Your new Little Miss Geneva County......

is SYDNEY SMITH!!!!

I am so proud of you Sydney!

Getting ready for interview!

after interview getting ready for the main pageant

(this is typical Sydney: BEING SILLY!)

getting ready for the main pageant

She is so beautiful! She told me she felt like Cinderella...

And your new 2012 Little Miss Geneva County is ....

Contestant #3 - Sydney Smith
She also won Photogenic!

Her queen sister for the year

And to make things even better, Grammy was home from Alaska and was able to see you WIN!

I am so excited for the next year. You have said so many times that you wanted to go to Peanut and now your dreams are coming true! Let the fun times begin!

The life of a 1st Grader.....

Sydney is so funny. I love to hear stories about little things she does in class.
I had a kindergarden teacher email me this:
"Sydney is so funny! I went to Mrs. Revels room to give something to EK the other day and she was "taking names" b/c Michelle had to go to the office. She announced to the class that Mrs Martin could talk and didnt even have to move her card:) "





I was also told that when they got the class pet "a guinea pig" Sydney just HAD to hold him. She was fine until she realized that somehow she got "Gigi's" hair in her mouth. (Now how in the world did THAT happen???) LOL!

Dance...Platinum Nationals....

I have to brag a minute, Sydney competed in her VERY first SOLO today at Platinum Nationals and did an AMAZING job! She danced so good and had so much fun! All the hard work paid off! She got a gold medal and then got 7th place overall in the 8 and under catagory!

Here she is stretching before going on stage

Afterwards with her trophy and gold medal.

I am so proud of you baby girl! You had to dance at 9:08 and we had to be there an hour before. You were up and stretching at 7 this morning and you were not complaining. I am so glad that I am able to see you making your dreams come true! I hope you continue to love dance as much as you do right now! I love to see you on that stage! You shine and are full of personality! I love you so much!

Now we have to get ready for the duo on Thursday!

Birthday Parties.....

We had Sydney and Trent's birthday parties together this year. (believe me Sydney was NOT happy about it, but we compromised ;) ) We decided to have seperate cakes and have it at Kaylee's Korner. The kids had SO much fun! They played so hard. Needless to say I think everyone there had a great time!

This was the cutest cake!

I'll have to do a post on nothing but the cakes!

Sydney's princess cake! This cake was AMAZING!

Thanks to everyone who came and helped celebrate their birthdays. They had a great time and so did we! Trevor we did miss you (he was at home sick)! We'll make it up to you, PROMISE!

Sydney's new earrings...

Sydney has been begging to get her ears pierced or "pierced ears" for the past 2 years. We finally caved and let her today! She was so excited until time to get into the chair. She got nervous and wasn't so sure anymore but decided she wanted to go ahead. We let her pick out the earrings she wanted. She of course chose pink. Her nana also bought her some really nice pink lady bug and dragon fly earrings.


Getting ready to get her ears pierced.

On the count of 3....

One........Two......
Three......There were no tears....NOTHING!!!!

for all of 10 seconds. LOL! And then this She cried HUGE alligator tears and literally jumped into my arms. And then it was over. She was so big and done a GREAT job. She she was able to pick out two more pairs for later on. She wanted the cupcakes and icecream cones. Both with pink of course. ;) The girls that pierced her ears were so good. They had given her a lollipop before hand and told her to put it in her mouth and tell them the flavor when they said 3. Sydney did not even LOOK at the sucker until later. When she was picking out her other earrings she put it in and told them that it was banana split. ;)

Sydney- I am so proud of you. You were such a big girl! I think you are beautiful with your pink earrings!

Perdido Key - Orange Beach, Al

I should be packing for my trip to Michigan tomorrow BUT I wanted to blog about trip before I leave. Yesterday afternoon we headed down to Perdido Key to stay so that Sydney could help out at the OLM prelim pageant. We got in later than we had wanted so we went to dinner and then took the little ones walking on the beach. We had so much fun just playing around and "looking" for crabs.

