The Johnsons

earrings??

2011-04-27T17:22:00.000-05:00

I wanted to write this down so I wouldnt forget. Sunday night (Easter April 24, 2011) Nina handed Sydney a pair of white bunny earrings. Sydney came into the living room and told me that she was going to get her ears pierced this saturday. WHAT? where did this come from?

I took her today to look at earrings and show her the "gun" and talk about what will happen. She acted like it was no big deal.....lets do this! Up until now when I would ask her about getting her ears pierced she would automatically say NO. She is fully aware of the process because she keeps repeating that she will get her ears pierced and its going to hurt.

So this weekend with daddys help we will take her to get her ears pierced!!! EEKK.

Momma is going cry!

Easter 2011

2011-04-27T15:56:00.000-05:00

Here are some pictures from our Easter. Sydney got way too much from all the Easter bunnies!! All of my pictures are out of order but I wanted to get them on here and at least post them. We had a lot of fun with both families!!

My Gymnastic princess

2010-10-12T10:57:00.003-05:00

Sydney has been in a mommy and me gymnastic class for almost six months now. We look forward to Monday mornings to go to the library and then to gymnastics. Although here lately Sydney has started to rebel a little bit in class and I'm not sure if she is bored with practicing the same moves over and over again or if she is just being a little demon! lol. I'm thinking about moving her up into a class where she is on her own in a 3yr old class and I can sit back and watch! This is a picture of some of her friends in class, Taylor, Sydney and Sydney.Spider man up the wall is the name of this move.

Working on hand stands!Balance beam.
Backwards pull over and then front support! This was a new one and Sydney loved it! I can't believe the things they let them try! All of these moves were just from one day of gym. I am so proud of all the things she has learned in the past six months!

Go Hornets!!

2010-10-12T10:39:00.002-05:00

About two weeks ago we went to Ethan's junior high football game. Ethan is my friend Holli's step-son. He is in the middle, number 35. Since I work the weekends we miss out on the high school and college games and so we were super excited to go to Ethan's game! Sydney Burnett and Sydney Johnson! My Sydney loves Ethan and even thinks that he is her bubba! We had a shirt made to show support with his number on her back! She was pumped to show him her shirt she made just for him. The girls loved watching the cheerleaders the most.

The girls waiting to see Ethan after his game!Sydney with her "bubba". The Hornets didn't win but we had a blast going to the game!

2010 Saline Co. Fair

2010-09-14T18:04:00.003-05:00

I'm trying to catch up on our recent events! On September 9, 2010 we went to the Saline Co. fair with Jennifer, Joe and Whitney. I was hoping for a cooler evening like we have had in the past but it was plain HOT that night. I was excited to see how Sydney would react to riding the rides this year because last year she loved the rides. First up of course is the carousel. She rode on a horse for a minute then we sat on one of the benches the rest of the ride. It was nice to have a breeze!

I had to post this picture to give a true representation of her reaction! Before each ride she would give us this look and cry a little bit but as soon as the ride started she was as happy as can be? Maybe she was just hot waiting for the ride to start. HA!

Now we couldn't just let the kids have ALL the fun! Jennifer and I had fun riding down the big bumpy slide! Whitney started crying after we got up not because she didn't like the ride but that she wanted to go again! I thought that was too cute.
Ready to go go go!!!!
We finished up with one last ride with daddy! I didn't get any pictures of her looking at the animals but that was a big hit as well of course!

First day of Mother's day out

2010-09-13T18:44:00.004-05:00

September 7, 2010 was Sydney's first day to go to "school". She is going to a mothers day out program at a local church. She goes twice a week. I have been preparing and worrying about this day for several weeks. I was nervous about how she would do and also how I would do leaving her with a stranger! Sydney has only stayed with family up until this day. Sydney's backpack and lunch box with her clothes she wore the first day of school.

Sydney looks so excited for her first big day! ha! I couldn't get her to look at me to take a picture to save my life! It was rainy and ugly and Sydney just wanted to go back to sleep.

Sydney on her way into class!
I was so proud of her when we got to her class. She ran in and went to this tent and started playing. There was a boy in her class that was clawing the walls and screaming at the top of his lungs while she was playing and totally ignoring him. I thought surely when he was freaking out that Sydney would get scared. It wasn't until I thought I should leave that I started crying and hugging my daughter like I was leaving her forever that she started to cry!! I felt so bad that I lost it in front of her and made her cry. After I left her room I stayed at the church for 30 minutes to make sure she would settle down and stop crying. She did great and the director of the program felt bad and called me mid-morning which scared me to death when I saw the number come up on my phone but she was just calling to let me know that Sydney was playing and having a good time. So sweet of her to call me and make me feel better!
Since I didn't get many pictures before school I took more after they got out. I had everything mapped out in my head of how I wanted things to go that morning and everything feel apart when I did the mommy ugly cry! Here is Whitney and Sydney with their first school papers! I was excited when she had something to bring home!! They made a hand print on a page that had a cute poem about first day of school.Mommy and Sydney happy to be re-united!! She saw me when the door opened and screamed MOMMY!!! It made my day! Tomorrow is our second day since we missed last Thursday due to being sick. Pray that all goes well and we don't get upset again!

Fourth of July 2010

2010-07-18T13:52:00.002-05:00

This post is way behind but I wanted to put up some of our pictures from our fourth of July. I had to work on the Fourth of July this year since it landed on Sunday this year. So we celebrated on Saturday the third. We had a fun day filled with a cookout, swimming, eating watermelon and of course fireworks!

Just when we were going to go outside to eat our watermelon it started to rain. So we weren't going to let that stop us. We set up a towel in the garage and dug in to the watermelon.
Sydney has never played in the rain before. That was something I loved to do when I was little so I thought it was the perfect opportunity to show her how much fun it can be.Thank goodness the rain didn't last and we were able to go get fireworks and put on a show for Sydney. It was a bummer that I had to be away from Sydney on the actually fourth of July but we made do with what we were given. It was a fun weekend and I hope Sydney had loads of FUN!

