Sawyer's Party Pics and a few others:)

We had a great time doing a little birthday party for Sawyer. We made mini pizzas with all the cousins, and family that came. Then we visited, ate some cake and ice cream and opened gifts. I was really exited to see how Sawyer would react to her cake, because Clate's reaction to his on his birthday was not too exciting. Sherod ended up showing his face in the cake...ha ha Uncle love. Sawyer was the exact opposite, she dove right in, loving every bite, not wanting to share:)

Riding on her new bike from Uncle Ross and Aunt Sarah

Skippers

Aunt Sarah and Uncle Rico aka Ross

Keeping it all to herself

First bite

Reaching for it, and Clate blowing out the candle

Grandpa Lemieux and Sawyer

Hadlee, Jackson, and Avery

One of her many gifts

Sawyer throwing a tantrum

Last week after church this is what Marc decided to wear...NERD alert

Last Sunday we tried to let Clate skip a nap this is how it ended...

he never quite made it all the way up before he fell asleep

Yes...we did grow this Watermelon in our garden:)

Sawyer is 1!!!!

My Little girl is 1! I can't believe how time has flown. We love this little one sooooo much!!! She is such a sweet little thing (when she is not throwing a tantrum)
Here are some fun things about Sawyer....

• She has 1 tooth, right now she is known as "snaggle tooth" it is her top left tooth...whats even funnier is that we think her bottom right tooth will be her next one how funny will that be
• She definitely has ATTITUDE, or as Papa Hardt says she has SpUnK (and according to him thats a great quality:) )
  
• She is a DRAMA Queen...she can turn the cry on and off in a matter of seconds
• When she gets mad she headbutts anything and everything (watch your teeth and face, she shows no mercy)
  
• She has taken a few steps, but not quite walking hopefully soon:)
• She says "momma and dadda"
• She is a snuggly bug, you pick her up or pass her to someone else she just wraps around ya
• She eats a lot, but is a skinny minny
• She absolutely loves Clate...when I get out of bed in the morning and those 2 are still sleeping I can go back and check on them and they snuggle up and are usually holding hands...it makes me so happy:)
• She finally likes Marcus, but will not sleep for him
• She loves animals, but hates to touch them
• She ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY hates her crib/room...she could be dead asleep and you step one foot in her room and she immediately wakes up and screams and cry's and will not go to sleep in that room. She has cried for 2 hours straight and would still not sleep:) SpUnK?
  
• She has managed to escape out of her crib
• Loves to swim and bathe
• Unlike her mommy she loves chocolate...she loves to eat oreos with daddy
  
• She loves "patty cake"
• She is a dancing queen, will dance to any type of music she hears. It is Precious!!!
• We love her to pieces
  

Wow!!

Wow its been a stinking long time since I last posted...

• Clate turned 2(in April ha ha)
• Marcus finished another semester of school, maybe in 10 years we will be done ha ha LOVE you BABE!
• Sawyer learned to sit, army crawl, regular crawl, and now stands and walks along the furniture...hopefully she will walk by the time she turns 1, she only has a about 3 weeks left:/
• I went on a girls trip to Idaho for Paige's baby shower
  
• Clint and Paige had a cute little hairy child:)
• Went to Girls camp
  
• Kari got married
• Sherod left on his mission...tears for sure
• We have been to the cabin a few times and Clate and Sawyer love it!
• I have decided to do preschool again:)

These are just a few highlights, hopefully I can do a better job of recording some of our fun adventures!Here is a picture of us at the cabin, using the self timer on the camera...ha ha good times:)

I love this picture of Clate, he is so concentrating:)

This is the only picture I could get to upload from Kari's wedding...not the best, but a pic

Marcus and the kids with "Tess" at the Cabin

My little Sawyer getting too big too fast

Marcus and Clate fishing at the pond

Clate loves to "pish"

My little bro Sherod before he left to serve the Lord in the Oklahoma City Mission

Funny Stories...

So I just wanted to put these stories down so we can remember them when Clate is older...

I first have to make a confession...Clate will be 2 in April and he still sleeps with us. With that said my story can continue...

So the other night Marcus whispers "hurry come look at Clate!" I run over to Clate's room and we peek in and he has gotten on his new bed, pulled the covers up and looks like he is going to sleep. We are super excited that he just got in his new bed (not ours) and is going to sleep...

