Mersadie's 2nd Birthday!!

I know everyone says things like this, but I cannot believe that it was 2 years ago that Sadie was born and I held her for the very first time. I was carrying her up to bed last night just thinking of how much has happened and how much she has grown. I can't hold her with just one arm anymore. What amazing things happen in just 2 short years! Sadie knows her colors, a lot of shapes, and she can read more than 30 words - seriously!! I am just so proud of her and she adds so much spice to our lives!! Here are pictures from her little bitty family party that we had for her last night. All of the plans I had fell through, so she got a cookie cupcake from Mrs. Fields and a gift from the Disney Store (that didn't even get wrapped) - oh well. The best laid plans...

Happy Birthday Sadie-Sue! We love you!

Here's Sadie blowing out the candles. Did she need help???

Nope! She conquered them all by herself!

Both of them!

Daddy putting the ring from the cupcake on her finger.

Ahhh - isn't it beautiful?

The best part for any kid - the icing. And, let me tell you, there was A LOT of it!

Opening her gift.

I love this because she took time from seeing what was in the bag to grab the cupcake. This girl loves her sweets. She probably gets that from me.

Here it is! Her new Minnie Mouse shopping cart!

It's a hit!

"Hello Everybody, I'm 2 today and..."

I'm going to be a...

in December!!!

So, we are going to be adding to our family around December 8th! It's taken so long for me to "post" about this because I never did get a good picture of Sadie in her big sister shirt and we have been so busy with friends and family in town and traveling that I haven't been blogging about anything lately. We still have a few weeks until we find out the sex of the baby, but we are SO excited around here.

Yes, We're Still Here!

and Merdsadie is as silly as ever! On Sundays Sadie likes to entertain the people who stand outside of the nursery and look in like the kids are on exhibit. Here she is smooshing her face against the window. We all get a great belly laugh out of this.

It seems like things have not stopped around here since before Easter! I have oh, so many pictures to post and oh, so little time. So, I will post them as I can - a few at a time. Brian's family got to come and visit the first week of May and we had a VERY eventful week showing them around So. Cal. and trying to cram everything in to one week. I think they went home more exhausted from their vacation than when they came. I have a few pictures to post of them here...those will come. Right after they were here I got to go home to K.C. to visit with my family. I didn't take as many pictures as usual, but did have fun doing a "maternity shoot" with Rebecca Harrington - I need to get those edited. And I also did a photo shoot with my mom and two of her sisters - those will be coming soon too! So, if you've actually read this far down, I am off to edit and post more pictures. Have a wonderful day!

First Day of Preschool (a little late)

So, Sadie started going to the preschool at our church back in February (she just goes a few 1/2 days a week) and I took pictures of her first day, but I forgot to post them. I figured since I haven't taken pictures of her in a while, I would just post these since no one has seen them. I'll try to get some pictures of Mersadie doing something amazing soon. In the meantime, enjoy her first day of school.

Giving Daddy "bye bye" kisses.

This picture makes it look like she is unsure of going to school, but she really just hears the dogs barking next door.

Ready for school. Backpack and all. Sadie had no problems on her first day. She walked in and started playing and the finally remembered to look back and say "bye Mama". She is enjoying school and I am enjoying running errands quickly or cleaning the house without her right behind me pulling everything out.

This was just a random picture I found while looking at the other pictures. It made me laugh. I hope you get a good laugh too. Enjoy.

Easter 2009

Here are some pictures from our Easter here in Yorba Linda, CA! We had AMAZING church services yesterday. I'm pretty speechless about it all, but God is SO incredibly good! Enjoy the pics - Sadie wasn't into getting her picture taken yesterday, so none of them are great, but they are Sadie so I love 'em!

Mersadie always takes time to show me the flowers.

The best shot of her and "dada". She wasn't in the mood.



Best shot of Sadie and "mama" - still not in the mood for picture taking.

When we got to church yesterday, another little one, Hallie, showed up in the SAME dress and sweater! The sweater didn't even come with the dress - Sarah (Hallie's mom) and I thought they were pretty cute. It's cute now. It won't be cute when they show up to their prom wearing the same dress. We'll have to make sure we communicate when that time comes!

Mersadie's 1st Easter Egg Hunt! Brian and I went to the Badajos' house for Easter dinner with our "staff family" and some other wonderful friends. Miss Vicki's egg hunt was the best - for every egg you found, you got $1!!! Sadie racked up $11 - thanks to some help from Carie and Gabe. They were very kind to her!

Here is Sadie counting her eggs.

Na-Na (Nathan) checking out Sadie's stash. He's really making sure she doesn't have more than him, because he knows what the reward is!

Don't know what this face is all about because she LOVED everything to do with this bucket full of eggs!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!

Baby Caden

My friend Lori had her baby! Here is baby Caden at 8 days old in all of his yummy glory! If this doesn't give you a case of baby fever...

This one is my favorite from the enitre day! You forget how tiny newborns are because they grow SO fast!

The very proud (and very helpful) bigs!!



Ahhh, so tiny! As I was editing this pic, I thought of how funny it would be for Steve to hold his 11 year old son's feet in his hands and do a comparison!





And because the blog is titled "Along Came Sadie"...here's one of my girl. FINALLY she has learned the word "smile" and will actually smile for a picture!

More Pictures of Sadie

I know I just posted some pictures of Sadie in the same outfit and same background, but jeez, I got so many good ones from her the other day that I just had to share more. This doesn't just happen all the time. Funny thing is - I was doing all of this picture taking the day before her "school pictures" (she goes to the 2 yr. old class at our church preschool a few 1/2 days a week). Anyway, I digress...I thought "GREAT!! She's going to love getting her picture taken!" What was I thinking? She DID.NOT. smile for them. She was "not having it" I was told. Oh well. Better luck next time! Enjoy!

The teacher in me LOVES this next photo! As an educator, I was taught the "early signs of literacy" - one of the signs being that a child will start to point to the words as they read. Well, we're working on the actual reading part, but Sadie has been pointing to the words for some time now. Also, for all you mommies of small ones out there - we've started the "Your Baby Can Read" program (the one you've probably seen on the infomercial) and Sadie can read about 10-12 words and we've just been doing it for a month and a half. We're so proud of her! Thanks, Mom, for getting that for our little Mersadie. She's gonna be the smartest little thing!

Sadie Lo-ooooo-ves to READ! She would rather read than do just about anything! I love that!