Happy Happy Happy...What? and Other Stuff

So I was out shopping this afternoon. Just me and the Sade-ster. We had a few things to get because we have 2 parties to go to tonight and we are out of wipes in the church nursery. Not. Good. First, we stopped by Babies R Us to get the wipes. Well, of course I had to peruse the clearance section just to see if anything was too good to pass up. Well, I found it. The "perfect" Christmas picture outfit (see below). And I bought it. (Did I mention that this is the 3rd Christmas picture outfit that I have purchased?) Yeah, I have issues. Anyway, then we headed to Tilly's to get Amanda's birthday gift. I decided on a gift card. Very original, I know. So, I walk up to the check-out counter and pick up the Happy, Happy, Happy card - I thought the last word was birthday. I walked out of the store and glanced down again at the card and it said...

Hmmm. Hanukkah and birthday aren't synonyms, are they? Oh well. It will be a happy day anyway. It doesn't matter what your money says as long as it spends, right?

After I put Mersadie to bed last night, I went back downstairs and saw this. All of her animal magnets neatly put in the pie pan. I guess she wanted some "meat-lovers" stew.

This is another thing I just had to get when I was at Babies R Us. Only the best invention ever for one who doesn't like a mess. A spill-proof snack cup. And it really works! I bought 2 - one to replace the one that fell way underneath someone else's car in the parking lot and one because it was a 2 pack. :)


So, my trip to Babies R Us for wipes turned into this. Just had to have about 40 dollars worth of STUFF! Don't you just love that cute peti-coat and adorable sweater? These pictures don't do the outfit justice, but I promise that some pictures in the near future will show it in all of its precious little girl glory!

K, got to the end of this and realized - no picture of Mersadie! Sorry! I promise to post again very soon!

Anyone Need a Massage?

Sadie and Joe taking it easy in the massaging chairs at Kohl's. Funny kiddos!

Super-Cute Joe Joe!

I could eat him up!

Sadie is gearing up for Christmas!

Sadie wasn't even screaming this time. She was just smooshing her face against the gate - too funny!

The Ring of Fire

As most of you are probably aware, the wildfires have come to Yorba Linda. It has been a very unsettling thing to say the least. Yesterday was crazy. Our home was not in very close proximity (the closest fire was about 2-3 miles away) to the fires, but a lot of our church members had to be evacuated and the fire got very, very close to many of their houses. Unfortunately, one of the older ladies in our church lost her home to the fire. Brian is with her right now trying to help her figure out what to do. Our church became a place for people to go, then the fires got to close to that. We opened up our home for church members and had several come over while they could not be in their homes. Please pray for those who have lost everything. I cannot imagine how life-shattering that would be. I have posted a few pictures of what it looked like right outside our house yesterday. These have not been altered - this was really the color of everything - very eerie!

The sun was absolutely red. This was at about 2:30 in the afternoon.

The smoke and fires put an orange cast on everything. The light coming through our windows in the house made everything this bright red-orange color. We felt like it was 5 or 6 in the evening and it was only 2:30!

This was at about 1:30 p.m. - looking directly out of our front door.

This was about 1:30 looking to the right of our house. The smoke was filling the sky. It was truly like something out of a movie.


Onto something a bit more light-hearted. Mersadie.

This is Sadie screaming. Not sure why she was screaming, but I thought it made a classic photo.

Her screaming wasn't something a little "airplane" ride couldn't fix.

Happier times for sure. Wish my mood could change that quick sometimes!

Always Remember to...

...take time to stop and smell the flowers. Happy Friday!

Making a List

Mersadie is already making her Christmas wishlist to send to the Grandparents! Just kidding! Really, I just found this huge pencil that Brian got for me one time and Sadie really wanted to write with it! Enjoy making those lists - only 43 days left!

New Favorite

This is my new favorite picture of Sadie. And, yes, most of the time she wears clothes, this just happened to be the same day I caught her in my shoes and once I have camera in hand, I take a few pictures or a hundred. Enjoy!

Pumpkin Patch

Well, better late than never. Brian and I took Sadie to the Pumpkin Patch about 3 weeks ago and I am just now posting. I didn't get any terrific pictures like I was hoping (sometimes I just want to throw my camera in the trash and forget that I was ever interested in trying to be a good photographer), but here they are anyway. Sadie had her 1st pony ride and she LOVED it! Enjoy the fun pics.

Sade-enstein!

This one is really for the Slayden fam! Good 'ol John Deere - out here in CA!

I should probably post the one of Sadie and I in this same face thing last year - but I'm too tired.

Sadie tried to sit on just about every pumpkin there. She started out with the big ones as you will see below, but when she got to the tiny ones, the stems did feel so good. Ouch!

Sadie also thought the pumpkins were balls. She kept saying "ball, ball, ball". And here she is trying to throw one.

2 and 1/2 feet and growing!

Sitting on more pumpkins.

and still more.

And more!

Oh what fun!