Our family of 5!

Changes coming..

2011-11-12T14:17:00.000-08:00

Well I can't believe that it has been 2 months again since I have blogged!! But I have decided that before I post anymore on here that I as many of you have will be going PRIVATE!! Gosh, I never thought I would say that, but I have just been getting too many "visitors" that I have no idea who they are checking my blog and I want to keep my little people and family safe and so I am going to go private. So I will be doing this in a few weeks. I realize that the "private" blogs don't get looked at as much, but I feel like I need to do this.

So I hope that you will all still check in with us, even though I have been a horrible blogger lately. So please leave me your email address if you want a invite to our blog! I will not post your email addresses, it will only come so I can see them. Also if you check our blog and are a friend of a friend or whatever and would like a invite, let me know who you are and I would be happy to send you a invite as well! :)
Thanks and hopefully once we have changed this I will get some of the things we have been busy doing on here.

Our family update!

2011-09-26T16:58:00.000-07:00

Gosh, I can't believe I haven't posted again for awhile. Summer went by and now we are already into fall. We have had some new things happening at our house and they are keeping us busy!
First off Sadie and Sawyer started Preschool and love it! My sister Michele does a preschool out of her home and they love going and being with their cousin Ireland and Aunt Michele. Sophie and I hang out at my Mom's house with our cute nephew Boston while they are at school.

Sawyer started Soccer and has done really well, he loves talking about his Soccer friends and his coach. He looks so cute in his uniform. :)
Sadie started Dance and loves that as well. She has found a cute new friend in her class and thinks it's her job to show her the ropes I guess, the little girl just let's her do it and doesn't seem to mind. She is also in the class with her cousin Ireland and I am her new teacher as well. :) I haven't taught since before I got pregnant with Sophie, but it's nice to be back and it gives me a little break from my sweet kids. My sister Michele takes them and watches them for me while I teach and I watch her kids and my kids on Tuesdays while she teaches. It works out good!

Sophie is growing so fast and I want her to slow down, she is 4 months now and such a fun and happy baby! We all love her to pieces! She is rolling over all over the place and laughs and just adores Sadie and Sawyer. I love to hear and see them playing and talking with her and making her laugh out loud, the cutest thing ever!
She also loves her daddy a ton! Every time she hears his voice she starts looking for him and just stares at him while he is talking, just waiting for him to look at her and when he does she gives him the biggest smile ever! Melts my heart it is so sweet!
We had a great summer and are looking forward to cooler weather and fall.. Not so much winter, but I guess living where we do we get it no matter if we like it or not! :)

I don't think our lives will be slowing down anytime soon, so I am hoping I will be able to keep up on blogging better ( I hope anyway!) We hope that you are all doing well and here are some pictures of what has been going on around here! Enjoy!!

Sadie and Sawyer's first day of Preschool!

Still can't believe these two can be old enough for Preschool

My sweet little Sadie

My handsome little Sawy

Ireland, Sadie and Sawyer ready to go to preschool

Our Soccer boy!

Our Ballerina!

Our little Sophie girl @ 4 months!

She weighs 13 lbs. 7 oz.

and is 25 in height! Tall and skinny girl.

Sophie's special day!

2011-08-10T21:35:00.000-07:00

On July 31st Sophie was blessed. Lance gave a wonderful blessing to her and we were able to celebrate afterwards with family and friends! Thanks to all who were able to come, it was a great day!

Me getting Sophie ready

Showing off her pretty dress

My beautiful baby girl! It's tradition for my parents to buy the grand kids their blessing outfits. So thanks Mom and Dad. My Mom and I had fun picking it out!

Mommy and Soph

The five of us! Still can't believe I have 3 kids darling kids and a wonderful hubby. I am super blessed. I love them all so much!

My wonderful parents with Sophie

This was interesting trying to get all 3 kids to sit still for these pictures! But at least we got some.

The 3 cuties

Daddy and Mommy with our sweet girl

This is my nieces and nephews on my side, 19 Grand kids all together! Wow, awesome!

These are my nephews from Oregon, it was so great that they could be here and my sis in law. We missed having my brother, but he had to stay back and work! The littlest boy there is my other brother's sweet baby Boston. He was born a month before Sophie. I hope they will be good friends when they get older. :)

My cute Grandma Dillon, Sophie's great grandma!

Lance's parents

Lance's Grandma Holbrook, Soph's great Grandma!

The kids new pictures!

2011-08-04T09:53:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago I took the kids to get pictures! Sadie and Sawyer's 3 year old pictures and Sophie's 2 month pics! I think they turned out cute! Here they are.

My 3 adorable kids!

I love how this one turned out!

Sadie, 3 years old.. Can't believe it!

Sawyer 3 years old, where did the time go!

Sophie 2 months old. This one scanned funny!

My sweet baby.. She wouldn't give us any of her cute smiles! But it is still precious!

Sophie in her blessing dress!

My parents always buy the grand kids their blessing outfits, so my Mom and I went and picked it out. I love it!

My twiners!! These two are so funny and love each other so much. They were being so silly during the photo shoot! Love all my kids and feel blessed they are ours!

Sophie is 2 months old!!

2011-07-20T22:42:00.000-07:00

Sophie was 2 months old on July 16th! The time is already going fast. We love our little Sophie girl. She is so sweet and loves to smile and coo at everyone! I took her for her 2 month appointment and here are her stats: Weight 10 lbs 9 oz. 50% Height: 22.8 75% Head: 15 1/4 50%
She is growing great and hasn't had to much trouble with the shots that she had to have. Just a little sad yesterday, but doing much better today!

She has the cutest smile!

She likes her swing, except when her big brother decides to push her way too high! He thinks it's a ride!

We were at a Splash park one day and there was not much shade and she was tired of being in her stroller, so we used my nephews stroller for shade and layed her under it and she fell right to sleep!

Sadie and Sawyer turn 3!!

2011-07-11T20:42:00.000-07:00

As I was looking through pictures on the camera I realized that I had not blogged about the twins birthday party! Hello! Goodness, it was a whirlwind weekend for sure with parties also for two of my nephews the same day as the twins and family in town and stuff and I just totally forgot! Anyway so here are some pictures from their big day! We were debating on doing a big party at one of the Jump places, but then with everything else going on that weekend and the prices of the places, we decided to just have a fun home party and the kids would not know any different this year and as long as they had a party they would love it! And they did! We had two pinatas a princess and a Cars one. That was the theme this year Cars the movie and Princesses and it was fun! There are a lot of pics so bare with me! Enjoy!

Sadie showing me her Princess card from Lance and I.

Sawyer doing the same! They wanted pictures of them showing the cards. :)

Sadie's new princess doll

Sawyer's new talking Buzz and Woody!

Her pretty princess crown.

Sawy's new dart gun

My two 3 year olds!! Taking pictures was interesting to say the least with these two cuties! They just kept wanting to be silly, as you will see in the next picture. :)

I LOVE this one!! They kept looking at each other instead of at the camera, but I thought this one was really cute with the two of them giggling with each other!

My 3 cuties! Had to get Sophie in there with them!

The party table!

Waiting to open presents!

Go SAWYER!

We started out using the sticks and that didn't work so well and so we moved them over to the swing set and hooked them on there and that worked out great!

Go SADIE!

Uncle Joe and Uncle Lance were the helpers!

They had so much fun!

My sis in law Britt always make cupcakes for all the niece and nephews for their birthdays and so this year my oldest niece wanted to help her out. So Britt made the cupcakes and then told Sydney how to decorate them. I think they turned out cute. Britt gave Sadie the princess toppers also as part of her gift.

The stop light cupcakes!

Ready to get sung to. This cake was kinda last minute to order. We had the yummy cupcakes and then I decided that I would get a cake for the adults in case they wanted that too. So I got in from Sam's and they totally messed it up! Not the colors I asked for and they spelled Sadie's name wrong and instead of re writing it they just wrote over her letter "d" and you could totally tell! I was ticked off and I didn't have time to have them make a new one, so I got what should have been a $20.00 cake, for $6.00 instead! That works for me! Don't think I will go there again.

Getting ready to sing!

Blowing out the candles!

The kids got spoiled! It looked like CHRISTMAS at our house again! We thank all our family who came to celebrate with us and for all the nice gifts the kids got!

4th of July fun!

2011-07-09T19:51:00.000-07:00

We had a great 4th! My brother and his family were in town from Oregon for my nephew Boston's baby blessing so it was fun having them here! We went to the West Jordan parade, it's a Kuehne family tradition. It was Sophie's first parade. Then we went over to my parents and the guys all went golfing and the girls took the kids to see Cars 2! Then we all met back at my parents for dinner and playing around and fireworks. We all had a wonderful time!

Sadie girl getting ready to go to the parade! My Mom bought Sadie and my niece Ireland these hats. Sadie kept calling it her "Parade hat"!

Sawyer giving big cheesy smiles

My sweet kiddo's

Sawy waiting for the Parade to start

Sadie waiting too..

Twiners

Sadie showing off her headband that Grandma bought her also.

My beautiful niece Sydney with Sophie. Sydney is the oldest grandchild and Sophie is the youngest. There is 16 years between them! :)

My cousin had this big old chair and so we put all the babies that were born in the last few months in it and took their picture. Shyenne, Boston and Sophie. Shyenne is my cousin's little girl and was born in March, Boston is my little bro Derek's and was born in April and Sophie in May! :)

This is Brice, my oldest brother Lance's oldest son. They live in Oregon. He is the oldest grandson!

Here is Sadie. We had family pictures Sunday after Boston's blessing since my brother and fam were leaving again. And after we had pictures done at Wheeler farm we went back to Derek and Britt's and roasted marshmallows and had smore's it was a fun night!

Sadie with my Mom, she decided to wear her cousin Ireland's hat backwards and wanted me to take a picture!

Sawyer and Lance roasting marshmallows

Here is the only picture I got from the blessing. My niece Kasidee, bro Derek, nephew Dillon and Boston and sis in law Britt! I just love their house, it is so cute. I always tell Britt I want her to come and decorate my house for me. We are so excited to have Boston in our family, we waited a long time for him and he is just so darn cute!

Happy 3rd Birthday Sadie and Sawyer!! July 2nd, 2011

2011-07-01T21:56:00.000-07:00

Wow, I can't believe that my babies are 3! Where did the time go, seriously! We have had so much fun with them the past 3 years and they are such great kids! They are best friends and every time we go anywhere they always have to hold each other's hands and walk with each other. We always are getting compliments on how cute they are and asking if they are twins, and then people saying "That is the sweetest thing ever" never fails. And Lance and I just look at each other and smile. It really is cute!

They definitely have their brother and sister fights, but they are never far behind in saying they are sorry and telling each other they love one another and giving hugs! They love to play together and are always coming up with creative things to do. And I love that they always have a buddy to keep them entertained!

