Easter Eggs

I love to dye Easter eggs every year, so we decided this week it would be a fun activity for our Family Home Evening. We didn't let Sadie near the dye because she is grabbing everything these days, but she did have fun watching the process and then holding the eggs after they dried. Devin dying an egg for Sadie and her standing by to make sure he does it just right.

Sadie gripping her egg pretty tight, we were a little worried she would crack it.

My favorite picture of the night, what a cute girl!

Here is Sadie and I and the egg I dyed for her, I think she liked it!

The three of us, I love my family!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Birthday Mom! Yesterday was my mom's birthday and Sadie and I took her to lunch and then we went shopping at Nordstrom. It was a very fun girls day! We had her birthday dinner on Sunday night, here are a few pictures from her party. Happy Birthday Mom, we love you!Getting ready to blow out the birthday candles! Devin and I made the cake and I even attempted to write on it. Val makes such beautiful cakes, so I was a little intimidated that I was in charge of the cake. I thought it was cute, but definitely not anything close to Val's masterpieces.

Kyle and Sadie having some fun. It was her first ride on the shoulders and she looks a little nervous. My cute cousin Hannah and her boyfriend Michael, that we all love.

Carson just loves Sadie and he wanted to hold her, they looked so cute!
All of the Ford grandchildren; Carson, Brynnley and Sadie.

Our Weekend Excitement - The Hospital

Our weekend started the way I always love weekends to start, with a trip to the ER! On Friday night I was making dinner and cut my knuckle on a can. After about 45 minutes of Devin convincing me that I needed to go to the hospital I finallly decided that we couldn't just super glue it (being a florist we get cuts quite a bit and that's what we always do, so I thought we could just glue it) and that I needed to go to the hospital. There was no one else waiting when we got to the there so luckily they got us right in. The nurse said we were lucky we came tonight and not last night because at the same time yesterday there was a 2 hour wait and a fight broke out that involved the police, I was grateful that we didn't have to subject Sadie to a hospital fight! After a tetnus shot, painful numbing shots into my cut and three stiches later we were on our way home.

Here I am with my original wrap, I thought I looked like a burn victim, but I did get out of dirty diapers for the weekend, thanks Dev!

Here is my finger now, I get my stiches out in 8 days. I truly am grateful for modern medicine and for insurance. I am grateful that Devin is smarter than me and made me realize that I needed to go to the hospital. The doctor said that the knuckle is a hard to heal area and it would have taken a really long time to heal if I had glued it.

And of course we always need pictures of Sadie, so here is the face I always get now when I bring out the camera. That is her concentrated face, she is checking out the camera. Though it isn't a smile I still think she looks pretty cute!

Girls Trip To Seattle

My mom, Sadie and I took a little trip last week to Seattle and had SO much fun! We went to go visit our friends the Gamblins and had a blast just being together. We did a little shopping, a lot of eating, and a lot of talking - it was fun to have some girl time. We went to the tulip farm, which I loved and I got some beautiful tulips and daffodils (they are so cheap at the farm, I wish I lived there so that I could get them every week) that are filling my house and really making me anxious for spring. Above is a picture of my Mom, Sadie, and Jeri outside by the pool behind their house, Mt. Rainer is in the background, but I got their heads in the way when I took the picture.

Here is the view from their house, isn't it beautiful! I love Seattle, I think we could live there and be really happy, I love the rain and it is so green. Now I just have to convince Devin.

Sadie is an amazing little traveler, she was great!

I love this picture of my mom and Sadie, I love that they both have their mouths open. Grandma and Sadie did some good bonding on this trip, they were best buds by the end of the trip. Thanks mom for all of your help and a fun time, we love you!

I think this picture is really cute of Sadie in Jeri's big sink in her laundry room. It was the perfect size tub for Sadie and she loved it. She was like a little fish, kicking her legs and splashing with her arms.

We had a WONDERFUL trip and I am now trying to get my house back in order, do the laundry and get ready for my enrichment activity on Wednesday - back to reality!

4 Months Old

Sadie was 4 months old a couple of weeks ago, but life has been busy and we went to Seattle, but I wanted to make sure to blog about it. She is 13 pounds 8 ounces (43rd percentile), 25 inches for height (74th percentile), and 16 1/3 inches for her head (63rd percentile). She is a healthy little girl, who would have thought that I would have a tall baby!!

As you can tell by the spit on her face she loves, loves, loves sucking on her hands, and in the picture below you can see her doing it! You can usually find me with a burp cloth! Lately it is really hard to get a picture of her smiling, she is either sucking on her hands or she is really concerned with the camera and so I can not get her to look at me so that I can make her smile. But I promise you she is smiling and has started to giggle and laugh all of the time. She is ticklish on her little feet and her legs. I think her laugh is the cutest thing I have ever heard, it instantly brings a smile to my face. She so close to rolling over from her back to her stomach, she has started to even kick her one leg to see if she can get the momentum to roll over. I think she will any day now!

We have started to realize that she is a studier. She really studies people before she becomes comfortable with them, she will just stare until she decides she is ready to give you a smile. She loves watching people go by and just watching the world. As you can tell from the picture above her hair is coming in and it sticks straight up, we love it. She loves to talk and pretty much just yell out loud, lately she loves to lay on her back with her fingers in her mouth and just yell and hear her own voice. When she wakes up she will talk to herself and then you can tell when she is ready for us to come in because she will be talking then let out a little yell and then go back to talking. I feel like she is yelling, "Hey Mom, I am in here, come play!" Then when I go in her room I get the biggest smile, like she is saying, "You heard me!" We are loving this age and often I tell Devin, I don't want her to grow up, I just want her to stay small forever! We love you Sadie!

Our Little Family

Here are few cute pictures of our little family from the past few weeks!

Little Love

On Sunday night we went to our friends, The Cherry's, house for dinner. They have a little boy that was born just a few weeks before Sadie. When we first layed them down on the playmat side by side they just kept watching each other, I think they were just surprised to see someone else their same size. Then a little bit later while we were eating dinner we look over and they were holding hands, it was the cutest thing ever! When we first set them by eachother he was kicking his legs and talking a little, we jokingly said they were flirting, so it was hilarious later when they were holding hands! Sadly I didn't have my camera there, so I didn't get a picture, but I wanted to blog about it so that I didn't forget it. What a cute girl!