This has been one BUSY week. Sydney LOVED start first. She loves her teacher (which is a blessing). We now have a week before school starts. =)

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.

Ending a long day with homemade Peach ice cream

Today has been just one of those days. Sydney did NOT sleep well at ALL last night. The medicine she is on makes her little stomach cramp and makes her sick. =( This makes for one TIRED mama!

Nana and Pop-Pop have been selling watermelons at the market this week and brought us home some yummy peaches. There were some that needed to be used so Nana decided to make some homemade peach ice cream. It was sooo yummy. Now if we can just get into bed at a decent hour and get some rest we can enjoy the rest of our weekend!

Patience

I love how when something is heavy on your heart and you are praying for God's help he sends you to certain places. There have been many times of the past couple of weeks this scripture has been in what I've read or in bible studies. Patience is not one of my assets, yet it's something that I strive for daily.

James1:2-8
2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

We should praise God though the storms just as we praise Him when things are going the way WE want.

Wordless Wednesday

I absolutely LOVE being a mother!!!! I am so thankful that God has blessed us with 3 healthy, beautiful, amazing children. I love the little things they say and how protective they are of each other. I do have my moments where they are consistantly fussing and fighting and I'm ready to pull my hair out. But that's part of having children. ;) These pictures just melt my heart...




Trevor and Trent


Sydney showing off her toothless smile! She lost both teeth at the same time! And she's only 5!


Sydney, Trent, and Trevor @ the beach. We were looking for sand crabs and the full moon was beautiful.

Trevor and Sydney at her pre-k graduation

Tonight as we were saying our prayers Trent prayed that God wouldn't let the alligator get him or Sydney. The way he said it was so sweet and sincere. (Nana and Pop-Pop have an alligator in their pond and we have told them that they HAVE to be careful around the pond and to watch out for it)