Sadie's Blessing Day

Yesterday Sadie was blessed, and she looked so BEAUTIFUL in her blessing dress. I might be a little biased because she's my daughter, but I really think Sadie is so adorable. Aaron gave her a very nice blessing and she was perfect and didn't cry!!! I think as mom's we all stress about that part! ;) Here are a few pictures of the beautiful little girl...




Our little Family
Four generations- My grandma Halvorson, Sadie, Me , and my Mom
Grandma Halvorson, Sadie, Me, my Grandma McLelland, and Sadie's Grandma McLelland :)
Almost all the family that was there. :) Thanks for coming everyone!

Halloween

We had a fun Halloween this year!! All the kids were out of school, so Sadie and I went to see High School Musical 3 with them, while Max stayed and played with Samuel. We had the traditional homemade chicken noodle soup...love it!! Thanks mom!! :) Then Max went trick or treating with Trayce to a few houses on my parents street. After 2 or 3 houses, he got on to the fact that people were giving him food, and then he was running as fast as his little legs would carry him to the next house, and calling back to me and waving good bye to me. It was cute. And Sadie just slept. :)
Our little candy corn.
Ninja Max
This sword Aaron picked out was HUGE!! It was taller than Max! Leave it to Dad to get Max a ginormous sword! ;)
His favorite new thing to do is jump of the fireplace, all though he chickens out half of the time.






And a plug for Proposition 8.....


I have to give a shout out to Desi, my wonderful missionary companion in Annemasse, who taught me to love pumpkin carving. I credit her for what Aaron calls my "one talent". :) Pumpkin carving. Now after a few years of carving, my brothers get really excited about what I will do this year. I have to admit, it wasn't my best one this year, but the most meaningful. We've been asked to give of our time and talents to help Prop 8 pass. Aaron and I were able to go out and do door hangings Saturday....many thanks to my mom for babysitting the kids so we could go. It was fun because it reminded me of being on my mission....cold, rainy, Saturday morning where everyone is in bed so no one is out on the streets to talk to...:) Ahh, the good 'ol days! Anyways, it was a way we were able to give of our time, and here is how I gave of my talents...
Like I said before, not my best, but it did look cool all lit up and many people commented on it!!! Don't forget, YES on 8 tomorrow!!

Sadie Rose

Max Thomas

Oh, precious children.

My brother McKay is famous for his comments.  Sometimes they are deep, sometimes they are off the wall, and sometimes they are just plain, factual observations...that social propriety would discourage from be spoken out loud.  McKay is also known for his concern regarding physical health and appearance of health.  He has especially been concerned about my weight gain during pregnancy.  It's very interesting to have your 11 year old brother be so concerned about your weight gain.  Now, even though we had been through this before when I had Max, he was still very surprised the day I came home with Sadie that I still had a good sized stomach.  Apparently when he heard we were about to pull up he rushed outside, not saying he was so excited to see the baby, but was "excited to see how skinny Kristen is."  What disappointment he was met with.  The next day when he asked me about post-pregnancy weight loss, I explained to him that it takes 9 months to put it on so it takes at least 9 months to take it off.  That seemed to satisfy him, and give me a good window of time to work on loosing the weight.

Flash forward to today.  I was at the park with 7 kids- 2 of my own, my 2 brothers, and 3 cousins.  I'm wearing some pre-Sadie jeans, not quite pre-Max, put feeling good that I'm making progress.  I had some cute shoes and a cute hat and I was feeling pretty good about myself, dare I even say I was feeling pretty trendy, which rarely happens these days.  Sadie was sleeping in her baby bjorn and it was such a beautiful day.  I snapped a picture on my phone to capture the beautiful moment I was having.  Then I went to throw the football around with McKay.  After a few throws he walked over to me, and said "Does it really take 9 months (then made the hand gesture for a large stomach) to get rid of that?"  Apparently I am not looking as good as I felt. :)  Sweet, sweet children.

Brother and Sister=Best Friends....one day!

For as rough and tumble as Max is, he is SO gentle with Sadie.  I always know when he's approaching her, because I hear "Ahhh, Baa."  Then he rubs her stomach or head and puts his cheek next to hers.  It is so cute.  Here are a few shots and a video of them together.

On the move...literally.

The lack of posts is due to the fact that we moved last weekend into a new apartment, Max is a maniac, Aaron working 67 hours a week and Sadie thinking we should spend time pacing the floors and bouncing from 8-12 everynight. I have managed to get some cute photos lately of my little adorable chunk Sadie, and of course Max climbing to the top of my mom's upright piano all alone...so I will try and post those soon! Stay tuned...