Our Saturday Fun

2010-07-17T20:17:00.004-05:00

Sydney and I have been going to the summer reading program at the Bryant library. This years theme was Under the Sea. Each week Mrs. Debbie leads the kids in songs and reads a few books and then we get to make a craft. Sydney looks forward to Tuesdays when we go to the library. Today was the end of Summer reading luau party. The party was at the Benton Library since they have a nice big lawn. They had some inflatables, face painting, and dunking booth. We stayed for about 45 minutes and Sydney was soaking wet from sweat so we left.Sydney jumping and falling down!

You can see her ball right at the pins. She actually knocked some of them over! Sydney had just threw her ball. You can see the ball right in front of her! lol
After we left the library party we went to the bowling alley. Sydney has been to the bowling alley before but she just a baby. So today was her first time to actually bowl! I thought she would love but Stephen was betting on that she was still a little too young to bowl.
Stephen explaining to Sydney how to bowl. In true Sydney fashion she wanted to do it her way! She carried her own ball and she threw it the way she wanted to.Well the verdict was we were both right. She liked it but the game lasted too long. So the last two frames Stephen had to bowl for her. Our final Scores, Sarah 119, Sydney 61, Stephen 94. I won!

Gymnastic Star

2010-07-15T13:34:00.003-05:00

On June 8, 2010 Sydney started taking Mommy and me gymnastics classes at Leah's Gymnastics. This was the first time she has been involved with a structured class. It was an adjustment to wait our turn and follow the instruction of the teachers but she looks forward to Tuesdays all week.These pictures are from our first day in gymnastics. I did gymnastics when I was in elementary school and so I thought this would be a fun thing that we could do together.Sydney with Ms. Olivia

This is her little gym class. Taylor, Audry, Lucy, Sydney B, and Sydney.

Sydney with Ms. Olivia practicing a front roll on the cheese wedge.Stopping to pose for momma! I was so excited for her! We have been going to gymnastics for a month now and this past Tuesday she was able to pull her legs up to the bar and hold on all by herself! I was so surprised!! I'm so proud of you Sydney!!!

Story Time Live

2010-07-14T14:43:00.004-05:00

Today a group of my friends got together and went to Story time Live! The kids had a blast. Here is a picture of our group.Sydney and Whitney playing with their light up souvenirs!

Sydney and Parker playing and being goofy! The show had four different short cartoon stories. The first was Ni Hao, Kai Lan.The Backyardigans!
The Wonder Pets!
Dora the explorer was every ones favorite I believe!

Diva

2010-03-22T18:12:00.003-05:00

Last week we went to Stephen's mom beauty shop to visit her at work. Sydney wanted to get a blow out. She hopped up in the chair and got her hair washed and blow dried. What 2yr loves to go get her hair done? I think I'm in trouble!

Christmas with The Johnsons on Christmas Eve

2010-01-10T13:14:00.004-06:00

After Santa came to our house and we played with our toys for a while we got dressed up and headed to Stephen's parents house for lunch. Sydney was already starting to get sleepy and on Christmas there is no time to rest so while in her car seat on the way over I thought she was asleep and when I grabbed my camera to take her picture she gave me this sweet little smile!
Our best family pic on Christmas. Sydney was too distracted to look at the camera!

After lunch Sydney and Haley were playing with Ninas block Nativity set. Haley would set them up and Sydney would knock them over! Great Fun!

Our two oldest nieces are such sweet girls. When we would ask them what they wanted for Christmas they both would say "I don't know" "Whatever". So Stephen told Haley who is a tom boy if you don't tell me what you want for Christmas I' going to buy you a Barbie. She never imagined he was serious. SO Sydney gave Haley her first gift which was a Barbie. Shes so funny she said I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to do with the Barbie!!! Later she opened a bow and arrow set and She said that Barbie could be her target for practice!!!

Every year the person that hands out the gifts is called Santa. This year Sydney was Santa. She loves to help.
This girl loves some chap stick!

Michael and Lisa got Sydney an outfit from Gymboree and she loved it so much that she had to put it on right then! You can really tell her poor pink eye in this pic.
Uncle Mike got an electric smoker and Sydney loved playing in his box.
Sydney had a great Christmas. She was not only excited about her gifts she was excited about what everyone else was opening. She ran from person to person to see what they were opening.

The last gift was for Sydney and she got a rocking horse. It gallops and sings songs! Once this gift came out she didn't get off until we took her off of it! I'm sure there are many hours to come playing with this horse (HO HO as Sydney calls it).

Me and my hubby!

I think everyone has a snuggie pic from Christmas. This really isn't for Stephen's dad but he wanted to model it. He called it a snuggle we were laughing so hard!

True fashion

2010-01-10T12:46:00.003-06:00

In true fashion I am late for our Christmas post. Better late than never! This is our Christmas tree. It's the last year we will have this tree because I broke the stem of it when we were taking it down. I can't say that I'm said because now I can get a pre-lit tree next year!
Because of our schedules we decided to do our Christmas on Christmas Eve. This is what the house looked like after Santa came. Sydney's two big items were a tent and a kitchen.

Sydney LOVED her kitchen!!! She didn't want to open anything else because she wanted to play with her kitchen. She loves to feed us and cooks for us all the time! It's funny how kids know how to imagine they are cooking and play with pretend food. She says EAT.EAT. when she wants us to go to her room to play kitchen.

She thought her tent was really cool. It was a ball area in the middle tent. She Christmas though she really hasn't played with it as much as I thought she would and it's huge! I didn't realize when I ordered the tent how big it really was. It maybe will go up in the next few weeks if she doesn't play with it more since its in the corner of our living room!

Sydney with all of her Christmas gifts from momma and daddy! She got way too much this year. I was cutting back on what she got this year but when I started to pull everything I had bought over the past few months she ended up getting more this year then last year.

