Sorry you can't see this very well this is Sydney's new thinking face it is so cute.  This is in the car on the way to the last supper with Charee, Tanner, and Chloe.  The following are all pictures from the very fun yet very sad evening.
Chloe and her daddy.
Ty and the wanna be daddy any single ladies ready to have babies after a wedding ceremony preferable give the guy in the glasses a call.
Sydney loves cooking with her Nana actually Syd loves doing anything and everything with her Nana.
Hope I look that good when I am a Nana:)
Oh Hopey the turkey is almost done
Chloe and hers beautiful mama.
Sydney's pretty brown locks.

New camera shot.  Wish I could say that I took it but I didn't.  Tyson is the artistic pro like his mama so ya I am trying to learn such things but it takes me a wee bit longer to figure out this kind of stuff.  I guess I did decorate the tree that he took the picture of.  

Syd in the zone watching her cartoons.

I walked in to get Hope this morning and her cute little hairs on top of her head were standing straight up.  It must have been a really good sleep!!! I love going and getting the babes in the morning it is one of my favorite things!

So I really want to update my blog I am just having a hard time doing so.  So I am the hardest person to surprise with a gift in the whole world but Tyson was able to successfully surprise me with the canon camera of my dreams.  It has been a little intimidating but I am so excited about it.  So I have to say that my amazing Sydney girl is potty trained, sleeps in a big girl bed, and ditched the bink ( during the day anyway, I don't have the heart to take it away from her when she goes to sleep yet!)  She is so much fun I thought she talked a lot before but now that she doesn't have to talk around her bink she talks all the time and sings even more of the time.

Charee and her darling family moved away on Mon.  I have had the funnest couple of day's with Charee and Chloe,  Charee would come over around 8:30 and we would play all day and all night.  I really am going to miss them.  I am so proud of them for having the faith and trust to embark on such a journey.  I know that they are going to be blessed and become even more of an awesome little family.  

I am in the Young Women right now and I love it.  It has been totally intimidating but I have learned so much.  It is pretty cool to have the opportunity to try and influence people when they are at such a crucial time in their lives.  If any of you have any idea's that you would like the youth to hear about let me know I would love the input.  Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving Day!!

So something that I found a little humorous happened the other day.  I have been wondering if I should share it or not because some people might be offended but oh well I guess.  So I was sitting on the toilet taking care of business and talking to my older brother Kurt.  He was telling me the address to some place he wanted me to go, in the meantime Sydney is in the bathroom with me of course singing me happy birthday as I take care of business.  Anyway I inform Kurt that he will have to text it to me later because I am on the pot and I can't write it down.  Then it hit me that he probably still get's to go to the bathroom all by himself and he unfortunately probably never gets happy birthday sung to him while he is going to the bathroom.  I think that he was pretty jealous.  Being a mom is so wonderful isn't it.

Seriously I want to throw my computer through the wall sometimes.  I have no idea why I can sometimes download a million things in 15 minutes and then times like right now all I want to do is download two pictures and it is taking an eternity.  So sorry this update is so lame.  Hope turned one on the twenty first of October, it was a tuesday which is the night that Tyson works late so I usually go up to my mom's to hang out.  We decided to make Hope a cake even though we were going to officially celebrate her birthday the following Sunday.  Anyway after Hope blew out her candle Sydney had to blow it out as well at least three times.  I don't have any pictures of Hope eating her cake right now.  My Brother has all of them at the moment.  

Hopey's amazing birthday cake's done by none other then her mother.

I need to quickly explain why all of my post's are video's.  I have a camera that is supposed to be a good camera but it makes me want to say not just one swear word but a whole slew of them every time I take a picture.  I am hoping that for my birthday I can convince my people's to get me a camera that actually takes decent pictures.  So sorry about all the videoage.  I don't even have a decent picture of Hope's birthday parties.  Luckily my brother got some cute one's and my cousin Alyssa as well.  Yes I have changed the settings and even people who know what they are doing have changed the settings for me and everyone agrees it just doesn't work so well.

Seriously I love these two girls.  Charee do you believe now when I tell you that Chloe has olive skin?  

This is Chloe and Hope.  So they are going to move very far away from us in about 3 weeks.  I am so excited for them because I believe that it is the right thing for them to do but I will miss them terribly.  If any of you have seen the movie The Holiday I am pretty much Cameron Diaz when it comes to how beautiful she is I mean when it comes to her inability to cry and I almost cried today talking to Charee about them moving.  Chloe brings out a side of Hope that no one else does.  I love it she is so funny when they are together.

