Nate's Adventure Race...

Last Saturday Nate was fortunate enough to spend his whole day exerting energy for an adventure race. From sun up to sun down, he was on the move. Weeks previous to the race he spent much of his time making sure he had all the supplies needed for the race. Things such as a camelbak, headlamp, thermals, a warm beanie, etc. Of course we had all of those things, however there were two items that were not on the list that, apparently Nate had to have. One a backpack, which I posted about earlier and the other a jacket. I guess the only two storage closets in our house that are packed with backpacks and coats/jackets didn't give him enough options.

Anyhow, Nate left Friday afternoon for the Red River Gorge, set up camp, checked in and slept through a chilly night. The next morning the boys (two groups of 4 or 3) got up at 4:30, ate breakfast and headed for the starting line.

Noel, Nate (and his jacket), Jarom and Bryce

The race started with some 12 or so miles of jogging/hiking through the Gorge. Throughout the race the groups were supposed to find checkpoints that were poorly plotted, but this group managed to find 11 of them. Towards the end of the jogging part, they had to repel down a cliff, which come to find out, is right near where Nate and Trav climb. When they came up to the repelling area, they noticed a group or line if you will, waiting for the repel. Apparently a girl had gone down, got her hair stuck in the device and scalped herself.

Repel waiting

I do have a picture of her scalp and I am sure Nate will be pretty disappointed with me for not putting it on here. Anyhow it's a huge chunk of her hair and skin sitting on the ground. Yummy!

Noel and Nate waiting to repel

After a two hour wait at the repelling station, they finally set foot again to retrieve their bikes and head off for a 30 mile ride. Along the way they encountered a bunch of locals and their polaris', drinking beer, going up and down trails comparable or better to what we see in Moab.

Red Necks on the move.

At points they were riding through streams, rivers, mud and pushing their biking up hills, until they finally decided to hit the main road to make it to the end before night fall. Thinking of spending the night in the woods with all the red necks was a bit scary to the boys. Once they got to the road things were a bit smoother until it started to get dark, which meant is started to get cold, especially because they were wet from the rivers. Noel went a head, while Bryce and Jarom decided that they were too fatigued to keep going. Nate came to a rest at the finish line, which by the way wasn't really the true finish, they still had a kayaking station to do but wouldn't be able to do so.

Bryce, Nate, Jarom and Noel

Nate had finished his adventure at 7:30 pm. Sitting in the cold dark night waited Bryce and Jarom for their ride home, which was Nate. When Nate pulled up to them he could only laugh because Bryce had started a fire on the side of the road to keep warm. Their long day was over and upon returning home the wives couldn't help but noticed the limps, groans and lack of consciousness the men displayed. Recovery was going to be a long road.

Although it's been a week since the race, I am still amazed that Nate gave his all and basically exercised all day long, I would die!! He plans on participating in the race again next year, so if you think you have what it takes, come on down and join Nate's team!

Terrible twos...

Or just curious?

Sage is into everything these days and I am wondering if terrible twos are starting a bit early, a year early in fact. I cant keep this kid out of anything, away from anything or try to inhibit him, he just figures out another way.

I was cleaning out our closet the other day and got some or our storage bins out, next thing I know, he's on top of one of them...

Then I look ever and he is in Nate's clothes, now every time I go into the closet he dives in to the back behind all the shirts.

We have locks on our cabinets and Sage has figured out that if he pulls enough times it pops open. I remember my brother doing this with the door latch, if he pulled enough times the latch would bounce off the door and flip over to being unlocked and he would get out, but that was when my brother was like 5. Anyhow, we ended up putting stools in front of one of the cupboards to stop him from getting into the chemicals. And Sage thinks... if they can't come out and play, I will go in there and play.

He was down for a nap one day and I could hear him playing in his crib, so I went in to check. I guess he decided he was too big to wear a diaper anymore so he took it off.

Only to pee in his bed!

Sage figured out after watching Atlas, that there is room behind the couch. He pulled the shoe basket out, moved the curtain and avoided the lamp, to fit his tiny body in between the wall and the couch.

And... he got stuck.

