Sydney graduates from Kindergarten

 

 

So Sydney finished her first year of school successfully with smiles.  Of course it helps that she had an amazing teacher, and its so sad that we can’t keep the teachers we love from year to year! 

 

 

 

On top of going to a new grade next year, our school district changed its boundaries and we have changed to a new school.  As a special goodbye, Sydney’s principal held a special assembly to recognize and say goodbye to all the kids leaving the school.  I know its difficult to see, but the kids on the stage are about half of the kids that are transferring to the new school.  We were way over-populated as you can tell by the number of kids leaving. 

 

And of course, Sydney loves that I bring Sabrina to all of her school events with me so she can show off her best buddy to all of her school friends.  Aren’t they are cute pair.

Sabrina’s 1st Birthday

Its a little late, but here are some fun pictures from Sabrina’s birthday. I decided to be a little creative with her cake and put her little cupcake on just set on top without attaching the fondant so we could pull it off easy.  We discovered a little too late that fondant is no fun for pictures though, because its not messy!

 

Although Sabrina’s little friend Shea liked eating her crumbs, so apparently it was messy enough for some.

Beautiful Ballerinas

So...Matt took my laptop with him on a work trip, so I am stuck on the old computer without my fancy/easy blogging program.  Lets see if I can do this the "old fashioned" way.

Sydney and Chloe had their ballet performances last week.  Not only were they adorable (of course!) and just slightly awkward (its their first year), but I also learned a little bit more about my girls'  personalities.  It was fun to see their dancing and performing styles come to life.  Granted--they are only 6 and 4 years old, but still, it was fun!  Let's see if you think so too.

Here's Sydney:

And here's Chloe:

Seriously, any proud Momma would gush over these two cuties! Wouldn't you?

She’s really a happy girl…I promise

So Sabrina has many faces and a lot of personality.  But with that, she’s a pretty mellow baby and so good to me as a mom of three.  Overall, she’s very happy and good-natured.

So I had to laugh when I’m going through my pictures and see all of these seemingly grumpy and angry faces she makes.  Part of it is that when she is watching or thinking, she makes a very serious face that could be interpreted as…well, angry. 

 

 

And she has a silly face she likes to make when she’s not so sure about what’s going on.  But sometimes, I wonder how she’ll grow into all these faces in the years to come!

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

I know you saw a similar picture in my last post, but I can’t help using it again to emphasize my point.

Happy Easter

Well… its been awhile, but there’s nothing like a holiday to get us in gear.  Especially when there’s such fun pictures to share.  I decided two weeks before that I would officially declare myself insane as I decided to make my girls matching dresses.  Since I procrastinated buying—why not sew!  They turned out beautifully though, and even more important, the girls love them and would hardly take them off. 

We also had friends come down from New Jersey to share this fun day and loved our newly warm weather to share such a beautiful holiday. I love all the personality in these little ones.  What a fun holiday!

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My big girl turns 6!

So birthdays are always fun for me because I have realized about myself, I love having all of my friends in my home and I love making cake.  You probably have already seen how much I love making cakes by how often I post pictures of them.

Sydney’s birthday was no different and it was such a fun day!  I was much more organized this time, so there were plenty of games (my house survived much better this time) and a lot of help from Matthew my “pied piper” friend Jaime.  How would we ever survive and enjoy gatherings like this without lots of help!  Bottom line, Sydney had a ton of fun and loved having the whole day revolve around her.    

 

She got some really fun presents this year that almost left me jealous!  She & Chloe have been playing with her new dolls in this princess tent non-stop since Saturday.

 

 

And…of course I can’t resist showing off a close-up of the cake.  Sydney helped me come up with the idea for this.  At first, she wanted a fairy part, but decided that the boys wouldn’t go for that.  So instead, we decided a butterfly party would be a little better.  So I just added a few extra critters to the cake and here it is.  It was so much fun!  Its all made of marshmellow fondant, so it is very sweet (a lot of frosting didn’t get eaten!) but that’s just how I like it.  Matt keeps begging me to make a cake with whipped cream frosting, or at least a custard center, that’s just not as fun as this!

Wingardium Leviosa

 

Oh…we have too much fun with our little one.  But isn’t she cute!  This is thanks to my cute friend Jaime & her daughter Hannah (who is way into Harry Potter right now).