My little princess and her creativity

Sadie went to her first princess party. Her friend Kambree turned four. They all looked so cute in their princess dress up. Of course we had to borrow a dress from our neighbor, because Sadie dress up is spiderman not princess.

My little princess in her Cinderella dress. She actually enjoyed dressing up. After I put the dress on she danced around and she even asked to watch Cinderella. I think it is time I get some princess stuff and let my girl be a girly girl.
Sadie made this flower all by herself. She has become very creative lately. She has imaginary friends. The tiger is the most popular. She plays with him all the time and he fits in her hand. I love that she has such a big imagination. It entertains her for a good part of the day. She has also starting writing several letters. I am going to start teaching her how to read this coming fall. I have a great book that I will be using to teach her.

Hard Working Man

Ben volunteered to replace the engine in my step brothers car. He has been working on this off and on for a few months now. The other day he finally got the engine out. I'm so glad he is getting close to being done. I know he likes to do this kind of stuff, so I have been really patient about not having a place to put both cars in the garage.

Sawyer Crawling

He finally moves! Sawyer finally decided to crawl one day before his 16 month birthday. We have been working with him a lot. We have a physical therapist come once a month and we go to baby yoga once a week to help build his muscle strength. After all he has gone through it is so nice to finally see him enjoying life and progressing in his development. I love this little boy so much!

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Little Helper

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Clappin Feeties

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Princess Room

Here is the final project. I should have taken before pictures. The bottom half of these walls were dark brown and the top half white. I decided to take this project as my own. I used frog tape to paint the striped wall. It took some serious time, but I really like how it turned out.

My sister-in-law Julie does these awesome vinyls.

This is Sadie's kitchen Santa brought her. She tells me "mom I need to clean my kitchen. It's dirty". Maybe she does pay attention to what mom does in the kitchen!Another cute vinyl.

This is on the small wall as you walk into the bedroom.

Winter Fun

Sadie has been talking about building a snowman for over 2 months now and we finally got good enough snow to do it. After her and daddy built the snowman. She said "hi snowman, Daddy the snowman isn't saying hi". Ben had to explain to her that the snowman is pretend. I guess frosty the snowman has really confused her.Sadie had her first taste of an icicle this year.

My little cutie wearing the hat mommy made her. I made the flowers in every color and every size and it's on an interchangeable clip. So I just switch the flowers out with her outfits. It is so much easier then doing the little bit of hair she does have.

My sweet little Soy-Bean

My little boy is growing up, but not really. At almost 15 months he still doesn't crawl. He has been getting up on all fours since he was 10 months, but he just doesn't crawl. I feel like his development has been delayed due to his health condition, being in intense pain, crying constantly with no relief for the first year of his life. One good thing is he is doing much better. We have him on a drug called Nuerontin. It is a drug for nerve ending problems. For the first time in Sawyer's life I don't have to give him suppositories and he goes on his own everyday! This is only the 2nd child my pediatrician has prescribed this drug to. We also have him on a very special diet with no milk or soy. This has been a big adjustment for me to make meals for him. We always make sure he has lots of fiber in his diet. We give him lentil soup, grape juice, and miralax everyday along with is medicine.

Sawyer sporting the new hat mom made him. I will admit I'm really obsessed with crocheting this year. I love trying different styles. So far this is one of my favorite.

Okay I know this picture may be a little inappropriate, but I just can't resist that cheese ball smile. I love his big teethies as we call them. I also love his "hole". His mouth is huge and we call it his "HOLE". Oh, I love this munchin.Sawyer loves to bounce in his bouncy. He tends to wear himself out. He fell asleep and continued to bounce in it while he was asleep. I have to say he is pretty talented.

Daddy

This is the best dad ever! I'm so grateful for the dad my children have. He always knows when mommy needs a brake and he steps right in. Especially with our little guy Sawyer. Sawyer has been the biggest challenge in my life with all his health problems and being in pain all the time. Just when mom can't handle it anymore dad is right there to step in and take over with our little man. He loves playing with the kids and they love him! Thanks honey for all you do!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Daddy and Sadie! It has taken a lot to convince Sadie that she is 3. We would tell her you are 3 and she would say I'm not 3 I'm 2. I think she has finally figured it out a month later. We had lots of fun! We had everyone over for cake and ice cream. Sadie enjoyed all the presents and her Cat in the Hat cake.

Christmas

Sawyer was not a fan of Santa this year and I don't think Santa was a fan of him.

Sadie on the other hand loved Santa. She told him she wanted Cat in the Hat DVD and Spiderman. She has way to many boy cousins. We went down the boy isle in Shopko and she got so excited. "Mom, it's Dinosaur Train, Cars, and Thomas!" and then we head down the girl isle and not a word is said not princess not nothing. I've tried watching the fairy movie, but she tells me "I can't like this I want to watch cars". Seriously! Where did I go wrong?Our first Christmas morning in our new home! Sawyer didn't care much for the presents, but Sadie really enjoyed opening her presents. After she opened her Cat in the Hat DVD it was over. She didn't care about opening anymore presents she just wanted to watch her DVD.
Santa did bring "Spiderman". It took a lot for mommy to let go and let her wear the new pajamas. She really likes them and she tells me I want to wear my spiderman when it's time to change into other clothes. Did I mention she webs people! She is the cutest thing I have ever seen wear spiderman.

The Train

We had fun with Aunt Mandi and cousin KaLaya. We rode the front runner to Salt Lake. Sadie thought she was on a bus not a train. We tried to convince her that it was a train. When she heard the horn she would say train. Then we explained to her we were on the train, but she just argued with us that we were on a bus. Maybe she will better understand next time.

After we rode the front runner we headed to the gateway to make a kitty at build a bear and then we met up with the whole family for our Christmas dinner at the Lion House.

The Lights

We went to dinner and the lights in Salt Lake with some of our neighbors. It's nice to live by people you enjoy spending time with. It was also nice to spend some time with my sweet husband.

First Time

Just getting started. Ben is enjoying all the responsibilities of having your own place. Snow blowing is a neighborhood activity around here. Everyone races out to their snow blowers and sees how many neighbors houses they can snow blow before anyone else comes to help.

He definitely wasn't prepared for a first timer. He wore sneakers and as you can see he got wasted by the snow. Good thing he has a good wife that got him some good boots for Christmas. I love this man.

Playing with Dad

Daddy and Sadie love to play together. It has been so fun this year enjoying all the adventures of our own place. This is 2 weeks after playing in leaves. We must live in Utah. Sadie really enjoys eating snow.