Christmas Eve

At the Christmas Eve party Sage was able to meet more family. The party was so much fun and Sage was great with everybody holding her. She also somehow slept through all of the comotion during the gift exchange. She was in the middle of the room sleeping on her Daddy while people were loudly laughing and having a good time. She is already taking after her Daddy by being able to sleep in any situation!

Here she is "finally" getting to meet her Aunt Joanne.

What a wonderful time getting to see her cousin

Cassiday and Uncle Aaron as well (no pictures captured).

Here is Sage with her Great Aunt Joyce. She is so wonderful

and threw such an amazing party for all of us. Thank you Auntie Joyce!!!

Amy is so happy holding her newest cousin!

Uncle Dave and Sage



Aunt Gwen and Sage looking so cuddly




4 GENERATIONS

*Great Grandma Rosalie
*Grandpa John
*Daddy James
*Baby Sage

The party was a blast and here are a bunch

of random pictures showing just how much fun...

Victoria and Alana hanging out with John and Donovan

James, Kim, Anthony, and Amy

Amy putting a silly hat on Cassidy :)

All smiles here with Great Grandma and Donovan

Christmas Family Photos

At the Christmas party we took some really good pictures of the family...

Our Family

The Whole Gang

The girls with the babies



The guys with the babies

Johnny, Laurie and Donovan

Joanne, Aaron and Cassidy

Grandpa John and Grandma Gail with Sage

(how cute!)

Meeting Santa

Sage was so lucky to meet Santa at such a young age. My old boss from the school has her dad dress up as Santa every year, so it wasn't like going to the mall not knowing where the Santa has been. Which I would not have done at this age anyway. They were so nice and gave us the specail treatment by making sure Sage was the first and no other kids had sat on his lap yet.

The pictures turned out great. I'm sure if we try next year, it might not be the same. Sage seemed to not mind this stranger holding her...

Here is Sage and Vivien together with Santa. Vivien comes over often to help out with Sage. She is only six but such a great little helper. The last time she was here she helped a little inside but was more interested in helping James outside. She helped him clean up the back yard and garden area. I wish I would have grabbed the camera to capture them pushing the mower. We just have the manual kind that takes a lot of muscle and it was the funniest thing watching her try to do it. She was so determined and it was the cutest. Anyway here is the picture, but Sage seems to have gotten bored and is interested in something else.

HAPPY 1 MONTH SAGE!!!

December 13th- Sage is now one month old! We can't believe how fast the month went by. Guess it doesn't help that we are also busy with the holiday season. Sage has been such a wonderful addition to our family. We feel so honored to be her parents.


Sage loves to smile and seems to focus on objects now. She is always looking around and is very interested in the pictures on the walls and the ceiling fans in the rooms. We think that she also might notice the dogs but not sure. And sometimes we find her sucking on her thumb. She was weighed recently at 10lbs 8oz. She is a big and healthy baby :)

In deep thought!

Looking up at the ceiling fan like usual

Doing her leg kicks

We recently got out her mat and toys to see how she would like them. She wasn't the only one! Kaya has been very interested in Sage and now wants to play with her. We have to always tell her to stop giving her kisses! They are probably going to be best buddies.

Sage has a very strong neck and this picture shows her lifting her head while on her tummy. It only happened once and was lucky to capture the moment...

Looking into the mirror

49er Game in Fairfield

James had one last weekend off for the year a few weekends ago. We made the most of it and took a trip to Fairfield to watch the 49er game and hang out with the family. Here are some really good pics of the days events...

After walking the dogs down to the creek with Grandpa and Grandma Pizzo

Rooting for the 49ers with Daddy

Making silly faces at the camera

Hanging out with cousin Donovan

Taking a nap on Uncle John while James plays with Donovan...

Happy Birthday Grandpa!

A few weekends ago (Dec. 5th) was Melissa's Dad's birthday. The weather wasn't too bad so we had a BBQ for him over at our house. James cooked some delicious chicken and sausage. It was a great time spending with family and eating yummy food. We feel very lucky that we are able have family get togethers often. Happy Birthday Grandpa Wittsell!!!

Here is Sage giving her Grandpa a big birthday hug! She also gave him a great gift- a picture of the two of them together.

Singing "happy birthday" and blowing out the candles.

Happy Thanksgiving!

This year for Thanksgiving we spent the early part of the day in Fairfield so Sage could meet her Great Grandma Rosalie. James had to work at 2am!!! the next day, black friday, so we had to get home early so he could get some sleep. We had a very nice and quiet time spending the day with John, Gail, and Rosalie. John made dinner which, like always, was the most delicious :) In the first picture Sage has on her Thanksgiving outfit which did not last very long. It was the first time she had an explosion that came out of her diaper. Oh well, at least we were able to snap a few photos before it happened.

Sage meeting her Great Grandma Rosalie

Family Picture (Sage was interested in something else though)

Sage looking at her Momma

Rosalie held Sage sleeping for over an hour! She enjoyed every moment with her and did not want to let her go. We kept asking just in case her arms were gettting tired, but nope, she refused to give up such a special time with her.

Sage was so very comfortable

Finally!!! Grandma Gail spent some time with Sage