We were dog sitting one of our friends dogs over the weekend and the dogs kennel is just the right size for little Sage.

He found that shutting and opening the door was quite fun.

Sage has his new fetish with pillows and loves to throw himself onto them. Weather its our bed pillows or couch pillows he is always squirming on top.

And most recently Sage watched Nate open the oven drawer and figured out he could do it too. I hear Nate say "oh crap", walk in the kitchen and find....

He sat in there for a good 15 or so minutes unloading all the tupperware and pans.

What I don't have pictured...

A friend of ours baby sat him and she blocked off their kitchen with chairs, first he pulled them out of the way, so she moved them back to try something else. He then pushed them out of the way, she moved them again and tried something else. Then he crawled through the legs to get in. He doesn't stop until he gets what he wants.

We have a leather ottoman in our living room that he has started bitting the corners of. I tell him "no no, we don't bite" and he looks at me, smiles and does it again. Then I grab him and pat him in the mouth and he starts laughing at me. What the heck?

Anytime I am doing laundry, I have the huge pile on the floor he comes over and lays on top of the pile, then starts throwing the clothes around. After I get everything folded in piles on the floor and he's found something else to do, he notices my piles, comes over and picks each piece up one by one and unfolds it by throwing it behind him.

When Nate picks him up and then sets him down, Sage will stick his legs straight out to catch whatever is closest like Nate's chest or a chair so that you cant put him down. He's getting too smart.

He has stated using the animals, blankets and bumper in his crib to prop himself up another few inches to get over the rail.

If I start doing the dishes, he is in the dishwasher playing the the silverware

If I go to the bathroom, he is banging on the door to be let in

If I leave any door open in the house, he is in that room tearing something apart

I want to say he is curious but he flips out anytime you stop him from doing things. Screams when you walk away with his sippy cup and a fleck of dirt you have just taken from his mouth. Ahhhhhhh. Most of the time I can hardly stop myself from laughing at him because everything he does is so funny, but he is catching on that we think its funny so he thinks its funny. We are learning little things here and there, like ignoring him and it seems to be working. But I honestly can't believe that he is as crazy as he is. Next thing I know I will be putting a volleyball net around his bed so he can't escape to our neighbors in the middle of the night. (Nate's brother did this)

I love little Sage to death, even though I know he is going to be driving me nuts in a few years. Good thing we have a little girl on the way, all these boys are making me crazy!

Baby in the belly...

Happy Halloween

Incase you missed it...

Shocked? So were we!! But we are happy to report everything is well and we are expecting her, yes her in April!!

Baby in a box...

Look what we got in the mail...

Baby in a backpack...

Nate is doing an adventure race next week and he insisted he needed a new backpack to add to his collection. Of course when it came he couldn't just put in the in the closet like the rest, he had to play with every little thing on it and see if our kid could fit inside. Well, yes Sage fits and he loved sitting in there while Nate walked around. He is our baby in a backpack!

From our friends Travis and Beth...

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I'm not neglecting the blog...

Well actually I am. I don't have the energy to take pictures and post about our misfortunes of life. But just so people are filled in on a few reasons why I haven't been such a good blogger.

First off- ever since we came back from Utah I have been having neck problems, which unfortunately have turned into headaches, then into migraines. It seems the last few weeks have been the worst on me and I have been unable to function normally because of the throbbing pain in my temple. I think I may have managed it now with more water than I have ever had, self rubbing neck therapy, constant stretching, long naps in our dark closet and as a last resort, medication. I hope it helps. Sorry no pictures here.

Next is our wonderful car. Yes I love this car but at the moment I am perturbed. For anyone who knows car lingo this is what's going on, if you don't get what I am about to say, just read the last few sentences of this paragraph. Apparently the harmonic balancer, which is attached to the crankshaft, which runs into the engine wasn't on tight enough and wore itself out. One day the battery light flickered on and off and I lost power steering. All this because the belts fell off the balancer. So no belts means no alternator, power steering and radiator. We take it to some poe-dunk muffler place and he says the shaft is tapered. I do all this research to find out to replace the engine, yes the engine, would be anywhere from $3100 to $6800. Or we could buy a new car.... cuz we have sooo much money in dental school. Anyhow the status of the car at this point is we don't think the shaft is tapered, the new balancer goes on and stays on. Nate has it on now to where it doesn't wobble and just needs 200 lbs of pressure to crank the bolt on. I think we will glue to bolt on too, so it NEVER comes off. Pray this works!! Yes I have pictures but do you really care to see the engine in our car? And thanks to Travis and Beth for letting us borrow the beast.