One last thing Santa brought her one thing you may or may not have noticed. She woke up with pink eye on Christmas Eve. You can really tell in some of the pictures.

I still have two more Christmas to post

Yea this is ladies night!

2010-01-10T12:38:00.002-06:00

This past Wednesday night some girls from work got together at On the Border. Kristen (the one in red) has been away at school for the past semester at Texas Weslyn. She is in school to become a CRNA. We are proud of her and miss working with her! Since she finished her first semester of CRNA school we went out to celebrate.

Lights, Lights and more Lights!!!

2009-12-02T10:21:00.002-06:00

Last night we went to our second annual Benton Christmas parade. Last year Sydney wasn't even a year old yet and just sat and watched everything go by and didn't have a reaction to all the displays and floats. This year Dennis,Kali and Parker came with us. Although it was sooo cold at the parade I think we all had a great time. My camera was not taking very good pictures but I had to post them because it's a memory that I hope Sydney starts to look forward to every year.
These Pictures were taken with the Benton court house all lit up behind us.

Parker and Sydney loved it when the pony floats would come by.

This is a horrible picture that this guy took for us with the light shining behind us but this is a group shot of all of there.

Parker is such a lover! He had he head laying on Sydney's shoulder looking at the Christmas trees.
Sydney petting the polar bears.

The court house

Thanksgiving 2009

2009-11-26T18:20:00.003-06:00

This year I had Thanksgiving lunch at my house. We had a great lunch and ate way too much. Mom was absent this year since she was sick. We even went to the Thanksgiving Old Navy sale. Dennis and Kali let us borrow their blow up jump house..THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! The kids had a blast with it. Sydney is electric!!! Look at that hair!
Sydney enjoying her Thanksgiving dinner.

I am so thankful for my family!!!!

Halloween 2009

2009-11-11T13:38:00.005-06:00

This Halloween post is late because as soon as Halloween was over we started working on getting thing together for our Branson trip. On Halloween night we went to East Union Baptist Church to there fall fest. After the fall fest we went to another local church and truck or treated. We finished the night with trick or treating in a east end neighborhood. We were exhausted by the end of the night. This year Sydney really enjoyed participating in all the activities. She was a pink "friendly" monster for Halloween.

We tried to get a group shot of the cousins. Brooke didn't want to get in the pic and Lauren had already ran off with one of her friends. Sydney was not diggin Jack's mask to his costume!

Sydney with the dum dum tree! After she picked one I turned around to go to the next game and I looked and she wasn't there. She was still at the dum dum tree picking suckers! ha
What do I win?

Getting down in the jump house.
Attempt at a family pic on Halloween night. Sydney always has another agenda.

Sydney loved riding the "ho ho".

I lost Stephen and Sydney half way through the fall fest and looked everywhere for them. This is where I finally found them riding this train. I laughed so hard! Stephen looks like he barely fits in the barrel.
Let's see what I have in here.
This was at the trunk or treat.
Can I eat this now?
Target game at the trunk or treat.

Branson, Mo

2009-11-09T15:10:00.008-06:00

Last Thursday we headed out for our first family trip. We decided to go somewhere close and so we chose to go to Branson, MO. Stephen and I haven't been in eight years. We really wanted to stay at the landing in the heart of all the newest shops!! I was worried about traveling 4 hrs with a toddler but she did great! See....
Our hotel was next to a river and right next to the river was this amazing fountain/light/music show that went off every hour!!!

Sydney got to make her first Build A Bear!!!! She really enjoyed the whole process until it was time to pick out her clothes. She was too distracted to pick anything out. We went with a polar bear Christmas bear. The past two weeks it seems like Sydney will do anything to get your attention!!! All the older people down town would stop and talk to Sydney and make such a big fuss over her and she ate it up!!!! Here she is running down the sidewalks acting wild!!
I asked her to smile and look at momma and this is the pose I got!
The first night we were there the town had there annual Christmas tree lighting!! We had a family pic made with Santa who stays in the bottom of the town Christmas tree. Sydney went right to Mrs Claus.
Stephen and Sydney in front of the town tree.
We went to the Branson Zoo while we were there. It is pretty small but Sydney loves any kind of animal so I knew she would love it. This was a large tank that had 5 sharks and a logger head turSee what I mean!!! No reservations about touching this snake!!!This picture was taken inside of the Bass Pro shop fish tank.
Sydney has this on her Christmas wish list for Santa.
On every corner was these riding machines (I don't even know what to call them). Sydney would scream every time she would see one. "I wanna ride!!" We gave in a few times but it was .75 each time!On Saturday we ate at Joe's Crab shack. Our waitress asked if Stephen wanted a bib and He said no that's okay and I was nodding my head the whole time SO guess who got a bib??!!! We laughed so hard!!!Sydney wanted to pose with her shrimpees
We only went to one show while we were there. This is at the front of theater. We went to see The Miracle of Christmas. It was AMAZING!! Sydney loved it!! She would clap and wave her hands in the air. I really want to go back and watch Noah when it comes back.
30 minutes before the show starts a few of the characters bring out some of the animals in the show to get a close look at them. This little girl ADORES her daddy and loved spending so much time with him on the little trip we took. I'm glad we went to Branson. We had a blast and enjoyed having our family time.
This was our last night and we started out to have dinner by the fire but went inside because we were worried it might be too cold for Sydney. I had the best lasagna I've ever had here!! I didn't get any pictures of Sydney at the pool but she loved playing in the pool even though it was so cold to us. She didn't want to get out!! Good memories.

Saline Co Fair 2009

2009-09-11T16:52:00.007-05:00

This past Thursday evening Stephen and I met up with Jennifer so we could take the kiddos to their first fair experience! Sydney is now 21 months and Whitney is almost 15 months. When we were walking toward the fair Sydney was squealing with excitement and I was so thrilled she was so interested. We of course started off with some yummy fair food. After we ate we headed to see the animals.
I figured she would really love the animals and think it was neat to be so close and her attitude was like yea okay what's next. lol. You never know how she will react. She did like the animals she just wasn't as excited as she was with something else!

