My attempt at a flip flop cake
Her new chair for her room
Yummy breakfast!
Oh how I love this girl! Sydney is such a wonderful, beautiful, caring daughter. She turned 14 on August 2nd which was a sunday (fast sunday) so we did her birthday breakfast in bed on saturday the 1st and she had requested Cheesy potatoes and a smoothie and that's exactly what she got. Then her and I went shopping and she get a new purse and wallet, a papasan chair for her room, a new lamp. Then on her real birthday she got a big picture frame to put her friends pictures in. She also received great cards and lots and lots of goodies!! Holy cow we had so much sugar in our house. Grandma G brought over homemade custom cupcakes in a very cute box ( she also took her shopping and to dinner for her b-day). She also received some $$ from Grandma and Grandpa Brereton. She got a cake from Brooke M, yummy brownies from the Chapples and then I attempted to make a flip flop cake. I did a few things wrong but it turned out okay I will know better for the next one though. All in all it was a great weekend for her. The next weekend she wanted to do something with her friends so we took them to the Arizona Grand resort and we had dinner, stayed the night in a suite, ate lots of junk food and then Hayley and I got up early and went running almost 5 miles (had to work off the junk food). They we stayed and played at the resort water park. It was so fun! Happy Birthday Sydney!
Well we had to say goodbye to our little Mia. She was bit a few months ago on the eye by our black lab Daisy (she wasn't happy that Mia was trying to eat her food). Mia's eye swelled up and then a bluish grey film covered it and we could tell that she was blind in that eye. So from then on we fed the dogs separately until the other night when Mia slipped out the sliding door while Daisy was being fed and it happened again on the other eye! This time it was worse and the eye popped out of the socket (not all the way out) but enough that even if she had the surgery(over $1000) to fix it there was no guarantee that she would ever see in that eye. So we decided to take her to humane society and they could decide whether to treat her or put her down. The doctor there said there was hope of fixing it and adopting her to someone who could take care of a blind dog. We are so sad! We miss her and I think Daisy misses her too. We just knew that with 4 kids and all the friends running around and with Daisy acting the way she does we knew we couldn't keep her anymore. She was such a funny dog and loved to sit her little bum on daisy and then her front paws would sit on the ground, it was so cute. The pics are of the kids on the morning we took her away. Her eyes were bandaged so she couldn't see anything. It was heartbreaking to see my kids cry and suffer that she was leaving. That was the hardest part for me, hands down. ( I didn't put the extra sad pictures on). Goodbye Mia Sophia we love you!
