Mersadie's Early Birthday Party!

WARNING: THIS IS A VERY LONG PICTURE POST

Okay, so I couldn't help myself and I put a ton of Sadie's 1st Birthday pictures on this post. Even though Mersadie won't turn 1 for 2 more weeks, we took advantage of the time that we were in MO with my family to throw her a party. She had a great time and we were so glad to have been able to visit everyone! Enjoy the pics!

Sadie was eyeing down her presents before the party even started!

She really wanted to open one.


How can you say no to those eyes?

My Aunt Lois made Sadie's birthday cakes! They matched the paper plates perfectly!

Sadie wasn't sure what to think of the cake.

She didn't want to eat any of the cake, but she sure did want to share it with me!

I think she was trying to tell us that she was done with the cake. The boredom is written all over her face.

"Seriously, guys, what's the big deal?"

We've been sooo busy!

I know, I know. It's seems to have been an eternity since I have last posted. Like any other thing in my life, I have an explanation. Busy. Yep, if you can believe it, we have been busy. After my mom left in April I posted the pictures of Sadie's room and then I seemingly fell off the face of the earth for the past 3 weeks. Well, I'm baaaack!

My aunt and uncle came out to Cali for a conference at the very beginning of May and I have some way way cute pictures of Sadie to post - but they are on my computer at home and I am in K.C., MO at the present moment so you will have to wait for those.

In the meantime, here are some pictures from Mother's Day, Brian's graduation (Master's Degree), time with Grandma and Grandpa Moore and more! Enjoy and come back after Saturday to view the way cute pictures of Sadie with my aunt.

Also, we had a birthday party for Sadie on Saturday (she'll actually turn 1 June 8th, but we were in K.C. with family and couldn't resist throwing her a party) and I have to sift through the hundreds of pictures to find the best ones to post. I'll try tomorrow. In the meantime, just know that we are alive and well!

Sadie and I are so proud of our graduate! All the long hours and hard work paid off!

Posing with Grandma and Grandpa Moore

Me and the little one who made Mother's Day a reality for me!

Grandma Moore and Mersadie

Brian was bouncing Sadie on our bed at the hotel and she was lovin' it!

You can just hear the "pomp and cirumstance" playing in the background.

Woo Hoo - He's done (or is he?). Do we see a doctorate in our future?

Mersadie's Newly Painted Room

When my mom was visiting a few weeks ago, we painted Sadie's room. Here are the before and after pictures. I love the way it turned out. Color makes such a difference! I would still like to stencil some pink flowers on the brown wall, but just haven't found what I want yet. That will probably take me another 10 months (like the 10 months it took to get her room painted).

Grammy Visits Again!! Yeah!

Sadie's ready for some animals!!

The face-off with the sheep, the sheep won!

LOVE this picture. Although the color isn't quite right, I LOVE the expression on Sadie's face!

Sadie and Daddy as we were leaving the zoo. Check out that hair - maybe there is hope that she'll grow some!

My mom came to visit last week and we did sooo much! These pictures are from our day at the San Diego Zoo - we had such a good time - the weather was great and Mersadie did well. I thought she would be a little more excited to see the animals, but I guess she is a bit young for all of this. She did like it when the gorilla starting moving around, though and she liked to look at the panda bear. I will post more pictures from the zoo later. My mom also helped me paint Sadie's room. It looks beautiful although I still need to stencil the flowers on the walls. I just can't find the right stencil. I will post pictures of that later, too because Sadie just woke up! Have a wonderful Monday, everybody!!

10 Months Old and "In to" Everything!!

Sadie really got "in to" her first taste of spaghetti - I'd say she loved it.

One of Sadie's favorite things to do is get "into" her drawer and pull everything out one by one. I used to fold everything and put it back in, but now I just stuff all the clothes back in because I know she'll just pull them right back out next time!

This is Sadie's "I got caught" look!

Sadie is really getting "into" feeding herself big girl food!

Sadie got "in to" the dish washer last night. My mom is here visiting and she said, "you're really going to let her go ahead and climb up there, aren't you?" I said, "Yep, it's a great photo op!" So, here little Mersadie is helping us with the dishes!

TGIF!! Enjoy your weekend!

A Day at the Park

Brian and I took Sadie to the park on Monday and she went down the slide for the first time. I'm not too sure what she thought about it. We don't think she's quite ready for the slide, but she did like swinging with Daddy. Enjoy your Thursday!!