Sweet Sadie

Here is Sadie showing us her pretty teeth. I just have to share her latest stalling tactic at bedtime. For the last few nights when we tell her it is time to go to bed she starts fake crying and says,"but my filling's coming out!" and points to her teeth. It took us a little while to figure out what she was saying and then of course we thought maybe her teeth were hurting, but soon realized that she was stalling. (She doesn't have any fillings) We have no idea where she picked this up and I try not to laugh, but it has become pretty funny. I can't even remember the last time we talked about fillings. Obviously she heard it somewhere, but it has made us laugh at the end of some pretty crazy days.

Family Pictures

When Claire turned one, we wanted to get some pictures taken and we actually got it done a couple weeks ago. Our friend Amy took the pictures and did a great job. Thanks so much Amy, we love them! Oh, and thanks to my wonderful husband for organizing and scheduling with Amy. I've been a little busy lately and all I had to do was get everyone dressed and show up. A mom can't ask for much more than that.

Here are some of our favorites...

A couple pics...

My parents were visiting this weekend and my dad took a couple of pictures of the girls that I just love. The one of Claire I can see a glimpse of what she is going to look like as she gets bigger and the other one is just too cute of the two of them playing.

Snow Day!

The weather here has been colder and snowier (not sure if that is a word) than usual this year. Thursday morning it started raining and by about noon we had ice and snow. Schools were dismissing early and the weather men were loving it. School was cancelled for Friday so we enjoyed a nice family snow day. The bad thing is I was off of work anyway so now I'll have to work the make up day. Oh well, it was nice to have everyone home. I took a few pictures from our snow day.

I love these pictures of Claire in her little hat.

Here is our house. I love the tree.

Sadie spent the day writing, coloring, playing, and watching Mickey Mouse. We all had a little cabin fever by the end.

Gabe loved his day off.

Growing up so fast!

I am just shocked everyday at how much Sadie is growing up. I took some pictures over the last couple weeks and she is just becoming such a little girl. I guess that's good since Claire will be here soon. She definitely has her moments, but I think being back to a regular routine is good for all of us. I noticed today that she is starting to outgrow some shirts and pants are getting a little short. It doesn't really feel like time is going by really fast, but she is just changing so much these days and talking like crazy. Anyway, here's a few pictures from the last couple weeks.

This is my favorite. She loves trying on my shoes, but don't the running shoes just look so natural on her. It won't be long!

One more with the running shoes.

She's "reading" our teacher association magazine and telling us all about it.

Lincoln came over for a little while so we went on a walk. It's a workout pushing that stroller. Good thing Gabe was around to go with us. I think I made it about half a block.

Sadie and Daddy vacuuming together. She loves to help.

All dressed for church.

And one more close up.

Summer Fun!

I have fallen pretty far behind in my blogging so in an effort to catch up I decided to post some of my favorite pictures over the last month or so. We have been busy with our trip to Savannah for Josh and Brianna's wedding, catching up at home, grandparents visiting, and we took a family trip to Dallas for a few days. It's hard to believe summer is ending, but it's time to get back to it and get ready for the new baby. We have loved our summer with all of us being together. There is nothing better. Sadie is at such a fun age and saying so much fun stuff. Just today she started having conversations on her play phone. She won't tell us who she is talking to, but she is busy talking. Anyway, here are a few pictures. I haven't posted any from Dallas, that is still to come.

Sadie is showing me her mosquito bite. Those little things love her.

Her favorite swing at the park. She would stay in it all day long. Unfortunately, it doesn't swing automatically. Daddy is great at it though!

Sadie has a done a lot of swimming. Here she is, ready to go.

Trying on Mama's shoes. I just love it!

On to Savannah. Sadie's favorite thing to do while we were there was walk the dogs with Big Daddy. They didn't exactly like being walked by her. After a couple times, Chloe would just sit down in the middle of the road because Sadie wasn't walking fast enough for her. Sadie didn't mind though as long as she had the leash and was outside with Big Daddy, all was well.

Sadie in the airport on our way home from Savannah. Gabe loaded some cartoons on an Ipod and it kept her entertained for a while. Luckily the trip home was pretty smooth with just one delay. Not like Gabe's trip out there with Sadie by himself. It took him 14 hours and MANY delays, but he made it. He has told me many times that he does not want to do it again.

We went to the beach while we were there and Sadie loved it. She loves water!

At the wedding reception. Sadie in her flower girl dress. I don't have a lot of pictures since I was busy doing wedding stuff. I'm working on getting more. She loved dancing at the reception.

Me and Gabe at the wedding. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful wedding. Gabe did a great job "officiating." He doesn't like to say that he "preached the wedding." I don't really know what else to call it. I was so relieved at this point that Sadie walked down the aisle, but so ready to be able to breath again. The dress was a little difficult for me since we ordered it before I was pregnant, but I survived and Brianna and Josh were a beautiful couple. I'm so grateful we were able to be there and be a part of it. Again, no pictures of them, I'll hopefully have some soon.

Sadie-running from the wave. Who's that headless hunk behind her????

More Saturday pictures

I realize that this is a lot of pink, but I went a little crazy taking pictures this afternoon. I just haven't been happy with the pictures lately so I started practicing and ended up taking quite a few. A friend has told us that the trick is just to take a whole bunch of pictures and your chances are a lot better that you will get some good ones. So, I'm going to try that philosphy and see what happens. I took so many that the battery died on the camera. Here are a few.

This is Sadie's pose when she wants you take a picture of her.

We made it through the week!

We have had a busy week getting Sadie adjusted to her new schedule, but we have made it. She had a good Thursday at P.D.O. and I was more prepared. I posted a few other pictures of Sadie being Sadie that we’ve taken this week. She has a new love of paper products. Not really sure what that is all about, but she loves carrying around the package of paper plates and playing with the cups. She also loves pulling everything out of my purse and bringing it to me piece by piece. Gabe has a book that he has been reading for his classroom and Sadie has taken that up to. She will walk around the living room with the book open like she reading it talking away. Notice the title of the book in the picture. It’s pretty funny! We are loving her more and more everyday (if that is possible) and are excited about what is to come.

Here are Sadie's bags all ready for P.D.O. Wednesday night.

She is REALLy into this book.

The title is "Try and Make Me, for ages 2-12" :)

I just thought this picture was cute.

Here is Sadie with her new friend, Paper Plates. She carries them with her wherever she goes whenever she can get them.

Her is my sweet girl pulling everything out of my purse. Lovely!

Some more paper products. She loves the red cups. I wonder what that means...maybe she'll love picnics or will hate doing dishes. I'm going with the hate doing dishes!

One more picture with the red cups.