Sydney getting her OLM Universal Beauty Robe

So pretty...

Sydney and Brooklyn

Keeping with tradition by sleeping with your robe the night you get it.

She was sooo excited.

Labor day cont...

We stayed at the Boardwalk this year and LOVED it. They have so much for kids! At night they blow up an inflatible thing with a screen in it and had a movie on the beach. We decided to order pizza and watch the movie. The kids LOVED watching Marmaduke on the beach. At one point a boat that was off shore started shooting TONS of fireworks. Then they wanted to swim and walk on the beach and look for crabs. We stayed up WAY to late but had sooo much fun, so I think it was definitely worth them staying up for.

They melt my heart.....=)

It's hard to see but Trevor is holding a small crab and

Trent isn't to sure about it. haha

I love the sun setting at the beach.

We had a great Labor Day weekend at the beach.

Good Bye Summer....

Labor Day marks the "end" of summer in most places....Just not South Alabama ;) We decided to head to the beach and put our toes in the sand. We absolutely LOVE the water and are so thankful to live so close to the beach. The weather was perfect and the water was beautiful.

Trevor LOVES to boogie board and loves the ocean....

Trent had to pose for me while conning his sister into "pulling" him

on the sand on his boogie board.
Sydney showing off her dance moves...

Trevor and Trent had to try out the surf boards at Pier Park.
This was sooo funny. Trent would fall off and then they would

make Trevor's really move around so he would fall too.

More pictures to come.....

Friday Night Lights....

Friday Night Lights......

In our little town football is a BIG thing. And following tradition you wear your "football" shirt the day of the game.

Sydney, Trevor, and Trent before school

Sydney and her friend K at the game


Sydney and L

This was Sydney and Trent's first football game and they did really good. We did have to leave early though. But we were losing....BAD!!!!!

I LOVE this time time of year. Fall is in the air. SEC football is a week away! Now we are just getting ready for some ALABAMA football.

~Sweet baby L~

I totally forgot to blog about my neice making her grand arrival. =) She was born on Aug. 12th, 2010(Her actual due date). She weighed 7lb 3ozs and was 19 1/4 inches long.

Sydney didn't get to see her until yesterday (we wanted to make sure she was healthy before being around the baby). She's 8 days old here.

~ Trevor, Trent, and Sydney w/ L~

She is the sweetest baby. Has a perfect complection and seems content (esp in Aunt April's arms.)

Sydney, Trevor, and Trent

1st week of school

So glad that it's Thurday.....will update more later just wanted to upload these pictures.

Sorry the pictures are in the opposite order again. I forgot.

Sydney and Mrs. F on Wednesday. Sydney's "official" first day of school

Trevor and Sydney on Wednesday

(he was so sweet to walk her to her room)

Sydney's first day of school - she was facing the sun

Trevor's first day of 5th grade. He's growing up to fast and is such a cutie or "handsome" as he says. =)

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Trent - he wanted his picture taken too. He was headed back to daycare/pre-k

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These kids mean the WORLD to me. No matter how stressful it is being a mother it is SO worth it. They melt my heart when they say " mommy I love you"

Thank you God for blessing me with these children. They are true blessings from you.

waiting...

We are STILL waiting on sweet little Leila. She is taking her sweet precious time and plans to make a GRAND entrance sometime soon. =)

Sydney had a GREAT first day at school. Trevor was such a sweet brother and helped us take her supplies to her classroom. I'll post pictures tomorrow. It's been a long day so I'm off to bed.

Busy.....just a little ;)

Yesterday was plain hectic. My first day on my new job, Trevor's first day of 5th grade, Trent started back to daycare/pre-k, and Sydney (who should have started kindergarden) woke up with her face slightly puffy and redness under her eye. I got the boys off and headed to work only to be called before 9 that Sydney's eye was almost swollen shut, looked bruised and that puss pockets were popping up. Apparently this is somewhat normal b/c the doctor didn't want to see her he just called in a steriod and antibiotic (grrr...this is #7 in less than 3 months). HOPEFULLY this will be the LAST time she has to take steriods or antibiotics for a while.

