Sarah Margaret's First Wedding

Sarah Margaret is exciting to have another wonderful aunt in the family. She loves her Aunt Anna and now has a lovely Aunt Niki. It was a delightful wedding weekend for Uncle Ty and Aunt Niki's wedding in Toledo, OH this weekend, complete with snow flurries (just a light dusting).

The rehearsal dinner at Sylvania Country Club was the perfect start to the festive weekend and catch up with family and friends.

The wedding day began with bridal party getting ready all together at SCC with lunch and then photos at the church (Sarah Margaret ended up taking a nap for the afternoon so she was in a good mood for the ceremony).

Aunt Niki & Uncle Ty had a beautiful ceremony and Sarah sang along with the vocalist. Glamma & Bon Papa were a huge help because both Mom & Dad were in the wedding party. She didn't quite make it to the wedding reception but had a fun sleep over at the hotel with Glamma & Bon Papa and fell asleep in the comfy bed to the movie "White Christmas." Mom & Dad enjoyed the reception. Niki and her mom did an amazing job with the centerpieces. It was a great day and on Sunday morning the Alexanders hosted a very nice brunch at their home and there were fun stories to tell about the wedding day.

Soon, I'll have a link to the professional wedding photos taken during the day. There were quite a few photos taken by the photographer. But here are a few that I snapped during the weekend.

For Mary's photos, CLICK HERE

CONGRATULATIONS UNCLE TY & AUNT NIKI!!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

It was Sarah Margaret's first Thanksgiving and we had a wonderful time celebrating up in Toledo with the Tresize bunch. She started cruising on Gramma Sue's sectional couch and was so silly trying to make people laugh. We got to see Gramma Sue's new house that hopefully she'll be moving in this week. Thank you for such a nice holiday! We are so thankful for our family and friends this Thanksgiving.

Click here for photos from Sarah Margaret's First Thanksgiving.

Some more videos!

We hope these videos and new photos make you smile. They sure make us smile.

NEW PHOTOS AND VIDEOS, CLICK HERE!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

8 Months!

With each new month, there comes lots of exciting developments that we (her parents) just love noticing. Just before she turned 8 months, Sarah Margaret starting pulling up to her feet on our coffee table, boxes, and anything else she can reach with her little arms strected out. She also started feeding herself little Cheerios and Sweet Potato Puffs at the table. Also, Dad (Andy) taught her how to open doors if the door is slightly cracked, she loves opening up the door and discovering what is behind the door. She is still a wonderful eater and tried turkey, cauliflower, potatoes, and green beans with meat (just in time for Thanksgiving!). We're going to try to get some more 8 month photos posted but here are a few videos of Sarah Margaret in action for the family!!

Eating her sweet potato puffs while at lunch at Cafe Patachou:

Opening a door:

COMING SOON!!

What's New?

A fun 7 months for Sarah Margaret for she....
- Waves (to herself)
- Gave Mommy a kiss (leaned over while I was holder her and gave me a kiss on the cheek. Glamma witnessed it)
- Very busy climbing over everything
- Pulling herself up to her knees
- Crawling getting more coordinated
- Still laughing & smiling lots
- And as always inspects tags ever so gently.

Food:

She is making great progress with food and trying new foods every three days. I'm still having lots of fun making all of her food. This week, we're going to try asparagus and green beans with mint.

Likes:

Butternut Squash & Summer Squash

Zucchini

Sweet Potatoes

Pears

Peaches

Rice Cereal

Dislikes:

Peas

Apples

Swing!

Since the weather has been so beautiful these past couple days, we have been going to the neighborhood park often to swing. She loves it so much that she could swing for hours! It is also a nice way to meet other parents in the area. It won't be long before Sarah will want to go down the slide and swing across the monkey bars.

I've also uploaded some new photos to Sarah Margaret's 7 month album.

New Blog Feature

To the right hand side, we've added links to all of Sarah Margaret's photo albums so it should be easier to find the link to our new photos. The idea came from my fabulous sister-in-law Anna from her wonderful blog. We will try to update with photos often so we hope you enjoy.

New just yesterday: Sarah pulled up to standing on our coffee table last night! She has been pulling up to her knees all this week but just last night she stood on her own two little feet.