Some more Charlie lovin, Tyson I promise I don't ever let Charlie in the house, this was a special occasion it was for the blog.  Tyson has been a great sport about Charlie he pretends to not like him but deep down I think he really loves him:).  He is great except he has been leaving dead mice on our driveway lately and yesterday Sydney wanted to pet one of them.  I quickly threw it in the trash and told her that it was taking a nap and that we shouldn't wake it up.  She couldn't stop talking about it.  

I think this was the one I was going for.  Hope is like a caged monkey egging her on.  Sorry about the camera angle flip in the middle I am sort of handicap at the camera thing.

Hopey and her fast feet.  Sorry I keep uploading the wrong video I don't know how to check it before I upload it so you all get to enjoy a lot of video's

This is Charlie the cat that kind of dropped out of heaven if you ask Sydney.  We have no idea who he belongs to or where he came from but he is the sweetest cat I have ever met.  He will let Sydney and Hope do about anything to him.  Sydney is pretty much scared of everything except for animals.  She won't go down the big slide at the park but she would give a bear a great bear hug any day of the week.  So if this blog thing will cooperate here are some following examples of the magnificent patience of our cat Charlie.  Tyson and I think that he must smoke a lot of cat nip or something he is way too chill.  (Sorry I uploaded the wrong video, more is hopefully coming.) It sounds like Hope says Charlie name if you listen close.

I just had a very depressing moment, I thought that I could maybe cinderella for halloween since I have this really fluffy prom dress from highschool.  I totally thought that it was going to fit and maybe even fit me better then when I was in highschool.   Well that dream was shattered it not only doens't kind of fit it just doesn't fit.  I hope that it is either one of two things, my little sister borrowed it and had it tailored, or my boobs have just become much much bigger since highschool.  

So i know I need to update.  That last picture was not a pretty one.  That happened 2 1/2 years ago at bear lake.  Hope turned one on the twenty first of october so I will post some pictures of that soon.  I am totally freaked out right now because I need to take away my two year olds binky, and I really need to potty train her, and I need to put her in a big girl bed.  I have realized that she was probably ready for all three of these things awhile ago but I am so not ready and I need to be.  It is really hard to make my kids do hard things I have decided.  I hope that everyone got to go outside today even if it was only for a minute it was so beautiful.  

This was a crappy couple of weeks.  I got in a fight with the handle on a ski rope needless to say it won.

Oh how I miss this hair do.

Oh Yay baby!!  You don't have to wonder what is going on here.
my mom fed her some of her veggie drink.  I can't believe how fast she has grown up.

Here are a few classic photo's I found making a CD for my mom.   Yes that is all from her mama's milk.

Here she is, isn't she absolutely beautiful.

So Hope has been acting like she was going to walk any day now for at least a month.  This was taken about a week ago and finally the last two days she has taken off.  She is about as steady as a person after drinking a whole 24 pack, but she is doing it.  I am so happy.  I love it when they start walking.  It is so nice to get them off the ground.  We have ruined a lot of pants outside on the grass and the cement.  

So I have been thinking that I would have taken a picture of my new favorite thing by now so that I could post it, but I haven't so I will just tell about it.  About 2 months ago a new friend of mine Kim talked my neighbor Tina into doing a 20 mile road race who in turn talked me into it.  To make a long story short I ended up spending a lot of money on my new best friend.  I bought myself a road bike.  I basically feel like you haven't lived until you own a road bike.  I have never had so much fun exercising in my whole life.  I will thank Kim everyday for a long time for getting me into it.  I recommend it to everyone I know.  The whole thing is, is that if you want to love it, you have to go big or not at all.  You need to spend money on a good bike, good spandex, (make that great spandex), the shoes, and the clip in's.  The clip in's are a little scary at first, but one fall and you realize it doesn't hurt that bad.  It has been the best therapy for me ever.  Just be prepared for your spouse's to get a little jealous about how much time you will want to spend with your bike.  Actually that is why I went for it.  I was Jealous of Tyson and his bike and since he spent a lot more money on his it was that much easier for me to spend the money on mine.  

So it has been an eventful last month for the Lewis Fam.  Tyson purchased a motorcycle about 2 months ago and has had the time of his life fixing it up and going for rides with his brother and brother-in-laws.  I was a little jealous of the bike at first because he was more excited to come home to his bike then he was to come home to us:) Or it at least seemed that way.  Anyway he had just finished getting all of his after market parts on when a lady in a SUV decided to pull out right in front of him.  He slammed on his brakes and started to skid and then the front tire caught and launched him over the handle bars.  He caught himself with his hands and then at one point he thinks he tried to run which would explain his torn plantar fascia on his right foot.  

