Family Pics

Love our most recent family pictures. Thank you Caitlin Nicole Photography. Grateful for a good friend who knows our girls and their personalities. Love this family of mine. Couldn't be any more blessed. 

Sage girl quotes

Sage at lunch eating her food.
Dad: Wait. We didn't pray.
Sage keeps eating.
Dad- Why are you eating?
Sage- because I'm hungry.

Sage loves to jump on the couch and her response to "Sage, we don't jump on the couch" is always, "I'm not jumping on the couch mom! I'm just doing my exercise!"

Tells Harper, "Sorry Harps, It's for old kids" about many things throughout the day.

We woke up the other day to Sage singing, "What does the fox say? ninininininininininini ninininin. What does the fox say?"

Whenever she sees the moon she says, " I see the moon and the moon sees me. God bless the moon and God bless me." The other day she then added, "I see the moon and the moon sees Harper. God bless the moon and God bless Harper."

She was sitting in the bathroom and calls me for help. When I got in there she said, "Mom, can you say holy moly? It's stinky in here!"

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a nice Thanksgiving. We all got together at Jodie & McKay's home and enjoyed a yummy feast. My mother-in-law also read a cute Thanksgiving book to the kids and also introduced the book The Sparkle Box, which she gave to each family. Each year for Christmas we take turns picking an organization/charity to donate money instead of buying each other gifts. This year the Selph family got to pick and they had all got all the supplies to make "blessing bags" for the homeless, that included hand warmers, water bottles, chapstick, gum, crackers, tissues, toothbrush/toothpaste... All the cousins assembled them into ziplock bags. We each got to take a few bags home to pass out over the next month. It is already Dec 4th and our Christmas festivities have begun! 

Sage also enjoyed one of her last joy school classes. We have decided to postpone joy school until the first of the year and then to just get together once a month. We wanted to keep the group small but with it being so small one or two kids are sick or out of town and we are not left with any friends. It's just a lot of work for just a couple kids. I have tried to continue planning everything as I would and doing the activities with Sage throughout the week at our own leisure. She definitely missed "school class". She always looked forward to it. 

Harper Lee is 9 months!

Harper at 9 months...

• 17.97 lbs (33%) and 27.56 inches (49%) 
• thinks it is hilarious when you pretend sneeze
• is so ticklish, especially under her neck
• pulls herself up to stand whenever and wherever she can
• has two teeth on the bottom, one which has broke through but has not really come in yet and is getting another one on top!
• is the best sleeper. sleeps on her tummy most of the time.
• "talking" a lot. saying mamamama and dadadada. 
• is a speed crawler, shoe eating, wipe puller outer, crumb finding sweetheart 
• likes to splash in the bath
• has the best smile and laugh
• loves her sister even though she gets pushed around sometimes.
• loves yogurt melts and graham crackers
• does the downward dog, especially when she is tired.
• wants to touch and get into everything. 
• is usually a quiet observer, but has a sly & funny personality and although she often appears very serious she is so smiley and so funny
• is already a daddy's girl
• is wearing 6-12 months or 9 month clothing, size 3 diapers 

Halloween Festivities

We had a blast celebrating Halloween all month. We went and saw the witches at Gardner Village five times, had a Halloween Party with friends, went to the pumpkin patch, went to a fun Halloween party at the library, did several Halloween crafts, went to Cornbellys and grandma and papa had a fun Halloween Party with all the cousins for us. Halloween Day Sage girl had dance class and got to where her costume. We had a fun Halloween lunch with our friends/neighbors down stairs and then went trick or treating at McKay's work and went and spent the evening with them and with grandma too. We had a yummy dinner and went trick or treating through the neighborhood. Sage and Kaylee had a good time together and had the "trick-or-treat!!" and "thank you" down! Sage always picked the colorful candies so we got lots of taffy and smarties and not much chocolate... she avoided the brown snickers wrappers or orange reeses wrappers, much to my dismay... Our girls were the sweetest cupcakes and Taylor and I were the bakers. They dressed up as a pig and cow for our ward party though because Taylor has to work and I did not have our baker costumes yet, so I wore a flannel shirt and books and called it good. It was such a fun month of celebrating.