Next Sage has been ill, not the flu, not an ear infection. We don't know with what. It was only for a day and night. Yeah a day of constant crying, even in the tub where he is the happiest kid ever. The day was pretty rough, Sage never sits still, never wants to be held and never sleeps anywhere other than his bed. He felt so crappy that he sat on the couch and watched TV with me and actually fell asleep. Then there was the night of high temps ranging from 101 to 102.8 and waking every two or so hours. He is better now and back to his goofy little self.

Sick little boy

Atlas being a loving pet

Atlas... is also sick. He throws up a few times a day, on our carpet, in the middle of the night on our bed. wherever he feels the need to vomit, he does. It's awesome. He doesn't have a cold, just need to get his GI back on track. We hope.

Back to me, I developed a nice little cold over the last few days of stuffy nose and just... well not feeling too great. Compliments my headaches nicely. I have been taking every precaution to not get the flu, so I think I will come out of this okay.

And the latest of our problems... someone backed into Nate's motorcycle at school and jacked it up. Nicely I might add. Apparently the backed into it and pushed it a good five feet or so, bending the kick stand into a U shape and making it so that when he turns the wheel straight, the handle bars actually go off to the right, making it rather hard to drive. So we get to actually make a claim, unfortunately its on the wrong vehicle. Hopefully we can get his moto fixed soon, otherwise its his 10 speed in the chilly morning or the fam waking up to take him in.

I promise, soon I will be better about posting. I have lots to say, just don't feel like saying it now. I think you can understand to some degree. Other than our downs, we have lots of ups and life is good!

Mallory Johnson Photography...

For those of you who don't check my photography blog, maybe you should. I was able to go take pictures of Dave and Abby's family, including their newest edition, Chase. He's too cute not to look at...

Click here.... MalloryJohnsonPhotography

"I cannot ski without my mittons"...

Yea yea, I know this video is old but I find myself frequently watching it. I thought since it was closer to ski season and it actually snowed it Utah, I would post it. I love this video, everything about it, the music, the snow, the skier. Every time I watch it I get the chills and sometimes I get all teary eyed. Pathetic I know, but living outside of Utah takes its toll. I can't believe how good of a skier Candide is, it makes me jealous that he can ski down these mountains with such ease. I recommend you watch the video and maybe you will get a slight taste of why we love to ski so much.

While I am at it, here is the new TGR film for this year. Re:Session. Doesn't it make you pumped? Yeah the nappy haired guy at 1:35, in the green coat, is who we named our kid after!

A few videos of Sage...

Sage has the funniest little personality, he make me laugh all day, every day. One thing I like about him is that he will sit in his toy corner and play all by himself. Today I noticed he was playing in his ball pool, which is very normal. However it usually only lasts a few minutes. He kept making all this noise and I look over and see him doing this... Seriously for like ten minutes.

The other thing Sage has been working on it this... He is one day shy of ten months but has been doing this for the last two weeks or so. He gets better and better each and every day and soon I will really have to run. Listen to his little squeal, he sounds like one of those dinosaurs on Jarrasic Park that eat the big guy when its raining.

Baby Chase...

Baby Chase made his debut early this morning...

September 18th, 2009

7 pounds, 7 ounces, 21 inches

born at 1:14 am

Abby, Dave, Aspen and Chase are all well. Check Abby's blog in the next coming days to see pictures of the sweet little boy!

Congrats guys!!!!!

Time to play catch up...

I know, where have I been? Anyhow I guess it's time to catch up a bit.