Sadie loves to play "Mommy" with her dolls and wishes that I would even let her use Sophie as one of her babies! She loves to take care of her and make sure she is okay, always giving her blankets and her binky and loves helping to feed her the bottles! She is still a Mommy's girl, but has her Daddy wrapped around her finger! She is also very much a girlie girl, she loves dressing up and pretending to put makeup on when I am doing my own make up. She loves to Dance and sing and we love watching her. She has the sweetest little voice, except when she is having one of her melt downs and is yelling at us! Luckily that does not happen too often! :) She can be a drama queen sometimes, Lance says she gets that from me.. I don't know what he is talking about!! :) She is a smart little girl too. We love her so much and are so happy she is part of our family. She is a great big sister to Sawyer and Sophie!

Sawyer loves to play with his trucks and tools and is always coming up with something to build! He loves to ride on his horse and wear his cowboy hat. I think he wants to be a Fireman though when he grows up, he loves the fire truck and every time he see's one he thinks it is so cool. We have a fire station in our neighborhood and I really want to take him over there one day and see if they would let him look at one close up! He is very much a Daddy's boy! He loves Lance and loves when they get to have their Daddy and Sawyer days, they go fishing or to the park. And at night he loves to tell Lance stories and never wants him to leave his room, he misses his Daddy during the day! He has the cutest stories he tells too, he is a sweet little boy! He does keep me on my toes though, he has a big imagination and sometimes he gets himself into some mischief for sure. Some days I am blown away with the things he says or comes up with, he is one smart kid! Sometimes Lance and I look at each other and think were did he come up with that or how does he know all this stuff. We love him to death and I am so glad he is our son and he is part of our family. He loves his sisters very much too!

So Happy Birthday my sweet babies! Thanks for letting me be your Mom, I wouldn't trade it for anything!! Love you two!

Here are some pictures of them from about 5 weeks old to 2 1/2. We will be getting their 3 year old pictures done this weekend! Enjoy!

Blessing picture about 5 weeks old, July 2008

3 months old, October 2008, I always loved Sadie's face in this picture, she was so serious!

7 Months old, Feb 2009

1 year old! July 2009

18 months old, Feb 2010

2 years old! July 2010

2 1/2 years old, Feb 2011

Stay tuned for their 3 year old pictures and our new family pictures!! :)

A Day at the Zoo!!

2011-06-30T21:50:00.000-07:00

Lance had today off so we decided to take the kiddo's to the Zoo! We all had a fun day and the weather was perfect. Not too hot and there was even a nice breeze. It was super crowded, but I think it was because it was such good weather. But we enjoyed ourselves! Here are some pics from our day!

Daddy and Sawyer looking at the Monkey's!

Sadie, Daddy & Sawyer

Sweet baby Sophie hanging out! She was so good all day in her stroller.

Me and my sweet kiddo's, Sawyer was interested in something other than taking another picture! I love Sadie's cheesy smile!

My twiners who are almost 3! I can't believe it!!

And I had to throw this one in that I took the other day! Just because I think they are so cute, Sawyer was giving big cheesy smiles. I feel so lucky to be their Mom! I still can't believe that I have 3 kids! Wow, I am very blessed for sure. I love them so much!! ♥

Sadie and Sophie..Comparing!

2011-06-12T09:55:00.000-07:00

I knew as soon as Sophie was born that she looked like Sadie. But when I was looking at some pictures of Sadie as a baby I found this one and then the one I had just taken of Sophie and they really do look a like, I think anyway!

The one on the top is Sadie at 3 months and then Sophie at 3 weeks. Sophie was 2 pounds bigger than Sadie at birth, Sadie was only 4 lbs 7 oz and Sophie was 6 lbs 15 oz and in this picture she was already 7 pounds. :) I just thought it was fun to compare. I was also looking through my baby book and both my girls look just like me when I was a baby. I was looking at them with the kids and even Sawyer kept saying it was Sophie and I told him it was actually Mommy as a baby! I tried putting the pictures side by side on here, but it wouldn't work. :)

What Sadie and Sawyer have been up to!

2011-06-10T13:09:00.000-07:00

Since I have done a few posts about our sweet Sophie, I thought that I would do one on the twins and let you know what they have been up to. They will be 3 next month and I just think that is so crazy! We have survived the past 3 years with twins and have loved it as well. They are so much fun and such great big sister and brother.

Sadie loves to dance and loves anything girly! She is always dressing up and wanting to wear my shoes around. She loves playing Mommy with her baby dolls and loves helping me take care of Sophie. She also loves to sing and has the cutest little voice, Lance and I just love listening to her.

Sawyer is all about his cars, trains and boy stuff! He loves to make huts with all my blankets and chairs and I feel like I am always cleaning that stuff up, but it keeps him entertained so that's good! He has the best imagination and is always coming up with things to do. He loves playing with Sadie and he is also a good singer, when we drive in the car it's super cute to hear them both singing their little songs. He also likes to go fishing with Lance.

They both love going to the park and their Daddy is so great to take them and they love it. They have gone and done a lot of park time with Lance since I have had Sophie and they always come home and tell me how much fun they have. They both also love to read books, Lance took them for their first time to the library and they had so much fun picking out their very own books.

We love them so much and can't believe how big they are getting. They are good kids!

Sophie's Birth Announcement!

2011-06-10T12:42:00.000-07:00

Here is Sophie's announcement that I did. I think it turned out cute! I will be getting all 3 kids pictures taken when I do Sophie's blessing pictures the end of this month and we will be getting a new family picture taken in July! So those will come soon. :) Some of you have already seen these, but thought I would post it for those who haven't! :) She will be 4 weeks old on Monday and I can't believe how fast that has gone! We are loving her and she has been sleeping really good, usually only gets up at 3 and 6 and sometimes just at 6, I like those nights! We love her to pieces!!

Dance Review!

2011-06-06T09:24:00.000-07:00

We had our end of year Dance Review for our Dance studio on May 14th, two days before I had Sophie! I was feeling huge and ready to pop. But I made it to the performance to see the kids and I was glad that I did. They did such a great job! Sadie did two dances again this year and had so much fun. Sawyer even joined in on the Wa hoo dance, it was a cowboy/cowgirl dance with horses and since he was always down there with me watching Sadie he wanted to do it, so my Mom said she would make him a horse as well and if he wanted he could dance with them. We figured it wasn't a girly dance and he just wore jeans and a t shirt and cowboy hat. He would practice with them here and there, when he wasn't off playing with cousin Ryker. The few days before the review we asked him if he was excited to show us his dance with Sadie and he kept saying he didn't want to. So we didn't care either way if he did or not, we wanted to see him do it because it was so cute but we also weren't going to push him to do it either. But in the end he got up there and danced with the girls and it was cute!
So here are some of the pictures, our camera was being kinda dumb so some of the pics are blurry! But you can still see how cute they are!

Sadie in her cute "Wahoo" costume

Another little pose

My cute little Cowboy and Cowgirl

Dancing with their horses

Sadie doing her "This little piggy went to market dance", she is the second one over from the left. My little niece Ireland is on the end.

And our little family after the performance. I don't care for myself in this picture, but the rest of them look cute! It was a fun night and we celebrated after at Leatherby's!

Sophie's 2 week check up!

2011-05-26T20:46:00.000-07:00

Today we took Sophie in for her 2 week check up. She did great, except for the PKU, she didn't care for that, but I don't blame her!
Here are her stats:
Weight: 7 lbs 12 oz. 50 %
Length: 19 3/4 in. 55%
Head: 13 3/4 45%

I was surprised when they said she had gained almost a pound since her birth weight! She does like to eat though. And I am glad she gained weight instead of lost it, the twins were always smaller because they had acid reflux and could keep little down. So it's good that she does not have that ( knock on wood) and we are glad that her appointment went great! :)

Sophie is 1 week old!!

2011-05-23T08:29:00.000-07:00

I can't believe that a week has gone by already! Sophie has been so much fun and we love her to pieces! We are not getting much sleep yet, but that's to be expected I guess! Lance stayed up with her all night last night and let me sleep which was so nice. She will do pretty good most night, sleeps for 3 hour stretches and then other nights she just wants to be held all night and has a harder time. Hopefully soon she figures it out! :)
Here are just a few pics of her and the kids and stuff during her week at home!

Our sweet Sophie girl

Big Sis and Sophie. Sadie loves to hold her, she only holds her for a few seconds at a time and then is done, but she always says " I want to hold her all by myself" :) Sophie was hungry here and wanted to eat instead of taking pictures!

My 3 sweet kids and wonderful hubby

Sophie and her Daddy

Sophie's first bath at home

Sleeping comfy after her bath

Announcing our new arrival!

2011-05-18T18:33:00.000-07:00

Sophie Marie was born Monday May 16th at 12:25 pm. She was 6 lbs. 14 Oz and 19 1/2 inches! We love her so much. It was a really easy and fast delivery, only 5 hours of labor instead of 12 like the twins! I pretty much slept the hole labor and it was so nice! I am sure Lance was bored out of his mind, but once I got my epidural I was so comfortable! I only had to feel a few uncomfortable contractions and I was glad. I didn't believe my Doctor when he said he would be back around noon to deliver her, I thought for sure I would be going into the night like before, but was so happy at 11:30 am when I was checked and they told me I was at a 10 and they were calling my Doctor to come back and deliver her! :)
And by the time he was done with his appointments and got back to the hospital it was 12:15 and she was born at 12:25, just three pushes and she was born! So easy.
I was surprised that she had hair and that it was so dark. The twins had very little and it was a lot lighter than Sophie's is.
She is just so pretty and we love her already so much. The kids came to see her once I was moved into my room and they just loved her to pieces. They wanted to love her and give her kisses. They have been staying with my parents and are still there tonight as I type this and so it will be fun and interesting to see how things go when they get home tomorrow. But I think they will so just fine!

So here are some pictures of our little princess and some other's of the kids and visitors we had! Enjoy!

Sophie Marie

Finally at home

They had this cute bow on her when they brought her in the next morning

Her cute hat with bow they glued on

My awesome Doctor, Dr. Twede, I don't like this picture of myself, right after deliver shot, ugh! But I wanted one with him, since I didn't get one with him and the twins since they were taken away so fast after they were born.

Proud, but tired Mommy!

Sophie getting to know Mommy

She did not care for her first bath!

Proudest brother ever!

Proudest sissy!

Sleeping Sophie, this picture makes her cheeks look so chubby!

The cute name tag they had on her crib, I had to take a picture of coarse!

My 3 sweet kids!

Proud Grammy Kuehne

Aunt Michele, Sadie and cousin Ireland

Cousin Ryker, Uncle Joe

Bompa Kuehne

Uncle Derek, this is my youngest brother, He and his wife Britt just had baby Boston a few weeks ago

Cute niece Kasidee, she is the sister of Boston. She is a good helper and will be a great babysitter. My kids love her.