This is Whitney with a sweet little cow eating some hay.

Sydney loves the Lunesta commerical where the rooster wakes the lady up in the middle of the night so Sydney knew exactly what this little animal was!

I think this pic is so funny! She was posing by the turkeys and I was happy they didn't peck her!
Stinky pigs!

Stephen got ahead of us and they were looking at this cow when Jennifer and Whitney started to walk up and Sydney yelled "MINE"

Family First at the Saline Co. Fair. (I'm holding Sydney's peacock feather)

Jennifer and Whitney taking their first fair pics!

I thought it would be appropriate to start off with a simple fair ride the carousal. Sydney was so scared so some reason? She was okay if she wasn't riding the horse and if I was holding her. I figured well she just still isn't ready to ride any rides yet......you would think right?

WELL..we decided to put her on a little car ride. She LOVED it. I almost started to cry but pulled it together. She has the biggest smile and screamed "HI DADDY HI DADDY" every time she came by us. Everyone thought she was so cute. I of course agree. She didn't want to get off. I tried to video on my camera but I guess I need to work on the video part because it didn't work and I was disappointed. I wish you could've seen her reaction to her first fair ride!

This is her second ride by herself. It was a truck but they were linked together like a train and it went around in a circle on a track.

Was she starting to have second thoughts? She loved this ride just as much as the first. I'm not sure if she enjoyed the rides more or her parents cheering her on and screaming every time she came around? I'm sure we looked crazy but I was so proud of her!

We ended our night with a fair game. I thought she may go swimming at one point instead of fishing! She thought she needed to splash in the water.

She picked out her own prize all by herself. Can she really be this big already?

8th Anniversary

2009-08-25T14:06:00.003-05:00

Today is our 8th wedding anniversary. Stephen and I met while I was a senior in high school. It was only by chance that we met. I decided to pull over when a guy waved me down at Sonic. After that night Stephen continued to pursue me. Thankfully I realized what a great catch he was. We have been together a totally of ten years together. We have grown up together. Odds are against people who marry young ( I had just turned 20 when we got married) but we knew we were meant to be together after a couple short months together.

We now have a sweet little girl who is 20 months old who keeps us entertained and makes us laugh everyday. I love it how she hears the door handle moving in the afternoon and she takes off because she knows her daddy is home. I love our life together. I love my husband and I can't wait to have many more years together!

My little rock collector

2009-08-12T14:15:00.004-05:00

This summer is passing quickly and we are kinda glad since its so stinking hot! Sydney and I got outside everyday even though its miserable we go to get out of the house and get our vitamin D!haha. Sydney has picked up a new hobby. She likes to collect rocks. When we go outside the search is on. She will carry them everywhere as long is she is outside. Here are some picks of her rock collection.
Showing off her cool rocks in her hand!

Putting her rocks in her bucket.

posing with some of her rocks in front of her.

While we are outside we have to make sure Dixie is fed as well. She loves Dixie and if there isn't any food in her bowl(even if she has just finished) we have to put some more food out for her.
Exploring! We found a full snake skin last night. Thank goodness no snake in sight! I guess its that time of year because my oldest sister said she found one as well.
Watching to make sure Dixie makes a happy plate!
Sydney trying to fix her four wheeler I ran over this morning on the way out to Wonderplace to play with Jennifer and Whitney. I guess everyone does it at sometime. I'm glad it wasn't totally destroyed.

Fun weekend Wrap

2009-07-21T13:38:00.005-05:00

This weekend the weather was so nice that we had to take advantage of it. I was getting ready to do my usual Friday night shift and my cell phone rang. The CDF wanted to know if I wanted to take call for the night!!! OF COURSE! I told stephen to put some shorts on and get ready, we are taking Sydney to the park. I like to take Sydney to different places and get her out of the house and Stephen has never been with us to any of our excursions because we usually do them during the day and he is at work. So this was going to be our first family outing to do "Sydney stuff."
Daddy I think we might need to be a little bigger to do this one!! Stephen was trying to call Sydney up the climbing wall! LOL

Sydney loves to slide!!

This was the last picture I got of Sydney at the park that evening because I got THE CALL! =( We were at the park maybe 15 minutes and my cell phone rang....I thought surely not! O yea work needed me to come in and I felt so bad for Sydney. She was having so much fun and I didn't want our outing to end. I promised Sydney we would come back the next evening since it was my fault it was cut short. She fussed a little but handled having to leave so soon after we got there.

Saturday afternoon we were in the house and I had just got up and I heard the sound of my childhood. Guess who was in my neighborhood??? The ICE CREAM TRUCK!!! I have such fond memories of being excited and the rush of getting your money in time to catch the ice cream man before he came back around. My cousin Mary even busted her chin open trying to run after the ice cream truck to get him to stop!! She still has the scar to prove that story! SO When I heard the music playing I yelled at Stephen to grab some money and I grabbed up Sydney and my camera of course....Stephen said what are you doing with that(the camera)? I said I have to get her first ice cream truck experience on film!!! He just rolled his eyes LOL. We ran outside in time to meet the truck and I was more excited than Sydney was I think!

Sydney picked out a rainbow sherbet push up for her first ice cream. She thought is was very yummy.
And yes she is still in p.j.'s. When Stephen takes care of her on the weekends she normally stays in her pjs unless they go out somewhere!

