Kindergarten first....and before I know it, College!

So today was Sydni's first day of Kindergarten.

She woke right up when I went into her room. She hopped in the shower, got dressed, and ate breakfast in record time! Normally she is a procrastinator. She stands in the shower collecting water in her mouth......washes her body for 20 minutes, following by getting out and laying in her towel while watching cartoons. And don't even get me started on breakfast! It takes her 40 minutes to eat a waffle! Not today though. She did everything she needed to do, then grabbed her backpack and lunchbox and was ready to go.


The drop off went well!! No tears from any of us! I think the fact that she had two first days with two years of pre-school helped.


She walked into the school and her classroom without hesitation.


She went into the classroom, gave papers to her teacher, put her lunchbox away, hung up her backpack and found her desk.




She started on her desk work (drawing on her dry-erase board). So what did she draw? Her school!!


So proud of her. Can't wait to hear all about her first day when she gets home!

Pro-nunc-i-a-tion

Dear Kindergarten teacher of my new Kindergartner.....it's pronounced "Kinder-garTen".....not Kinder-gar-en.....you can't omit the T. This isn't Jersey Shore, mmm k?

Anyways. Besides that, I really think that Sydni's Kindergarten teacher won't be that bad. She seems really nice, educated (I hope so), friendly for the age group, competent....you know all of the stuff you look for in a teacher.

Anyhoo. Syd is at her 3rd sleepover. It's one of her best friends from school that she hasn't seen all summer! She was so excited! Her friend is the friend that somehow comes up in every conversation.....i.e., "You know who probably misses me the most since I'm on vacation?" Insert _______ friends name. It's super cute.

The husband and I will off to a late movie tonight. We're going to see "Other Guys." I'm super excited. I love Will Ferrel.

And on another note, a sad note.....my grandma is really sick :-( She went to the doctor yesterday and was told she had pneumonia, which seemed like a huge deal since she just had a blood transfusion a few days before that. So we were all upset about it. Come to find out, last night when she had to be taken to the hospital because she was having trouble breathing, they figured out that she actually had congestive heart failure and kidney failure. Stupid doctors. So, she is getting medicine right now for her heart and she's getting the fluid drained from her body from her kidneys. However, she has refused any other treatment. No dialysis, no surgeries, etc. So now we just wait. On top of that, my grandpa is pretty sick, too. He just had a bladder infection, and has many other issues pop up all of the time, and he lives in memory care because he suffers from dementia. He and my grandma haven't lived together for probably 6-9 months, and he gets sad without her. And then he forgets who she is or why she hasn't visited when really she has. So we know that when she goes, he will soon follow. Pray for them.

Haircut....and I didn't cry!!

So I get quite emotional when I get an actual haircut. It must stem back to when I was younger and my mom made me get the ugliest haircut I've ever seen in my whole life. I swear it was awful. I know that's why I had only 2 friends in 4th grade. They were afraid. Yuck. Anyways, ever since then, I've always gotten really paranoid about getting my haircut. It's when it's more than 2 inches it starts to freak me out.
So last Friday Sydni and I went downtown to get our hair cut by one of my best friends. She does an AWESOME job (brag time-she used to work at a salon in Beverly Hills with tons of celebrity clients) so I have no reason to cry about it. I've been growing my hair out f-o-r-e-v-e-r....and it needed a trim really bad. So I decided to give it a CUT......yikes! It went down to my lower back, right along my tattoo, so clearly above my butt, but not by much!!! And I got at least 6 inches cut off, if not 7!!! OMG! Can you believe it? How brave am I???

So here's a before picture....



And here's an after picture.....



Aren't you proud??

Here is a before and after of Sydni's hair, too! Her hair was getting so long and she wanted it cut so bad! We thought it was perfect time since school starts next week!

Before....



And after.....



She looks so grown up!! I don't even know what I'm going to do in a few years when boys come marching into the picture!!

A Big Girl deserves a Big Girl room!!!

So we decided that it was time to update Sydni's room. Since she is becoming such a big girl this year (starting Kindergarten, being a big sister, turning 6!) we thought she deserved to get new furniture and a room make over. And this is the final product!

*This is her new bed! The black is a change for her. Her room before had all white furniture. The painting above her bed was given to us as a wedding gift from two of Jimmy's friends who painted it. It's my FAVORITE!*


*We had taken her closet doors off a while ago. It looks so much bigger without them. The picture of her when she's a baby and Jimmy is holding her was taken when she was less than a week old. My mom took the picture and had it framed and I did the calligraphy on it.*


*This is her new dresser! Her clothes finally fit in it!! The stripes on the wall were time consuming but I love how they turned out!*


*She just had the be in the photo!*


*You can't see the windows, but the drapes match the closet drapes.*