Family Pictures

We have had the same photographer take our family pictures the last three years.  We love the pictures she gets!  She has three little ones and is so understanding when Sage doesn't cooperate.  Here are the two of my favorites from this Fall.  I LOVE the one of Sage it just captures our beautiful girl perfectly. 

Chapstick

Sage got so many wonderful things for Christmas and one of her favorites is her chapstick.  Santa brought her some in her stocking and Uncle Russ gave her some as well.  I found an old makeup bag that Sage could use and now all her chapstick is in one spot.  She loves the new bag and has to have it close by at all times.

She was watching a show the other night with Reese and she must have put on her chapstick at least 20 times.  Here she is looking for just the right one. 

 Putting it on like a pro!

Holding on to her new bag.

New Year's Eve

We had a very nice New Year's Eve as a family.  We stayed home to ring in 2013.  I made a bunch of our favorite appetizers and tried a few new ones too!  We got champagne for me and some Port for Reese and two movies to help keep us up until midnight.  Sage went to bed at her normal time - maybe next year she will get to stay up late!  We watched one movie and started another.  Then we rang in 2013 and went to bed!  We both lasted until midnight - YEAH!  I am glad to see 2012 come to an end and hope that 2013 is a great year.

 Making some noise to celebrate the New Year!

 She was so excited!!!

Me and my girl:)

First Snow of the season!

The morning we celebrated Christmas we also got snow!  Sage was so excited to go out and play in it!  She has been talking about making a snow angel for weeks.  Well she got outside and the first thing she did was make a snow angel - it lasted 5 seconds before Reese had to swoop in and resuce her. 

 I still had to get a picture of her first attempt at a snow angel!

Sage kept telling Reese to go FASTER!

Our girl loving the snow, excited to take her up north this winter!

 

Having a little snowball fight!

Christmas Morning

We celebrated Christmas early since we were going to Texas for the holiday.  Santa came on Friday the 21st. Sage had so much fun opening her presents!   She saw her dollhouse first and just wanted to play with that.  Then she opened another present and just kept going from there.  She had so much fun tearing into all her gifts.  It was so fun watching her take it all in - holidays are so much more fun with kids!

 Playing with her new dollhouse!

 Trying on her new slippers - I was sick but I still enjoyed watching Sage opening her presents.

 So excited for more furniture for her dollhouse.

 Daddy - let me help you with that.

 Reese's gift from Sage - a handprint ornament she made at school.

 So happy she got this pillow pet she had to try it out right away.

My favorite gift - Sage made me an angel at school.

Santa Visited!

Sage must have been one good girl this year!  This was from our family Christmas and She had so much fun opening her gifts.  She loves her dollhouse!

All Dressed up!

We got a very nice family picture taken on Christmas Eve.  Thanks Pop-Pop!  We were all dressed up and haven't had a family picture taken in awhile.  So glad we did - it turned out great.

Fireside

Love this picture of Sage reading a book and relaxing in front of the fire at Mimi and Pop-Pops.  It is one of my favorite places to sit at the ranch. 

John Deere Gator

Sage had so much fun at the Ranch.  She got to ride in the big John Deere gator and she learned how to drive a kids John Deere gator.  She had so much fun learning to drive the gator. I only got run off the road once - I thought that was pretty good!

 Pop-Pop and Sage ready to go - check out the look on her face!

 Heading out to feed the cows. 

 She loved the big John Deere gator.

But she had lots more fun in the kids John Deere gator!

Sage and Daddy, he was very patient teaching her how to drive.  We'll see how patient he is when she is 16!