Right after we got home from Utah we went camping down in Mammoth Caves and took a tour the next day. Camping with Sage was quiet and experience, he woke up two or three times, crawled around the tent to play and then would go back to sleep. He loved the tent though.

Deer in the headlights... both of us...

Nate and Sage, Nate was kind enough to hold Sage while he slept, which was more than half of the tour.

Travis and Beth

When we got back from Utah our whole garden had pretty much died. All except for the carrots which we didn't thin at the start and they grew around each other. Anyhow we decided we would go feed the baby horses one day. Nate had it all planned out and the horses weren't there. So one our way back home we found some goats and fed them instead.

Staring down the goats.

"Mom, don't take a picture of me!"

There rest of the pictures are just kind of random...

Just because he is cute.

This is when Travis and Beth watched Sage so Nate and I could go out. Sage threw up all over beth, spared that picture and Travis pimped out Sage.

We have blocked off the TV stand with our ottoman, apparently it doesn't work, he crawls around to the side and then army crawls under the whole thing, which is three tables and maybe eight feet.

Bathrooms are now off limits since he has figured out there is water in the toilet and the toilet paper comes off the roll. And yes he is eating it.

Being mischievous and trying to crawl into the dishwasher.

Pulling out all the magazines, he rips them up and then tried to eat them.

This picture was some time ago, but this is how Sage used to watch his singing time in the mornings. He would get so lazy standing there that he started to lower his head, bend his knees and soon he would just be sitting on the floor. I thought it was cute!

Tour de-longer than I thought it would take...

Nate has been an avid road biker as of late, after all he did just purchase a sweet bike to ride. He has been going on frequent rides and this one was by far the best.

Here is the story. It's friday night and Nate says "I am going to go for a ride, I will be back in two hours". About two hours later I get a phone call, it's Nate telling me he is in Richmond. See on the map where that it... it's the halfway mark, that's where he is supposed to turn around. Anyhow he needs directions because he's lost his little way and he's crying profusely, oh wait thats what I imagined he was doing, you know guys with directions. I tell him where to go and two hours later he comes home. Totaling 3 hours and 15 or so minutes of just riding time, soar butt checks and tired knees.

Although his ride was a bit long, he still enjoyed every minute of it (except the part where he took directions from me) and he is going to continuing his new found biking love.

4 Amazing Years...

That's right, we have been married for 4 years, have been together for 5 and get this we have known each other for 11 years!!!!!

I have been so lazy to post because I have been so sick. As soon as we got back from Utah I got this nasty head cold and it has not gone away. I have almost died, in fact I believe I did die a few times. So unfortunately I didn't get to post this on our actual anniversary, but thats okay.

We were very blessed to have our dear friends, "Uncle Trav" and "Auntie Beth" babysit for us while Nate and I went to dinner and a movie. We are so grateful for all those in our life who provide babysitting when needed!

Nate and I enjoyed our night out and our alone time. We are so grateful to have married each other and to be sharing this crazy journey together! I am sure Nate is, just as I am, looking forward to the many more crazy years we are going to experience. Here's to 4 years of marriage and many-many more!

8 Months...

While we were back in Utah, our dear child turned 8 months. Better late than never, I need to remember this stuff ya know. This month was a huge milestone for the little man and for us. Here are some things about Sage...

He got his two bottom teeth on June 25th, followed by his top teeth July 30th.

He decided army crawling is for losers and can now crawl (July 3rd). Ugh childproofing!

He also decided that crawling at a normal pace is out of the question and books it everywhere.

He can pull himself up, stand on his little feets and do the one handed balance.

He gets mad if you take something away from him.

He has now started eating up to 4 jars of food plus oatmeal at his feedings.

He also knows that when he sees his bottle, its time to eat, so he spits his binky out and attempts to lay down.

Ah.... he sleeps through the night, wanna guess how long? From 8:30 or 9 to... 9:30 or 10.

Then stays awake for an hour (to about 11), goes back to sleep for an hour (11-12), wakes up for a few hours (12-2), goes back to sleep for an hour (2-3), wakes up for a few hours (3-6), then goes back to sleep for an hour (6-7), then wakes up, plays and then off to bed around 8:30. He's a 3 a day napper and if we mess it up, we are in big trouble.

