California

I am trying so hard to get the blog updated before the baby comes. I have been wanting to post more on the blog as a sort of journal type thing for our family because I have loved going back and seeing what has gone on. I was so happy that I blogged about stuff because I tend to forget things really easy. Blogging is hard work, I tell you. Well anyway, we had a splendid time in Utah. There was so much I didn't get around to blogging about but for the sake of wanting so badly to get updated we shall let it pass.

After our month in Utah this summer we all headed westward toward my home state of California. Mark stayed a week with us and then was off to Officer Training. Sadie and I stayed with my family for the whole month while Mark was gone. While Mark was with us this is a little of what we did.

We did a whole lot of Relaxing... I think she looks just like Mark in this picture.

A bunch of nude chicken chasing... and being chased by chickens... This girl loves animals; it was too funny to watch her chase these chickens and try and pick them up but then get too scared and run away. Oh, and poor Bear (my family's dog)... he got a little too much love from Sadie. Spent some quality time at the Pacific... Sadie looks so young in all these pictures. They were only a couple months ago, but I swear sometime between then and now she has gone from a baby to a little girl. Ventured over to Knott's Berry Farm... My mom and I love this place. We have been going here for years and Mark had never gone so we decided to take him. I couldn't go on any of the rides because I'm prego, but it was more fun to just watch Sadie on the rides.

Sadie loved the Horse and Carriage ride.


Enjoyed the sights and smells of the Del Mar Fair...
Sadie's favorite part was the animals, of course.
and all the greasy, fried fair food.

and we had a great time enjoying time with family and friends...

The End.

I think it's so cute that Sadie has to have all her friends come sit with her to watch her movie. Also, when ever she goes to bed she has to have all her friends in bed with her and sing our special night night song to each and every one of them. She is getting so big!

We were driving home from letting Sadie play at the splash pad at the mall and she was talking non stop. She always wants us to turn around in the car and acknowledge what she is saying. But it is really nonstop, so I stopped turning around and I guess I was ignoring her. She kept saying "mama", then laughing "haha" ("mama, haha, mama, haha" over and over-- you get the point), so I finally turn around only to find that she had put her dog on her head and she thought it was so funny. I thought it was pretty cute not only the dog on her head, but also that she thought it was so funny and wanted us to think so, too.

Moab

This was our second trip to Moab in our married career. This time we went with Mark's family and we had another grand time. We went and saw the arches of corse and then went and checked out Dead Horse Point and Canyonlands. Sadie is turning into quite the little hiker and outdoors-woman.

The whole crew. Believe it or not but this is not Mark's whole family, there are quite a few missing.

I tried to get Sadie to let me take a turn in the backpack. She wouldn't budge.


Does anyone else see the face with the Jay Leno chin in this picture ?
Pretty rainbow at our campground
All the kids had so much fun at Sand Dune arch. It's like going to the beach with out the ocean and you're surrounded by red rock cliffs.
All the brothers together at Dead Horse Point

Don't you dare get near my hot dog






Sadie was really insistent on helping me peel potatoes and make dinner. She is always the best little helper or at least tries to be.