As promised, after getting cleaned up from our ice cream we went back to the park! Sydney on the way to the park kept saying...play, play, play!! She took off running when we got there. There were a ton of people there of course since it was a Saturday and so nice outside.
Daddy unsure I guess if she can go down the baby slide by herself. He was so funny because he really doesn't know how independent she is when she goes to places like this. She will go down the big slides all by herself and I just let her. Stephen is so protective over her and was right by her side at the park. I just sat back and watched. I have to share this story it's too funny. Sydney was on the baby slide and was standing at the top and there was a little boy up there with her and we were sitting around the bottom of the slide and Stephen says to me what is he doing. I said I don't know they are probably talking. The next thing I know Stephen is running up the slide and yells as he is going up HEY!! NO!! Grabs Sydney and comes down. Stephen wasn't yelling at Sydney, he was yelling at the little boy Sydney was up there with. Apparently he was hitting her but Sydney wasn't crying. I told Stephen to calm down and he said I don't care, he doesn't need to be hitting Sydney!!! haha. I laughed so hard. I said you have to expect thing like that to happen when there is a large group of kids! Stephen has a lot to learn. thank goodness there wasn't a big a mean daddy around for that little boy. We stayed at the park for about 1.5hours and had a good time.

Just a swinging!!

Girls ONLY!!!

2009-07-09T15:00:00.002-05:00

Last night a group of girls I work with went out to say goodbye to two girls that are leaving to go to Texas to go to CRNA school. We went to On the Border to eat and have a few drinks. I rarely drink so I took this picture so I could prove that I actually finished my drink!

Holly G., Michalee(one of the girls leaving) and me!

Kristen and I. Kristen is also going away to school. I look so white compared to her!!!

This is another group shot. We decided to go outside after we ate and hang out some more. After we left On the Border we decided to go watch a movie. We saw The Proposal. It was so nice to go and do whatever I wanted without having to worry about Sydney! I think I need to start having a scheduled girls night out more often!!!

Fourth of July

2009-07-09T13:55:00.005-05:00

We had a great fourth of July. We went to my sister, Holly's house and had a cookout and the kids swam and we had lots of desserts and then we did fireworks. The only slip up was that Holly forgot to put the sugar in the home made ice cream! lol. Dad had to work and mom wasn't feeling good so they didn't get to come to the party. Sydney had a blast playing on the scooter!

Lauren, Sydney and Jack

A group shot of all the cousins!

Sydney being silly Chillin and waving her flag Love this lil girls expressions!

Holly and Sydney

Sydney's bow This is the only time Sydney will get to wear a two piece for a long time. The only reason she got to wear it was because it was a hand me down from holly and it was the right colors for the fourth! Stephen doesn't think little girls should wear two piece suits! I agree.

Sydney finally relaxing in the pool. For some reason she doesn't like to get in the pools but loves to take baths? We are working on it and hopefully soon she will love the water.

Sydney even let Alexis take her into the big pool on the fourth! She didn't put up too much of a fuss and hung out with the Alexis and Jack for a few minutes!

I bought all the kids these silly straws and the all loved it. Sydney of course had to use her straw as well so we put milk in a cup for her and she thought she was big!

One little monkey jumping on the couch!!! Two lil girls making sure she doesn't fall! lol

I don't know what it is about smoke bombs but kids love them. They love to run through the smoke until it got in Brooke's eyes then it wasn't fun anymore!

Sydney and Daddy cooling off with a treat! Sydney is getting her eye teeth on top so she is keeping her fingers in her mouth these days.

Hanging out before we start the fireworks Missy with Reagan and Brooke. We spent the night trying to keep Brooke's dress on so we wouldn't get any boob shots.

Stephen with Sydney watching the fireworks. Sydney fussed a little bit with the first two that we did but after that it was all smiles and clapping when the would go off. All the kids hung out in the back of my truck and watched fireworks.

First Craft

2009-06-24T15:11:00.004-05:00

Today I watched my sisters two youngest kids while she took Alexis to the dentist. They had a great time playing together. After my sister got back and we had lunchand then we had craft time. We made tambourines!! We used paper plates (decorate how you want), tape, stapler, and Cheerios to fill between the paper plates. Sydney has really started to color and enjoyed coloring on the paper plates. Reagan finished coloring her plates first and we started to put Cheerios out on her plates and Sydney started to sneak Cheerios off her plates!!! Girl loves to snack!! After we all finished our projects they loved shaking them to make noise and I told my sister have fun on the way home with THREE tambourines!!! haha.

Everything that is FUN!!

2009-06-24T14:42:00.004-05:00

Sydney just turned 18 months and loves to be outside!!!

She loves it when you count to three and yell GO!!!!

Sunday, Nana and Papa (Self) bought Sydney a new swimming pool!! She took a nap while Stephen and I got it ready for her. This is Sydney when she first saw her pool!

The pool even has a slide. The water was really cold and I don't think she wanted to go but of course Stephen sent her down anyway!!

WOW.....that water is cold!!!

Everytime we spend time outside, Sydney waves bye bye to everyone passing by!

Day dreaming!

This was the first time EVER that Sydney "smiled" when I asked her to for a picture!!! I love the little face she is giving!!! TOO funny

The second smile was much cuter!!! Does she come with a straw because I would sure like to drink her up!!!!

Tubes Surgery Day

2009-06-17T11:26:00.001-05:00

This was pre-op photo shoot!!
This was in pre-op still. Goofing off.

She was very loving before she went back.

This was the surgical nurse that took her back.

This was after I held her for aprox. 2 minutes then she started to cry some. When we walked back there to the recovery area there was probably 5 people around her and I thought something was wrong because where I work when there are lots of people are around something is going on. Then after we saw her on the stretcher this guy told us to have a seat here and started to get a towel out. I thought to myself..does he know that's my baby over there and why am I sitting way over here and why do I need a towel? After he started talking about how she might get sick and one of the other nurses started to bring her over to me I thought ...okay I get it now (LOL)!!! She still couldn't hold her head up yet and was like a little newborn again. Soon after sitting with me she started to cry a little. The nurses said they didn't want to give her over because she was so cute with her pretty big brown eyes....awww(sorry I can't do without her). All in all she did great and I was surprised that she didn't get upset more than she did. Everyone from doctor to family was trying to prepare me for her screaming and not being able to console her but she did perfect!!! Thanks for all the prayers for Sydney.

