late summer catch up

Our family is finally complete in El Dorado Hills...Matt finally finished school last week and is officially an orthodontist! We're so incredibly proud of him and love that he's up here with us now. We're still working on finalizing the sale of a practice, so in the meantime, we're enjoying the free time that he has. Emme is crawling, pulling herself up to stand, and has 5 teeth already. Noah is completely potty-trained, talking in complete sentences, and is already trying to boss his little sister around (he actually tries to boss all of us around!). We are LOVING El Dorado Hills. There's so many parks, young families, and things to do in the area. It's so nice to have family just a drive away as well.

moving day
Noah's first day of school that he doesn't go to anymore...it's a long story, but I pulled Noah out of preschool. He still asks about it and wants to see Miss Shelby, so we'll definately try again next year!

lake tahoe with family - August '10

lake tahoe - September '10

So much to catch up on...

...but feeling like there's so little time! The Sanders family is going through lots of changes right now, including a new city, new school (for Noah), and a new home. I will update with pictures soon, but I wanted to document Emme's 6 month photo shoot that we took at the Mission Inn before we moved to Northern Ca. The shoot was scheduled at Emme's nap time, so she wasn't very generous with the smiles, but she was just as sweet as always!

thank you santa rosa halmuni & halabugi!

Thank you for the cute & fun summer outfit...it fits her perfectly! Hope to see you soon :)

emme - rice cereal

Is she really eating cereal already?!? Emme started eating cereal last week, and so far it's going fairly well. Noah lets me know during meal times that it's time to feed Emme 'yogurt', and assumes position in my chair. He loves to try feeding her and cheering her on.

summer swim

Noah has been taking swim classes for two weeks now and has two more weeks left. The first week was full of screams and tears, but now he's loving it. It really is the highlight of his day. He knows that after his nap is swim class and looks expectantly out the window while waiting for Matt to get home.

emme - dedication

Emme got dedicated this past Sabbath with Elias. I'm so glad that we got to dedicate our children together....I still can't believe they were born on the same day!! Emme did great up on stage, but I think that Noah was the most excited of us all. The whole time we were up there he wouldn't stop waving/calling out to Halmi & Buji, and loved looking at our projection on the big screen while pointing and saying hi to Emme.

emme - 6 months

Emme had her six month check last week. She's 18 lbs (90% percentile) and 27 inches (90% percentile). Our healthy girl! The Dr. says she looks great and we said our sad goodbyes to her. Both kids just love her and we're going to miss her! For those who are curious, Noah was 14lbs 12 ozs and 27.25 inches at his 6 month check.


Laura turned 30 last week and we all got together to celebrate. Unfortunately, as soon as we got there, Noah tripped and fell into the corner of a chair so he was pretty miserable the whole time. Emme was her usual happy self though!




The weather has been hot hot hot....