Wedding Flowers and Sleepless in Seattle!

In the first week of August Sadie and I were able to take a trip to Seattle. Our family friends, The Gamblins, son was getting married and they flew me up to Seattle to do the flowers for the wedding. Devin wasn't able to go with us and we missed him a ton!!! My parents and my brother and his family all came as well. The first couple of days we were there I pretty much did flowers most of the day, I think Sadie was pretty confused why I kept leaving her and not returning for hours, but she did have a great time with Grandpa and Grandma, cousins, aunt and uncle, and the Gamblins. It was hard for me to be without her, I missed her like crazy while I was doing the flowers. Thank you to everyone for your help watching Sadie while I was doing flowers!

The Bride and Groom outside the Seattle Temple with Alan and Jeri Gamblin (grooms parents)

The wedding cake, I thought it was such a cute cake!

Sophia with her bridal bouquet, she picked some really fun colors. Her dress was amazing, these pictures do not do it justice!

The day after the wedding we were able to go to the Seattle Aquarium and Pike's Place Market with just my family and we had a blast! Sadie loved the aquarium, here we are!

Sadie and I being scuba divers, it was hilarious she kept trying to chew on the wood cutout, my mom had to work hard for this picture!

Grandpa and Sadie outside the Aquarium on the docks. It was pretty cool while we were there and it made me excited for fall, I love the rain and I think I really could live in Seattle.

Sadie loved the big tanks. Here she is with her cousins Carson and Brynnley pressed up against the glass. She would squeal with delight as stuff swam by and tap on the glass. I think she could have stayed there all day, she was pretty mad when I made her move on to the next exhibit. It was really fun to watch her.

While we were in Pike's Place Market we just happened to eat at the same restaurant where they filmed a scene from Sleepless in Seattle. This just happens to be one of mine and Val's favorite movies, so we were pumped!! Here we are sitting in the exact stools that they sat on at lunch, we just kept saying that this made our day! I think it was fate that we were led there. We had a wonderful trip, it was fun to be able to do flowers, visit with friends and family, and see Seattle, but were very happy to come home and be with Devin. I don't think I can do another 5 days without him for a long while!

9 Months Old

So I am a little bit behind on blogging......Sadie was 9 months a couple of weeks ago, but I am finally getting around to documenting it! I can not believe she is this old, I always tell Devin that I want her to stay little forever, but she just keeps growing - I am loving this age. She doesn't seem to feel the same way because she is in a hurry to do everything. We went to our doctors appointment and Sadie kept showing off by standing up not holding on to things, walking around holding on to the furniture at the office and Dr. Witt kept saying, "Sadie what's the hurry." Needless to say she is our little active mover! She is standing up on her own, walking around holding on to anything that will support her (including other kids which I think scares some of the other kids because as she uses them to stand up sometimes she pulls their pants off! I am trying to stop that - We are working on it), and she is crawling all the way upstairs by herself. She was 18 lbs 7 oz (45%) and 28 1/2 in (83%), as for now she is tall, we will see how that pans out because when your mom is 5'1" I feel like she doesn't have a great chance at being tall.

Here she is with her Mohawk that daddy gave her in the bathtub. We seriously don't know what to do with her hair, but we love it. Her hair is crazy in the back, always sticking up like a rooster! I love when she wakes up from her nap and I go in because I never know what her hair is going to look like. As you can tell from the picture she loves taking baths and playing with her toys in the tub. After we get her undressed she crawls as fast as she can to the tub and stands by the side just bouncing with excitement waiting to get in. The bathroom is probably her favorite room in the house because she has discovered the toilet paper and thinks it is the best toy ever invented.

Everything goes into her mouth, somehow she seems to find the smallest piece of paper or leaf or whatever and puts it directly into her mouth. I can always tell when she has something because she sits and stares at me knowing she has something she should not have. I love that she has a guilty face, I hope that comes in handy in the years to come! She still just has the 2 bottom teeth, but that still does not stop her from biting everything! Her favorite word to say is still "DA DA", I love hearing her say it, it is so cute! Occasionally we get "na na" and "ma ma", but not that often, not often enough for me. Her little voice is too cute, I could listen to it all day.

She is still a good little eater. We finally got her a highchair and she loves it. Her favorite foods are; sweet potatoes, bananas, banana bread, yogurt melts, graham crackers, teething biscuits, and nutri grain bars. She eats anything we give her, we are so thankful! We gave her a salt and vinegar chip the other day because she really wanted it thinking that she would hate it. She licked it, made a hilarious sour face and then squealed with delight, she loved it! I can't believe the things she will eat. I gave her a bite of ice cream for the first time the other day and after her first bite she went "mmm", it was so funny! The picture above is her in her highchair with her teddy. She has started having days where she wants to take this teddy bear with her where ever she goes. That day she really wanted it to sit with her while she ate lunch!

This last picture is of her at her new favorite spot, the bottom of the stairs holding on to the gate. She would climb the stairs all day if we let her, so sometimes we have to put up the gate. She just waits at the bottom holding on until we take it down again, what a funny girl. I love being a mom and I am especially grateful everyday to be Sadie's mom. I can't wait for the next 9 months to see what adventures we have in store, we love you Sadie!