Sydney lost her 1st tooth

So, she lost her tooth a month ago, but I've been slow about getting things posted!!! She was soooo excited, as you can see. She pulled it out Monday of the 2nd week of school in Spanish class. she wanted the tooth-fairy to leave her tooth for her, give her $$ and candy. I thought that leaving candy wasn't very responsible of the tooth fairy, but she did it anyway. :) Sydney was so happy.

She wanted me to take pictures of her lost tooth, and it turned into a Sydney-Addyson modeling session. :)

1st Day of Kindergarten!!!

Sydney and Daddy before he leaves for work. They were both excited for the 1st day of school. :) My little ham. She loves the camera! She is wearing her "crayon" dress that Annie got her special for the 1st day of school, and her "school" bow that has a little backpack in the middle of it.
Her backpack is so big for her!!

My beautiful Kindergartener....She's the prettiest one in her class, I'm sure! :)

Her teachers are so sweet. Miss Marks and Mrs. Lile.

They saw us walking down the hall toward them and Miss Marks (the one on the left) said, "SYDNEY!! Come and give me a big hug!" Of course, I loved that! We found out at Open House that Miss Marks specifically asked to have Sydney in her class after Syd's initial screening. I'm, of course, so proud. :)

Summer visit to Virginia

It's so fun going to VA every year to visit Travis's parents "G's and Pops". Not only is it fun for us, but the kids have an absolute blast. Kayleigh and Sydney are the same age and are best of friends. Addyson and Madison are the same age and just love each other. They are so cute, but so full of mischief. Travis dubbed them the "giggle twins" because they were constantly giggling together. Next time we visit at Christmas, Rylin will have a buddy too! Tawnya's newest addition, Mckenna.

Kayleigh & Sydney

Rylin & Tawnya

Rylin & me

Pops at the parade

Filling up water balloons

Madison, Addyson, Sydney & Kayleigh eating ice-pops

Addyson & Madison

(the "Giggle Twins)

G's 4th of July Red (& blue) velvet cake

All the grand-girls

Kayleigh, Rylin, Sydney, Addyson & Madison

Kaden, Kayleigh, Sydney, Addyson, Kylie & Madison

4th of July pararde

Addyson......

So, Addyson is our 2nd child and we love her dearly. She makes us laugh so much and just has one of the best personalities ever. She is just so dang cute....which is a good thing...because if she wasn't, I'm not sure if I could keep my sanity! I'm just going to name a few things....good and bad...that Addyson has done/said this month. I"m leaving quite a bit out because there is so much, but I just have to write some of these things down! These are not in any particular order, but they all happened in July.

1. Cleaning the toilets with all of our toothbrushes. (she and her cousin Madison did this).

2. Scooping out the toilet water with a bowl and dumping it all over her head and the bathroom floor.

3. Climbing up to the top shelf in the pantry, finding the chewies (fruit snacks), getting the scissors and cutting them all open, then dumping them on the floor.

4. Running out of the house completely naked.

5. Taking her poop out of her pull up, throwing it against her wall, smashing it in the carpet with her foot and putting money from her piggy bank in it. (This one almost pushed me over the edge!)

6. She likes to sing the Darth Vader song while she's doing these things. She'll tell me..."I love Darth Vader. I love the Emperor" (From Star Wars for those who might not know).

7. When I sing her a song before bed, she wants to me sing the Darth Vader song..."bum bum bum, bum ba dum, bum ba dum".

8. I tell her to stop making messes and she says, "No, Mommy, that's what I do."

9. Says,"Mommy, I feed Adam (our fish) A LOT!" and I find she's poured all the fish food in the bowl and put her granola bar in there as well.

10. Puts pillows and blankets over Rylin's head....which means Rylin will probably be 5 before she walks b/c I'm constantly carrying her to keep her out of harms way!

11. Give herself permission to do things....actually says "I'm going to do this, okay? Okay, I can".

12. When I call her name, she says..."No! I Luke!" (from Star Wars). I have to call her Luke.

13. Today when we got in the car to go to church it was really hot in there and she said..."Daddy, I hot...like Mommy!" (Because Travis is always saying I'm hot).

