Sage , One week old

Colton and Sage



Oakley and Sage





Kayletta and Sage




Kaci and Sage

Sage Irene

Well, I guess it is time for an update! Sage was born three weeks ago, on July 8. She is a wonderful baby and has really grown a lot in three weeks. She weighed 7lbs 2 oz and was 20.5 inches long. On July 20th she weighed 8lbs 8oz. So I am sure she is probably close to 10 lbs now. Josh says every time he sees her she has grown a new chin. She is quite the porker.

About the name, Sage was just a name that we liked, didn't have anything to do with either of our families, at least that's what we thought! Then when Josh's mom was here, she was looking at my family history and found that Sage is a surname in my family!!! What a coincidence!

As for her middle name we really struggled, it is really hard to find a name that flows well with Sage. Of course we had a few suggestions of brush, bush, and hill, but soon vetoed all of those. I have really gotten into family history this past year, and have been working on my g-grandmother, Dorthea Irene's line. She died a few weeks after having her third child, my g-grandfather kept the baby for another month, before deciding the baby would be better off with a mother and gave her up for adoption. Dorthea is buried somewhere here in Baker, but we haven't been able to find her. So that is where the name Irene came from. This past week as I was going through some family history, I found the adoption papers for this little girl, I always knew her as Reva, but on the adoption papers I found out that my g-grandparents named her Irene, then the adoptive parents changed her name. So Irene is a very special name to me. My grandma searched for years for her little sister and finally found her later in life. They had a very good relationship until Reva died. So there is the story behind the name.

Life is very busy with 5 kids, 4 of them within 4.5 years!!! But we are adjusting well, and thankful for all of the help both of our mothers have given. Thank you, we couldn't have done it without you! Well, I guess I better see if I can upload some pictures.

Now this is a fresh baby!!!!! I would say minutes old.



Precious! You can see how much these girls love their baby sister!


Colton also loves his little sister!


That's it for now, I have to go rescue the twins from Oakley!

Caroling

We went caroling tonight to some friends & neighbors. It was lightly snowing when we left but that soon changed to heavy snow and back to light snow when we got back home. We had all the kids in the car and had a fun time. They were pretty tired by the time we made it back home. They are excited for Christmas and looking forward to going to Idaho to see everyone there...JA

Horseshoe cake

While we were out we took a cake to our friends house for his birthday, which was yesterday. I was supposed to make a horse but that sounded too hard so I made a horseshoe. He is the one who put shoes on our horses last. I tried to make it look like there was a rope and a cowboy boot on the cake, along with his name. As you can see, amateur job but it should taste good...JA

Happy Birthday

Bethlehem

Tonight we drove to LaGrande to go to a live Nativity scene. This was no ordinary event but an actual reenactment of a trip to Bethlehem. We went to the Inn, but there was no room. The Roman gaurds/soldiers which you can see in the picture came around to collect taxes and make sure we were all following the "rules." At the census, they asked us how we got there, walk, ride or by a camel. Colton told them we rode in on an elephant (who left with our trunk). The whole reenactment was great, angels singing, wise men, a variety of booths and shops along the streets of "Bethlehem," live animals, and much more. We had fun and it was a great way to look at the events and coming of the Messiah.