Shyenne and Sophie, Shyenne is my cousins little girl and was born the end of March. Lots of new babies in our family.

And here is my 92 year old Grandma, Sophie's great grandma!

Well hope you enjoyed seeing our new member of the family, we sure love her!

Just 5 more days until we are a family of 5!!

2011-05-13T14:19:00.000-07:00

Wow, I can't believe that it's almost time to add our sweet Sophie to our family! We are all super excited and can't wait to meet and hold her. Monday is the day and it can't come soon enough! I will post pics and info once she is here and we are home and settled.
Wish me luck that I can handle being a Mom of 3! :) So excited!

Easter and Welcome new nephew Boston!

2011-04-26T20:14:00.000-07:00

We had a great Easter this year and we also welcomed a new nephew the day after Easter! My youngest brother Derek and his wife Brittany welcomed baby Boston on April 25th and we were so excited to finally meet him! My kids loved holding him and you will see later the pics of how cute they were with him and how sweet he is!

Here is Sawyer coloring eggs at my parents house. He wanted to do all the eggs a blue color, that's his favorite color!

Sadie doing her eggs

Sadie was so careful not to spill the dye..

Here they are next doing cookies, we did the eggs and cookies all on the same day at my parents with their cousins it was so fun!

Sawyer could have eaten the frosting and been just as happy!

Sadie doing her cookies, she loved the sprinkles ( a little too much) :)

Easter morning!! Sadie finding her basket

Sawyer finding his basket, they got some things in their baskets along with their Build A Bears we did earlier that week. :)

Sadie eating her marshmallows

My darling Sadie and her new pretty Easter dress!

My handsome boy! He was being so funny, he wouldn't smile in some pictures and others he is cheesing it a lot! :)

He cracks me up!

My sweet twiner's!

Easter egg hunt at my parents on Easter. Sawyer finding his color of egg. With 19 grand kids they all have to have different colored eggs to look for. So that's easier for the younger one's and it works out great. :)

Sadie, Ireland & Sawyer

Uncle Joe helping Sawyer find his hidden egg

Sadie and Sawyer having a great time.

Sawy, Sadie and Daddy

Welcome sweet baby Boston Kuehne! Born April 25th, 2011

Weighing 8lbs. 7 Oz. and 19 1/2 inches! We love him already and are so happy that baby and Mommy are doing good. I love all his hair. Congrats to Derek, Britt, Kasidee and Dillon!

And here are my cute kids with him, they were so excited to hold him..They asked the hole way to the hospital if they could hold him and give him loves! They are going to be such good Big Brother and Sister!

New stuff for the kids room and baby girl update!

2011-04-22T20:13:00.000-07:00

Well we have been kinda busy around our house the past few weeks. Tyring to get everything ready for baby Sophie to arrive, that means moving rooms around and adding new beds and bedding! Sadie and Sawyer love their new beds and I have finally gotten the new crib bedding up for baby girl. As you will see in the pictures Sadie loves PINK! Anyway so we got the girls room all moved around and ready and Sawyer's room and they are doing great in their big twin beds. :)
Lance has been off since last Friday and it has been such a wonderful last weekend and this week with him home, we are all going to really miss him when he has to go back to work on Monday! I just keep telling myself just another 3 1/2 weeks and then I get him home for awhile longer once Sophie arrives. :)
He has been a wonderful help and playing with the kids and they have loved waking up every morning and having Daddy there to play with!

The kids and their potty training has actually been going quite well. Sadie does awesome at going both in the potty and is always telling me when she has to go and rarely has any accidents anymore! YAY! Sawyer is doing well also, we just wished that he would remember that he also has to "Poop" in the toilet as well and not in his underwear! The other part he does great at and for some reason we are struggling a bit to get him to do the other. I know it will come in time, it just gets frustrating at times and sometimes he almost acts like he does not care and would rather not go poop in the toilet! Ahh, the joys we have. Hopefully soon it will come back to him and he will be just fine. I will say that it is so nice not having diapers to change for them! :)

Baby news: I went to the doctor this last Thursday and things are looking good! Sophie is growing big and actually a little above average, he says she is already 6 1/2 pounds!! She may be like me and be a 8 pounder, but at least she will be nice and healthy, so that's good! We are so dang excited to meet her, just a little less than 4 weeks! My sister in law is having her baby on Tuesday and I wished it was me, we can't wait to meet little Boston either! Having two new babies in the family is going to be lots of fun! It's been 2 years since having a new baby on my side of the family so we all can't wait for these two precious babies! :)
And as for me and my Hyperthyroid stuff, my doctor said I have a mild case of it and so he will not treat it during my pregnancy and we will just watch it the rest of the time and we will just see if it ends up going away after I have her..In a lot of cases it does, so we are crossing our fingers! :) I am feeling good, just tired and ready to be done. I go every week now and only have 3 more appointments to go! Feels like these last few months have gone by fast and it's awesome! :)

Well I think that's it for now. So enjoy some of the new pictures I have added and I hope you all have a wonderful Easter!!

Sadie and Sophie's room! Sadie had pink bedding in her old crib and so we had already painted the room pink so I just went with that same theme and did flowers on her new bedding and Sophie's with the flowers and lady bugs! I am having a girl do Sophie's name for the wall as well and then I will be putting her's up. :) I told you it was pink, but we love how it turned out!

Sadie sitting on her big girl bed, she loves it!

Sawyer in his room with his new bed and bedding! I do have pictures and sports stuff on his wall, but just didn't take pics of them, his walls aren't as bare as they seem! :)

Sadie wanted to have a picture taken with Sawyer on his new bed as well.

Here is Sophie's new crib bedding! I love it, the only thing I wished it came with was a bed skirt.. Not sure why it didn't. But Sadie's old one has almost the same flowers and pink on it so I am just going to use that and it will look cute!

This is a random picture, but I thought it was so cute! This was Sadie one day before going to Dance class.

Here are the two new members of our family! I would not give into getting the kids a dog at the moment and so Lance said what about a fish, the kids need a pet of some sort and so I agreed I could handle the fish! The kids think they are fun!

And here we are at Build A Bear. We decided to take the kids and get a early Easter present. Sadie picked out the pink bunny of coarse. This was her washing it!

And Sawyer washing his blue bear

Here are my silly monkey's cheesing it up for a picture! They both got the cute Easter baskets to go along with them from the store, we "spent" enough to get them for free ( as the girl told us), at least the kids love carrying them around in them!

Sadie showing her bunny off, when I asked them what they wanted to name them when we were at the store, Sadie said she wanted her's to be "Baby Bunny" and Sawyer said "Baby Bear". I think we all have "baby" on the brain! haha. But it's cute!

And last but not least, my cute boy showing off his bear! By this point he was done with pictures! :)

Well hope you enjoyed the pictures! I also just realized that my kids have the same shirts on in these pics as they did in my last post at Disney on Ice.. They really do have other clothes, haha. Anyway I am hoping to get Easter pics on here before the baby comes, but we will see if that will be my next post of not! Depends on how busy things continue to get around here, but we will for sure let you know when our new addition arrives!!

Disney on Ice ( Finally blogged)

2011-04-04T15:46:00.000-07:00

We decided since we weren't able to go to Disneyland this year with my hole family that we would take the kids to Disney on Ice instead and hopefully we wouldn't feel so bad for not taking them! We had always planned to go to Disneyland and then I got pregnant and we had to buy a new car and just had a bunch of things that we needed to do and save the money instead. I am so glad we went to this, both kids loved it and sat so well and watched the hole thing and we had great seats! :)

Here they are getting ready to leave, they were both so excited to see all the Disney friends! When I asked Sadie who she was going to see, she put her hands up and yelled "Minnie"

Here is Sawyer waiting for the show to start, with his half smile!

The kids loved seeing Minnie and Mickey and Sawyer was so excited when Buzz and Woody came out!

We had a great family night out and we will for sure be doing it again when they come next time!

32 Weeks!

2011-03-26T12:22:00.000-07:00

Well I can't believe that I am 32 weeks going on 33! This last month has flown by and I hope the next one does too! We can't wait to meet baby Sophie and the kids and I even made a count down chain and each day the kids get excited to take one more off! We still have a few things to get and to move around in the room before she gets here, but for the most part we are ready to have her join us!
I went to my Doctor Appointment on Thursday and she was doing great, strong heartbeat and still moving around like crazy in there! My heart has still been racing most days and my blood pressure was a tiny high this last time again, but he is just watching things and will continue to check it and if it gets too high then we will have to do something more about it.
I never had this happen with the twins until after they born and then my blood pressure was high for a few days and then it went down. So it's a little annoying and nerve racking, but it's nothing that it sounding too serious. They have done a bunch of blood work on me checking different things and they all come back normal. I just get kinda tired when I am up doing thing ( not that I am not tired anyway) but when I take a few minutes to breath then it calms down.
I have not had any fainting spells so that's a good thing.

The kids are onto Potty Training now and they are actually doing really well. We usually only have one accident per kid a day and I am happy about that. I was going to wait and then decided this week to just get it started and they have done great and they love being able to wear Underwear and Panties and using the potty. Sometimes they like to go more than necessary I think ( the potty is fun to keep flushing!!) but for the most part when they do say they need to go, they really do. Sawyer has even pooped in the potty a few times. We are still working on Sadie with that, but she will get it soon enough! So I will be super happy only having one kid in diapers. :)

Well I guess that's all for now! I still have pictures to post of our Disney on Ice night and I will get to that soon. Hope you all have a great weekend!

A little update!

2011-02-25T21:14:00.000-08:00

I decided that I still wanted to post the pictures of the kids from Valentine's even though it's almost March now! I can't believe how fast this last month has gone by, if the next 2 go by this fast then I better really get going on stuff for our arrive of Miss Sophie! I can't believe that she will be here in just 3 months! My sister in law is due the end of April with a little boy and I just can't wait to have more babies around the family!

We have been trying to get things ready for her to arrive, we bought Sadie a new bed so that we can use the crib for Sophie and we will be re arranging Sadie's room so that when she gets older she can join Sadie in there! We bought a new Car seat and Stroller travel system and I can't wait to use it, we also bought a really nice Pack N' Play so that we will just be using that in our room for her to sleep, since the bassinets that we used for the twins got recalled and I have wanted a Pack N' Play anyway for trips and other things and so this one has the changing table on it and a little bed for her to sleep in while she is a newborn!

Things are going great with her and I. I had to go take the Glucose test last week and passed, that was a relief.. Not that I didn't think I would since I had no problems when I did it with the twins, but it was just nice to have that over with. Sophie is one active little girl, she moves like crazy and I love feeling her move around and kick. :) We are planning to have her on May 16th, so we will see if that happens or if she will come early and on her own or not. We want to at least try and get passed the 14th since Sadie has a Dance Recital I would like to be at, but you never know with babies they come when they want!