BUT we go back a minute later to peek in on him AND he was being a SNEEKY little boy. He had found a pack of gum and was hiding in his room on his bed, shoveling all the pieces of gum in his mouth!

The Story continues.............

The next night I had mutual and Marcus had a football game so after we went and picked up the kids to bring them home, I quickly go get Sawyer's PJ's, a diaper, and the Vick's rub (she's been pretty sick) to get her ready for bed. I go grab Sawyer come back sit down to get her dressed, and I don't hear Clate, which is NOT a good sign (he tries to escape out the back door)!

I yell for him a few times, NOTHING. I run to the back door and look in the garage, NO SIGN. I tell Marc to look out front, but on my way back in from the garage I notice a pillow moving in Clate's room. He is hiding behind a toy box, under his pillow on his old bed, not making a peep. All I can see is the pillow moving a bit. Once again we were like what a nut trying to hide out. Ha Ha.

I come back out to finsh getting Sawyer ready bed, change her diaper, put her PJ's on and grab for the Vick's...It's GONE...At that second I knew exactly where it was!

I run into Clate's room, lift up the pillow and I find Clate hiding, sniffing the Vick's! Once again he was being a SNEEKY little stinker. He fooled us AGAIN! I couldn't help but laugh! I don't know what it is with him and Vick's he LOVES to sniff it, I always have to hide it from him!Here is a picture of him "relaxing" with Grandpa and Dad.
He look so innocent in this picture;)

6 months!!!

Our little Sawyer is 6 months (on the 9th) man how the time flies!!!

Here are her stats:
Length: 25.5 inches (38th %tile)
Weight: 16.5 inches (40th %tile)
Head: 13 inches (50th %tile)

As you can see she is just a little thing! We like to call her a little Kari.

• She loves to jibber jabber
• She rolls all over the place
• She actually likes rice cereal actually oatmeal
• She loves to get attention
• Hates the sitting position...she will arch her back and go straight in her bumbo
• She puts anything and everything in her mouth
• She loves her brother, her eyes light up when he comes and talks to her
  

We love her so much and could not imagine life with out her!!

Some oatmeal cereal pics!

Happy Valentine's Day

Tonight turned out to be a great night!

Ordered some Chinese take out

Grandma and Pa stopped by to bring Clate and Sawyer a Valentine and a cookie:)

Watched the Little Mermaid and hung out as a fam...

Although we didn't do anything extravagant today I feel very lucky! I love Marcus and our two little ones and the time we were able to spend together tonight.

Playing with the kiddos



Our Yummy cookies

Clate loves to have people try to "steal"
his binky (yes...he still has a binky, hopefully we'll get rid of it when he's 2)
he was even more excited when Sawyer would try to take it from him.
He loves it when Sawyer tries to play with him, it is so cute:)

Crazy Clate

Yesterday Clate had quite an accidental day.

RoUnD 1: We went and Hadlee lunch at Grammy Ellie's class room and Clate had a little wipe out and skinned the tip of his nose.

RoUnD 2:Later we went to Grammy's house and he was being his crazy self and trying to walk on Grammy's table and well he fell off head first. Luckily he hit the wall first it kind of broke his fall and is definitley softer than the tile.

RoUnD 3: Later he was running around doing laps...when he runs he really concentrates on pumping his arm (yes, only one arm pumps) and is not always looking where he is going and ran right smack dab into the wall (and yes...this happens often). Goose egg

RoUnD 4: He was standing on a little step stool and was trying to get a cookie off the counter, the stool tipped and he went flying and hit his nose again! He then got a bloody nose.

RoUnD 5: And if you thought his poor nose hadn't taken a big of enough beating he fell of the bed and hit it again..with only minimal bleeding!

Here is a picture of him today the picture makes it look pretty good. Hopefully our little RuDoLpH has a little better day.

The following picture is the bathroom after Clate had decided to try and flood it by using the cup in the bath and dump it all over the floor all in a bout 60 seconds! I just had to put a diaper on Sawyer so she wouldn't pee on the floor, and I came back to find this. I think it took about 5 or 6 towels plus the rug in the bathroom to soak it all up;) I guess it taught be a valuable lesson...KEEP CUP AWAY FROM CLATE;)