monday we celebrated Syd's 9th Birthday!

It is hard to believe she is already nine years old. Lucky for her the school district also celebrated her birthday with our first snow day of the year. She was very excited about having off for her big day. This friday we will have her official party. So she choose to have brownies since she was having cake on friday. Any other normal person just would of had cake twice but since she is not a cake girl brownies it was. Friday we will be having a sleepover party. Yes, I said sleepover moment of insanity on my part. Just kidding I am sure it will be fine. All the snow just needs to quit so Mom is able to come down & help me out. I am sure I will have some interesting pictures to share with everyone.

Anderson helping her with her gifts.

Over the River & Through The Woods...

We didn't get to Mom's until 11:30pm Christmas Eve. As we decided to leave after Steve got done from work because bad weather was moving in. Amazing how happy a little boy be that late at night. Although, it was pretty strange to hear him babbling in the backseat in the complete dark. With his sister yelling for us to make him be quiet. What a good sport he was.

Even though we got in late Syd was very excited to see what Santa had brought her. We managed to make it to 7:30. This is Anderson doing his morning exercises.

Sydney with her new MP3 player from Grandma Terry & Roger. I don't even have my own yet. Aunt Jackie & Uncle Aaron got her speakers so she could play it in her room.

Sydney finally got a Wii. Well actually the whole family did. Thank you Grandma Betsy! The whole family had a blast playing the games.

Anderson in his new ride Santa brought him.

Sydney & Anderson after we were done opening gifts. She really does love her little brother!

From our house to yours

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

2 Days Until.....

Sydney is very excited to see her Aunt Jackie. This is the first Anderson will get to meet her. They have alot of catching up to do. Can't wait for all the laughs we will share!!

Hello Again!

Once again I will apologize for my lack of posting. But with the laptop not working well going to another floor to blog with a baby makes it difficult. Especially now that he tries to bang on the keyboard. He has been growing like crazy & doing lots of different things. Syd is doing really well in school. She has been doing basketball now for about a month. Her first game is after the first of the year should be really interesting. Anderson loves going to practice & watch everyone run around. He even tries to yell out to them. Syd is very excited for Christmas as it is just a couple of days ahead. Today at school they were going to watch The Polar Express which they do every year. tomorrow she has her party. Not alot of learning going on this week.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Hope everyone has a great day!!

The turkeys Syd & I made for the table.

Halloween

Sorry it has been awhile since I have posted. I was having trouble with my picture card. Lucky for me Steve fixed my problem. So back in time we go to Halloween.

Sydney went as a robot. Steve & her had actually made her costume over the summer for vacation bible school. Anderson went as a dragon courtesy of his Aunt Jackie. He was very cute but not exactly the happy camper he usually was. He was not feeling well that day. Lucky for me his big sister was pretty awesome & was okay with only trick or treating for an hour. See Sydney is not much for the candy she just wants to trick or treat. Most of it we go through and if we won't eat it she throws it away. We actually can leave it out on the counter & she doesn't touch it. I think she still has peanut butter cups left over and those are her favorites.

Well with the dreadful weather we had for Halloween we ventured out for the local parade & trick or treating. Since it was raining they cancelled the actual parade & judged costumes from inside the fire hall. They have about 5 different categories to choose from. Each kid stands under which one they think their costume fits into. Well Sydney went for Most Original costume. She actually cam in third place & won ten dollars. She was very excited for her win.

Mrs. Roboto

Our happy little dragon.