Sadie's New Girlfriend

We went to see my friend Katie today now that she's home w/ her new baby, Addie. She was born on Monday morning, and I just had to take Sadie by to meet her new girlfriend. Katie already has one little girl, Olivia, who is about 4 months older than Sadie, so both of our kids will be about 4 months apart from each other. My friend Jennifer was over there too. I just wanted to post a few pictures of this precious little angel.Jen was holding both girlies. Sadie was pretty excited about this little baby. I hope she's as excited when mommy is holding one of her own!!!

Sawyer Martin Phillips

We found out Tuesday that we're definitely having a precious little boy!! We are both so excited. We settled this week on the name.

Sawyer Martin Phillips

There's no real "meaning" behind the name Sawyer. We just love it. We had talked about it when I was pregnant with Sadie before we knew it was a girl, so it's been on our list of names for a while. I just love the way "Sadie and Sawyer" sounds together. It may be cheesy, but I love it. And, I wanted to use "Martin" as the middle name for sure. So, Sawyer it is!!!
I went to a consignment sale tonight and bought his bedding and some clothes for him. It's all becoming so real and so fun! I'm trying to get myself in "blue" mode, because all I've known is PINK, PINK, PINK for the past year!!!!
Everything looked perfect and healthy on the ultrasound, which was more important than anything. I think we take for granted how lucky we are to be having another healthy baby. I have thanked God a million times over the last week for getting us this far and letting all go well. We are so incredibly blessed. God is so good!

Easter Day

Easter is kind of a blur to me this year, because we had just gotten back in town from the beach the night before. Then, it was a bunch of laundry, trying to put everything away, and get Sadie back on her "normal" schedule. We missed church, which will make the 2nd year in a row that we haven't gone to church on Easter. We were going to go to the Saturday night service, but we didn't back in town in time. Then, we were going to go to our normal 11:00 service on Sunday, but then we couldn't have made it to Dennis' mom's house in time for lunch. I hated missing church on Easter, but we've vowed to not let that happen again. It should've been our top priority!!!! We went to Deb's for lunch, came home and let Sadie nap, and then went to my mom's for dinner. No Easter egg hunts for us this year. Maybe next year...

I thought the picture of Sadie and McHaney above was so cute. I love the way that Sadie has her little feet crossed. She looks so prim and proper!

First trip to the Beach

Immediately after Sadie's birthday party, my mom, sis, and I & Sadie all jumped in the car and headed to Tampa for the week. My Memaw's 80th birthday is tomorrow, and we all wanted to surprise her for a visit for the week. She knew that my mom and sister were coming, but she didn't know that Sadie and I were coming as well. She was so surprised and very excited. The trip down there was a little rough. It wasn't bad at all, but there were definitely times where I thought to myself..."I may have to book a plane trip home...I don't think I can do this again". But, Sadie really did great. She couldn't have been more perfect all week long, and she did awesome on the trip home. I was so proud of her. She seemed to like the beach and pool, etc. We just hung out a lot and spent a lot of time w/ Memaw and Pepaw. Sadie really took to my Pepaw, and just smiled every time he walked in the room. She kept calling him "Dada", which was quite comical. I don't think he minded. It definitely was unlike any other trip I've taken to the beach in the past though. No more of those days where you just grab your towel and some sunscreen and lay out all day, that's for sure!!! We had to pack our whole house just to go to the beach one day for a couple of hours. Too funny!

But, we made lots of memories, which was most important.

We tried to hook my sister up with a waiter that we found out was only about 18 years old. Woops! My mom tinkled in her pants at one point...Sadie blew up on about every outfit I took down there...We all now know every word to Veggie Tales "Silly Songs"...the list goes on an on. Thanks for a great trip, mom!!!