Let's see what else is happening at our house.. Sadie is trying to get over a nasty case of Pneumonia and a horrible cough.. She seems to be doing better with now being on the medicine so that is good news. She is still taking Dance and loves it, we went and bought her some cute new Dance outfits and she is always wanting to wear them whenever she can. She is growing up so much and can't wait for baby Sophie to come and live at our house!

Lance started a new route last week at work and seems to be liking it, he has walking and riding and he likes that better than walking all day long.

Sawyer is doing great as well and is growing up so much, some of the things he says cracks us up! He has the cutest funniest personality. He really reminds me of my nephew Dillon. They both are so smart and remember everything and just keep us laughing! :)

And like I said I am doing good, just tired most days.. It's a lot harder for me this time around with having two toddlers, they keep me going all day. I don't get many naps like I did when I was pregnant with them. But we are surviving and I shouldn't complain to much!

Well I guess that's it for now, I hope to be better at updating the blog. Hope all is well with all of you and enjoy some of the pictures of the kids below!

My cute Sadie girl getting ready for church one morning. She wanted her picture taken in her cute new heart dress and sparkly shoes.. I know it's a bathroom shot but she looked so cute sitting there!

Here she is posing again!

My handsome little man getting ready for church, every time we drive past our church in the neighborhood he always says "Our Church" and my friends are there. It's so cute, he loves Nursery. Sadie is still not so sure about it and I have to be in there with her for now, but hopefully soon she will stay by herself. She loves seeing her friends though.

The two little cuties!

Sawyer was so proud of these glasses that he made, he took one of the heart straws he got for Valentine's and one of Sadie's necklaces and put it together so that they would stay on his face.. I loved it!

Here they are on Valentine's day! It was a bit hard to get a picture of them not trying to be silly or standing still. But I at least got a few of them in their cute outfits from my Mom and Dad. :)

Oh, how I just love these two!

My new ride!

2011-01-27T12:08:00.000-08:00

This is the new car for our family and I am the lucky one that gets to drive it around town in style!

I think Lance has driven it two or three times is all.

We have been needing to get a new car with baby Sophie coming and have looked at a lot of different one's and finally found this one and loved it! It's so nice and it has the 3rd row so that will be so much more room for us than the Focus was. I love my hubby for buying it for me and have had so much fun carting the kids around in it! And the kids have loved it too, they giggle every time we get in it and say I want to drive in Mommy's new car. Sadie is always saying, "Mommy it's so high". They love being able to see out and have more room to sit.

I took these in the garage and keep forgetting to take some out in the sunlight, so they are kinda dark. But atleast you can see what it looks like. :)

Sadie and Sawyer's new pictures!!

2011-01-14T20:07:00.000-08:00

Here are Sadie and Sawyer's new pictures! My scanner was really being a pain in the butt, so these don't look all that great.. But you get the idea and can at least see how cute my kids are!! Well we think they are anyway. I love how the first one of them together turned out. I decided to just take them to Target, since my sister had taken her kids there a few times and I liked all her pictures and she was taking her little girl for her birthday pictures the same day so it worked out. The kids were great, we had to only wait a few minutes and even though they didn't have huge smiles this time, I think they all turned out way cute!

I can't believe how fast they have grown up, it's hard to believe that in 6 months they will be 3! When I was putting these new one's up on my wall and looking at all the pictures behind them it kinda made me sad that they are getting so big, but again they are so much fun right now and I just love them to pieces. ♥

My favorite!

Finally a new post and with PICTURES!!

2011-01-09T20:56:00.000-08:00

Well it has finally happened, I got a new computer and now I am back with pictures and there will be a lot to come, so hopefully you will bare with me! :)

I am still trying to figure out the said computer, but it's going pretty good and I am just thrilled that I can finally show off my cute kids again. They are getting so big and it's just flying bye. They went to a new Nursery class today and did pretty well. They had to come and get me out of Relief Society in the middle to come and hang with Sadie, she got a little sad but was just fine once I stayed and played with them awhile longer.

Anyway, we had a great Christmas and New Years and can't believe that it's already January and that in just 5 months we will have a new baby in our home again, we are all very excited and looking forward to baby Sophie joining us! So I just wanted to share some of the pictures from our holiday and a few of Sadie's Christmas Dance performance. And on the next post I will add the one's of the kids new pictures we had taken last week. So here you go, enjoy!!

Sadie getting ready for her " Ellie the Elf" dance. This year we did a Christmas Recital at Kearns high.

She had her cousin Ireland in her class and they had so much fun.

Here they are with Grandma Kuehne, their teacher. My sister Michele also taught their class.

Every year for a lot of years now my Mom has always made the Grand kids blankets for Christmas, but this year we decided to let the kids help make one instead and take it to a hospital for the kids their instead. So we decided to go to the new Riverton/ Primary Children's and hand the blankets out that the kids did. They were all excited to go and it was a neat experience for all of them.

Here is my cute little Shepard, we always do a fun Nativity at my parents house on Christmas Eve and the kids all enjoy it and have fun.

My sweet little Angel.. She was so excited to wear her "Pretty dress" and her crown as she called the halo'

My niece Ireland, Sadie and Sawyer

The kids checking out what Santa had just brought them in their stockings, my Mom & Dad have a Santa come each year and my kids did pretty good this year with not being too scared of him.

My kids in their new Jammie's from Grammy and Grandpa

The Grand kids in their PJ'S!

Christmas Morning at our house, Sawyer opening his presents

Sadie showing off her new My Little Pony

And the four of us at my parents Christmas morning. This was a hard picture to get, my kids just wanted to play with their toys and not have their picture taken. But at least I got one for the memories, so that's all I care about! :)

Sawyer in his new Christmas outfit.. He was not giving me any smiles!

Sadie in her new outfit with her new Pillow Pet and Cabbage Patch doll. I always have to buy her a Cabbage Patch, because I always got one for each Christmas when I was little and I just loved them! :) Sawyer also got a Dog Pillow Pet and who would have known those would have been one of the favorite things they got. :)

It's a...

2010-12-21T20:22:00.000-08:00

GIRL!! Today we went to find out if we were having a boy or girl.. I was totally convinced it was a boy. But I was wrong! We are so excited to have another sweet girl join our family. Sawyer was a little bummed when we told him at the Doctors that it would be another sister and not a brother.. He kept saying " No a brother" I think he will love her just as much!
It was so fun to finally find out and see her moving around.. She kept putting her hand and arm up by her face and it looked like she was sucking her thumb.. So cute!
We are happy she is healthy and can't wait till May comes when we get to actually meet her!
Now onto getting Sadie in a big girl bed and re arranging her room so when the time comes, baby Sophie can join her in her room! :) I have pictures from today's ultrasound and I will try and get them added soon, but I wanted to get this written for those of you who had not already heard the news!

What's new at our house!!

2010-10-25T20:04:00.000-07:00

Well again it has been forever since I have posted anything.. I am still with out a computer with "Windows" so I am not able to add any pictures or anything cute and fun. Lance rigged our computer to be able to at least use the Internet and check blogs, facebook etc. But that's about it, so annoying but we hope to have that other part fixed soon and be able to post hundreds of pictures that I have been waiting to post! :)
Anyway, we have been super busy these past few months and trying to get in as much family time as we can.
Sadie started back at Dance in September ( at my Mom's studio) and loves going every week, I have the cutest pictures and videos of her doing her dance. Sawyer gets a little jealous I think some times and wants to be down there dancing with her. I mean why should she have all the fun, Lance wished he was old enough to put him in some sports but we will just have to wait for that.
My little niece Ireland is also in her Dance class and they are so much fun to watch. I decided this year not to teach, so my Mom and sister teach their class. I am helping babysit my sisters two younger kids while she teaches both days. It has worked out nice and the kids love playing with their cousins!

I can't believe that fall and the cold weather are already here, I loved the summer and being able to be outside with the kids. But I am also looking forward to the Holiday Season and having family in town and all the yummy smells! :)

Our biggest thing that has happened in our family is that we found out we will be adding another baby to our family! That's right, surprise to us as well, but what a great one!! We had wanted to start trying late fall for another bundle of joy and it just happened a little before we thought it would. I had been feeling a little different and was "late" and Lance kept saying you are pregnant I know it, and I just kept saying there is noway I am.. I mean it took us 3 years and fertility help to get our two sweet twins and I just thought for sure that there was noway it could have happened that easy for us this time! But I was wrong, Sept 11th I decided to take a test and I for sure thought it would say NEGATIVE.. But when it didn't I was so surprised and excited, though I didn't want to get my hopes up to much if it for some reason was wrong.. ( I took 3 more test after that to make sure) haha
I called Lance and told him I had taken a test and he said, you're pregnant aren't you?? I said yes, and he was very sweet and told me Congrats babe, I am excited for baby number 3! I was a little scared to tell him, only because he was still not sure if 3 was in the cards for him. But after I knew he was equally excited it was a lot of fun.
So now I am almost 11 weeks and things are going great and we are due May 19th, Lance's 31st Birthday!! We are very excited and feel very blessed. We have told the kids and even though I am not sure they fully understand, they will still come up to me and I will say mommy has a baby in her tummy can you give it loves and they think that is very fun!
So now if I can just get over the nasty morning sickness and be able to enjoy the pregnancy more it will be great! We are very excited and can't wait to find out what we are having, which won't be till December and that seems so far away right now.. But I will keep you posted and we are all doing great and hope that you and your families are as well and that you have a very Happy Halloween!!

It's been awhile!!

2010-09-06T20:47:00.000-07:00

Well seeing that my last post was 2 months ago I thought I better post something! We have had a great and busy summer and I can't believe that it's already fall! I am loving the cooler temps, but no so sure I am looking forward to the colder weather just upon us!
Anyway, I have not been able to blog since the kids and I came back from our Oregon trip! Our computer got some weird virus or something and we have not been able to turn it on.. :( We have tried everything under the sun and I think we may now be heading to buy a new computer.. We were able to recover all my pictures, thank goodness since I was dumb and did not back anything up.. That will never happen again. Lance was able to get them on a External hard drive so at least we have all of those.. I was a bit freaked out about losing all our pictures clear back from when we got married. Anyway, so I have not been able to download any new one's from our Oregon trip and our Camping trip that we took with my family so those will come at a later date, but I just wanted to type and give a update on us for those who do read about our family. :)

We were able to get the kids rooms painted, finally! I have been wanting to do it since right after they were born but hey, it only took us 2 years to get around to do it! Lance had a hole week off so we took advantage of it. They look so cute and Sadie calls her's "My princess room" we did her's in Pink and it turned out cute and we did Sawyer's in a blue color and they both love it. Sawyer was a bit worried that his would not get done, since we did Sadie's first and then did his a day later. He kept saying "My room paint" and we had to keep telling him that we would for sure get to his the next day.

