Friends

Sadie has lots of friends. She is very social and loves to play with them. Whenever her friend Jake is outside (he lives across the street), she yells "HIIIII JAAAKE!" until he either comes over to say hi or goes inside. It is hilarious! Yesterday, we got to go to her friend Hunter's grandma's house and her and Hunter went swimming. It was so fun watching them play together. We definitely need to play more often!

They mostly hung out in the pool, but there was also a little swing set and slide that Sadie loved playing on. We would wet the slide down so it wasn't too hot and then she would slide right off the end of it and land on her bum. It was so funny!

Hunter's laugh is so great. I love it. The video is so shaky because I was laughing so hard. We couldn't really laugh out loud though because he didn't like it if we laughed at him. That was really hard because he is just so dang cute!

Thanks Hunter and Stacie for letting us play. And Marissa it was great to see you too!

Zac's Blessing

We blessed our sweet baby boy on the 4th of July. It was an awesome day. It was super fun having both families around to play with the kiddos. Sadie just loves both sets of grandparents. Here are some pictures of the weekend with family.

Zac was really into looking at grandpa one morning. It was so cute. He must have been looking at him like this for about 5 minutes.

So smiley...and chubby! :) Check out that double chin!

Sadie loved to try to play the wii with Andrew and Rob. It was fun for her.

On our blanket waiting for fireworks to start! We dressed them in their 4th of July outfits and within about 20 minutes, Zac had a messy diaper and got it on his onesie. Sheesh.

Family picture...it was a fun time waiting for the fireworks...but it made it hard the next morning to wake up to get to church on time.

We played Sorry while we waited. It was fun...I don't remember who won. I think it was my mom...anyone remember?

Zac and Daddy -the two most handsome men ready for church. Like the matching ties? I got the idea from my sister in law who did it for their little boy's blessing a few months earlier. Check it out here.

So cozy.

Family picture...we can't ever get one where everyone looks good. Oh well.

Sadie playing with Andrew and Grandpa.

We loved having everyone here with us and we can't wait to see you all again. We already miss you!

Thank You Evan

A few weeks ago, my brother Evan sent Sadie a little something in the mail. She still has it and looks at it multiple times per day. Check it out.

If you can't understand what she is saying...she is saying "Sadie, Dog, Zac, Bobby, Cloud and Pizza." Those are the pictures that Evan drew for her.

Just can't get enough of this face!

My kids are just so cute! I love it. What I don't love is that I can't seem to get a decent picture of BOTH of them at the same time. Oh well.

Bubbles!

If you are looking for something fun to do with your kids this summer try this out! We took a water bottle and cut the bottom off of it. Then you put a washcloth or rag over the bottom and secure it with a rubber band. Then you get some liquid dish soap and put it in a container, get the washcloth wet with water and dip the washcloth into the dish soap. Then take the lid off of the water bottle and blow! It is really cool! Here are some pictures of our first attempt. Sadie loved it...we will definitely be doing it again!

This is just before we were going back inside...Silly girl!

I loved this because no matter how old you are...you can make the bubbles come out! It's not as hard as those little stick things that come in the bubble containers. Just make sure they only blow out...Sadie sucked in a couple times and got some bubbles in her mouth.

They make really looooooooong bubbles.

See that white blob in the middle of the picture? That is a blob of bubbles that detached itself from the end of the water bottle and flew away down the street. Sadie started crying until I told her to just make some more. :)

This was a really fun activity. I saw it in Family Fun magazine a few months ago. Perfect for kids!

Happy Father's Day/Birthday

SO Rob's birthday is today...last year it was ON Father's day. Kinda a rip off for him, but what can you do? His twin has to deal with the same thing. :) Anyway...I just wanted to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROB!

He is the best dad and husband in the world. This morning Zac was not going back to sleep so he took him to the couch and held him so I could get some sleep. He is actually still onthe couch holding him right now. What a good man! Love you Rob!

This is the little grill that we got so that we didn't always have to heat up our house to cook dinner. He loves it!

Sadie likes to help too. Last night Rob made burgers...well, I mixed the meat and made the patties, but he actually grilled them. They were delicious! Can't wait to try our steaks on the grill tonight!

Adventures at bedtime

Any of you who talk to me frequently know that Sadie is a character when it comes to bedtime. She will do pretty much anything to get out of her room when she is supposed to be in bed. I don't really feel like writing the entire thing here, but my mom wrote about how we finally figured out how to keep her in bed on her blog here. (see #4 in that post) Anyway, so we finally got her to stay in her bed by threatening to take something out of it every time she got out.

Now she stays in her room after we put her down, but we found out that she is not staying in her bed. When I would go in to her room in the evening to check on her, I would often find HUGE piles of books from her book box in her bed. She literally only has a small little corner that she fits in when she does that. It is pretty funny. But one night, she came to the door about an hour and a half after we put her down and said something like "uh-oh". So I went in there to find this:

If you can't tell what that is in her bed...here is a closer look:

Yep...that is right. She took every single piece of clothing, including socks and hats from the dresser in her room. That means her clothes, her brother's clothes and some other odds and ends that were in there. All of the drawers were COMPLETELY empty. Oh boy. Do you see how high that stuff is piled on her bed??? Sheesh. So I made her help me put them all back in the drawers and it took me about 45 minutes the next day to re-fold everything and put it back where it belonged. Wow. What a strange thing to do. I think she did that because I noticed that anything that was left on the floor or on top of the dresser when she went to bed ended up in her bed when I would go to check on her. So I started taking everything out with me when I put her to bed. So I guess this was the only thing left to do...

...Since then, we haven't had any problems with her emptying out her drawers. She mostly just got into her books because that was the only thing to get into since I wouldn't leave anything in there for her to get. Or so I thought. The other night while Rob was at scout camp, I went in to check on Sadie. I noticed something weird on her arms and realized that she had put on a little hoodie jacket thing that belongs to Zac. I looked around on her bed and realized that she emptied out the dirty clothes bucket and put the contents on her bed. Sigh....so now I take that out at night too. What a busy little girl. I keep telling Rob "I wonder what she will do when it gets dark outside earlier? Will she still try to get into things or will she just go to sleep..."

I am a little nervous for Zac's safety when we try to move him in there....