The Sages

Friday, July 18, 2014

Moving

7 years ago, almost exactly, I moved to Houston. Cody was already living here doing an internship for a construction company called Harvey and was actually moving back to College Station to finish out his undergrad degree. I had just graduated from Baylor and was moving to Houston for my first teaching job at Yeager Elementary. We got married that December.

Over the past seven years in Houston, we have learned to be married, become homeowners, worked hard on our house, become parents and I have finished graduate school.

We have both also completed 7+ years at Harvey and Yeager. Who would have known at that point the wonderful first jobs that we had truly found. Jobs that challenged us and helped us grow in our respective fields as well as finding lifelong friendships with our colleagues that we got to see every day. We have made great friends also through our community and grown up a lot over the past 7 years.

Today, we will begin a new chapter of our lives back in Longview where we grew up. We will close on our new home today. We will be minutes, rather than hours from a majority of our family. Cody will be working at a construction company in town and in August, I will be teaching 3rd grade in Pine Tree, the district we grew up in. We are so blessed to be given such a wonderful opportunity.

It is with a mixture of emotions today that we will drive away from our first home, our first jobs and so many of our friends. We are better people for the 7 years that we spent in Houston and know that we are saying "until we see you again" rather than "goodbye" to the friends that we are leaving behind.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

One year old!

Sadie celebrated her first birthday in May. Our little bitty baby is one (actually 14 months by now...). Can you believe it?! I took off part of the day to spend time with her and my parents came in too. We celebrated with a lunch, nap time and party prep.

On Saturday the 10th, we had a great day celebrating this sweet little thing with sweet friends and family. (Sorry for the picture overload..)

The Set up

The Party

Post Party Swim

I could not have possibly fathomed before meeting this child how much I could possibly love someone. I could not imagine how much joy one little person can bring into your life. You, my sweet Sadie Leigh, are a joy and the greatest blessing we could ever hope for! We love you!

Saturday, April 26, 2014

10 and 11 months

Well my sweet readers (if I still have any..), I apologize for my absence. I make no promises to improve my updates, but will do my best : ) That is one thing that I have learned this year. I can only do my best and my best has been loving my baby girl and unfortunately, there's not much else left to give after work, being a mommy and a wife.

10 months

At 10 months, Sadie

*Is over 18 lbs

*Seems to have grown in length

*pulls up on everything

*has 6 teeth

*love balloons and bubbles (we basically had a balloon in the house for her for 3 months straight)

*crawls around chases the puppies giggling

*eats a lot of finger foods (like elk and chicken)

*talks a lot: using her few words, babbling or mimicing others

11 months (I cannot believe it!)

At 11 months, Sadie

*Is 19 lbs 11 oz

*28 inches long

*Crawls a lot

*Pushes everything not nailed down to use as a walker

*Eats what we do most of the time

*Giggles and squeals a lot

*Pulls up on everything

*Puts everything she finds in her mouth

*Gets into the dog bowls (while telling herself "no no")

*Loves watching the baby in the mirror

*Moved to a new class at school

Clearly, this child has no interest in taking monthly pictures, because she is far too busy playing. Only 2 weeks to go until she is a year old! TIME PLEASE STOP!