He usually lays right down, grabs a stuffed animal and goes right to sleep.

He is still the happiest kid and everyone comments on it.

Loves bath time, loves pools, loves water.

Loves grapes, watermelon, and crackers.

Is getting closer and closer to catching Atlas.

Loves to watch baby signing time, but wont sign anything.

Says "hi" and pretty sure "dada", when I say momma to him he just looks at me puzzled, thats fine he can call his dad for everything esp. when he needs his butt wiped.

Still loves his mommy over everyone else!

He's growing big and strong, everyday he learns something, everyday is a new adventure, everyday is a new chance for him to discover who he is and make his parents laugh because of his BIG personality.

Utah Part II...

After the foot started feeling better and I was able to walk somewhat normally, we continued our Utah trip!

In attempt to stop the over load of pictures and the longest post ever, I tried to put all the pictures in a collage type thing. There are still so many pictures, hope you enjoy!

Cowabunga, my brother told me about this some time ago and I promised him we would take him when we got out there. Good thing I hurt my foot because we didn't make it in the first two weeks. I got in on the senior discount because I wasn't going to do the slides.... but I did. That red one right there, Dane told me to arch my back when I lay down. So I did, I went so fast that when I came out of the shoot I about fell out, I got a wedgie and water shot up my nose, lets just say that was the last slide I did.

Nate took Sage down one of the little kid slide. I don't think he enjoyed it very much!

One of the two big buckets they have that dump tons of water. The one in the back isn't as crowded. Looks like Nate was a little more shocked than Sage.

Other pictures from our fun day there. I totally recommend going there is you have kids, young or old!

Alright at this point of our trip we all got the flu, I got it woke up about 3 am to worship the toilet, Nate got it that afternoon and Sage got it that night. Not to mention Nate's mom and sisters family all got it too. Nate said he has never thrown up like that and Sage covered his entire bed twice. It took me a good two plus days to recover, but once we did, we resumed the fun!

The next thing we were able to do was go up to Pinedale, WY for the annual Johnson Vaca. We stay at this little lake called Fremont. It's really nice, no one is ever on it, except for the Liddells, crazy kids!

We took Atlas out on the boat, I don't know why I thought it would be fun to put him in the water when I refuse to get in because it's so cold. I think he was a little shocked at first...

More pictures from the lake...

This is called land-locking, or that's what we call it anyway. I did it a few years ago, haven't gotten in the water since, like I said, it's cold! Nate does well, a pro if you will, the video is terrible but you get the idea.

There is one picture missing here, that I forgot to load, but in Pinedale we went to the rec center and enjoyed their indoor water park, the shallow end was perfect for Sage to crawl around in but the water was a little cold.

on our last day up in WY, we headed over to Jackson Hole, for the normal walk around, enjoy the sights, take a picture next to the weird buffalo. Sorry, I don't have that picture but I have one of just our little fam.

Later that night we met up with Brad and Aisha to spend some quality brother and sister in law time. This is their very awesome cabin up in the Heber mountains! Gotta say guys, jealous!


The next day we were able to spend some more brother and sister in law time with Dave and Abby at the Kamas demo derby! Yea for rednecks and ugly girls!!

This was the very first heat, I wish the camera was louder on the cars. Anyhow I don't know why I stopped it where I did, right at the best part...

Here is the end result picture, everything stopped so they could make sure the hillbilly was alright and flip the car back over.

Then came sunday, and some more family time with the Clawson's. Thanks for the wonderful burgers and play time in the creek.

Aspen loves Sage, at least I think so. She is always trying to put his binky in, sit on him or hug him. It's pretty dang cute. And they love to play together!

These are some random pictures of Sage at GG's house, sorry grandma. Your great grandma to Sage so that makes you GG. It's gonna stick, esp if Dane is calling you GG.

Sage loves to be over there. For some reason he yells a lot when we are there, but thats okay, GG doesn't mind. In one of the pictures he has some glow sticks that my mom, or grammy gave him, we played with them until they died. The mirror picture was pretty funny, he would crawl over there, stand up and then slobber all over the mirror. Silly boy!

