What month, day, year is it again???

I am not being a very good blogger, but I will be better. *Mental note:write about the start of 4th grade, Halloween, Thanksgiving* ahhhhhh Thanksgiving.

Sydney Conversations:

My mom asked Brianna and Anthony what "chores" they do around the house?
Anthony states "I have to keep my room clean, my laundry".
Brianna states " I have to keep my room clean and do the dishes"

My mom: "and what chores do you do Syd?"
Sydney: "I tap"

I want to be a blogger

I really want to remember life events. Life is so busy right now that I want to remember the year that Sydney was in 4th grade and is 9 years old. Well, it has been 9 months since I posted last and I obviously not doing that great of a job. Note to self, to write about how 3rd grade went and some summer details.

Sydney has started to play the violin and is loving it. I think the first day we picked up the violin, she took it out would try to play, put it back in the case and repeat. This probably happened 20x's. Also this year, the 4th graders are allowed to joing Chorus and Orchestra. I feel that Sydney truly takes life by the horns and wants to try all there is. I love that about you Syd!

Part of my reason for blogging is not only do I want to remember the big things in life, but also the silly little things in life. Here is an example: Sydney has the bitty twins:Connor and Katelyn. Connor and Katelyn go many places with us, and I am often asked to babysit to Sydney is at school. The newest request is that she wants me to buy her 2 car seats for the twins. Real car seats. The twins really need them. When we go to Target, Sydney doesn't want to look in the toy section for car seats, she wants to go the real baby section. I am not buying real car seats..2 car seats. So I got in the car the other day and this is what I found. How could I not laugh hysterically at this! Do you think this would pass a 5-point inspection? Ha! Double points for creativity!

The picture was suppose to be on the bottom here, but I can't figure it out yet!

Let's give it a try!!

Two years ago I bought a scrapbook along with all of the scrapbook paraphernalia. This scrapbook is untouched and is still sitting in my "scrapbook box" just waiting for me to add memories. I don't want to miss out on documenting all of the important events that are happening in my family so I am going to try saving all the memories via blogging and see how it goes. Hopefully, this will take up much less time than cutting and gluing.

We had such a blessed Christmas. Sydney is so fortunate to have so many people that buy for her and love her. This was the first year that Sydney did not believe in Santa! I never wanted to raise Sydney growing up in Santa because my theory was that if she believes in santa, the Easter bunny etc and finds out they are fictional, will she start to question Christ. Well Sydney came home with a letter for Santa at 4 years-old and so I went with it.
A couple of weeks before Christmas Sydney asked me if Santa is "really" real and I gave her the whole story about who St. Nick really was and that was the end of it. While I was telling her the truth Derek was glaring at me across the table as if I was about to ruin the holiday for a little 8-year-old girl but it was no big deal. The only disapointment is that I tried so many nights to sit down and watch a Christmas movie as a family only to hear "Mom, why would I watch that, Santa's not real". Oh well, maybe next year! Oh and I have to find some better hiding spots next year since Sydney knows that we are really santa now.

I will add some pics up here soon! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy 2010!