I know, I've been very delinquent in my posting. My mother tells me my blog has gotten boring. Was my last entry really the end of December? Sorry, I will commit to do better. This is my least favorite time of year. I'm just ready for spring to get here. Although, we have had a fairly mild winter this year. But I'm of the opinion that if it's going to be cold- we might as well have lots of snow. Which is not so much the case this year. Anywho, enough about the weather- let me give you an update!
Christmas was excellent! Sadie was mostly spoiled by her grandparents and Aunt Cami Jo.
We couldn't make it to the cabin for snowmobiling over Christmas break, because Drew and I were working, but we did make time for some fun in the snow! (snow pics soon to come- I have to get them from my mom)
These are all of Sadie's cousins in their Christmas pajamas.
After Christmas, we realized that Sadie has way to many toys and they were overtaking our family room, so we took the room that we use the least, which unfortunately is the exercise room, and turned it into a play room. Here's a picture before we moved all the toys in. I think it turned out great! 
Sadie and I came home one night to daddy clearing the snow in the driveway, and Sadie kept saying, "I help daddy, I help daddy, pleeeese!" so of course I gave in- got her bundled up and sent her outside to help daddy. Drew would do donuts out in the road in the Ranger and I could hear Sadie giggling the whole time. She was not happy when I had to take her in the house to get ready for bed.
Drew's dad, Bert, gave his oath of office as the new Mayor of Lehi City. (By the way- Lehi is now a city of 46,000. It's crazy how fast it doubled in size.) And yes, this makes him my new boss. In case you didn't know, I'm the Executive Assistant to the Mayor and City Administrator (basically a fancy title for secretary). I've been in this job for 3 1/2 years, and I really enjoy it. It's great working for Bert. He is such a good person and has some great ideas for the City, so I'm really happy to be working with him on those ideas.
Sadie is doing great. I can't believe how she is such a girl! She loves loves loves to do my hair. Not her dolls hair, but my hair. She tells me to "hold still" and "lean back" and she even says "sorry" if I say ouch when she polls my hair too hard. This can entertain her for a very long time, but I don't have a very long time, so she'll compromise after a while and move on to her doll. Sadie loves to wear jewelry and pretends to put on makeup. Her favorite thing to play is "babies" and "barbies". She has really likes watching the Tinkerbell movies, which has given me a much needed break from Elmo. Speaking of Elmo, Sadie can now count backwards from 10-1. She learned it from Elmo in one of his movies. I can't believe how quickly she learns things. But she's become more shy around other people, so she doesn't preform (or is that called child exploitation?) as often as she use to. Oh, one of these days I need to video record her running, I'm a little nervous about her coordination skills. Her arms and legs are flapping everywhere- I don't know how she keeps her balance, because she looks so awkward. I know people tell me that it's okay for her age, but I see other kids her age run, and they are way more coordinated. Sadie looks like a duck trying to waddle and run for the first time. I'm really not that worried about it- maybe if she gets to 10 yrs. old and still runs like that, then I'll start to worry.
Also, Sadie finally got her first haircut, at 26 months! She has the weirdest hair. Sometimes it's blond, and sometimes it has a red tint to it. I don't know what color it's going to be. And the hair that outlines her face- from forehead to ears- does NOT grow! It's so strange, but the rest of her hair is growing and needed to be cut, so Kira did the best job with what she had to work with (Thanks Kira- it looks great!). Sadie loved getting her hair cut, so watching her was so fun!
We all got the flu, even though we had our flu shots. Poor Sadie got the worst of it. She was so sick and even lost some weight. She's our little chunker, so the weight loss really wasn't a big deal. It was just hard to see her so sick.
I just finished a photography class. Drew bought me a Cannon Rebel last year for Mother's Day, so I'm excited to finally know how to use more than just the auto features- I hope this summer and spring to have some good photos to post. I'm mostly excited about taking pictures on our trips this fall (the ones we have to go on for Drew's work). This year the trips are Prague in the Czech Republic, and Hawaii. I hear Prague is the most beautiful European City, so I can't wait to take pictures there. But I also learned that I need a tri-pod, new lenses, new covers, and more, so I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for the best this Mother's Day!
On a sadder note, a 6 year old boy in my ward, (he actually lives a few houses down) was diagnosed with bone cancer and began treatments last week. Tyler has always been my favorite neighborhood kid. When he was four, he would ride his scooter as fast as he could make it go with a superman cape on. His mom serves in the Primary Presidency with me, and is one of most amazing people I know. Their whole family is! Tyler is such a strong and very brave kid, so we are all very hopeful!
That's kind of the gist of it for the last month and a half. I promise I do better at posting!
