Sydney Turns One September 7

So Sydney finally made it to her first birthday.  It was crazy exciting and I can't say enough how much fun all my kids are, but lets face it girls are just so fun to dress.  Here are some fun facts about Sydney...

1. She is the only family member with blue eyes
2. She is my only child who loves when I sing to her
3. She loves wheels on the bus
4. She loves shoes all shapes and sizes, but especially her own
5. She already thinks she can do everything her brothers can do
6. She loves the water
7. She is a total mama's girl (sorry Darin)
8. She is only in the 3% tile for weight
9. She loves chocolate (um, I wonder who she got that from)
10. Last and not least, She loves to wrestle with her brothers

Happy Birthday Sid =)

So my Camera is back online and where do I begin.  I will tell you my story of the importance of giving back, recycling, and a pinch of white trash dumpster diving.  Darin and I had gone through our closets and had a bad of old cloth sitting in our garage.  It sat there like a month and finally I decided I needed to take it to good will.  I was having a busy day and I thought how much easier it would be to just throw the bag out in the trash and save myself a trip.  But I really hate waste and some of the shirts Darin threw out had hardly been worn so I threw it in the car and hauled all three of our kids to the local Goodwill.  On the alley to the Goodwill donation site there were dumpsters and as we were driving away and spotted a green plastic slide inside one of them.  The Irony or just good old fashion luck is our slide to our play set just broke a couple of months ago and a replacement was like 100$.  So I ignored all the things my parents taught me rolled up my sleeves and fished the thing out, this was no small task.  To get it into our Pilot the boys and to drive home with their heads down, I wish my camera was working to show you all the picture of that, lets just say I got more than a few looks on the freeway.  Well I got it home cleaned it up and it fit and was better than our old one =)  So that story was like my story of the month.  Here are some pics of Joel's soccer game today where he scored two goals.  Yeah, he scored more than any other player and half the goals of the entire game. 

Ok that did not work here I go again...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODv96oeEAqw

Ok So sorry I have not blogged for like two weeks, I have some great white trash stories coming your way, but I believe all good stories should have pictures and as fate has delt me a cruel hand again my husband lost the battery charger to our new expensive camera so I am in download limbo.  Sydney just had her first birthday which was way fun and I totally wanted to blog about that but now I am bummed because all her cute outfit pictures are on my friends digital camera. s I began having a pity party for myself when I was reminded of a video clip I saw on youtube and thought I would share it with you.  It has a couple of Mormon missionaries on it.  For our friends and family that are not Mormon don't worry it is always fun to tease the missionaries even for us Mormons.  Here is the link I hope it works

Summer coming to a close/ Show and Tell

So this has been a great summer and even thought I live

 in California where I, at times, believe that summer will never end it does seem to be cooling off.  So todays blog I decided to post pictures of why I hate to see it go.  

I am also going to try and tell my top funny storiy of the week, for most of those who know me well and my uncanny nack to embarrass myself this should not be a challenge.   

Here it goes:  So today Joel had show and tell at school, I had planned on bringing our turtle mudslide, but true to form I will just say that Mudslide (the second) is MIA, anywho I decided to take the leapord gecko instead.  So the kids were totally eating it up, right, I was thinking best mom of the year award not to far from my grasps when the gecko (we call her Flo) started freaking out.  I had a hunch Flo might freak so I was totally prepared for this and I patiently took her from Joel.  However, as most things in my life can never in a rational normal ending, so Flo turns on me and bites me.  The kids love it and go crazy, but the teacher eyes got huge and I figures there was a fifty fifty shot she was about to pass out.  I was able to shake the thing off back into the shoe box from whence she came.  I was totally devastated by the fiasco but Joel and Reid gave me to thumbs up so I will call it a draw.