Duck Game

We spent this past weekend with our friends Randy and Dian who flew up to hang out with us and to go to the Duck game!

We got up early Saturday morning and got on the road to Eugene (it was still dark out!) while it was pouring rain all the way down! Sage was lucky to spend the day with Mandie and Laila all day.

Brad prepared some awesome short ribs and wings on the Traeger! And we had fun tailgating with our favorite people! We also got a chance to go visit with my grandparents and the Jacobs during halftime-I was so happy we got to see them!

We had a great time at the game tailgating and watching the Ducks kick butt!

Sage likes Spaghetti

Sage had her first serving of Spaghetti the other night and loved it!

Our 3rd Anniversary

Brad and I celebrated our third year of marriage yesterday!! I can't believe it has been three years already!
We were hoping to schedule a little mini vacation away together, but with the busy birthday month and not finding a good weekend for anyone to watch Sage; we decided to postpone that until the new year.
We did however, get a chance to sneak away and have an amazing dinner at Ruth's Chris. Brad has been, but I never had. We definitely splurged on a nice and romantic dinner and we had a great time reminiscing on these past three years!
We know how lucky we are to have found each other and each day we are grateful for one another. And most importantly, our little girl is what completes our little family. As we enjoyed the night away to have time just the two of us, we couldn’t wait to just get home and snuggle with our little princess!

Cheers to three years!

And THANK YOU to Sage's Godparents for watching her while we can enjoy the night out :)

Gymboree Class

Brad and I signed Sage up for a Gymboree class on Sundaywith our friends Ron and Kelly and their son Brock. It’s a 45 minute class wherewe do singing, play games, go through obstacle course and learn about balanceand coordination. We figured as the weather starts to turn, we’d get Sageinvolved in some type of class on the weekends to work off a little energy frombeing stuck in the house all week.

She LOVED it!! I’m not kidding, we took her shoes off andshe went running into the room and went straight up to the teacher and gave hera hug and asked to be held. She giggled and would scream with excitement.

After class is open gym, so we hung around and let her go dowhatever she wanted. She was so happy! We have four more classes to go!

Where is Sage?

Oh, she is hiding in our closet behind Brad's clothes! Her new favorite place to run off to!

ND Entry #2 (Nanny Diaries)

As I mentiond in our first post of the Nanny Diaries: we get a few pictures every once in a while from Mandie. Here are a few of them!

Eating all her chicken!

She is doing the sign for "more"

Cooking with Kelly

A few nights ago, our friend Kelly invited us over for dinner. She grabbed Sage while she was making us a salad and plopped her right on the counter and had Sage help her with making it! It was so cute and Sage did a great job with just sitting there and helping put things in the salad. I was impressed with how much Sage enjoyed it.

The Pumpkin Patch

We had a busy weekend full of lots of visits with friends and activities! Friday night we hung out with the Bales crew and Sage played with her buddies Nolan and Wyatt! Saturday night, we went over to the Myers house for some delicious BBQ and to watch the Duck game! And Sunday we hung out with Suzanne and her daughter Natalie (2 ½) and the Gallagher family that evening.

In the middle of all that, we took Sage to her very first pumpkin patch! We had a great time, probably would have been more fun if we hadn’t under-estimated the hot weather! Geez!! It was certainly toasty out side and I unfortunately didn’t put any sunscreen on Sage (oops!!) So, it was a short visit and promise to go back once it cooled off! She had a blast running from pumpkin to pumpkin!

Brad hanging with Wyatt and Sage

Such a serious face- watching all the other kiddos!

 

 

Brock Gallagher and Sage (they are two weeks apart in age!)

Family Pictures

We got family pictures done about a month after Sage’s first birthday! Our amazing nanny, Mandie, also dabbles in photography and she agreed to take some family pictures of us! We also thought it would be easier since Sage is so familiar with her.  The pictures came out great and we are SOOO happy with them and the fact that we saved a ton of money! Sage was a little cranky and was hard to get her to just sit with us and smile…but, we still managed to capture a few that are priceless J

Don't worry grandparents- the pictures are in the mail to you!

  

This was a few days before her birthday!



She is the happiest!

This is our favorite picture!!