It was kinda crazy doing it with two toddlers running around and wanting our attention. Lance ended up painting it all on his own after I taped the rooms because they just did not like the idea of Mommy being away from them I guess. But he did a good job and I am happy they are done now! Pictures to follow with the next post as well. :)
That same week since Lance was off we were able to take a few days and go up to Park City for our 6th wedding Anniversary, my parents took the kids and it was really nice to have some time just the two of us, that does not happen a lot and after the busy week of painting we had it was wonderful. We ate out and shopped and even did the Alpine Slide up at the Park City Resort. I still can't believe it's been 6 years and now 2 kids later.. I love when we get to spend time together and just talk and not have the kiddo's begging for our attention, even though we love them to pieces, it's always good to have some quiet down time with just us two!

Anyway, I guess that is all for now.. We loved our summer and the trips we were able to take, we missed Lance on our Oregon trip, but being with my family and visiting my brother and his family was great. We had 25 people in my brother's house and they were all so sweet to let us use their bedrooms and house for all that we needed. Their 3 boys were great and all the cousins loved hanging out together. And I loved going to "Forks" for all you Twifans with some of my sisters, brother and Mom, we had such a great time and as my sister in law wrote on her blog, "We all had a great time giggling our way to forks".. I seriously don't know when the last time it was that I laughed so hard that my sides hurt. It really was a fun time!
Well, I will close this post now and hopefully soon I will be able to get all my fun summer pictures on here for you all to see!

Sadie and Sawyer's 2 year old pictures!

2010-07-21T20:57:00.000-07:00

I finally got back the kids pictures. I hate having to wait, so lame.. Anyway I think they turned out cute! Sadie really wanted nothing to do with pictures or the photographer this time. Last time she was all smiles and Sawyer was the shy one, so I guess they switched on me. Sawyer loved throwing the ball to my Mom ( thank goodness she was there) I would have gone crazy trying to get both kids pictures taken with out her there. So here they are and I am happy with them. :) They love to hold hands, whenever they are walking or riding in the car or when one or the other gets scared they will always grab each others hands.. It is so sweet and I hope they will always be best friends. ♥

My cute 2 year olds!

My little princess

My handsome boy

My 4th of July babies! I have made it tradition the last few years since they have been born to have them have a picture in their 4th of July outfits, it started the day we brought them home which was the 4th of July and since they were born on July 2nd I think it's fun. I hope it will continue until they won't let me anymore.. Hopefully when they are much older.

Hope you enjoyed them. It's crazy that I have 2, two year olds now!

Our 4th of July!

2010-07-20T13:24:00.000-07:00

For the 4th of July we went to the Parade in West Jordan and the kids had fun.. I will say that the Parade is getting boring and it seems all it is are people and they're Political signs. Kinda annoying! Anywho, the kids had fun and that's what matters right? Lance had to work since they got Monday off instead of Saturday. So we went to hang out at my parents house after the parade till he got off work and came down to meet us.

Then on Sunday we had a BBQ at my parents and since my brother in law had to work that day we went down and did fireworks Monday night. The kids really enjoyed it, until Sadie got burned by the Sparkler! She had done probably 3 of them and decided that she wanted to do one more so my Mom was holding her and she kept telling her not to touch it and sure enough Sadie touched it! She freaked out and we ran her inside to see the damage! My mom felt horrible, but it was not her fault at all. Sadie was just a bit to curious. So we got it cleaned off and got some medicine on it and then on Wednesday of that week the kids had their 2 year check up so we were able to have the Doctor check it out and she did have 2nd degree burns so they put some Silverdine ( not sure if that's the correct spelling) on it and wrapped it and we left that on over night and then by the next day we took it off and now it's almost all cleard up and with no scaring. I was not sure I wanted them to use the sparklers, but we let them anyway and maybe next year will be different. But I am sure the kids will still want to use them. We are just glad it was not worse and it's all better now!

Anyway, so here are some pictures from our 4th. Enjoy!

Sadie before going to the Pardade. Just before this she got a hold of my water and spilled it down her shirt.

My cute little man

My little monkey's..They were just wanting to be silly instead of taking pictures.

Sadie hanging out at the Parade

Kiddo's

Afterwards we went and swam at my parents with the cousins. Sadie and Bailee

Maguire and Sawyer

Sawy liked the kiddie pool better

Sadie was having a great time!

Sadie, Sawyer and Maguire waiting for the fireworks

10 of the 18 Grandkids waiting to see the fireworks display that the Dad's were putting on.

The guys doing the fireworks. Bro in law Tod, My hubby, Bro Derek & bro in law Joe

Derek, Tod and Lance

Sawy and Daddy doing the sparklers, Sawy ket getting a little too close to Lance's face as you can tell in this picture.

Sadie and Grammy, right before the burn!

Sadie showing me her bandage from the Doctors, the nurse was cute and put the same color of wrap on it as her outfit. Sadie liked it after the nurse went away! She was not very happy and she had just given her a shot as well so she really wanted her to leave her alone. Both kids were very brave that day at their appointment.

Her little hand

The Twins party at the ZOO!

2010-07-08T12:15:00.000-07:00

We had a fun time at the Zoo this year for the twins party. My cute nephew Ryker who turned 3 four days before my kids also shared this day and party with my kids. My kids love Ry ry so it was fun to have it together. My sister Michele and I did party bags for all the kids and we put Animal sunglasses, Popcorn, Animal cookies and bubbles in them and it was so nice to just beable to come home to a clean house and not have to clean up after a party. My kids were spoiled as always and we Thank the family members who came and gave them lots of fun presents!

So here is the pictures from the morning of their Birthday and at the Zoo. Enjoy!

Sadie and Sawyer checking out their new bikes from us! (And yes, we are still working on getting rid of the binks, don't judge me!) lol

Sadie loved it as you can see!

As did Sawyer, his has a little compartment in the back and he loves to put all his cars and stuff in it.

I love this picture! She had the best time driving her babies around

Eating their birthday breakfast, Cereal! I asked them if they wanted Eggs, Pancakes or Waffles and all they wanted was Cinnamon Toast crunch. Atleast it made it easy for me!

My parents bought Sadie this cute Vanity and Sawyer this BBQ and they brought them over so that they didn't have to take them to the Zoo. They also got Sawy a Lawn mower and Sadie a Vaccum among a bunch of other awesome presents!

Sadie in her new Birthday shirt, she would not look at the camera

Sawyer in his, and I am not sure why his pictures are blurry!

My two precious 2 year olds!

Another one of my handsome little man

Getting ready to go into the Zoo, it was super hot when we first got there. But luckily by half way through it was cooler.

Sadie checking out the baby Elephant with Aunt Britt.

Watching the Mommy and baby Elephant, you can see on their faces how hot it was!

Some of the kids taking a photo opt! And my Mom, we could not get all the kids to come and take a picture!

Sadie, Ryker and Sawyer the 3 birthday kids.

Sawy and my nephew Maguire

The cute cute cupcakes that my amazing sister in law Brittany made. She is the best cook and baker, I wished I was more like her.

Sawyer getting ready to dig in.

Sadie waiting for the candles to be put on to sing

The party kids.. We only did family this year so this is my nieces and nephews and my cousins kids.

My niece's Jade, Sydney, Bailee and Kasidee

The Birthday kiddo's and Lance and I. I don't know why my hubby always has to hide behind the kids..

Sadie with her baby carseat that my parents gave her.

Sawyer checking out some presents. He was really not into it so I don't have many pictures of either of them opening presents this year, they were both just wanting to run around.

My sister Michele and family gave Sadie this cute back pack that was full of stuff for her dolls and she wanted to wear it the rest of the day. It matches the baby bed and carseat that my parents gave her. So here she is with my niece Makele.

Sadie riding her bike when we got home.

Here is a closeup of the cute vanity set up in her room

Sawy's bbq

I had bought this cute stroller for Sadie a month or so before and then my Mom found the other things that matched with the colors and so it's all so cute! And I love the Play & Pack it is just like a real one.

And here is Sawyer showing me his lawn mower.

Happy 2nd Birthday to our sweet Sadie and Sawyer!!

2010-07-02T07:38:00.000-07:00

I still can't believe that two years ago I was preparing myself to be a Mother! I was so excited and yet so sacred all in one. I was much more excited though and just could not wait to meet my precious little babies. It had taken so long to get to this point for us and both Lance and I were just thrilled to be parents. It seemed like it was going to take days when I first got into the Hospital and the hours kept going by and I was just inching along to get to a 10 that day! But when it finally happened and I knew I would be meeting my sweet babies with in minutes, I got all teared up!
I still remember then wheeling me to the operating room ( they had me in there incase after Sadie was born that if Sawyer turned they would have to do a c section) but luckily my little man stayed where he was suppose to and it all worked out. But just that feeling of getting ready and having Lance there by my side was so overwhelming but wonderful as well.
And when I saw my tiny little babies, Sadie weighing in at 4 lbs 7 oz. and Sawyer at 5 lbs 11 oz it was just amazing! My doctor said to me, well your a Mom now and there is no going back.. I wanted nothing more than to be a Mom and I again started to cry..
I didn't get to see Sadie close up and for very long as she was rushed away to the NICU so that they could watch her breathing since she was kinda blue, which was a bit scary for us. As soon as Sawyer was born they wanted to also take him as well. Lance asked me if I minded if he go to the NICU with them and see what was going on.. I told him to go for sure, I would feel much better with him there and I would be fine. So after they let me give Sawyer a kiss which oh, how I loved that and really missed not being able to do the same with Sadie at that time. Lance was off and taking care of our kids.
Thankfully they only needed the Oxygen for a night and then were able to be off of it and come in my room. I remember going in that night to see them all hooked up to everything and I just could not believe how tiny they were.. I felt like if I held them they would break! But they were doing so well and were just so precious and the best part of all is that they were ours!

And now as they are turning 2, I still can't believe it I know people say that all the time. But wow, the time sure has flown. They are at such a fun age right now and even though they have their days where I want to ship them to my Mom's house for a few days I would not trade them for the world. They make me so happy everyday with all their cute things that they do and say and it just makes me so happy and proud that I am able to be their Mom. And I know that Lance feels the same way, he does not get to spend as much time with them as he would like but when he does I can see it on his face at how happy they make him and it just makes me love him so much more. He is a wonderful Dad and they love him.

So I just wanted to share some pictures from their Birth to now! I got their 2 year old pics today, but I won't get them back till the 19th and I will post them then. I also will post their Doctor stats after I take them next week.
So enjoy these pictures!
We love you Sadie and Sawyer so much and are so happy you are in our family!
Love,
Daddy and Mommy

Sadie Christine, just a few hours old!

Sawyer Lance, just a few hours old!