Oh boy, caught doing something he wasn't supposed to do...

We didn't see many friends, however we did have the opportunity to go swimming with court and Nate who is one month older than Sage. The water was cold, so of course Sage wasn't the happiest. We lasted an hour then took a long long nap!

The last monday we had in town, we were lucky enough to go to Aspen's and Holland's (Abby's brothers daughter) birthday party. They both are 2!! The yummy cupcakes that of course all the kids chowed down on! Thanks for the grub Clawson family

The blow up slide that was the main attraction, all the little ones loved it!

The water in the slide was hose water and much too cold for Sage, instead of swimming he enjoyed a large piece of watermelon. He chewed that thing down, ate all the meat of the melon and left nothing but rhine.

We had the opportunity to go to the Living Planet Aquarium with Grandma J and cousin Isaac, and we had lots of fun. Sage seemed to enjoy his time there. Looked at all the fishes and swimming things. He enjoyed even more being out of the stroller and standing over the weird growing stuff.

Some of the wonderful things we saw...

Waiting in the airport. Now that the kid is mobile we have to entertain him... All the time!

Sage is also exploring more solid foods, here he is gumming a soft pretzel, he just soaked it and then left it in his mouth to disintegrate.

Atlas was a good little flyer for the most part, sometimes he would shake or freak out and start scratching the bag, but he did well. We were for sure he didn't like his bag but when we got home we found him hiding out in there.

So we ended up staying in Utah for a month, two weeks was just a little short and a month may have just been a little too long. All in all it was a good trip, we enjoyed our time there and to everyone we missed, we will catch next time!

Utah Part I...

I need to post more often so I don't have really long posts like this one.

Yeah we have been gone for the last few weeks, been busy playing and just enjoying summer. Headed out to Utah for two weeks.

Before we left we had a yard sale with our neighbors. The night before Nate went garbage diving and yard sale-ing himself to find good things to sell at ours. He game back with oodles of stuff. The biggest hit.... Yarn. He came home with a big huge bucket of yarn that he paid 10 for plus the bucket and we made such a profit off of it. Selling each bundle for a dollar. Must have made 30 plus, then Nate decided to sell the remaining yarn, which was about half the bucket for 5 bucks. We made back our money plus some, he just wanted to get rid of it.

Anyhow Nate picked up this blowup this that came with 100 balls for 3 bucks. I kept the balls and sold the blow up toy. This is what we did with the balls...

Oh how he loves them. I put them in his little pool and he just sits in there and plays with them. Good investment Nate, oh he found a little kid bike in the trash too. Soon Sage will be riding it!

A few days after our yard sale, we headed off to SLC. Flew in a little teeny plane, which scared me to death, but was nice because there were only two seats and Sage couldn't kick whoever sat next to us. Sage did extremely well on both flights, fell asleep right after take off. It was Atlas who didn't do so well. We were able to carry him on because he is so small, but he was terrified on the flight, shook in his little kennel so we got him out, which your not supposed to do, wrapped him in a blanket and he sat quietly with us threw the flights.

Pretty sure I ran into Ted in the Chicago airport. (It's not really him but sure looked like him). I'm sure no one knows who Ted Nugent is, oh well.

We went to our first Real game. It was suprisingly fun. Nate and I don't like soccer much but we enjoyed the game, it gets your heart going when they get anywhere near the goal. Real finally tied the game in the last two minuets!

Glad we had some company for the game... we went with them....

And them, Aisha totally knew I was taking a picture and posed for it!

We always used to take pictures like this, had to put it on. Ruthann snuck in there too.

Next came the 4th of July!

We woke up bright and early for the Granite breakfast and parade. I had never been, must admit it was really fun. Sage enjoyed being festive. Oh and Sage has two teeth!

The start of the parade, it was a large parade with lots of fun things to see.

The little goat. I had to touch it!

We got up early, got over there about 9 to eat, waited for the parade that started a little after 10 and ended sometime after 11. Sage has a nap time somewhere in there, so he took it on the way home.

