Christmas Eve & Christmas Day

We have had such a fun Christmas season and have made lots of fun memories and traditions. Christmas Eve was spent at Tony & Lexi's home. We have had so much fun the last couple days that I have not even stopped to think about taking pictures. So, we only have a few of our girl opening a few of her presents. Christmas Eve we enjoyed a nice turkey dinner and had the most delicious chocolate fondu for dessert. Christmas Day we woke up and had our own little Christmas and Sage opened some of the gifts that she had not already opened with her early christmas celebrations with both sets of grandparents. She got to open her pots and pans and kitchen utensils, along with some felt food, a puzzle and a new baby doll. Christmas morning she opened her dollhouse, race track, a book, another puzzle, princess little people and magnetic animals. Children make christmas so magical. It was so much fun to watch how excited Sage was and watch her neatly open each gift. We had told her Santa was coming and in the morning when we told her Santa came and left presents she was so excited and kept saying "ho ho ho". After our own little Christmas we got ready and headed down to Jodie & McKay's home where we spent the day. We had breakfast, lunch, dinner and lots of treats. We had fun playing games and visiting. Taylor and the other guys snuck away for a little bit and played some basketball. And Sage loved running around with her cousins all day. It was such a fun day.

Santa came early

Sunday evening Taylor's parents came over and had dinner with us. Jeanne made some yummy food and Sage got to see/open her Christmas present from them. She absolutely loves her kitchen. It is just her size and everything about it is so cute. She has already spent hours playing with it. 

Our Christmas Joy

Ho Ho Ho

We took our Sage girl to see Santa today at Trolley Square. We love Santa from a distance and love to say "ho ho ho", but are not a fan of the jolly man up close. We didn't have the heart to hand her off and snap pictures while she sat in terror screaming, so this is the best we got! Santa did get a "bye, bye" and  a kiss blown to him as we walked away with a candy cane in hand. Maybe next year... 

Oh Christmas Tree

Latest on Sage (21 months)

• Every time I wear my jammie bottoms that have snowflakes on them she wants to change into her sleeper that has snowflakes too
• knows how to work out iphones and the ipad. She unlocks it and knows how to find the pictures and how to scroll through them. Also, knows how to find the Netflix app on the ipad and put Elmo on to watch. 
• If she can't sleep she always calls out "mama." When we go in to check on her she is always standing in her crib leaning up against the railing and folds her arms and wants to say another prayer.
• Always yells, "bye" when we put her to bed before the door closes behind us
• Says, "mon" (come on) a lot and wants you to sit and play with her
• Likes and asks to sit on her potty. She hasn't actually gone on it yet, but it's a start!
• If you tell her we are going to the library she starts dancing and assumes we are going to a class, which always has some dancing and singing. 
• Still loves her baby dolls
• knows how to throw a fit and tries to pinch and dig her nails into you when she is upset (we're working on this one...)
• sure is a sweetheart though. Gives the best kisses and hugs. Of course, only when she wants to though. If you ask her and she is not in the mood, she will give you a snooty "nooo"
• loves to be chased and run up and down the hall. She tries to say one, two, three and then comes charging down the hall with her arms open wide for you to catch her
• Hugs and kisses the phone when we are facetiming with grandparents
• Will pretend to take food out from a book (the picture) and eat it
• loves her routine and will let you know if you forget something. The other night we forgot to put her fan on and she kept calling for us and when we went in she pointed to her fan and said, "yeah. okay. bye" and laid back down.
• loves reading about Jesus. She knows where her scriptures are and when we tell her it's time to read about Jesus she goes and  get Book of Mormon and sits down where we read every night. 
• Still signs a lot, but is learning a lot more words. "mam", "dada", "more", "mon", "cheese", "apple", "poo poo", "pee pee", "tree", "baby", "okay", "no", "yeah", "ba ba", "juice", "ball" are among the ones we hear the most though out the day; although she knows quite a few more.
• Her newest word is: "please" and "boy"
• is very particular to what music she likes. If a song changes on the radio and she doesn't like it she is sure to let you know by yelling no over and over again until you put a song she likes. Who knew a not even 2 year old could have such a strong opinion. We have a CD with random songs on it and her favorite is Will Smith's Getting Jiggy With It. It's the only one she likes and she crys and throws a fit until that song is on... and then says "yayayayayaya" for the "nanananana" part.

Christmas at Grandma & Papa's

This past weekend we went to Paradise to celebrate Christmas with Grandma and Papa since they will be in California for Christmas and we will be with Taylor's family. They made it special for Sage. When we arrived they had a Santa hat on and reindeer antlers and even though they are going to be gone a couple weeks Papa threw up a few lights outside just for our girl. We had a nice day and all got to open our Christmas presents. The highlight was watching Sage open her gifts and watching her get to excited. Grandma and Papa got her the Shirley Temple collection DVDs and also went to great lengths to get her some tap shoes, which they do not make in her size... They got little leather shoes and had taps put on them. Of course she only likes the parts of the movie where Shirley is dancing and singing.... thank goodness for scene selection. She says, "more, more" every time an stomps her little feet and tries to copy Shirley dance. It is the cutest thing. Grandma made a yummy dinner as she always does. We are happy we were able to spend some time with them before they left town and the new year.

A Snowman Party

Sage had a snowman party with just a few of her friends- Kaylee, Cole & Grace. She was so excited. She kept looking at their pictures from all their Christmas cards and running to the front door and knocking saying, "mon" (come on). We cut out snowflake cookies, played with peppermint sparkle play dough, colored snowmen pictures, and did snowman/snowflake stickers, played, had lunch and decorated our sugar cookies. It was lots of fun. Sage loves her friends.

(thank you Caitlin for a lot of these pictures)

Grand American & Temple Square

 Grand America Window Displays

Temple Square Lights- Sunday we went with Taylor's parents downtown to Temple Square to enjoy the lights. We bundled up and braved the 25 degree temperature. I wish I got some better pictures, but it was too cold. Sage loved the "baby" more than the lights I think. She kept wanting "more baby." There were several nativity scenes from around the world. She also kept calling "Papa" and making sure he and Jeanne were still with us. Afterwards we warmed up with some hot chocolate.