How to Beat the Heat on a Hot Summer Day

Sadie has this toy that she absolutely loves. When you push a button, it blows air and makes balls fly out of it. When there aren't any balls in the toy, she pushes the button and looks down in it and it blows the air in her face. These are some pictures I got of her playing with it the other day. I just love the 2nd and 5 ones!! Notice the balls on the floor in the background of some of the pictures. Who needs the balls? Just a toy that blasts air equals hours of endless pleasure!

Good Ol' Twinkies

I don't think these things will ever go "out of style" with kids!! This is for Mr. Ramsey ~ Sadie's first Twinkie...

She takes after me. No problem opening her mouth for sweets!

I love this picture because of her hair!


Twinkies make babies happy!

And very upset when it is all gone and she has to get cleaned up!

On to other things...this is the playset that our friends gave to us when they moved to TX. We thought Sadie would love it. Where is she, you ask?

Playing with the hose,

crawling on the wet ground and playing with the chair.

I set Sadie in front of it thinking she would get interested in it. Is this the face of interest to you? Me neither.


"Hmmm. Maybe I could like this."

"Okay, so I do like it!"

When Daddy's Gone...

Sadie watching Daddy speak at youth camp.

Goldfish are everywhere since Mommy was watching Daddy and not Sadie.

This is the face we always get when Sadie isn't sure what's she is doing is okay or not.

"Can I go in, Mom?", says Sadie. "No", replies Mom.

Trying to go in anyway...didn't work

Here is Sadie still trying to get the walking thing mastered.

...mommy lets me do whatever I want! Brian has been gone this week speaking at a youth camp in Virginia. We have been able to watch the services online, so I brought Sadie's highchair into the office so she can eat breakfast while we listen to Brian. Well, sometimes I get distracted. Sadie got into the bag of Goldfish that I gave her and proceded to empty most of them onto the tray while I wasn't looking. Oh well. Later that same day, Sadie climed up on the bathtub in our room while I was fixing my hair. Brian hates it when I let her do this because he's always afraid she is going to fall. Since we all know that mommy's have eyes in all parts of their head, I continued to get ready while I was watching her out of the corner of my eye. She figured out how to turn on the water and started playing in it - and oh what fun she had. She got braver and braver about leaning over until she got perfectly balanced on her belly. She couldn't move forward or get back down on her feet. It was really funny! We can't wait for Daddy to come home!!

Official One Year Pics

I think she thinks she's a model!

June 2008 ~ what a dfference a year makes!

June 2007

Yum-E!

"Gasp - Where's my shirt?"

Again ~ She thinks she's a pro at this picture stuff!

Brian and I took Sadie back to the lady who did her newborn pictures for her one year photo shoot. Mersadie is going through the phase where she really has to warm up to people. She didn't quite warm up the whole time we were there, so the pictures turned out okay, but not what I had imagined in my head. I'm not sure what I imagined. Oh well. Enjoy anyway!

Along Came Sadie - One Year Later

June 8, 2007 ~ Still hadn't met Mersadie yet...

And here she is - boy, do little babes grow too fast or what?

Takin' her home!

"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you..."

"Happy Birthday, dear Mersadie. Happy Birthday to you!"

She's goin in for the kill.

Note the difference between this face and the face from the party we had for her in K.C. I think she got used to this getting messy thing. No problem this time!

Don't cha just want a big piece of Sadie pie? Mmmm.

Sadie says, "oh, no! Do I have something on my face?"

Finger-lickin' good!

I pray that all of the children we are blessed with are as easy-going as Sadie. This girl let us take her cake away, mid-piece and wash her up with no fight. Weird.

Sadie even shared her yummy cake with Nathan.

Sadie and her adopted Aunties - Auntie Carie, Auntie Kathryn, & Auntie Bridgette - love you girls!

365 Days - That is how long Brian and I have been blessed with our little love - Mersadie Faith. It was one year ago that we got to meet our daughter for the very first time and tell her how much we love her - something she has heard now probably a million times! We had so much fun this year with a year of "firsts"! She started her second year off with her "first" step - walking a step and a half to me today! And I have plenty of witnesses!!

What an awesome thing that God gives us through children. Enjoy these pictures from her little birthday party we had here at home with our "family". The staff from church came over to help us celebrate along with some friends of our that are missionaries to Indonesia. Thank you to everyone who loves our little Sadie - it does my heart well to know that she is so loved. Please continue to pray for Brian and I as we raise our little daughter. Happy Birthday to you, Mersadie ~ you bring us more joy and laughter than you will ever realize!

First Taste of Dirt...Mmm

I took Sadie outside this afternoon to play and take some pictures. Before long she discovered the dirt and, of course, had to taste it. So, here you go. Mersadie ~ my precious little girl eating dirt. Yum.

Hmm...is this chocolate?

"whoa, that's not what I expected. it looked like chocolate to me."

"how do I get it out?"

This face was not because of the dirt, but I thought it fit mighty nicely in the sequence.

Dirty and snotty. Where's the sugar and spice?