WICKED!!!!!!!!

Wow, 2 posts in one night - that has to be a record for me - and they are both about Sydney. Everyone who knows Sydney knows she is obsessed with Wicked. She listens to the music nonstop and knows the whole story even though she had never seen the musical. So when Wicked tickets went on sale for Salt Lake I tried to get them - I had my whole class of 35 students trying to get on the website to buy tickets, but with absolutely no luck. Syd was disappointed but she was a trooper and didn't complain - too much. We told her we could maybe go to San Francisco and see it this summer. But, I got feeling guilty, that Syd - who never asks for anything and is happy with whatever - was not going to see Wicked. Without the long story, I found 2 tickets on row 15 (yea for KSL Classifieds) for the very last show in Salt Lake (yes, I know it was on a Sunday). I didn't tell Syd I had the tickets so on Sunday, Dru came home from church about 5 minutes before I came home with Sydney. He put one of the tickets on Syd's iPod docking station and turned her iPod on - of course playing songs from Wicked. When we walked in the door, I asked Syd if she had left her iPod playing the whole time we had been at church because I could hear music coming from her room. She went in her room and saw the ticket and what followed was a lot of screaming, jumping, hugging, and weird dancing. Her reaction was totally worth all of the trouble to get the tickets. So, a few hours later, we were off to the Capitol Theater. Syd LOVED it (so did I) and we had a lot of fun on our little "mother/daughter date" to Wicked.

Syd's New Look!

So, the other day I told Sydney I was sick of looking at her hair in a ponytail. Her long hair was pretty when it was straightened, but she doesn't like to take the time to dry it and straighten it because she has so much hair and it has a lot of curl so it takes forever. So she ends up just putting it in a ponytail every day. The other day I told her if she was just going to wear a ponytail we should cut her hair off so at least it would have some sort of style. At first she said no way, but the next thing I knew she said she wanted to cut it.

Luckily we had haircut appointments today so here is the before (it had, of course, been in a ponytail all day so the before really doesn't look good) . . . Syd had Mindy turn the chair away from the mirror so she wouldn't see it until it was completely finished.

And here is the after . . . (with Mindy, the girl that cuts our hair - thanks, Mindy!!!) She loves her new haircut and it looks super cute!