Wedding weekend

Last weekend, we were traveling girls, Sadie and I... first, we headed to Cleburne to see my grandparents
Here's Sadie with my mom and Pop (trying to get a bite of that sweet roll)

Sadie bug on the prowl...(I think she will crawl forward any day now)
as you may recall, she has mastered scooting backward

and a picture with all of the ladies (from left to right: my great aunt Janie, my grandmother's twin sister Cloyce, Sadie and I, my grandmother "Dada", her best friend Jimilynn and my mom, Shirley)

then off to Waco for a friend-filled weddingmy brother George, trying to get a quick hug before we left (as you can see, Sadie was ready for bed)
there are more pictures coming of the wedding...one of our friends took some great ones and are sending them my way soon

What a weekend! it was a lot of driving, but also a LOT of fun!

rollin' along

Sadie is a busy bee. First, she is a mover. She has been able to roll over for quite some time, but now she rolls several times in a row to get where she needs/wants to go...like a corkscrew

like underneath the coffee table

(she hold out her arms for a moment to balance, of course)

hmmmm... this Kleenex box looks interesting

VERY interesting

Second, Sadie loves, well, everything around her. At seven months old, there's a lot to look at and LOVE

like her own foot

and my foot, apparently (why are painted toenails so amusing ?)

she also LOVES an empty water bottle (that crinkle-crunch sound -- gets her every time)

it's the little things :)

Splish splash

In addition to her two teeth, Sadie has also grown several inches...so we sadly retired our blue baby tub and went in search of a solution. Thanks to Walmart online:

we have a fun little water-seat for Sadie girl...
(notice the washcloth tam for kicks)


so now she can wave and play

and chew on her cup
Don't you love the hair?

Funny Faces

Here are a few shots
from our afternoon play time:
credit to Meaghan E. for the use of colored letters :)

singing "la-la-la-la-la" and "lo-lo-lo"


being a gigglebox


and...suddenly frightened ?

Easter highlights

We had a wonderful time last weekend with our family for Easter and did a great job taking lots of fabulous snapshots capturing the precious moments...but now many of them will not load onto the blog...so, I humbly submit a few of these (tiny) pictures so you all can see a bit of the fun.

FRIDAY
that afternoon, we went to visit with my grandparents, uncle (Graves),
aunt (Gaylynn) and my cousin (Rachel)

Here's Rachel with Sadie bug and Mimi



Uncle Graces with Sadie (later she attacked his shoelaces...maybe they looked edible?)
SATURDAY
Out for a stroll and lunch at the MOONSHINE Grill - Yum!

Sadie: just kickin' it


I know, this is a picture of food, but it was so pretty
and tasted AWESOME:
Cornflake fried chicken salad!

Sadie and I just after we (Jason and I) ate

SUNDAY
Easter egg hunt at the hotel

Sadie pondering..."what is this?"


Sadie's first taste of whipped cream...really really good vanilla whipped cream

and in the 200 pictures or so ( yup, that's right)
here's the only one of all three of us in our Easter duds.

that'll do

my parents stopped by the hotel before we drive home,
so they could see SADIE
(and, uh Jason and I)



Sadie likes glasses (thanks to Daddy)

Supper Club

Last night we got together with some friends for a potluck dinner--It was so great to catch up!
(several of these pics seem blurry - sorry!)


Little man Brex and I played some CHASE before dinner. Isn't he adorable?


Here's Aaden, trying to decide what he thinks about all of these people...


Here's shot of the girls, just before we headed home. Thanks everyone! This was awesome!

FYI: Sadie stayed at home with our friend Alissa; that's why she doesn't appear in these pics...but for all the Sadie fans (ahem, grandparents)
here's a clip from this morning of our Sadie bug
she loves to be tickled :)

A beautiful day

We had a wonderful weekend at home here in Tyler! Hooray! With all of our traveling lately, it was a nice break to just do "normal" family activities on Saturday...so, we woke up early, got bundled up and ate breakfast...

Then headed out to the soccer field to watch our friends' son play his last game of the season!

Sadie got settled in her V.I.P. seat. "I'm ready for the game to start!"


Here's Eli gettin' ready to play

And now the game begins!

Now, Eli throws the ball back into play, with a little coaching from his dad, Danny.

After the game, we headed to old faithful = Chick-fil-A


where we ran into our friends, the Bacons (Andrew & Brooke) who just got back from Israel...they had some great stories


Then out for a stroll through Lowe's, Lifeway bookstore and Marshall's


What a fun family day!