The Sagers: Playing Catch Up

I've been MIA for a while. It turns out having 5 kids keeps you pretty busy. Since I posted last a lot of things have happened. The biggest being adding our little Skylar to the family a week before Christmas. She is beautiful, squishy, and absolutely perfect. We love her so much and are so grateful she is ours.
We also matched to a fellowship for after Kevin is done with residency in 1 year. We will be moving to North Carolina to do a joints fellowship at Wake Forest University. Wake Forest was Kev's #1 pick, so we are beyond thrilled. The thought of moving to the other side of the country with all our kids and leaving our wonderful friends we've made here in Vegas breaks my heart every time I think about it, but we know it's where we are supposed to be and we are going to make the most of the 1 year we live out there.
Ours kids are getting big and participated in lots of fun activities this past year. Carter did flag football for the first time and now it's one of his favorite sports. He is currently on swim team and doing a great job. He finished 1st grade and is a really good reader, reading at a 5th grade level. He is definitely our wild child and looooves to push Haydens buttons.
Hayden finished preschool and is sooo ready to start Kindergarten. We just got her teacher assignment in the mail and she got Mrs. Buell, the same kinder teacher that Carter had. Hayden was very excited. She is doing gymnastics right now and loves it. She will be playing soccer in the fall with a bunch of our ward friends. She is still as girly and lovey and kind as ever. She loves complimenting others and makes me smile every day.
This past spring McKay played soccer with Hayden. He was really excited when I signed him up and told him they'd be on the same team, but when it came to the first day of practice, he didn't want to participate at all. The whole season he never touched the ball in any game and minimally participated in a few practices. Apparently we should have waited 1 more year before signing him up for team sports. This past year McKay loved participating in playgroup with 5 of his best buddies. In the fall he will be doing the community center gymnastics class that he has done in the past. He is getting so big and loves keeping up with his older siblings.
Paige is our little peach. She is very go with the flow as she is constantly being dragged to older kids activities. She loves saying prayers and screams/whines if we don't choose her to say it. She is starting to get pretty sassy and can give a mean "stink" face if you make her mad. She got bumped out of the crib when Skylar was born and now shares a bed with Hayden. It's not going very well as she gets out of bed 10+ times every night and keeps Hayden from being able to sleep. Hopefully things improve soon.
Skylar is our little squishy squish. We can't get enough of her. She is 6 months now and pretty good at sitting up and starting to scootch towards close objects. She has 2 bottom teeth and can bite really hard. She is a great night time sleeper. She is pretty resilient as she gets poked at and carried around by her older siblings. We all just love her so much.

Here are a few pictures of some of the events I didn't blog about the past 9 months......

Wearing our Christmas colors for a ward activity.