Not sure where any pictures went from Christmas, but we'll continue with the new year. Our cute girls all ready for church in the dresses they got for Christmas.
Sadie, 2 1/2years old
Kaitlyn, 6 years old
We painted Cade's room with a road and cars. Kaitlyn and Sadie's room was the flowers and butterflies room.
In February Nate was able to fly to Boise to watch Jacoby in the state basketball tournament. They took second and Coby played his heart out. Seth yelled his heart out to the refs.
While we lived in Naperville we had great weather! These pictures were taken in our backyard on March 17th. Everyone kept saying it was such an unusually warm winter and spring. We were starting to think that all the terrible winter stories about Chicago weren't true. We were fine with the play-in-the-water-weather-in-March!
Sadie was in for it. She was the moving target for getting sprayed. Luckily she didn't get too upset.
We got this truck just before we moved back to Tennessee. The kids loved riding it in the back on the school lawn. Cade's dream came true to finally get one! Sadie, being the youngest, usually rides in the back.
We didn't get the same picture of Sadie playing the piano before she was 2 like we did of Kaitlyn and Cade. But we did get these. She's such a photogenic girl. She always says "cheese" when we point a camera at her and gives us a big grin.
At the beginning of the year Nate interviewed for a new job with Olin Chemical in Cleveland,TN. We weren't actively searching for a new job. Nate had an old co-worker call him up to ask if it was okay that he gave Nate's resume to a friend of his who needed to hire someone as a cost engineer. Not really thinking anything would come of it, knowing that we had just relocated with a company to Chicago, Nate was offered the job. We felt good about the opportunity and to live in Tennessee again, so we accepted it. The job started April 2nd. We decided to move down during Kaitlyn's spring break so she could finish the school year in Cleveland and know some people before school was out for the summer. It was hard to leave Clow Elementary and her friends there, especially Payton Brown! Payton and Kaitlyn became the best of friends right when the school year started. They were both in Mrs. Messina's class. Kaitlyn talked constantly about Payton and how she couldn't wait to go back to school again so she could see him (even though he lived just around the corner). One Saturday she was working on riding her bike and was having trouble getting started. I said "it's hard to ride a bike sometimes when you have to think about so many things", her reply was "ya, I'm thinking about Payton". LOL!! They started having play dates and we would have game nights with Payton's parents, Kristy and Graham. They would send letters to each other in class and draw pictures for each other. So when the time came close that we were moving it was pretty sad! A few days before we moved Payton and Graham came to the door. Payton was dressed up in a blazer,white shirt, and shorts. Graham explained that he asked Payton if he would like to go over to our house to get a picture with Kaitlyn before we moved. Payton ran to his room and put on the white shirt and blazer (his own idea). Kaitlyn was playing dress-up and had put on make-up and everything before they came over. So we call this their Kindergarten Prom picture.
We had some beautiful spring blossoms on the trees in front of our house. Here's Sadie and Cade trying to pose for me in front of those trees.
We really enjoyed living in Naperville! We had a great ward and really nice neighbors. It was so fun getting to know Sheree Judd and family more. Cade and Asher became best friends and would play with each other two to three times a week. They were both so into cars and played so well together. I became really good friends with Sheree too. It was hard to say good-bye to them as well! Hopefully I'll find some pictures I took with the Judds and post them on here eventually.