28th birthday

2009-05-08T12:30:00.006-05:00

May 2 was my 28th birthday. My immediate family has a tradition of going out to eat for birthday person. This year I wanted to try something different. I get tired of eating at the same restaurants so after researching online I decided to try Bonefish Grill. I was not disappointed, the food was great. The service was awesome as well. We had two servers since we had 14 people with us.
Outside Bonefish before we ate our yummy meal.

My view from the table. Of course I was at the head of the table. This is everyone deciding what they want to eat.

Alexis calls Sydney her baby. It's always a fight to see who is going to sit next to Sydney.

My oldest sister, Missy and her family.

Mom and Dad

Sydney loves the garlic mashed potatoes!! More please.

Birthday brownie cake with ice cream! YUMMY.

Bonefish gave me chocolates for my birthday, I thought that was a cool treat.

First Travelers game

2009-05-08T10:27:00.004-05:00

Last night we took Sydney to her first Travelers game. Some guys from Stephen's work went with us as well. I wasn't sure how Sydney would act but she did great. There is so much more room for her to run around then the old ball field. The new stadium is gorgeous. Lots of yummy food to pig out on too! First off Sydney met Shelly the mascot. At first she just looked at her and then wanted to touch her but she never gave her a hug.....BUT she didn't cry either so that's good. In the middle of the game Stephen's friend P.J caught a foul ball and gave it to Sydney. We thought that was kinda neat to go to her first game and get a foul ball. We had a great time, I'm glad we went.
Shelly came back around later in the game and Sydney gave her five!!! But still no hug! lol.

Sydney being silly Sydney!

Mommie and Sydney right before the game started.

Sydney in her seat...she didn't weigh enough to hold down her seat and it folded up on her at first and we laughed so hard...so then i had to put my leg on it the rest of the time(when she sat down the few times)

The crew! Adam and Shelly. Stephen, Sarah, and Sydney. T.J aka Squirrel and Leslie aka Possum. P.J. on the end...looks like he had a accident in his shirt. lol

Friday night fun

2009-05-05T13:10:00.008-05:00

Friday was a busy but fun evening for us. Sydney and I met Stephen after work at his company's annual crawfish boil. This was Sydney's first crawfish experience. I was curious to she how she would react when she saw them.
going for her first crawfish.....Stephen was embarrassed that I was taking pics in front of people he works with.

hhmmmm not too bad?

okay maybe not...actually as soon as she put the whole mud bug to her mouth Stephen took it away from her but we did open one up for her and she did eat it.

i like spicy crawfish!!!

After the crawfish boil at Stephen's work we went to Dennis and kali's house to hang out and let the kids play. They have a cool blow up bounce play gym for the kids to play in. They played for about 2 hrs and they had a blast. Both of them were sweaty from playing so hard.

Don't hold me back daddy let me go!!! I'm ready!!!

weeeeeeeee!!!

that was fun!! look what i found.

having fun.

on your mark, get set.....go!!! let's race

concentrating on what to do next.

man its hot and I'm worn out.

relaxing in the ball pit...chillin.

now I'm going to try to climb up the slide!

quick break for a drink and a photo with Mommy!! notice she is looking at something else she wants to get into.

yeahhhhhh......i need to come here more often.

taking a break a catching a breeze riding with daddy in the ranger. I love to ride anywhere.

daddy let me go.....

country girl....hanging in the back of the ranger.

mommy and Sydney acting silly

Sydney taking Mommy for a ride.

these next few pics are from a neighbors backyard of Dennis and kali's. they have beautiful ponds and waterfalls.

crazy kids..u cant get them to be still and look at the camera at the same time.

A sad day

2009-04-20T11:35:00.002-05:00

Today is a very sad and numb day. This morning we found out that a friend of Stephen's, Jimmy, overdosed Saturday and passed away. Tonight we will be going to his visitation. Tomorrow is his funeral. It's hard to imagine that this is real. Jimmy worked with Stephen for a little while and would come over to the house afterwards. He was such a funny guy and always made us laugh. Although he was a guy that liked to make people smile he had had a rough short life. There were many things in his life that he shouldn't have to deal with. Jimmy was 27 and although he is gone we will never forget him. Please say a prayer for his family as I'm sure this is very hard on them.

First mud hole

2009-04-19T20:43:00.002-05:00

First it starts with a water hose
Then you get your feet wet

Next thing you know you are swimming!

It's safer in the car.

This morning it was pretty out with the sun shinning and we went out to play. It started off innocent. We put her in play clothes so she could do whatever she wanted, but we didn't think she would be soaked by the time we went in. Sydney is very curious right now and really not scared of much. She had the best time playing in the water today. I foresee her loving playing in the water this summer!!!

Lots of Lovin

2009-04-19T20:31:00.002-05:00

Puppy love from buddy!!
I finally gave Coy P lovin

Nanny love

Stephen's mom called us and told us that Nanny and Coy P were here in town from magnolia, so we loaded up and went to see them. Sydney immediately waved at nanny but then didn't want to go to her but nanny wasn't going to take no for an answer. Toward the end of the visit she finally sat in Coy P lap for a few minutes. Sydney loves animals and really loves Buddy because he will let her roll all over him so she had a good visit with buddy too. Sydney had a good day today with lots of lovin from everyone.

Happy Easter

2009-04-11T20:07:00.004-05:00

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Easter. I hope everyone has a great day. I will be hosting Easter at my house this year. We have scrambled all day to get thing done at the last minute of course. Sydney got a early Easter present today from her daddy. She isn't too crazy about it yet but I'm sure she will love it before long. You will have to wait until tomorrow to see her surprise!!! =) I was very excited when he brought it home. Anyways have fun tomorrow and remember the reason we celebrate Easter. Don't forget to share that part as well with the little ones!!

Ketchup

2009-04-10T13:52:00.006-05:00

Before we left for our Nashville trip Sydney started to go up and down her slide all by herself. Here are a few pictures of our big girl.

