Cydney/Changes

After a lot of thought, prayer and talking with Cydney, we have decided not to pursue L.A. with her acting career for now. She has a contract with her agent, Marla Dell in San Francisco for 2 years and we will stick to that! That being said with no trips to LA that means that she no longer "needed" to be homeschooled. We talked to Cydney about what she wanted to do and she was very excited to go back to school. When I went in to register her for 5th grade they told me they had a spot available NOW in a 4/5 combo class. So I took the registration packet home to be filled out and when we presented Cydney with the option of going back now she was more than excited to go back and be with her friends!! She started back on Monday and so far is loving it. I think she is a little crazy because it takes her as long to do her homework as it did to do a full school day before! But she is happy and that's what matters. So as is my tradition to get "back to school" pictures here are a couple from her first day back!

First Audition!

After being signed by her agent back in October, Cydney finally had her first audition last thursday! It was for a Shell oil commercial. She didn't get a callback but loved the experience and has since had another audition! She absolutely loves doing this and had a great time riding Bart into the city and walking around experiencing something that is very different than what she is used to! She said all the people reminded her of Disneyland! Lol Here are some pictures I snapped of the experience!

Family Pictures

I gave a little taste of our family pictures that we had taken and then it got busy and it totally slipped my mind to post the rest of them! Here are some of our favorites! We were really thrilled with how they turned out and I can't get over how OLD my girls are getting!

Cydney's Demo Reel

Happy New Year!!

I was very excited when I got home from our busy weekend to find Cydney's completed demo reel in my email inbox! She was very excited to see it done! Here it is and I hope you enjoy!

Disneyland at Christmas

In lieu of a big Christmas this year we decided to take the kids to Disneyland to experience the Christmas magic!! It was beautiful of course and we had a wonderful time! This trip was filled with firsts! Bella was tall enough to ride the Matterhorn and Lilly was tall enough to ride California Screamin (the big roller coaster)! Bella was much more aware of everything this trip and pointed out every mickey shaped thing she saw! She absolutely loved meeting the characters this time! She got SO excited and would shake her hands up and down in anticipation! She wasn't even scared of Jack Skellington! We got to hang out with our friends Nic, Melissa and Melissa's little sister Julie and also Joe, Kayla and Jadyn on Thursday which was a lot of fun! It was simply magical watching the castle/tree lighting and of course the snow on main street! We had a wonderful trip and made many lasting memories!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! Here is a sneek peek of our family pictures session we had yesterday! I am so thankful for my 3 beautiful healthy girls!  More to follow! Enjoy! 

Halloween 2011

Another year, Another Halloween! We went trick or treating this year in Grandpa Rick and Grandma Sue's neighborhood. We met up with some friends for church and set out! This was Bella's first year trick of treating and she absolutely loved it! She wasn't very fond of our friends scary mask though! He had to wait until she already got her candy and then he went up and put his mask on at every house... he was a good sport!

This year, Lilly dressed up as Ariel from The Little Mermaid. Cydney dressed up as Hermoine from "Harry Potter" and Bella was (of course) Jessie from Toy Story!

Riding

Horseback Riding Lessons

A few weeks ago Cydney started Horseback riding lessons! It's a great program in Animal Husbandry that not only teaches her how to ride but also about how to CARE for the animal! She has only had 2 lessons but loves it so far! Bella also loves going to see the horses and this week she even got to ride!!

Whitney's Wedding

Saturday, The 27th we traveled to Monterey for my childhood best friend, Whitney's wedding! Cydney was her flower girl (Cydney a flower girl!? Imagine that!) and the wedding was beautiful. It was held at the "Butterfly Church" in Pacific Grove. I felt very blessed to be able to be part of Whitney's special day. I can't believe it's been 10 years since she stood beside me as my maid of honor at MY wedding!! We were the best of friends growing up and it is awesome that our friendship has lasted through it's highs and lows for over 17 years! Here are some pictures from the wedding and some that took me down memory lane!

 A few bonus shots of Silly Bella :)

 

Cydney turns 9!!

I can't believe that 9 years ago my sweet little angel was born and came into our life and made me a mother! I cannot express to you how blessed I feel to have Cydney as my daughter. She is so unique and special. I would like to take credit for all her wonderful attributes but Cydney was genuinely born an amazing person. She is mature, sweet natured,  kind hearted, soft spoken, funny, smart and talented. I couldn't be more proud to watch her mature into the beautiful person that she is becoming!!

Cydney chose not to have a party and presents this year and go to Disneyland instead! Lilly has gotten to go twice for her bday and we have always shy'd away from taking Cydney (summer crowds and summer prices!) but it was what she Really wanted this year so we saved up the money and off we went for a girls trip! So Wednesday the older girls and I headed to So Ca. We stopped in Bakersfield to pick up my friend Jen, so we had a perfect foursome for rides and off we went to Disneyland for 2 fun filled days!! The girls were super excited to ride the new "Ariels Undersea Adventure" and the revamped "Star Tours-The adventure continues" as long as see the new parade and summer fireworks!  Cydney had a GREAT birthday and we had a lot of fun!

On our way home we also stoped in Bakersfield to visit Uncle Joe and Aunt Kayla and meet their new baby cousin Jadyn who was born on 8/3!