Keeping up with the girls!

I have decided to try and write a blog to keep up with the day to day things that go on here at our new house in Peoria. I kept such a good blog of our lives in Japan and I want someday the girls to realize that life for there mom and dad wasn't always a bowl of cherries.
Our life back in the US has been full of ups and downs for the adults in our family but the girls seem to have all ups. We have looked at them during our downs and know we have to steamahead and get through our downs. It is difficult to move to a new place, make friends and to leave a world that you had kind of gotten used too. We enjoy being home and close to family and things that we missed but the adjustment has been difficult for us.
Sydney started Kindergarten at St. Thomas this past august and has enjoyed making new friends at school and learning lots of new things. She also started piano lessons this past fall through the Peoria Park district. We have played 2 sessions of indoor soccer and that has been fun. She is much more aggressive that I would have thought though she doesn't totally understand the game yet but has fun and has even scored a couple of times.