Wednesday night we went over to Adam and Shelly's house. The guys built horse shoe pits and the girls hung out and watched the boys work. Sydney took her four wheeler and played with their new puppy. It was such a beautiful day. We all had a great time.

Last night we went to my sister, Holly's house to dye Easter eggs for the first time with Sydney. Last year (which would have been Sydney's first Easter egg dye) Sydney was sick and couldn't participate in the fun. She acted like she knew exactly what to do. She would pick up an egg and throw it in the dye, which would splash everywhere. Then she would grab it out and then throw it on the table so it would crack! It was so funny. She had a great time and now she has little green hands. After we dyed Easter eggs we went to the church's new playground for a few minutes.

Nashville, TN

2009-04-07T12:54:00.008-05:00

This past weekend Stephen and I went to Nashville, TN. We had a great time and it was so nice to have time for just the two of us to be selfish and be alone again. We hit all the tourist stops. Our legs hurt so bad from walking so much (kinda pathetic I know). Once we got to our hotel and checked out our love nest (haha) for the weekend we got ready to hit the town. We went to a very cool restaurant called The Aquarium. In the middle of of restaurant there is a huge salt water fish tank!!! All of the table are positioned so that we all have perfect view of the tank. Stephen asked me if I was finished and I said "yea" then I looked down to see that I had only ate a few pieces of shrimp. I was amazed and I wasn't even thinking about eating. I took several pictures because I wanted to be able to share how neat this place was to us.

After we finished our dinner, across from the restaurant was a huge sting ray tank. Once you get in they give you shrimp to feed the sting rays and you can touch them while feeding them (sorta like a petting zoo). We had plans for the both of us to feed/touch these sting rays. WELL, when I saw those things jumping up and splashing water at everyone else.......I was out. They totally freaked me out. You couldn't stand anywhere near the tanks or they thought you wanted to feed them so they would jump up and actually spit water at you. Okay I have to tell this story. While I was taking pictures of Stephen feeding the sting rays, there was a women there and she was getting soaked by letting these nasty things spit water and splash water all over her!!!! GROSS!

I hope she didn't have plans afterwards.

After dinner went down town to hit all the bars including Coyote Ugly!! After being out for a while we headed back to the hotel to crash.

We slept in til 10:30 that next morning and went downstairs to the breakfast buffet in our PJ's!! We had no cares in the world. I didn't feel so bad when I saw that other people were down there as well in their PJ's.

We decided to go to The Hermitage. This is where Andrew Jackson Lived. Beautiful plantation. I think this was my favorite part of our trip. We had headphones that guided us and gave us neat information along the way. I enjoyed learning about our history and even imaged how it would have been to live in those days.

After the Hermitage we went to a famous Bar B Que joint called Jack's. UMMMMM. Very good!

We spend more time at the Hermitage then we thought and didn't have enough time to go through the Country Hall of Fame so we spent more time down town before we went back to the hotel to get ready for the Grand Ol Opry.

Our hotel not only had a huge breakfast buffet, they also had free drinks and a guy that played the guitar for two hours in the evening. So we hung out at the hotel for two hours and met some people from Kentucky.

The Grand Ol Opry was planned for saturday night and we were soo excited. Both of us had never been there before. There was only two people there that night that we knew of (joe diffie and Buddy Jewel) but it was still very cool to be there.

Since we didn't get to go to the Country Hall of Fame on saturday we went on Sunday morning befoer we came home. Again very neat place to see all of the history of country music.

All in all we had a great time. It is so nice to be able to get away and to have "us time". Everyday is always about Sydney and as it should be so it's nice to be selfish and take time to renew our relationship and let loose!!!

Thank you to my sister holly for keeping Sydney so we could have this time.

Sydney's prize that we brought back was a tamborine!! She loved it.

and we're off

2009-04-02T21:53:00.003-05:00

In the morning we leave for a much needed mini-vaca!!!! We are off to Nashville, TN. All that we have planned is the Grand Ol opry otherwise we are just going to take it as it comes. We are so excited to get away even if for a few short days. We aren't taking Sydney with us on our trip so we will miss her bunches but somehow I don't think she would enjoy this trip too much. My sister is always sweet to keep Sydney for us while we are away. Pray for a safe trip and for Sydney to have a great time with her cousins!

Sydney's first haircut!!

2009-04-01T13:06:00.005-05:00

I have been contemplating on whether I should get Sydney's haircut. I don't want her to have bangs and want her hair to grow out BUT the ends look like a firecracker went off!! I never really knew why people took "the first cut" so serious until someone told me "well its because its the hair they were born with". Then all of a sudden I didn't want to cut Sydney's hair either!! Needless to say last night we went to Stephen's mom beauty shop and got her first little haircut. She did great (probably because it was Nana). She just sat there in the chair like a big girl. She would turn around every now and then to she what she was doing but other than that she was a sweet little angel.

Mills Park

2009-03-31T14:32:00.002-05:00

Sunday Sydney and I met up with both of my sisters with their children at Mills park. I took Sydney before to the park and she didn't have too much fun (she would cry every time we would put her on something). This time the weather was perfect and she took off running from the time we got there. It's so nice going anywhere with me sisters kids because they want to "take care of Sydney". They followed her around everywhere wanting her to try this and get on that with them. I'm sure its hard for Sydney to get so much attention! Her favorite part of the park is the swing. She also like to go down the slide. She actually will just go down by herself. Big change from the last park experience. I love this stage in her life, but yet I say that about every stage she has.

Oh yea what do yal think about those pigtails? LOL I thought it was funny!

Pray HARD

2009-03-25T12:25:00.003-05:00

Baby Stellan has been in SVT for several hours. He just went into V-tach!! Please pray for this sweet baby and his family. Pray for guidance for the staff at the hospital he is at right now!!

Relaxing in the sun!