I was making dinner and he had called me to tell me that he was leaving and would be home soon.  Then 15 min later his phone called me and all I could hear was the noise of traffic.   My first thought was that his phone accidently called me, but then of course I thought or he is dead on the road.  I hung up and then he called me right back, this time he was on the other line and told me that he had been hit.  So I hung up with him and called my neighbor to come watch the girls, she asked me if I needed a ride and i said no I will be fine.  FYI next time someone offers I will accept.  On the way to him all of a sudden my arms started to go numb and I could feel myself going in to shock.  I realized that people can do some pretty crazy things on adrenaline and I hadn't really gotten any details about his injuries.  So of course I start imagining that one of his legs is gone or maybe an arm, by some miracle I made it and found him sitting on the grass just off the road with his hands all bandaged and all of his limbs in place.  

His helmet literally saved his life.  The cops told him that if he hadn't been wearing it he would easily have been on the life flight helicopter instead of getting in the car to go home with me.  We know way too many people who do not wear helmets.  Tyson was as safe as anyone could be on his bike.  He never went faster then the speed limit, he always wore his helmet, he followed all the rules and was very aware of cars around him,  he would even say a prayer before he ever got on his bike.  Thanks to his paranoid wife.  Anyway my point being that if you think you don't need to wear a helmet because you are smart and safe and it will never happen to you, you are fooling yourself.  Tyson was so lucky and we consider ourselves 100% blessed.  He had some pretty painful road rash and his foot is in a removable boot but other then that he is going to be a ok.  

Just a cute picture.  
This is Tyson's Grandpa, we love him to pieces!!!!!  We think that little Hopey got his ears:)
This is one of Hopes favorite places to hang out.  She is so much fun.  I love this age, she makes us all laugh a dozen times a day.  Well everyone except for Sydney.

This is Sydney's best friend Charlie.  We have no idea where he came from but the girls in the family sure love him.  I promised Ty that I wouldn't feed him, but I buckled after a month.  He let's Sydney and Hope do anything and everything to him and he never get's mad.  He is the coolest feline ever and definitely deserves to be fed a little food every once in awhile.  

This is my little sister Katie, her and Clint were married on July 31st.  They are now in Pennsylvania while Clint goes to Medical School.  They are with all of the cousins from my side.  In case you were wondering my children are the whities. 

We did the season pass thing to the zoo and I have to say it was a great idea.  We have been twice and it is so nice to only go for an hour and a half or so.  We also got a couple of free passes for the new carousel, and also the train.  

I love it when little kids get the hang of these walkers.  It is so funny to see them cruise around in them.  Sydney loves hitching a ride with the little hopster.  Not a bad way to help Hope try to lose those thunder thighs.  

Sorry about the undies, I couldn't convince Syd to put her legs down.  These are out cute neighbors across the street.

I know it is a little past the 4th of July but all these pictures were on Ty's phone and he just downloaded them on to the computer.  My neighbor Tina had this cute pattern so we decided to  make these fun little dresses.  Of course right after I put Sydney's on her she ran out to the garage to show her daddy and rubbed up against the tire and got black all over it.  

So I was thinking that maybe it was time to try the potty training thing with 

Syd.  I found some big girl panties that had kittens and puppies on them so I brought them home. She wanted to wear them over her diaper and her little best friend Tu Tu wanted to join in on the fun.  We got some pretty funny pictures.

The three ballerina's
Hope and her cousin Chloe

Here are a few more pictures of Hope

I have tried to upload this video forever.  Hope has been crawling for about 3 weeks now.  She loves it, she also really enjoys being able to pull herself up to things.  Sydney however doesn't think that it is all that great.  Hope is always grabbing her toys or getting in her way.  I hope that they can some day become better friends.  Yesterday Sydney pushed Hope over I asked her not to do that then she pushed her again a minute later and then she helped her up so that she could push her over again.  Tell me what a mother is supposed to do with that.  

My Favorite (above)

Sydney has been singing all the time lately I finally caught her in a mood to do it for the camera.  Hopefully all of these download.  

Hope and Chloe just hanging out talking their talk.  It is so funny every time Hope is around Chloe she seems to feel the need to show off a bit. 

I have found that it is always a risk to take a shower during the day when you have a 2 year old.  That is my mascara that she beautifully applied to her darling little face while I was taking a shower.  

My family all took a trip to Hawaii for the first time in april.  It was a lot of fun.  This is tyson and Hope having fun at the condo.

Cute little Hopey ready to go for a walk with the girls

More Pictures with this poor little easter chick

Hopey's easter swim wear from Nana Loo