My babies are growing up!!

I know that I have added a lot to our blog over the last few days, but I came to realize just what a milestone month this has been for my children and for their mom and dad!! The month of August started off with my baby girl turning eight and then two days later the kids headed back to school!! That is, ALL of the kids!! Sawyer started kindergarten this year!! He was SO excited to be going to the BIG school with his brother and sister!! His teacher is a collector of M&M's and has her room decorated with all of her collection, so of course her and Sawyer hit it off great!! Stephen started 6th grade this year and I didn't think much of it until at 'Meet the Teacher' I was asking if she needed help from parents during the year and she told me that this is the year that they start having the students do more and the parents do less! It is started already, my oldest boy is growing up, in more ways then one! Then a few weeks later when Stephen officially moved from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts it hit me again the my boy is starting to be pulled from his mom. It does help me a lot that Stephen still comes to find me throughout the day to get a 'mommy hug'! I have told him since he was a toddler that he better always love his mom and not turn into a boy who doesn't like his mom. He promises me that will never happen! We then ended the month on a wonderful note with Sadie's baptism! Having family and friends around to celebrate wonderful milestones is what this life is all about!!

Sawyer, age 5

Sadie, age 8

Stephen, age 11

Way To Go Stephen!!

With all of the excitement of Sadie's baptism last weekend I totally forgot to get the pictures on here for Stephen's Arrow of Light Ceremony!! (BAD MOM!!) Two weeks ago Stephen officially moved on from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts!! The district puts on a wonderful program for these boys who work so hard! The exciting thing was that his two best friends, Walter and Luke, got to move up with him! I am so very proud of Stephen and all the hard work he put into his years in Cub Scouts and I know he will be a wonderful Boy Scout!

Fun Family Weekend!!

We all had a great weekend with lots of family in town for Sadie's baptism!!

Megan and her aunts, Nicole, Jana, Laura and Michelle!!

Sadie with her aunt Jana

Mike and Laura (taken by Sadie) :

Nicole and her son Ryder

Megan and her FAVORITE aunt, Laura

Sadie's Baptism

Sadie's Baptism Day August 23, 2008

Sadie with her grandma Heidelberg, her mom and her aunts.

Sadie with her grandma and mom

Sadie with her other grandma and mom

Sadie in her baptism dress

Sadie and her mom

Sadie and her PaPa

Sadie's mom and aunt Jana, aunt Nicole and aunt Michelle (Laura's sisters)

On Saturday, August 23, 2008 Sadie was baptized by her father. We had a wonderful weekend! The house was overflowing with guests, which was SO much fun! We were actually able to find places for 11 people to sleep in our house!! Sadie was blessed to have her grandma and grandpa Heidelberg, grandma Teresa, three aunts; Michelle, Nicole and Jana, four cousins; Megan, Michael, Tyler and Ryder, one uncle; Brent and lots of friends; The Leetham's, The Diloi's, The Minor's, The Pinkham's, The Wilcox's, Brother Humphreys from the bishopbric and the primary president Sis. Rogers and of course her mom, dad and brothers all attend her baptism. We all enjoyed the wonderful spirit that was all around Sadie that day.


The morning of Sadie's baptism she had the opportunity to attend her first Stake Primary Achievement Day activities. I don't think she could have started her day off any better! I know some of you will remember the song "Walk Tall You're a Daughter" from our days in Young Womans. Sadie came home with a copy of that song on a CD and played in the van driving home and well, that started mom's tears flowing! It made me realized just how fast my baby girl is growing up!! It was a wonderful day and I am so greatful to all of you who helped make that day extra special for Sadie. We know that there were also lots of you who were with us in spirit. We missed all of you up in Utah and beyond that were not able to attend!

Mike's Garage

I've been working on cabinets for our garage. They are almost done, here's a couple of photos of the garage, and you can see why the cabinets are needed. Hopefully I can post a few more photos soon of the completed cabinets.

Sadie's Birthday!

Sadie woke up this morning at 6:30 so she could open her gifts before her dad went to work. We have a new addition to our family, Kit an american doll.