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!

Silly * Sadie

So I got some new material to use as backdrops today and Sadie was actually being a good model so I could play! Turns out that I got some pretty good shots of her! Hope you enjoy these as much as I do!

Our Trip to Big Bear, CA

We got to take a few days off and we headed to Big Bear, CA. A couple in our church let us stay in their beautiful home there. We just hung out and relaxed. It was so much fun. There was still some snow left, so we got to take Mersadie tubing! She had a blast and we heard belly laughs from her like we have never heard before. It still amazes me that we can drive just an hour and a half from our 80+ degree weather and get to see and play in the snow. Enjoy the pics!

Mersadie and the "Big Bear" in John & Nancy's front yard. At first she wanted NOTHING to do with the bear. I don't blame her. That thing is like 3 times her size!

Brian and Sadie heading down the hill - Sadie's first ever tubing experience. I will have to say she was enjoying herself. What do you think?

Sadie and me coming down the hill!

The sun was SO bright reflecting off the snow, so it was hard to keep our eyes open for pics, but thought this was cute anyway!



Sadie and Mommy



We also got some great video of Sadie tubing and having snowball fights. I'll have to see if I have the patience to upload it tomorrow! Good Night.

The Many Sides of Sadie!

Here are some pictures of Audra and Sadie together! These girls definitely have a love/hate relationship. One minute they are playing fine together, the next one is stealing something from the other (as you will see in the pictures to follow). Sadie is so funny - she can be so lovable...she LOVES to hug all of her friends when she sees them! P.S. - the technical side of these photos aren't that great because it was SO sunny that day, but the pictures were too cute not to share!

Audra was sharing her cheez-its with Sadie...

Sadie stuffed all of hers in her mouth and went after Audra's cheez-its!

Sadie can go from lovable to rough and tumble in a matter of mere seconds. Here she is burying herself in wood chips. Can't stand the sand, but she will bury herself in wood chips. She must get that from her dad.

Here's Sadie eating the wood chips. Hmmm. Maybe I should feed her more.

After the wood chip incident, she was off to the flowers and she changed to being sweet and handing me a flower. Wow! This girl has so many sides to her, but I LOVE each and every one!