Sydney is ONE!

Sydney is ONE!  She had a great birthday party with family and she loved playing with these streamers!  Her cousin Patricia would run through them with her and she had such great belly laughs!!

Aunt Amber wraps the prettiest presents!  She kept going back to this one and playing with the pretty ribbon!  

Family picture on Sydney's 1st birthday

Loving her cake! 

What is this you are giving me?  Looking so curious!  

Sydney's 1 year photos

I wanted to get some pictures of Sydney at age 1.  We took her to JCP studio on Friday night and that was a complete disaster.  Turns out trying to get a 1 year old to stand still for 1 second to get a picture is about impossible.  So Brian and I thought we would try and get a picture on our own.  We took her to the nature park by our house and had much better success.  The key to our success…..we put shoes on Sydney for the first time.  She had no idea what to do and stood completely still!  It was perfect!  Here is a sample of some of the pictures I snapped:

This is fun mom! 

I want to walk but my feet feel weird! 

She poses so nice for photos!! 

Such a pretty girl

She was having a blast! 

One of my favorites!

Little ham! 

So many distractions! 

Daddy, her "stylist" keeping her warm between shots! 

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween from Sydney the Ladybug!!

Sydney's Halloween started a night early when she decided to wear her ladybug costume to Rona and Joel's house for Bible study.  She did a great job!!

Getting ready to go to the door

Trying to decide what is going on!  

Of course, Sydney has a different Halloween outfit to wear to daycare.  She looked so cute today!!  

She loves to take candy out of her bucket and put it back in! 

Mom, what is this you are making me wear?  I'm not a fan!  

What treasure am I going to pull out next?!

We got Sydney dressed and she was so excited to get going!  

We left the house and ran into the Kludts, so we hit up a couple houses with them!  

Sydney loved trick or treating so much!  she would laugh and giggle when we were walking to the next house!  

 Trick or Treat!!

Who wouldn't give this cutie pie some candy?

She loved watching kids come to the door...she stood and waited at the top of the stairs.  

Digging through to find her favorites!  

Going through the goodies.  

Fun in a diaper box

I bought some diapers this afternoon at Hy-Vee.  after I unloaded the box I put Sydney in to see her reaction.  At first she didn't know what to think but then she LOVED it.  She especially loved to be dragged across the living room and kitchen floors.  I think we will get her a new box every couple weeks!  

Playing with Parker and Haley

Stephen and Vanessa's wedding weekend came and went so fast!  Sydney and I were fortunate enough to be able to spend Thursday afternoon with the Behnke's before we had to go to rehearsal dinner.  Sydney and Haley picked up right where they left off the last time they had seen each other....I hope their relationship is always like that.  

Holding hands at lunch.  

You're my best friend!! 

Sydney couldn't bear to watch Haley take a bath alone, so she crashed Haley's tub. 

I think Haley would have preferred a tamer bath partner.  Sydney loves to splash! 

Splashing together! 

One of my favorite moments from the entire weekend.  I think Parker laid and talked and smiled at me for over 30 minutes.  He is such a happy boy and growing up way too fast!  Sydney and I tried to talk him into staying at grandma Vickie's house but he decided he better go home so his mom and dad didn't get sad.  

Playing in the park

Brian and I took Sydney to the park a week ago.  We live so close and we hadn't been there yet with Sydney!  She loved the slide and of course the swings, but what she loved the best was the tunnel.  She crawled back and forth, back and forth until we made her stop.  We are pretty lucky to live so close!