Sadie turned 2!

Our little Sadie Bug turned 2 earlier this month! I can't believe how fast she is growing up. She is so fun and has a whole lot of personality.

We had a lady bug party, or a be-bo party as Sadie calls it.

Here she is opening her presents (or actually watching her brothers open them for her). She was pretty excited about her new doll!

Happy Birthday little girl! We are so happy you are part of our family! You bring so much joy to us all, and we love you so much!

A little girl

Peeked in Sadie's room and saw this. She makes me smile.

Shutterfly Christmas Cards

So every year I am a little slow getting our Christmas cards out. I don’t know why I let it sneak up on me, I should be used to the idea by now and plan ahead, but I don’t. So, as I started to look into some of the photo cards out there on the web, I was very impressed with Shutterfly. So many great Christmas cards! They have a wide selection so we won’t end up sending the same cards as every other family. I love that they have so many different layouts—some with just one picture, and some with spots for a few pics in case I can’t just pick one shot. Also, they offer a lot of folded cards, which I think are great. They seem like the more traditional card, but with a modern twist. Anyway, here are a couple of my favorites:

As you can see, I might have a hard time choosing! You can check out lots more of their Christmas Photo Cards. And, the coordinating address labels—so cool. Shutterfly also has great gift ideas for Christmas, and many of them are on sale!
So not only am I loving their cards, I’m loving the fact that I can get some for FREE! They are running a promotion for bloggers to get 50 free cards and I am so excited. You can do it too, by clicking here, but the cutoff is today so you have to be quick!

Thanks Shutterfly!

Hard to impress

Colby started preschool in August. The first time was a little rough since he is so shy, but since then he has been loving it! He gets to do all kinds of fun things there that I never let him do at home, like painting, play-dough, and tracing in a pile of shaving cream. Ms. Robyn is so great. Colby is always so proud of the projects he brings home. He is a total perfectionist, so he takes his time with his coloring and everything. Sometimes when I go to pick him up the other kids are playing, and he is still sitting at the table, carefully finishing his work.

There is one little girl in his class that is just so cute. Always so nice and polite. Her mom told me that she likes Colby and keeps talking about him all the time. We had talked about getting them together for a play date sometime. Later I was asking Colby about her.

Me: Colby, are you friends with Allie?

C: Yeah.

Me: Do you play with her a lot?

C: Sometimes.

Me: She says you're her best friend.

C: ((little grin))

Me: She's really nice, right?

C: Yeah, well....well....um....sometimes....she scribbles.

Sorry Allie, this kid has standards. You're going to have to clean up your act if you want to impress him.

Nice Hair

Most days, I try to keep Sadie's hair from looking like this:

She's not quite to the ponytail length yet, so we use clips. Clips that she loves to pull out and leave everywhere. We go through them pretty quickly, so I went to Target last week and stocked up, buying 3 packages. When she found them the next morning, she was so excited, she wanted to wear them all.

At the same time.

Oh yes, much nicer.