Trevor had a GREAT day! He LOVES this teacher and so do I. She was his pre-k teacher and we just LOVE LOVE LOVE her! Trent was so happy to be back with his friends and his teacher too!

Sydney is sooo much better today. She will attempt to go to school tomorrow!

AND tomorrow my sis-in-law is having her sweet little angel. We have been awaiting this precious little girls arrival for so long! Sydney is claiming her as her "sister". Praying for a safe and easy delivery for mama and baby. =) So tomorrow I'll have LOTS of pics to update!

Step by step...day by day...

Sorry I haven't updated since Sydney's surgery but it has been a couple of hectic days. Sydney is doing GREAT....She is in a lot of pain still but that is to be expected! I am sooo proud of how she's done. Only a few melt downs =) Today is the first day she's really eat anything (yogurt, pudding, grits, oatmeal) She is still only eating a little ("maybe" half of a yogurt) at a time but it's a HUGE improvement from just a teaspoon or two. I'll try to upload the video from right before her surgery. She had already been given some medicine so she was pretty loopy. Here are some pictures of her surgery. The nurses were AMAZING to her and us. They even took out "bitty's" tonsils and adnoids. Bitty came out with a bandaid too! The pictures are in the wrong order.... Sorry. I'll do better next time.

Trevor and Trent were so sweet. They both prayed for her before her surgery. I LOVE those boys. =)

This is after she came back from surgery - she's OUT!

(they had to give her Demoral b/c she was fighting them and pretty upset)

The pad they had put on her bed to protect her. She must have been pretty upset...

Right before going in the OR.


The meds starting to take place...She was being sooo SILLY!

Sydney when we got into her room. She thought those booties/socks were funny.

She was so sweet. The lady who checked us in asked her if she was my little girl and she said "no, I'm mommies little princess". Talk about melting my heart.

Thank you GOD for answering my prayers. I prayed for a daughter JUST like Sydney.

Can my nerves handle this???

Nervous.......

Sydney is having her tonsils and adnoids taking out in the morning. I'm nervous.....and slightly scared. Why? I'm not sure. The doctor is AMAZING but she is my little princess. And she's being put to sleep. Surgery just makes me nervous. None of us have ever had to have ANY surgeries but a least its something minor. BUT hopefully this will mean NO MORE STREP!!!!! That would make us BOTH very happy! I have a feeling that the next few days are going to be a little hard. Esp. for Sydney. Love and patience and ICECREAM will hopefully do the trick. ;)

I'll update as the day goes on as to how she is.

Sorry I haven't been writing lately. This past week has been extremely busy and a bit stressful. Thurday I had to take Sydney to Childrens Hospital (about 4 hours away) for her routine appt. and then yesterday we had a follow up for her strep throat. The initial test came back negative but they decided to culture it just to be sure. They called bright and early that her test came back positive, so we are on antibiotics AGAIN and this is the 5th TIME she has had a positive strep since the middle of May. We now have an appointment with an ENT so hopefully we can get some answers. I'll try to update more later when I know something!

Start First.....

Today was Sydney's first day of kindergarden (or Start First)! Our schools have a program set up so that the kindergarden students go for the week for a few hours and learn about the school, and to get them ready for "real" school to start. They are then out for a week and then start with the rest of the school.

Sydney LOVED her teacher. She has several people she knows in her class and said that she just "might" go back tomorrow! I love the innocence of little kids! =)

I'm NOT that MOM!

1st alternate

S State La Petite Our Little Miss

Being crowned for the 1st time EVER! =)

We are gearing up for beauty season. Sydney is the state La Petite Queen. No I'm NOT a total pageant mom who forces her child into pageants. I am VERY selective as to which pageants she enters and she LOVES them. I waited until she asked to be in them. So far she has done very well in them.