My two burrito babies.. Sadie was not too happy!

3 days old on July 4th, the day they came home! So tiny!

Ocotober 2008, 3 months old! I crack up everytime I see this picture of Sadie.. She looks so mad!

February 2009, 7 months old

July 2008, 1 year old

My handsome little boy, 1 yr old

Precious baby girl, 1 yr old

Sadie Christine March 2010, 20 months old

My twiners, 2010

My baby boy 2010

Our mini vacation to Park City!

2010-06-14T20:15:00.000-07:00

Lance had his long weekend off of work this past week and so we got the kids ready to head to Park City for a fun filled weekend. We knew that the weather was probably not going to be the best, but we didn't care and it was just nice to get away. We found this great hotel online and they were having a special that you can get 50% off the second night. Since it's not ski season right now we got a way nice suite and had a great weekend. The hotel was called Newpark Hotel, so if your looking to stay in Park City soon you should check it out, I think the deal goes till mid September or something but you do have book it online to get the deal. We also ate at my favorite place up there which is Baja Cantina, it's up at the Park City ski resort and it's so yummy!

Anyway here are some pictures from our little trip!

Sadie and Sawyer were so excited when we got to the hotel. I think they were just happy to be somewhere different than home.

Lance and the kiddo's in our suite

The twins getting ready to go swimming in their new suits.

They loved their new floaties

They loved splashing each other

Sawyer checking out the pool

Saturday we went to the outlets and Sawyer got this new hat, it has a fish on it and he thinks it's so cool.

Sadie showing me her new jelly sandals. I don't know why this picture is blurry

Eating lunch in the hotel room

Here are pictures of the suite. We loved having a suite so the kids had more room to run and hang out.

Here is the bedroom

The little munchkins checking out where they would sleep. The cribs were a bit small for them, but they still were able to sleep good. Sawyer is not in a crib anymore at home and so I think he felt a bit more trapped! :)

This was the hallway and the kids had fun running up and down it, I am sure the people under us may not have liked that too well, but we didn't hear any complaints! It also had a washer and dryer down in one of the closets it was so nice!

The family room

The kitchen, it was so nice to have this so we didn't have to eat out all weekend.

The fire place was nice to have too, you wouldn't think in June that we would need it, but it did get pretty cold the one night we were there and it was fun to keep us warm.

The bathroom

The kids loved having baths in the bath tub, it was like a swimming pool for them

The hot tub on our deck

One night we went to get Ice cream at Coldstone and the kids had a fun time

Sawyer loved the Oreo cookie Ice Cream we ate

Sadie loved having her own little spoon

Sawy and Daddy

Sawyer sharing the Ice Cream with Daddy

A late Birthday post and some Summer fun!

2010-06-08T20:36:00.000-07:00

This post is a few diiferent things, first off I need to recognize that it was my wonderful hubby's 30th Birthday on May 19th and I am now just getting around to blog about it.. Sorry babe! Anyway, I had planned a surprise party for him the Sunday after his birthday and he kept asking me if we were having a party for him and I just kept telling him that it would just be family and that I had talked to some of his friends and they were not able to come and he was really bummed out! I wanted it to be a good Surprise so I did make him feel bad and think that no one was coming but it ended up being really good because he was very surprised and happy that all of our friends and family showed up!

The morning of his party it was kinda crummy weather, but during the day it cleared up and I thought it was going to be perfect, well about a hour before his party the clouds rolled in and it started to drizzle! I had planned to have it at the park and so I knew that it was going to be a bummer if it rained. But we went over and set up and everything and people started showing up and as time went on it got colder and colder and more rain came, but we all just hung out under the pavilion and it worked out okay. All the kids still went out and played on the playground and had a great time anyway!

But it was a fun party and I am so grateful to have Lance as my husband. He does so much for the kids and I and I can't thank him enough. He gives me the opportunity to stay home and raise our kids while he goes out and works super hard for our little family. The kids love him so much and love the days that he gets to be home and spent the time as a family. We love you Lance and appreciate all that you do for us!

Here are some of the pictures from that day, I didn't get many as the day was cold and I just didn't take that many.

The Birthday Cake

Sawyer and Daddy getting ready to blow out the candles

Sadie and my niece Sydney having some cake, Sadie really wanted to eat the blue part of it, it was a mess! But she enjoyed it anyway.

My cute niece Ireland having some cake as well

Here is some of the Zoo pictures we took. Lance had the day off last Thursday and so we took the kids to the Zoo and they loved it! Here is Sadie watching the animals

Sawyer loved seeing all the animals and they were all out and very active it was great!

Me and my princess!

Daddy's girl

Sawy and Daddy

Here are some of the kids from yesterday, I got the water table out and let them play in that and run through the sprinklers and they had such a great time, It was so fun to watch them play.

I just barely got a new Swimsuit for Sawyer today and so yesterday I just had them wear onesies and the swim diapers. I tried to put Sawy's suit on from last year and it was way to small.

They thought it was so fun to splash each other, they were giggling the hole time.

They had a fun time with the sprinkler as well.

You will notice that they both have sandals on, I tried to get them to take them off to play in the water and neither of them wanted to do that. Atleast Sadie's were Jelly shoes so her's dried fast. :) We are looking forward to more days out in the sun and water, I want to get the pool out later this week!

Sadie's Dancing Debut!!

2010-05-23T20:21:00.000-07:00

Last night was our Dance Recital and Sadie was able to dance with her cute little class. She always came and practiced with the girls that I was teaching and so we decided she was ready to perform. Being a year younger than most the girls in her class and being the littliest I think she did awesome! I will say I was one proud Mommy. She was wild right before and didn't want to sit with her class while they waited to perform and so I was really not sure if she would get out there and do anything and she did more than what I thought and it was adorable! I was back stage helping get the girls on and off the stage and so I could only see through the curtains and when I watched the video back I just could not stop smiling. It was so cute. All of my nieces and our other students did so well and it turned out to be a great night of dances!

So here are a bunch of pictures of her in her costume and dancing. I am still trying to figure out if I can get the video we took on our camcorder posted so I will have to post that later.

I do also have to wish my sweet Hubby a belated birthday on here. His birthday was the 19th and he took off all this last week to hang out and be home with us and when he took the time off back in Nov. we didn't know that the review and dance pictures would be all in the same week. So we were pretty busy all week long and didn't get to do as much together as we would have liked, but I did take him to dinner on his bday to the Cheesecake Factory and then I threw a Surprise party for him tonight since he is the BIG 30! So I will get some picture on here of his day as well. But we love you Lance and appreciate all that you do for us!

Here is Sadie just before leaving for the review. She was so excited to get in her pretty skirt. This was her Goodship Lollipop costume

Giving me one of her big "cheese" smiles

Here she is in her Animal Crackers costume. Sawyer had to get in on the picture taking, he kept wondering I think why we were making such a fuss over Sadie all night. I love my two kids.

Here she is again posing with out brother

And her very first performance. I think she looks so cute up there! She was so excited when she saw all her friends, she got right up there with them and walked out on stage.

Here is her Animal crackers Dance. For some reason our camera was not zooming in very well so this one is kinda hard to see. I can see I am going to need a better camera for next years performance. Now if only I can convince Lance of that!

Her with her first Trophy! She was so cute when my Mom called her name out, she had a big smile on and went right up and grabbed it.

My cute nieces with Sadie, four of my nieces were in the "Thriller" dance so that's why they all look like they are "torn" up. Kasidee, Bailee, Sadie, Makele, Sydney, Brooklyn

My Mom and all the Granddaughters that danced.

Our first attempt at getting a family picture, Sadie just wanted to get down and run around with her cousins as you can see.

And yet again, not both kids are looking at the camera. Lance was also the flower holder. :)

And the last picture of the night.. Sadie and Sawy taking some time to enjoy some yummy cookies from Aunt Britt. We had such a fun night watching our little ballerina and can't wait for next years dance to start so we can watch her some more. It was fun for me this year to have my own girl dance, I have loved watching my nieces all these years, and now I get to have my own in the performances!

Fun at the park with cousins!

2010-05-21T19:41:00.000-07:00

My cousin Melissa and her two boys were here visiting from New Hampshire and so we got some of our other cousins and their kids together and went to the South Jordan park. It was a lot of fun and fun to meet her new little baby Beckham.

Here are some pictures of our fun day!

Sawyer and Lance playing on the slide. Lance had all week off for his Birthday and so he was able to come along and hang out which was fun.

Sawy at the bottom

This is my cute niece Bailee and Melissa's little boy Beckham. Bailee loves little kids and they all love her, she is a great babysitter! My kids love Bailee.

This was our best attempt to get all the kids in a picture. Most were crying and just wanting to get down and play.

Me and my little man. He kept looking away.

My cousin Melissa, sister Michele, myself, cousin Natalie and cousin Kacie

Me and my cute kids. Sadie was loving the camera as usual.

Sadie taking a break from playing to have some cookies.

My two favorite boys!

My oldest sister came later from work and so we took another picture of all of us. We had some cousins that could not make it, but glad we could see some of them.

This picture was taken of Sadie a few weeks ago, but I didn't post it yet so I thought I would since it's so cute! My niece Brooklyn gave her these glasses and she loves putting them on when we get her in her seat to go places. Sadie will be dancing at our recital tomorrow night, so I will be posting some pictures of that on my next post!

Just the twins!

2010-04-26T09:49:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to post some pictures of the twins.. We have loved the nice weather we have been having and the kids have loved playing outside on the swing set and going for rides in the wagon. So here are a few pictures of them playing and also some of Sawyer getting his hair cut from Aunt Britt. :)

Here is Sawyer on the slide, he loves to be able to climb up himself and go down.

Sadie loves to swing and loves to give me big cheesie smiles, she always squints her eyes and it makes me laugh.

She was having a great time if you couldn't tell. :)

Sawy had fun running around our backyard

Sawyer taking a swing, he would much rather go down the slide. He always wants me to put him in the swing and then wants to get out minutes later. He is trying to escape here!

Sawyer getting another haircut.. His hair grows fast, I wished Sadie's would grow like his does. Aunt Britt is so good with him, the first few times he got his hair cut he would cry. But now Britt sings with him and talks with him the hole time and he does so much better. We normally would go to her Salon at her house, but we were all at my parents the other night so she was nice enough to bring her stuff over so we could do it there.

Cousin Makele was helping sing with him to keep him happy

Sawyer and Aunt Britt after his haircut!

The other night we went to the South Towne mall with my Mom, Sister and her kids to find my niece a Baptism dress and so we let the kids ride the Carousel. I am not one for going on Merry Go rounds or many rides unless I have my Dramamine since I get motion sick bad, so my Niece Bailee was nice enough to go with Sadie and my Mom took Sawyer. I just can't handle those things! :)

And here is Sawy boy, they had a fun time!