2009-03-19T14:15:00.004-05:00

Yesterday was sooooo beautiful. Sydney had her 15 month check up and everything looked great except her wt. She only weighs 20lbs 3Oz's. She is in the 15%. So we will go back in 4 weeks to re-check her weight. She also had to get two shots unfortunately. I have never been a mom that cries when she gets her shots but yesterday was HARD! When they stuck her for the first time she grabbed at the needle and it freaked me out because she has never done this before so I had to grab her arms and restrain her. I felt so bad after we left that I took her over to Toys R Us. LOL!!! I know I'm silly but I think she needed a reward and me an outlet for what we BOTH had been through!!! ha ha. We bought a little slide for her to learn to climb up and slide down and we also got an Elmo kite. Here are some pictures of our afternoon after she woke up from her FOUR hour nap!!!

O yea and it was her first day to wear shorts for this year. I thought she was adorable!

Late St.patricks Day and Wye Mtn.

2009-03-18T21:39:00.008-05:00

Hey guys! This week has been nonstop for us so I'm going to wish you a late St.Patricks day and pictures of Wye Mtn. from Wednesday.

For some reason Sydney for the first time got car sick on the way to Wye Mtn. It was crazy because Stephen had just turned around and asked Sydney if she was okay and then next second she was hurling!!! If you know my husband it was entertaining to say the least to watch his reaction. Although I did feel bad for Sydney too for getting sick I had to laugh a little at Stephen.

Once we got there and changed clothes we had a great time. We went with Dennis, Kali and Parker. My sister thought the flowers would be dead due to the frost last week but luckily for us there were plenty of beautiful daffodils!!!

Here are some fun pictures from our St.Patricks Day parade at my moms daycare and from Wye mountain.

Happy birthday Kali

2009-03-16T20:58:00.002-05:00

I wanted to wish a good friend Kali Happy Birthday!!! THANK YOU for helping me with my blog. She is responsible for making my blog beautiful!! It's not easy helping a computer retard like me but thank you for helping me out!

Fun with the Evans

2009-03-16T14:44:00.009-05:00

Yesterday we went to our friends house the Evans. Sydney hasn't been able to visit Parker since she has been sick with RSV. At first Sydney was shy but after a few minutes she was running around playing with Parker's cool toys.

We came over early enough so that we would have enough time to visit and cook before having to leave right dinner to put the kids done for bedtime. So the kids played for a while and Dennis put the steaks on the grill. Dennis wanted to show us his neighbors back yard. His neighbor built this beautiful waterfall in his backyard. Our course we thought this would be a pretty background for pictures so we made sure we brought our cameras. Stephen was nervous as we walked over to the backyard without asking permission. I would have never been able to conviece him to go over there if Dennis wasn't going!! He is so funny. We were so glad we went. It was gorgerous!!! We got a really nice family picture as well. We rarely have a opporunity to get pictures like these.

When we got back to Dennis and Kali's house we found out that the steaks were burned!! Luckily we were able to save most of them and they were very good.

After dinner we let the kids hang out and play for a minute while we hung out on the couches with our bellies stuffed!! While we were hanging out the kids started to be super cute!! We got them to give each other love and they gave each other kisses!! It was so funny because everytime Kali would say kiss Sydney, Parker would try to give Stephen who was sitting in the floor with them a kiss!!! We gor some really preciouse pictures from them loving each other.

Stephen and Parker had a great time playing with each other with a plastic spoon!! Parker laughed for the longest. It was soo cute. Stephen said after we left, Parker always laughs and want to play with me! I told him it was because he acts like a big kid! ha!!

For the grand finale we made our St. Patty day shamrock rice krispy treats!! I think they really didn't know what to do at first with this big green blob. Sydney put her shoe on it then Parker sneezed in the middle of it!!! =) We thought we better not share these treats this time! The shamrocks turned out cute and we had a great time.

I brought over ingredients to make green rice krispies in the shape of shamrocks for St. Patrick day.

Rock Creek

2009-01-29T19:41:00.003-06:00

Since Sydney and I have been cooped up in the house lately due to weather we decided to get out and have some FUN!! Rock Creek in Little Rock has a great area for kids to play and interact with other kids and best of all its FREE! My sister and Kali came with the little ones and we had a blast. It was Parker's first time to go and I think he loved it. He didn't stop going the entire time. For some reason Sydney had to warm up to being there this time. I think it had something to do with it being so crowed. Once she got into it she was off! It was a great time and we can't wait to go again.

Guys adventure

2009-01-28T19:04:00.006-06:00

The second weekend in January Stephen and some friends were able to do a guys trip (thanks to Dennis on biding at a auction). Dennis, Stephen, Danny and BJ went to Stuttgart, AR for a duck hunting guys weekend. This was Stephens first time to duck hunt and of course it was the weekend that the low was going to be 18-19 degrees. Although Stephen loves to hunt deer and hardly ever misses a weekend during deer season he was worried about duck hunting for the first time??? Once the guys left and settled into the lodge Stephen called and said "oh yea this is going to be fun, its like a party here!" Thanks you Dennis for bidding on the trip, its not very often that guys get to get away from the family and have no worries!!!

Can't get enough!!

2009-01-27T22:10:00.004-06:00

Okay so every mom has a picture like this one and I have been waiting on my opportunity to snap one of my little love!! Sydney has been going through one of those phases where she just really doesn't want to eat anything. I think we have passed through that phase today! I was soo excited when I saw this cute little face!! I just can't get enough.

Happy mardi gras

2009-01-27T22:03:00.002-06:00

My mom gave Sydney some necklaces and she LOVES them!!! If they are laying around she has to put them on and off. Its so funny. I guess we are in trouble, she already loves jewelry!!!

New Start

2009-01-27T21:30:00.000-06:00

Well for about a month now I have been obsessed with checking other peoples blogs so I decided that I should start one of my own!! Please be patient because I'm terrible with computers!!! My husband said that I will be late blogging because I have to check other blogs to see if they have any updates first!! =)