Christmas Card Photo Shoot

This year we wanted to have a nice little family picture with Sadie, as her entrance into our lives made our 2010 so very special!! Our good friends Andrew & Courtney spent time with us and Sadie...who was not as cooperative this day...typical child behavior on picture day I guess, haha...she really does help in preparing us for kids!

We even had the "help" of some children at the grade school by our house in the after school program. They didn't seem to understand that we were trying to take a picture of just us, nor did their supervisors...which added a humorous/test of patience element!

Snow Pup

Sadie thinks she's an Alaskan husky I'm pretty sure...the snow is the only place she wants to be!!! The first day it snowed we feared that Sadie wouldn't want to go out, wouldn't go to the bathroom outside, and that those things would make for a very, very long winter on our part! Instead...it's going to make for a long, long winter because Sadie LOVES being outside in the snow running and eating all of it! Now we have a hard time telling she has to go potty because she normally paces around the door when she's gotta go...well now, she just paces around the door because she wants to go out in the snow. Jack also had to shovel out different path routes in our backyard because just 2 inches of snow means that Sadie is up to her arm pits in snow!!
As frustrating as it can be going out with her...it has given us many laughs and she is quite adorable in the snow, so happy!!

Sadie's 1st Birthday

Our little Sadie turned 1 on December 11th! We also had our 2nd annual holiday party that evening, but Sadie's birthday was celebrated a few hours before with our parents and Spenser (Jack's parents dog, Uncle Spenser to Sadie).
We got Sadie a dog cake from a little dog boutique in the area, as well as a birthday hat and a new toy, which was a birthday candle guy. We sang and she blew out her candle...well, I blew it out and she watched. She enjoyed the cake, and so did Spenser. Sadie's grandparents were very generous by bringing over some gifts for the little birthday girl. Overall, it was such a fun time celebrating Sadie's day she came into the world - she's made our lives so much happier and brings smiles & laughs to us every day. Love you lots Sadie lady!!!