Later that evening we headed up the the Hutchinson cabin for some grub and fun.

Sage enjoyed his celery.

Right after that we headed to B-rads and Aisha's for smore's. Kindi and Tyson met us, we ate yummy goodness then walked over to Sugarhouse Park for fireworks! Kind of sad they aren't going to do them there anymore!

Sage enjoyed crawling over grandpa.

The highlight of my trip, my first booking when I know I am coming to Utah, a hair appointment. I got layers, bangs and blonde. Love it! Thanks Emily!

Speaking of Emily... We went swimming with Auntie Aisha and her sister, my hair manicurist, Emily and Teagan.

And this is where Sage got his first kiss.... ohhhhhh. Sage is all open mouth for it!

Sage loved Aisha's 80'S Hawaii glasses! oh oh.. how about this. Emily and Aisha tired to make me drown Sage. Not really but I felt like it. They taught me how to dunk him, scary at first but apparently babies know to hold their breath.

Our next fun activity was a Bee's game. We enjoyed the game, the air was cool, but Sage was a bit of a pill...

This is how I tried to calm him, worked for a while but then Nate had to leave and walk around with him.

Other happenings, Sage playing tea party with... well they are my cousins so I have no idea what that makes them to him.

Atlas loves to pounce on his little buddy Klenk.

And then there was this... I am in the ER. Thats right, the ER. Early that morning Nate and I were chasing each other around the house throwing foam balls at each other. I decided I was done and ran away from him, thought I could make all 8 stairs and jumped over 7 of them, landed funny and fell. So hurts a bit then, but I go through the day walking on it, limping then needing Ruthann to carry my inside because it hurts so much. call my mom, go to ER sit there forever, get an x-ray and find out nothing is broken.

I was surprised because I was in so much pain I was for sure something was really wrong. Anyhow turns out I tore my plantar ligament. So this all happens the end or our trip. So fun! If you have no idea what ligaments I am talking about. look at the picture HERE, Yeah my arch hurts really bad!!

My little sausage toes...

The best part about it is that we were able to move our plane tickets back two weeks because I thought it would be rather difficult to fly with a baby, dog and me on crutches. So we are here to stay, two more weeks of fun and lots more pictures to come!

One Year Down...

This is what we were doing one year ago...

We packed our roadway...

We drove FOREVER in our one and only car...

We visited lots of places along the way...

We all got Chigger bites here...

We bought our first home...

Then we unpacked the roadway...

And we were given a warm welcome for our best ever neighbors...

Now one year later, here we are enjoying our house, loving our sweet little boy, having fun in Kentucky and...

Enjoying the fact that Nate is now officially 1/4 of a dentist! Yeah!! Good Job Nate for completing your first year of school, One year down and only 3 more to go!

Boy how time flies!

7 Months...

I am sure you are getting plenty sick of looking at our blog and seeing only a month has gone by since my last Sage posting. Don't worry, I plan on doing this every month until he hits the big one year old mark. So really there are only 5 more month of this and I think you will live.

Don't you just love that photo? I finally captured the little mans personality and even better I barely edited it. He is just so perfect the camera caught it. Anyhow back to his personality, I LOVE it! He makes me laugh everyday and fills my life with so much joy! He is simply the best!

Things Sage is currently doing...

Gets up on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth, soon he will have it down.

Ghetto army crawls around the house, he's a fast little kid.

Holds his own bottle and would rather lay on the floor and eat that you hold him.

Is eating no less than 6 oz and eating and just eats and eats, was I starving him before?

Chases Atlas around, Atlas will move to the other side of the room and soon Sage is right there.

Sleeps THROUGH the night!!! Finally got back on schedule! but no longer sleeps in, 8 is too early!

Loves sleeping in his bed, loves his blankey, loves his horse and loves his noise maker.

Loves being outside and loves the bath.

Constantly jibber jabbers or does some loud high pitched scream.

Laughs all the time, he has the cutest little laugh!

7 months... wow! Soon I will have a one year old, now thats going to be crazy!

Just a few videos...

I wanted to put these three videos of Sage up just for fun. He is so entertaining and such a wild man!