Add-on

So I have no pictures and I am ashamed! I have been searching since my last post for photo proof but I have none!  So here it is with no photos!  I also got to meet my adorable niece Ellery for the first time while my family was in town! And she is perfectly squishable.  I'm pretty sure we are friends now too! I tried to steal some pictures from your Instagram Whirtney!! But it wouldn't allow it! So the one picture or all of us at Dave and Busters will have to wait! But we had a fun triple date night withy bro and my sis and spouses and it was a blast! And a game night too with Brent and Katy! And a girls night with mom and Karli!  Oh man I'm missing everyone all over now! It was seriously so nice and the only thing missing was Jessica's fam! Darn being 38 weeks prego! But on the plus side, there will be a new adorable niece in just a little while! And Sadie, Ellery, and Little miss will be best of friends! The End!

Catch-up

This is going to be a photo bomb since I just remembered that I have a blog!  I haven't posted in 3 months, so this is what's been going on!

The summer has ended, but we have a few memories from then to post!  We went to the library for a few things this summer, the most recent was a story time with ... oh man I can't remember the dogs name now!  Well this dog from the kids books!  We have so many of the books!  Oh well!  The kids thought it was neat to see him in person!

Sadie has turned into quite the climber/explorer... but when I cleaned out this cupboard one day she played in and out in and out for almost an hour!  It was fun to watch her play!

She also loves the stairs, and she's really good at them.  We never use the gate anymore and she goes up and down no problem!  By far the youngest any of my kids have become good at the stairs!  Also the first one to be raised in a home with stairs!

Peeking through the railings is her favorite game!

Jeremy had a basketball injury.  It's been sad since he usually plays twice a week and it has been over two months and he's just now able to go back!  It was a nasty looking sprain and kept him limping for quite a while.  We are glad he's healed now!!

Cuties!

And back to school happened!  My babies are growing up!  

Brenna had some new clothes (thanks again Aunt Aly) to choose from for the first week or two of school, and I was pleasantly surprised at how well her matching skills have improved!  I thought this was a very well put together outfit!

Even Owen started school!  He's doing a preschool co-op so we switch houses and he's enjoying it!  

About the same time Jeremy got hurt I had started doing Insanity!  I got up early every morning for 60 days and did the Insanity workouts... the kids got up with me for the first 30 days or so.  It was nice when they slept in a bit and I could workout before they woke up!  This is after one of my workouts!

We missed ward campout due to injury and work and things, and so we camped in the living room... well the kids did anyway!

I CANNOT get a good picture of all 4 kids together... should be interesting at family photos in a few weeks!

As soon as we go into Sadie's room for any reason, she goes RIGHT to the crib, crawls under and grabs any pacifiers she can find.  She knows right where they'll be since she throws them there during her naps.  I think it's so funny the efficiency she can do this with!

We just got to spend a bit of time with these beautiful people!  My parents came to visit and I enjoyed seeing them so much!  It had been a while since we didn't go home this summer, and I soaked up every minute!  It always flies by so fast!  But we did some fun things and kept busy and I miss them already!  

I got a family one too but it must be on Jeremy's phone!  Coming soon!

We went to a cardinals game with them while they were here, and it was so much fun!  I don't love watching sports on TV, but I always love watching live sporting events!  This game was awesome!

Jeremy found the coolest park ever when he had the kids and was waiting for rush hour traffic to subside.  You can't tell, but Mason is up at the very very tippy top!  I would have had a heart attack for sure, Jeremy said he was even pretty nervous with him up there!  But for Mason it was a slice of heaven as climbing is one of his favorite things!

These next photos aren't exactly in order, but We Did some more fun things with my parents too!  And also a few of my Aunts and Uncles and my Grandma Peterson were able to come so it was really nice to see them too! The girls went to a play at Hale Theatre and my parents and Grandma came to our ward trunk or treat too!

We also carved our pumpkins and had a fun Halloween around here.  Sadie and I stayed home to hand out candy while the kids trick or treated with Jeremy.  

Well there you have it!  Lots of Photos and not too much back story!  Next time will hopefully be sooner and longer-winded... haha 

Noodle Nose

This morning Sadie sneezed a noodle out of her nose!  That's the whole story!  It was so funny, and I don't have a picture because she woke up super early and couldn't stop sneezing (she had had some spaghetti for dinner).  I thought she was sick since she sneezed so many times, and then on her last sneeze a 2-3 inch noodle came shooting out!  I couldn't stop laughing!  

1 Year Old!

Today my little munchkin turned 1!  I'm still in denial I think because every time we talk about what was happening one year ago today I feel like it was just yesterday!  We didn't do much to celebrate, because, lets face it... she's one!  But we had a nice day as a family!  I'm starting at the end though!  I decided to do my own cake smash photo shoot to make up for not having a party and for being the 4th child (although I rarely feel that she is slighted for that!).  So the cake smash didn't go as well as it did in my head!  The cake was fairly sad looking (my icing wouldn't stop melting!!) And Sadie didn't even really get into it!  She was more interested in the cupcakes she saw the other kids eating!  We tried to convince her to eat hers, but she only ate like one bite and we shoved that one in her mouth!  Oh well, she looked cute doing it!

This picture is blurry, but it makes me laugh so much!  Those eyes!

We also tried to do some presents!  Although besides grandparents, and one dress we got her, the kids just chose some of our old toys to give to her!  And it worked out well because she didn't care at all about what was in the presents!  haha she took like 10 minutes to open her first one (from Grandma and Grandpa Smith this morning, so that she could wear the outfit!) and then later when we did the rest, she didn't care... the kids took the toys out and shoved them all on her!

Oh look!  A few more cake pictures!  haha I wish I had the patience to reorganize the pictures right now!

We had a nice overcast day here too so I took her out to the backyard to snap a few pictures and see if we can get a good one... I definitely appreciate that great pictures come from good cameras and some training though!  I kept kicking myself for missing the moment, but we got a couple of cute ones!

It's hard to believe a year has already flown by.  We can't imagine our family without our sweet Sadie.  She is loved by all (like really, deeply, physically can't keep their hands off loved!) in our family and usually such a ray of sunshine!  She has gotten the hang of squealing lately.  If she is not getting the attention she wants or if someone is bothering her, she squeals high and loud!  I still think it's cute for now.. 
She is still a big girl, and a healthy eater!  She Can say a few words, but the only one I'm positive she is doing on purpose is uh-oh.  She also loves growling and does it anytime she sees an animal.  She will mimic a lot of things which is funny.  
She loves her daddy a lot!  Today he met us at the summer movie and Sadie was so excited, she went from tired and grumpy to giggling, smiling, and kicking her legs in excitement in half a second!  
Sadie can be called Sadie, Sadie Rae, Sade, Princess, or Sweat Pea depending on who is talking to her.  She takes two naps a day still, is walking like a pro, has 5.5 teeth, and is a climber all the way too.  She loves drinking out of straws and cups and she can go both up and down the stairs.  It will be nice to have some more quiet time with her and Owen when the older two go to school in a week!  She is pretty content just to walk around an play if she can have some peace!  
We are so grateful for her!  Brenna told me today she thinks we should have one more baby too though now that Sadie isn't our little baby anymore.  I'm not too sure she's wrong!  I guess we'll see what the future holds, but for now I'm cherishing every last baby moment!