Family tradition and playing with cousins!

2010-04-12T11:34:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday my cute niece Brooklyn had her special 8th Birthday party at the Lion House. When I was younger I went for my 8th Birthday as well as did my sisters, Cousins. And now my cute nieces are all going and one day Sadie will get to go.. We have already been to 5 of my nieces who have gone and celebrated their birthdays when they were 8. It's such a fun place to go and brings back lots of memories for me when I was younger. It was a girls only day so my Dad watched all the younger kids and my kids had a great day with their cousins and Bompa.
So here are some pics from the Lion House and the kids playing at my parents house.

Here is four generations! My sisters, Tiffany, Michele, Niece Brooklyn, Mom, myself and my Mom's Mom Grandma Dillon.

The Aunts with Brooklyn. My oldest sis Tiffany

My nephew Dillon taking Sadie for a ride.

Sawyer, Ryker and Sadie trying to jump in the back as they are driving off

Sawyer loves driving in the cars at my parents house. The sun was in his eyes so he wouldn't look at the camera

The battery died in the Jeep and so Sadie decided that she would just push Sawyer around instead. He didn't mind and it was so cute!

Since Sawy would not get out of the Jeep, Sadie decided she would try and get in their with him instead.

Our Easter Happenings!

2010-04-05T12:10:00.000-07:00

We had a great Easter this year and it was fun seeing how excited the kids got with all the fun things we did. Easter morning we let the kids see what the Easter bunny brought them and then later that day we went to my parents house for Easter dinner and a Easter egg hunt for the kids. My parents always make the holidays fun for all of us and go over and beyond for the grandkids. Each one gets their own basket with lots of fun things. We all had a very nice and relaxing day! Forgive me, there are lots of pictures as usual! Enjoy!

Sawyer checking out the easel that the Easter Bunny brought him and Sadie. I loved that it was blue and pink it was perfect for them. :)

Looking at their Easter baskets

Sadie looking at what was in her basket

Sawyer seeing what he got.. He loved the candy in the eggs!

Showing Mom their baskets full of fun stuff

Sadie and her My Little Pony!

Getting ready to color, my kids love to "Color Color" as they call it!

She loved carrying around her basket like this.

Eating more candy.. He has his mother's sweet tooth!

Sadie in her pretty dress!

Sawyer all dressed up!

My sweet babies, don't they look so cute!?

The four of us at my parents! I was having issues with the red eye remover on this one, but it is still cute!

My pretty princess

One more of my cuties

Sadie trying out her cousin Ryker's wheel borrow

Sawy and Daddy playing a little golf with his new golf set from Grammie and Bompa Kuehne

Sawyer finding his eggs

Sadie finding her eggs. My parents decided since it was cold outside this year that we would do the egg hunt downstairs this year, the kids didn't seem to care where it was at they all had fun anyway!

All the grandkids get a different color or design egg that they look for and Sadie's were green and Sawy's were green camo this year.

Sawyer with his eggs/ money!

Easter fun!

2010-04-02T10:36:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we went over to my Parents house and all the Grandkids did Easter eggs and cookies. My kids loved being able to do their own. We stripped them down to their diapers and my Mom had a bunch of old shirts and so all the kids put one on so we didn't have any ruined clothes.

Later that night my sister in law Britt did a fun Easter party for all the Nieces and Nephews and the older kids slept over. She had cute little cut outs for the kids to make Bunny ears and noses for their favorite Teddy Bear or stuffed animal that she had them bring. Sawyer used his Doggy from Build a Bear and Sadie used her bear. They turned out cute.

So here are some pictures from our fun day. I will post our other Easter pictures on Monday! We hope you all have a great Easter and spending time with family. Love, Lance, Amber, Sadie and Sawyer ♥

The twins getting ready to do their eggs!

Sawyer loved putting the eggs in the colors, he still has Orange fingers.

Sadie's egg in the pink color

She was so cute to watch she would pick it and look at it and then put it back in the color, like it wasn't pink enough for her. :)

Sawyer with his finished eggs

Sadie with her finished eggs, I am sad that this turned out blurry!

Here they are now getting ready to do their cookies

Sadie rolling out her dough

They both loved eating the dough

I wished that Sawyer had looked up on this one. We had another one, but I looked dumb with my eyes closed in it so I had to post this one instead!! LOL

Cousins! Ryker, Sawyer, Brooklyn and Sadie

Sawyer eating his finished cookies.. I gave him one. But he would have eaten all of them had I let him.

Sadie eating her's. She also only got one.. Mom had two, I shouldn't have but they were so yummy!

Here is Sadie's Bunny/Bear that she did at the party. I could not get the kids to take a picture holding them so I just took them of the animals.

Sawyer's Bunny/ Doggy

And here are the kids in Sawyer's new Toddler bed. He started climbing out of the crib and getting on his dresser, so we had to take the front off and make it a toddler bed. He has done great and sleeps great so that's good.

Sadie loves to climb on his bed and jump, I have started to have to close his door because I don't want them doing that all the time. I am just glad I still have awhile till she is out of her crib!

Family Time!

2010-03-28T07:59:00.000-07:00

Yesterday while Lance was working I went down to meet my Mom and sister for some fun shopping! We went to Quilted Bear and Gardner Village.We had a lot of fun and my Dad was nice enough to watch 10 of the Grandkids that were there while we went. My kids love their Bompa.
Later that night we went to Boondocks in Kaysville for Lance's Mom's birthday party and we all had a fun time there. She got the little kids passes to use the Kiddie area and they loved that. Sawyer was climbing all over the place and even went to the very highest part and came down the slide. This kid is so my climber! It was so fun watching them play, Sadie was a bit more timid and kinda just hung around at the bottom but that was fun for her as well. We also got to play some fun games and just had a nice relaxing Saturday night!

So I am posting some pictures of our fun with that and also some of Sadie in her Dance class and one of Sawyer nad his cousin Ryker! Enjoy!

Sadie enjoying her self at Boondocks. It was pretty cold outside. We only stayed out for a few minutes!

Sawyer watching the cars racing outside, he was loving it!

Lance and I having fun at Boondocks. It was so nice to be able to just hang out and relax!

Sadie playing on the play swing thing.

Sadie jumping on the bouncie thing, the pictures I took of Sawyer didn't turn out I am so sad. He was up so high it was hard to get his picture and he wouldn't stay still enough for me to do it as he was running by!

Sadie at her Dance class doing shuffles

Getting ready to do Ballet and 5 Positions in a row!

She loves to wear the crowns, all the little girls do.

And last but not least these cute boys! My sister and I bought Ryker and Sawyer the same shirts not knowing it so we had to get a picture of the two of them wearing them! Sawyer loves his cousin Ryker so much! I love this picture because it looks like Ry is grabbing Sawy's neck, but he was saying to him "Come here Sawy and get a pictore with me" That's how he says picture and it was so cute!

Fun at the park!

2010-03-21T20:39:00.000-07:00

Today we went to Barnes Park in Kaysville with Lance's family and celebrated Lance's sisters birthday. This was my kids first time at a big park really. They play on my Mom's slides and swings and ours at home but I have not taken them to a bigger park. Last year they were still kinda small and so we didn't do many parks and so this was a fun day for them. They could run and play and they loved the slides. I thought that they would be a little scared of the bigger twistie slides, but I would put Sawyer in at the top and Lance would catch him at the bottom and he would just giggle and want to go over and over again. Sadie liked it, but I think not being able to see really until she was out of the covered part that she wasn't into it as much as Sawy was. They also have Ducks at the park and the kids loved looking at them and feeding them bread.

Here are some pictures of our fun day.

Here are my cute kiddo's playing on the slide. I can't believe how grown up they look in this picture.

Sawyer telling me about the ducks

Watching the Ducks while Daddy was feeding them bread

Sadie hanging out in the stroller after her adventures and chasing the ducks around the park

Watching the Ducks with cousin Bella

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

2010-03-17T21:51:00.000-07:00

Today was a fun day. We went and met my Mom, sister Michele and 4 of her 6 kids up at my Grandpa Dillon's grave. He was Irish and we would always celebrate St. Patty's day with him. He was the greatest guy ever! He passed away when I was a Sophmore in HS so he has been gone a long time and I sure wished that he could still be around to know my kids. He was the best Bompa ever and I miss him so much! So here are some pictures from our fun day.

Here is Sadie in her new St. Patty's Day shirt

And Sawyer showing off his shirt, although he would not look at the camera. His famous thing to do. He is also getting a bunch of teeth in so he has some major drool!

And here he is pushing Sadie out of the picture. Such love!

I could not get them to stand still so I had to get the chairs from Sadie's room and make them sit on them.

And Sadie being a cheeser. She LOVES to get her picture taken. Can you tell, she is totally posing it up!

Sawyer not so much! He would much rather me not bother him while he is watching his favorite Mickey Mouse clubhouse show! :)

Another pose from Sadie bug

Staring off into space.. He is such a cute kid

Sadie in her new carseat. My kids only have their binks when they go to sleep at night and for naps. I don't like them to have them during the day, we are trying to get rid of them all together but are doing it one day at a time. I know I should cold turkey it but I like them to much at night to take them away.. I know, how selfish am I. But I am so worried they won't sleep as well with out them so I have to do it one day at a time! LOL. Anyway so they happend to both find binks in their carseats ( oops!) and would not take them out for pictures!

They were getting to tall for their other carseats and so I moved them to booster one's. I found these cute designs online at Walmart and had them sent to our house. I don't buy online much, but man that was sure nice and easy to just have them delivered. And they have loved having more room to move and sit in the car!

Here they are with their cute cousins. Ryker, Sawyer, Maguire, Makele, Ireland and Sadie. The other grandkids were in school. The two older kids in this picture are my sisters twins. And then she has the younger two pictured and two older girls as well. 6 cute little kiddo's, I don't know how she does it, but she does!

This is my cute niece Ireland. She was named that after my Irish Grandpa Dillon

Sadie and Sawyer thought it was much funner to play and hit the balloons

My handsome and sweet little man

And my two little Irish babies. They just wanted to run around and play so this was the best picture we could get of them sitting still!

What Sadie and Sawyer have been up to!

2010-03-12T10:15:00.000-08:00

I have not done a post for a long time on just the Twins and how they are growing and what new things they have been doing. So this post is just all about the two of them! I still can't believe in 5 months they will 2! It just seems to keep flying by way to fast. But they are at such a fun age right now and we are loving every minute of them. Sadie has really gotten into Dance and loves to "Tap" all over the house with her new Taps that my Mom had bought her ( which I mentioned in the last post) my Mom also bought her first pair of Ballet shoes last week and Sadie loves those too. Thanks Grandma for all the fun Dance stuff.

Sadie is still our tiny little girl and is such a sweetheart. We still can't get either of them to eat many veggies.. But we will continue to work on that and lucky the last time we went to the Doctor they had both gained some weight and she said she was not worried about them and that they were both doing great!

