Want to come visit?

For those of you that don't live in the southwest, here's what I get to see just about every day now! Nice, huh? It did actually rain the other day (for the first time in about four months), I got some cute videos and pictures of Sadie playing in it that I'll post next time. So yeah, does anyone want to come visit us with this wonderful weather we're having?

Mmmm....Peanut Butter

A couple of weeks ago we were eating dinner and Sadie, who hadn't eaten hardly anything, thought she was done and wanted down from her high chair. So we let her down, knowing that she would climb right up to the table and get into things like she always does. Well, we didn't realize exactly how much she would get into things this time! I think peanut butter made up most, if not all of her supper (she didn't actually eat the celery in the above picture, she just sucked the peanut butter off)! She was loving it! Here's the movie - watch her lips smack!

Clean Hands

Here's a cute video from a couple of weeks ago. I let Sadie color with markers and play with playdough, then wash her own hands when she was done! She had a blast and knew she was getting away with something, the whole time! Since then, I've let her do this a couple more times, until one day she figured out how to pull the plug on the drain while I was in another room for a couple minutes. The entire bathroom floor was covered in water by the time I got back! So no more playing in the sink for Sadie!

Notice how she rubs her hands together after she grabs the
soap - this is her washing her hands, even though she doesn't
really have any soap on them! She is too cute!

Grown Up Sadie

Here's a cute picture of Sadie. I heard her messing around in the bathroom, and when I peeked around the corner, this is what I found. Is she growing up or what? :)

And Some More Missouri Fun

We had lots of fun visiting family while we were in Missouri. Sadie especially had fun playing with her cousins that are closer to her age. We also got to go over to my brother Charlie's house and have dinner and spend the evening with his family. Sadie had a blast playing and running around, and eventually getting all wet! Here are some pics of our fun!

Here's a cute movie of Sadie and her cousin Thayne playing.

This is at Charlie's house. Sadie was supposed to be staying out
of the pool, but her cousins influenced her to be naughty and
jump in fully clothed! She was having blast!

Sadie loves to play with anything you can ride around on! She had
so much fun playing with this little jeep - especially because her
Charlsie was more than willing to push her all over the yard in it!

Riding around the yard! This time Thayne got in on the fun!

Ooops! Thayne fell down and was just being dragged for a while! :)

Here's a little movie of their fun in the jeep!

And that concludes out posting about our fun in Missouri. We had lots and lots of fun, and are so disappointed that our vacations are over already. But we are already looking forward to the next time we get to go visit our families!

More Missouri Fun

Here are some more pictures of our fun in Missouri! Sadie played outside a lot, and in the water a lot too because it was hot and definately humid there! It didn't bother her a bit though, she had a great time!

Sadie drinking out of the hose! This is a new thing she's
learned and now she does it every time we have a hose running!

Poor Raina! The water was almost too cold for her
to handle - plus her Daddy kept spraying her with it!

Here's a little video of Sadie and Raina playing in the water!

Grandma jumping on the trampoline with the little girls


Sadie's favorite thing to do outside was to go play in Grandma's
van. I don't know why, but she loved it and would throw and huge
fit if we told her no, so Grandma would take her and let her play in it!


Grandma, being as nice as she is, even took Sadie for a ride in
the van allover the front and back yard! You can't see it in this
picture, but she had Sadie sitting on her lap, half hanging out the
window the whole time. Sadie thought she was so cool!


Pretty Sadie :)


Drinking out of the hose again!


Grandpa gave Sadie a ride on his lawnmower. What a spoiled little girl!:)

Missouri Fun

So, we're back from our trip to Missouri to visit with my family! We've actually been back for a week now, but I'm just now getting to blogging about it! We had lots of fun and were able to relax and just hang out a lot, which was really nice. We were able to see my parents and my brothers Matthew and Charlie, who live in Missouri also. And as a really nice surprise, my brother Sam and his family (who live in Utah) came to visit for the weekend also! He has a baby we had never met before, so it was great to be able to see them! So for father's day we had exactly half of the Nevels kids at home! It was great! Sadie had a blast playing with all of her cousins and aunts and uncles. And not to mention Grandma and Grandpa who spoiled her like nothing else! But that's what they're for, right? :) She also got to spend a lot of time playing outside and in the water, which was really good for her! Anyway, here are a few pics of our fun - more to come in future posts!

This is what you could find Sadie doing anytime she was inside the house - Getting into Grandma's cabinets! She had a blast! Also - her silly face is how she says cheese! She actually says the word now, but she also scrunches up her face to go with it! Silly Girl!

Sadie, Grandma Nevels, and Little Cousin Raina

Grandpa Nevels let Sadie play with his Palm Pilot!

Sadie and cousin Charlsie playing in the sandbox at Grandma and Grandpa's house!

I had to include a picture of little cutie Raina! We were so glad her family could visit from Utah for a bit, since we had never met her before! She is such a sweetheart!