14. She'll get lotion and squirt TONS of it all over her body and clothes and is so proud of herself for putting lotion on..."Look Mommy, I put lotion on by myself!"

15. Putting gobs of toilet paper in to the toilet, then taking it out all and throwing it all over the walls.

16. I hope I'm not jinxing this, but the past 3 or 4 days, I haven't hardly mentioned the word "potty" and she is going all by herself and hasn't had an accident. So, if I suggest it, then she won't do it. It has to be alllll her. Which is a great trait to have....just very difficult for Mommy and Daddy!

Addyson's mischevious face.

Rylin is looking at me thinking..."Mom! Get me out of here!"

This is Addyson rubbing lotion all over her body and her clothes. I wasn't able to take a picture of the other shenanigans because I was too crazy to think that positively in the moments.

1st time in 3 years we were all together....

My brother, Quinn, and my sister, Kelly, and their families were all in town at the same time! That hasn't happened in over 3 years. We had so much fun watching the kids play and get along togther. It makes me so happy that they have cousins to play with that are their age. That is something I never had growing up. So, here are quite a few pics I took during their stay. We just love the Grant cousins from Texas and the Robinson cousins from Oregon! Y'all live too far away! Isn't Georgia on your mind??? okay, that was cheezy, but I couldn't resist!

Quinn is the oldest. He is married to Kjirsten and they have Liam (10), Caleb (5...almost 6), Luke (3) and Claire (1).

Kelly is next and is married to Jon. They have Jenna (7), Allison (5), Lauren (3), Caroline (2), and Sarah (2 weeks). Sarah is not seen in the pics b/c she's in Kell's belly. :)

This first pic is of Addyson eating the famous Grant family Chex Mix, which, unfortunately for us, only gets made when my siblings are in town.

Some of the girls!

Addyson, Jenna, Sydney, Allison, Lauren

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At the Zoo. The Pink Ladies

Jenna, Sydney

Addyson and Travis, watching the lady with the snake.

Addyson is reaching up to touch the snake. The other girls are cleaning their hands off after touching him.

The petting Zoo.

Poppy climbing the rock wall.

The kids' table at Annie and Poppy's

Monkey Joes

Addyson and Caroline

Sydney & Addyson

Liam & Caroline

Poppy & Caroline

6 cousins going down backwards

Liam, Jenna, Sydney, Luke, Caleb, Allison

Kjirsten & Claire

Pizza Night...the kids were the chefs...it was actually really good Pizza.

The next picutre is definitely my favorite day and a memory that will last a lifetime. We went to the Atlanta Temple to seal my Grandma to my Grandpa, Grandma to her parents, and Grandma to my Dad. It was absolutely amazing.

Me, Kelly, Mom, Dad, Kjirsten & Quinn (Travis was on Jury duty, so couldn't be with us the whole week! :()

Coloring at our house after swimming at our pool.

Getting messy eating watermelon and spitting out the seeds.

We went horseback riding and had our family picture on the same day. Not a good idea considering it was the freakin' hottest day of the year!! BUT, it was a lot of fun.

Addyson, Sydney & Luke

Sydney

Sydney, Jenna, Quinn, Luke & Lauren

Syd trying to fee the horse apples. Our friends, the Johnsons, happened to be there the same day and were able to let us feed their horse and ride her. It was great!

Addyson & Liam...look how red their faces are!

Caleb just chillin'

Syd taking a practice ride before the trail

Addyson's practice ride

Luke & Sydney

Luke & Annie

Addyson's favorite part was playing in the dirt. Go figure.

Our friend, Kelsey, and Caleb

Jenna riding solo

Liam & Sydney

Yep, still playing in the sand.

Poppy, the natural

Petting the horses with Uncle Quinn

Winding down watching a movie:

Jenna, Luke, Caleb, Allison, Sydney, Lauren & Caroline

Poppy's company picnic
The face-painting, water guns, cotton candy and snow cones were a huge hit.

Addyson getting her face painted.

Claire and Annie

Sydney getting her face painted the first time.

Syd's 2nd face paint, since getting squirted with the water guns made the first one run off.

Rylin just chillin'

All the grandkids with Annie and Poppy.

I'm only in there b/c I was holding Rylin.

Addyson with snowcone all over her shirt & face-paint running off, trying to open more candy.