February Montage

We haven't been up to too much here at the Sale household.  So I thought I would do a little photo montage of the past month of our lives...

hanging out in the driveway eating popsicles

bathtime

minus the snot it captures how pretty she is...

spending sometime at Bull Creek on a Saturday afternoon

16 months already 

family pic from Dedication Sunday

Knox asked for a ponytail, I delivered…the bow may have been artistic license

Knox's first attempt at bowling

My first attempt at braiding Isla's hair

trip to the Austin Rodeo

Well that is our February in a photo nutshell!

-Stacie

Dedication

It has been awhile coming but a few weeks ago at church we finally had Knox & Isla dedicated.  Our church doesn't do infant baptism but they do child dedication instead. So Kyle & I had to sit down together and write out specific commitments that we had for ourselves in our own walk with the Lord and also specific commitments we made in how we will raise Knox & Isla to love and know the Lord as well.  After we submitted our commitments to the church we got to stand up in front of everyone at the service and have them all pray for Knox & Isla. Of course this isn't some magical act that will save their souls but it was meaningful to have our church pray for our children and for us to commit to each other specific ways in which we will raise them to know Jesus as their personal savior.  

We didn't get any great pictures but a very gracious friend in the audience took these for us so you can at least get the idea. 

First tie, lovelovelove!

After church we went out to lunch at a local burger joint with our community group- very classy :)

Ketchup face Knox & his buddy Blythe

-Stacie

texas family

It's funny to me that I ended up in Texas raising my family, but even funnier is that my second (or third, who knows) cousin from Florida also ended up in Texas raising her family.  Jenn & I saw each other every few years growing up and then hadn't seen each other since early high school when we both found ourselves living in Texas only a few hours away from each other.  Jenn & her husband Rob have a son Evan who is 3 just like Knox. It has been fun for us to get together with them once or twice a year to hang out and let the kids play.  This past weekend they drove up from Houston and stayed with us.  

Knox & Evan had their first "sleepover" together which went incredibly bad- ha! But I guess that was to be expected, I figured it was worth a shot.  They ended up finally going to bed around 10:00 pm (after we separated them) and then were both hugely cranky and whiney on Saturday.  Oh well, you live and learn.  

Here are some pics from when it finally stopped being freezing and we could get outside on Saturday! 

Isla loves playing in the sand

Knox is painting the playscape with water and a paintbrush he found- whatever works kid! 

Isla & Evan playing "together"

this was Knox's attempt to smile for the camera

Evan trying out Knox's new swing 

Isla loves going down the slide

It was fun to have family in town this weekend!

-Stacie

Cousins

Growing up I only had 4 cousins and they were all much younger than me. I am always jealous of hearing about people growing up with cousins the same age and all the fun they had together.  I'm so excited that Knox & Isla have two sweet cousins that hopefully they will be close to as they grow up.  The four of them are a perfect stair step in age- Marek is 4, Knox is 3, McKenna is 2 and Isla is 1.  I hope their bond lasts them for many years to come.

can't leave duck out

 These four are some of the sweetest kiddos around, we are truly blessed for the family that God has given us.

-Stacie

a NW Christmas

The holidays for us this year have been a whirlwind of travel and family.  We left for Virginia on November 22nd got home December 3rd, left for Spokane on December 17th and got home December 26th and then my family came to visit December 30th and left on January 4th.  We have been so blessed to get to spend so much time with our families and every trip we took was a blast! This never happens either but we didn't have any travel snafus on any of our trips.  It was really good all the way around this year!

That said- I am still recovering from being out of my routine for so long and am way behind on blogging and lots of other things! So…this will be a photo montage post with LOTS of pics. Brace yourself.

our first Christmas in our new house

Nana with her grandkids

sweet Isla

 Christmas morning we had a big breakfast at Sally's house before we opened presents. You can tell how excited Knox was because of how blurry he is in the photo- he was jumping up and down.

our Christmas morning feast 

our little family

such a girlie girl

 Our new tradition for Christmas Eve is to go out to dinner after the Christmas Eve service.  This year we went to a nice steakhouse. It was a bit crazy with 4 small kids but we all survived and no one complained to the manager :)

sweet McKenna

I am so lucky to have such an awesome sister-in-law!

Heather & Brandon

they are so silly together...

We got to see some pretty cool Christmas lights while we were in Spokane too.  It was really fun to take the kids to see them and Isla especially loved the lights. 

little bunny

all the kiddos

my sweet girl

Knox with his gingerbread man

 Knox & Isla were both really excited about the snow.  I'm not sure if Knox remembered it from last year or not but Isla definitely didn't! It was so fun to get to take them both sledding. Knox did surprisingly well for being a little soft and Isla LOVED it. Well, until she face planted in the ice a few times and then she got tired of it but we probably shouldn't have put her on the sled by herself and pushed her down the hill.  Opps!

Kyle & Knoxie

Her first sledding run!

this little Texan does not like to be cold!

Cousins- Marek & McKenna! 

a sibling run

the solo ride- a little premature

It was a really great Christmas.  We are glad that it is January though, I am ready to just settle into a boring old routine and not see an airplane or an airport for awhile :)

-Stacie