The good, the bad & the delicious

The good: We went to the circus today!

The bad: Didn't realize until it was too late that I bought tickets for the wrong day.

The good: Still went to the circus!

The bad: Had to buy a second set of tickets.

The good: These acrobats:



This tiger:

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And something that really freaked me out:

The delicious: Free Godfather's pizza for dinner! Briana got a free Godfather's pizza coupon from her read-a-thon at school last week, so we ate a yummy fat free dinner and I didn't even have to cook.

Girl Scout Cookies

I'm sure you can imagine my excitement when I recieved an email from Briana's brownie troop stating that our girl scout cookies were ready to be picked up and delivered. Forget about the work that is involved in delivering them and collecting everyones money. I finally get to eat some thin mints! And carmel delights!

I knew when we turned in Briana's order form that she had sold a lot of cookies. But I was a tad concerned when I saw the boxes and boxes of cookies that I had to stuff into the back of my van. Briana was a very good brownie and she helped me stack them all in the car, and she even came up with a great plan to get them all in the house. We weren't home for 5 minutes before she dug in and started sorting them all out.

As you can see, we can no longer walk through our entry way because of all the cookies. Here is a sample of the commentary during the sorting.

Briana: Sydney, can you get me 2 boxes of Thin Mints?

Sydney: Here you go. Now I need 4 boxes of Peanut Butter Patties!

Briana: Ok, lets get 3 more Carmel Delights and a box of Lemonades!

Sydney: 2 boxes of Peanut Butter Sandwiches and 2 boxes of Shortbreads!

Another piercing!

After watching Sydney get her ears pierced yesterday, Briana told us she is thinking about getting her ears pierced when she is eight. Or maybe when she's thirteen. I thought it would probably be closer to when she was thirteen, so you can imagine my surprise when she told me late last night that she wanted to get her ears pierced after school today. So, off to Claire's we went again!

Here is her before shot. She was very brave and told me she did not want both ears done at once.

First ear getting pierced.

Second ear pierced!

Look at that gorgeous diamond stud earring!

Just after getting pierced.

A better shot once we got outside.

And here's both of my pierced girls!!

Here she is once we got home. Her ears were starting to get pretty sore by now, but she's still smiling!

Our first piercing...

Sydney got her ears pierced today!! She came downstairs yesterday afternoon and asked me out of the blue if she could get her ears pierced today. I said maybe, thinking she would change her mind by this morning.

She didn't.

We headed over to Claire's at the mall for her piercing after lunch today. She picked out some beautiful earrings called crystal daisies, and got pierced.

This is her before picture. They only pierced one ear at a time, and Sydney was very brave and didn't even cry.

That is her getting her first ear done.

Her after shot with both ears done! She was very brave and she said it didn't even hurt. Here is another good shot I got after we got home.

Before bed tonight, she drew this picture of herself in the piercing chair at Claire's.

And, after we got home tonight, Briana broke into my closet and came downstairs wearing this.

The little devil!

My childhood

A while ago, I got out all my old pictures from when I was a little girl. It was super fun going through all those pictures, and I scanned a bunch of them into my computer and posted them for all of my friends on Facebook to see. It was really fun, and I had a ton of cute pictures of me and my friends from when we were in first and second grade. And that was that. Then, Shannon decided she wanted to post some pictures from when she was little. Only I am in the pictures she posted. And here are the pictures she posted for the world to see.

Seriously. Could I look like more of an idiot? My only consolation is Shannons 18 shirts with collars and the skin peeking out between the top of her socks and the hem of her jeans.

Seeing these pictures on the internet inspired me to find something equally embarassing of Shannon to post online. So I have been going through all my old pictures yet again. Only I'm having a very hard time finding good pictures. What I did find, is this.

I have no memory of this story. All I can think of is that I wrote it in retaliation of the story Shannon wrote about me where my face turned green.

The other thing I found were these cute pictures of Shannon and my mom from when they lived at the house on Boyd Street. See Mom's belly? I'm in there! And see that old Datsun?

Two posts in one day!

I just finished my wreath!

I think it turned out really good. If you want to make one, just go to The Idea Room. They made theirs using a heart, but you get the idea. My fabric store didn't have any good looking felt, so I used fleece instead (on sale for $2.99 a yard!). So I made the whole thing including the pins for less than $5.

Also, look at the cute notes that Sydney made for Mike and I while she was supposed to be sleeping last night.

We really can't get mad at her for not sleeping when she comes up with something like that! And, I'm glad I have that note documented so I can pull it back out when she is 16 and remind her that I am her Bff.

Reading & Popcorn

Look what Sydney brought home from school again yesterday! She is brilliant, what can I say? She has been having a very good week, since she is sitting at a special table at school. Last week, Mrs. Wagner told the kids that she was going to pick two of them who were Kids of Character to sit at a special table right by her desk, and guess who was picked? Sydney. She is very proud of herself, as she should be.

I also found my new favorite snack, which is homemade microwave popcorn. You can find instructions on how to make it here. We tried this last week, and we have had it every day since. It is so, so yummy. And easy.

I'm working on my St. Patrick's day wreath today. A perfect thing to do on another snowy day. I'll post pictures when I'm done with it, hopefully sometime over the weekend.