Here are some of Sadie's favorite things and words she says right now:
Favorite things:
1.Anything to do with Dance
2.Minnie Mouse, Dora
3.Her Bear we did for them at Build a Bear and it is so cute when she calls it "Bear" I can't type out the way she says it, but I will have to one day get it on Video because it is super cute.

4.Playing with Sawyer

5.Playing with her Dolls and being a little mother to them, she is always getting blankets and covering them up and feeding them baby bottles and pushing them in the stroller.
6.Playing with her cousins, she loves Ireland.
7.Riding in the wagon
8.She is very much a Momma's girl and I love it. Except when I am trying to do things around the house and she won't let go of my legs to let me get them done. But I know it may not always be that way so I am cherishing every minute of it. :) She even sometimes gets mad at Sawyer if he tries and sits on my lap or wants me to hold him. I guess she thinks I am only for her, but we have to tell her that it's ok if Sawyer sits with Mom too. :)
9.Reading books
10. Shoes! This girl loves shoes. ( Just like her mother) She loves to try on everyone else's shoes and she is very good at putting her own on by herself.

Words used alot!
Mom
Daddy
Sawy
Bear
I'I ( Her cousin Ireland)
Ry Ry ( Her cousin Ryker)
Bai ( Her cousin Bailee)
Bompa ( Grandpa Kuehne)
Taps
Shoes
Cup
Baby
Go ( Usually when we are getting ready to go somewhere or when she and Sawy are driving in their play cars) They call cars (GO's)
Ya!
When you ask her about animals she will Stick her tougue out and breath like a dog for Puppies and if you ask her what a Duck says she will say "Cack, cack, cack"
And her newest word is NO! And she loves to use it!
So there are some of Sadie's things she likes to do and say.

Sawyer is still my tender hearted boy and I love him to pieces. He can be a stinker when it comes to eating and some days hardly eats anything, I don't know how he isn't starving. But he seems to eat when he wants to and that is what everyone tells me that he will eat when he gets hungry enough, but it just always makes me worry. He and Sadie are good friends, even when she teases him. Big sister is already torturing him.. But most days they just love to play with each other and are good at sharing.

Sawyers favorite things to do right now:
1.Anything to do with Cars - He loves to drive around and make the car sounds
2.Puppies - He also loves his Dog that we made for him at Build A Bear
3.Playing with Sadie
4.Playing with his Cousin Ryker, he is always asking for Ry Ry and I, I and we have had to call a few times and talk to Ryker because he would not stop asking for him till I did. I think it is so cute, they are good buddies.
5.Playing outside, swining on the swings
6.Sawyer loves his Daddy. He loves when Lance has the day off and is able to play all day with him. Lance usually only gets Sundays off and sometimes a day off during the week so we love it when Daddy is home to play. Sawyer will ask for Lance the second he wakes up and if Lance had the day before off and I tell Sawy Daddy is at work today he will make me go in our bedroom and let him look for Lance because he doesn't believe me if he can't see for himself. I am so glad they have such a good bond.
7.Sawyer still loves Mickey Mouse and watching that show anytime I will let him.
8.Reading books

Words used often:
Daddy
Mickey - He says it Mitey or something like that, it's cute!
Cars
Momma
Ry Ry
I, I
Bompa
Go
Sissy
Sadie
Doggie
Book
Sucker - This kid got my love for sugar and he is always wanting suckers.. I have to limit him.
He will also tell you what animals say, he says the same things Sadie says.

So there you have it a bunch of things that Sadie and Sawyer love to do and say!
Here now are some pictures of them playing at home and Sadie of coarse in her Dance outfit! Enjoy

Here is Sadie at my parents trying on her skirt that Grammy Kuehne bought for her and Ireland. And she had picked out her Ballerina shirt to wear that day as well.

Sadie at our house trying on her Dance outfit, she would not look up at me, she was to busy checking out her skirt.

Sadie showing off her entire outfit. I could not get her to stand still very long she wanted to be dancing around the hole time. ♥

And here is my silly little boy. He decided while he was playing in his room that he would take the toys out and sit in the Toy box. As you can see we still have not gotten the lid put on. And I kinda hesitate to do so, since Sadie has a white one in her room and it has the lid on and they always put the lid down and then stand and jump off of them. Little monkeys. :)

And this is how I found Sawy the other day while I was doing my hair and when I came back in he had gotten the chair out of Sadie's room and carried it into the family room and sat himself in front of the TV to watch his shows.

My little Dancer!!

2010-02-24T21:15:00.000-08:00

Sadie has loved coming down to the Dance studio when I teach since before she could walk. Lance has always played music with the kids and they have loved to dance with us since they were small as well and they both just start Dancing as soon as they hear music, it's so cute! So the other day my Mom bought Sadie her first pair of Tap shoes!

Sadie has seriously not taken them off since she got them and if I would let her she would wear them to bed! Each morning when she wakes up she will ask me for her "Taps" that is what she calls them. She even wanted to wear them to the store the other day when her and I were having our girl shopping day. Sawyer is always trying to take them and put them on ( I mean come on why should she have all the fun) but as soon as he even gets close to them she freaks and starts yelling at him to get away from them! So on Sunday when Sawyer was sick Lance stayed home with him while I went to my parents and had our weekly Sunday family dinner and my Mom and I had Sadie down in the studio and I got these cute pictures of her and a video. And I can not for the life of me figure out how to turn the video, my computer just keeps telling me I can't do it. So I will still mess with it and try and fix it and then post it in another post. And next time I will video it the right way! My mom also gave her a little Leotard and so next time we are in the studio I will have to dress her up in that and take some pictures to share and then I will hopefully have the video figured out by then as well. :)
So here are a couple of the pictures that I took of her. I just love my girly girl!!

Sadie doing her shuffles

Our Valentine's Day fun!!

2010-02-18T14:57:00.000-08:00

We had a fun day together on Valentine's day and I think the kids enjoyed having Daddy home with us too! We went to my parents house for dinner and goodies and hung out there for the day and then Lance had the next day off from work for Pres. Day and so we went and bought ourselves a new bedroom set for our gift to each other! We have never had a bedroom set that we had bought together since we have been married. We have just been using my stuff that I had before we were married and so it was nice to get something new and I love it! I will post some pictures of that later.

Here are the kids in their Vday shirts, Sadie had just woken up so she was a bit out of it for pictures.. But still cute!

Sadie and Daddy

Sawyer and Mommy

Sawyer was not happy that he had to take more pictures, so he was super grumpy in this one. He even wanted his bink which he normally does not care to much about during the day.

My sweet little boy before going to Grammie and Bompa's house

And my sweet little girl.

We took the kids to do their first Build a Bear for their Valetine's Day present and they loved them and have slept with them every night since.

And here is the traditional family photo that I make us all take every holiday! Sadie was getting annoyed and was trying to escape.

A miracle story for sure!!!

2010-02-17T23:26:00.000-08:00

My friend is friends with this family and when I heard about their story it made me hug my kids a lot tighter! Their little boy is just a few months younger than my kids and this story just made me cry! Check it out and have some tissue handy because it will make you cry. This little boy is such a miracle!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfAKoFzYwzE

♥ Sadie and Sawyer's 18 month pictures ♥

2010-02-07T20:54:00.000-08:00

We finally got Sadie and Sawy's pictures back and I am really happy with them! After all the crazy day we had trying to get pictures done at a new place since Kiddie Kandid's is no longer and having our appointment a hour late since they were so busy and then trying to get Sawyer to even sit still and not cry they ended up turning out really good I think! Glad it's over with till their 2 year pictures. It's a lot of work! haha. Sawyer was just fine until the photgrapher started getting things set up and then he knew what was going to happen and he started freaking out and being really clingy to Lance and started crying to where his face got all red! I thought great after all this and trying to find a new place to take pictures since Kiddie Kandid's went out of business and I didn't want to take pictures outside since it was cold I was worried he would not let us take any of him. Sadie on the other hand loved it and was all smiles! She had probably 20 shots of her and I wanted all of them. But since Sawyer was being shy I decided to choose the close up of both of them so they would look the same on my wall! Sawyer was trying to escape in most of the pictures of the two of them and so he is slowly sliding off the boxes she was having them sit on and so he looks a bit shorter than Sadie, but hey, he is smiling and that's all I care about!! haha

He is also sitting on Lance's lap in his single, but you wouldn't be able to tell unless you knew it. He just would not let Lance go and so the girl said well maybe you should just sit with your legs stretched out and have him sit there and we will have him throw a ball to us and see if we can get him to laugh and sure enough he loved that and we got a cute smile out of him and she was able to just crop Lance out! I was glad we got one of him smiling. So anyway here they are. Enjoy!

Sadie and Sawyer 18 months old ~ Jan 2010

Sweet Sadie bug

My Sawyer boy

Playing at Grammie and Bompa Kuehne's house ♥

2010-01-21T11:13:00.000-08:00

On Tuesdays I go to my Parents house and babysit 4 of my sister Michele's 6 kids while she teaches Dance and then we switch and she watches my kids on Wednesdays while I teach. Anwyay, so while one of her kids was sleeping and the older two were playing on their own I was having fun with Sadie, Sawyer and Ireland. My Mom's down stairs is full of toys, Playstation and a Wii and it really looks like a Toys R' Us store! The kids love it!

So we were having a great time playing and there were so many cute moments I just had to get my camera out and start taking a bunch of pictures.

So here is Sadie doing her hair at the Beauty Salon, she is taking after her Aunt Britt who does hair!

I loved this one, I told her to look in the mirror and see who was in there and this was her cute face when she realized it was herself! :)

Sawyer and Ireland playing in the Play house. I thought this was a funny picture, Ireland is only 6 months younger than my kids and yet she is so short! When she started walking people would come up to my sister and ask how old she was because they all thought she was like a 6 month old walking! She is so cute and my kids love her!

Sawyer taking a ride.

Ireland yelling at Sawy to get out of the car she was trying to drive!

Paigey playing the Piano. Her middle name is Paige and so she gets called Paigey a lot and also baby I, I are her nicknames

Sawyer decided he wanted to join in on the fun and curl his hair too.

Then it was I I's turn

My cutie's taking a ride together

Sadie playing in the house

They kept playing peek a boo with me through the window

Sadie trying to scare me by saying "Boo" :)

Sadie loved riding in the big cars so much that she thought she would give the barbie car a try!

So then of coarse Sawyer had to try the barbie car too. :)

And this last picture is kinda random, but my friend Rachel had asked me to post a picture of the ladder I had mentioned in my last "Birthday" Post. So here it is Rachel, this is what I was talking about. You can get them at Quilted Bear and also the decorations that go on them the lady sells them both! I now have the Fall one, Winter and Valentines one!