Flowers and Presents

Sydney lately has been fascinated with cemeterys. She has asked my many times to take her to the cemetery whenever we pass one. And everytime I pass it off as kinda wierd. Even thinking that Sydney is gonna be a goth girl, because she also has a fascination fo halloween. Even though she gets scared she loves all things halloween.
But then we went to Bonnie Springs. A old western town and animal haven. Well the town had all the old town buildings and small cemetery with tombstones. Of course Sydney wants to go see them and check them out. This time I asked her why she liked them so much. To which she replied, " I like to see the words and presents". I asked her, " What presents?" and she told me the flowers and stuff that are on the gound by the big stones. LOL, oh I see I was going about this all the wrong way. I had to stop and look at this from a child like perspective. It wasn't actually morbid as I was thinking before. And it doesn't mean I'll have a teenager who will be all dressed in black and like all things black. It was quite sweet. Who wouldn't want to check out a cemetery when you think of it like Sydney does. Heck there's flowers and presents invovled, who doesnt love that. Whew, I just have to say thats a sigh of relief for me. So now when she wants to stop by the cemetery I think I will. We will walk around , read the stones and admire all the flowers and presents.

Summertime and Swimming

We love swimming. This is Blakes version of laying on his back and saying... ooosaaaaa.
Sydney is learning to swim.

And we even get daddy in the water every once in awhile.

Blake loves the water. He will go down and fall in and get scared but goes right back in the water. He was born in the water after all.

We love our grass

Our backyard resturant. We love hanging out on our lovely grass playing and laying around

Preschool Graduation

Sydney graduated from preschool in May. And we registered her for kindergarten next year. The start of her schooling career will officially be started. No more freedom. Luckily kindergarten is only 2 1/2 hours. Once she starts 1st grade thats another story.
Miss Sheree was her awesome teacher. Love her.

-WORK OUT-

Why is it the older we get the harder it is to lose the weight?

If it was only 3 years earlier and I had been working out and eating good like I am now the pounds would have been droping off. But now that I am older it seems like it is so much harder for the weight to want to come off, it just loves me and wants to stay. " A moment on the lips is a lifetime on the hips", has a new meaning for me.

Hiking at Red Rock

This is starting our hike.
and Blake ended up in the sling for the beginning part of out hike.

Once we got through the path we got to the red rocks and we relaxed a bit and then it was time for the climb.

Blake did great. He would just hold our hand and climb the rocks. Sydney was up ahead with the big kids climbing all the rocks.

There were lots of rock climbers around scaling the walls. The hike back the car was defiantly the hardest because by then the kids were beat and started crying and whined.

Feel good moment

So tonight as I was putting Sydney to sleep she asked me to scratch her back. So I did and she said, "now I'm going to scratch your back". And I said ,"no just go to sleep now". And in a serious tone she said, "just let me scratch your back..... because you clean my room and Blakes room and your room and the kitchen room and you deserve it".

Awhhhhh, what a sweet girl. I am just amazed to know that she is thinking about what I do and that she even notices! And then she says I deserve it. lol. It was such an unselfish moment for my 5 year diva who usually fights me when I ask her to help clean up.

Now if only I can get my husband to notice what I do around here!