Someone is in trouble

My nicely organized shoe closet is no longer so! Notice that only about 3 feet worth of shoes have all been piled to the ground, above stayed neat. I wonder who the suspect might be ;).

Sydney's Box

Jason got new bike tires a couple of weeks ago, and left the big box in the kitchen. Sydney took a liking to it, and did not want to share.

The note says:

Sydney's Box
Do not enter
Only me and Barbies, no babies (referring to her sister)

So here she is, in her box, with her Barbies...wacky child of mine:



Excuse the quality of the picture...too slow of a shutter, it was dark...whoops!

My new favorite neighbor!

We found out last week that our neighbor two doors down is going to open up a Gelato shop! And, guess what they are making in their garage, trying out flavors, and needing opinions on! I am such a great help in sampling ice cream type items :D. Here is the first batch they gave us the other day (mango and blood-orange, yummmy) - fat -free, low sugar, AND, a 1/2 serving of fruit! Last night he gave us HUGE helpings of chocolate, kiwi, and cantaloupe! Mmmmm. Blood orange is still the leading favorite.

I Heart Faces Smiles :)

The theme this week at I Heart Faces is smiles, we have a ton of those photos around here! I figured I should take this opportunity to enter my favorite toothless smile...she's not going to be like this for long!



Check out the tons of other smiles over here:

Sydney's Jog-A-Thon

Friday was the big day for the school's Jog-A-Thon. Sydney was so excited, it was hard to keep her calm to get ready for school!

Here's the class getting their final instructions from Mrs. Corry:



And everyone semi-posing for a class picture (Someone else was taking the picture for the yearbook, but I snuck in too):



Pausing for some oranges after running a few laps...how many can she hold at once?



And, she's off again! Even with a falling off number, she had to keep going...until....



She had enough laps to earn enough to get to dunk the principal! She got 10 laps, realized she had enough, and she was done :). She put in great effort though, 10 laps is just under 2.5 miles, and she raised $62.50 for her school. Thanks Aunt Kathie, Auntie Karin, Grandma, and Papa for your donations!!

She was sure this would draw in the butterflies

We went to see the butterflies at the Wild Animal Park a few weeks ago, and Sydney dressed herself in a way that she thought was sure to attract them to land on her. No luck...we waited and waited, and she did NOT want to leave until one landed on her. We will have to try again next year!

It's fun having kids around

Sometimes you find things in the oddest places, such as this pony, who appears to be flying through my back door :). It always makes me smile when I come across cute little things in odd places, knowing that one of my little people had some sort of purpose in putting it there.