Happy Thanksgiving!


(Awkward smile....get me out of here!)


(My nephew Carson being a Pilgrim)

11/29/09 10:03 AM

I think this is a record! I have never updated the blog this quickly. It’s going to be a short one because not too much has happened. I’m happy to announce that I have CLEP’d (tested) out of 6 credits worth of Spanish. I was only six correct answers away from getting the full 12 credits. I was so mad at myself. I had taken hours worth of practice tests (which were supposed to mirror the actual test), but the actual test question structure was completely different. The practice test did not prepare me for the level of difficulty that I was about to experience. I need 12.33 general ed credits to complete my degree. All of my upper division classes are done. Once my degree is done, then I will get ready for the GMAT and hopefully get into a good school to get my Masters.

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! The night before Thanksgiving, Lesley and I drove around the water to her parent’s house. Steve and I went and saw “Old Dogs,” while Lesley and Debbie went to “New Moon.” There were many laughs in the show I saw, but it isn’t a movie I would buy. My movie got out before Lesley’s, so Steve and I went in and watched the last 20 minutes of New Moon. We were probably the only two guys in the theater. As for the movie, it looked good from what I saw—really dramatic. Lesley made the comment as we were driving away from the theater, “You should work out more so you can look like Jacob.” Then she smiled and batted her pretty little eyes. It made me laugh. She’s lucky she’s a girl and she can get away with that.

For Thanksgiving, we went to the Payne’s for dinner. The Payne family is a really close family friend with the Miles’. After a yummy and filling dinner, we watched a movie called “The Family Stone.” I slept through a lot of it. After that movie was over, the men watched “The Magnificent 7.” It is a classic Western with Steve McQueen and others. Lesley slept through this movie. The next day neither Lesley nor I went shopping on black Friday.

Well, I gotta go get some breakfast, prepare my lesson, and go to church. Bye.

Here's some pics...





(Lola's new bed!)

11/7/09 9:32 AM

Hello everybody! It has been a really long time since I updated the Sadler Family blog. I feel bad because I had a lot of family members and even clients at work who were telling me to update the blog. I think that you all just wanted to see new pictures of Lola. As I speak, she is chewing on a bone underneath my chair. Lesley is getting her beauty rest on this cloudy and gloomy Saturday morning. Recently God decided to turn on the water over Seattle and it hasn’t stopped for a few days now. I was telling my mom the other day that this Winter I’m going to hibernate in my house huddled next to one of those lights that give off real light. That way I’ll get my vitamin D and feel alive and happy. I’ll wait until May-ish until God decides to turn on the lights outside and turn off the water. I am glad He waters a lot because I sure love the beauty of the Northwest. I’ve never seen anything like it.

I am going to have to take a break from writing because I am going to the quarterly primary activity. Today we are practicing for the primary program that will take place tomorrow. Dan Shaw and I team-teach the Valiant 10 aged kids. These kids can get crazy sometimes………….I’m back.




(Cooper Camping)




So what’s been happening in our lives since I last updated the blog? Hopefully I can remember everything. I’m going to have to look through our pictures to refresh my memory. The summer was filled with many vacations—long and short. The highlight of the summer was going to Utah. I was able to spend a week down there with my family before Lesley and her parents arrived and we all went down to Lake Powell. My family and I went camping. Sara and Carson were also able to come. It was hard for me because Carson hadn’t seen me for almost a year and he was rather shy. While in Utah everything worked out to where I could be there when my brother Chanse (whom I call Marcus) got to open his mission call. He was called to the Argentina Salta mission. I can’t believe he is old enough to go on a mission! I was also able to see all my grandparents and stand in the circle while my homie Mitch blessed his baby Ryder. Throughout the rest of the week my family and I went on bike rides at the Jordan River Parkway and went karaokeing (spelling?) with my bro and his friends at Applebees with half-off appetizers.







Lesley packed up Lola and drove down to Utah with her parents and aunt. Lola was going to stay at my parents for the week that we were gone to Powell. Lola got to play with my parent’s big puppy lab named Cooper (Coop) all week. I felt bad for my parents and am grateful they watched our “Welsh Terror” the whole week. Lesley and I were able to go to Lunch with her friend Erin, see my Mission President and his wife (the Fillmores), go to a BBQ at Copperton Park, and go to a Bees baseball game and watch the fireworks afterwards. We also got to go through the Oquirrh Mtn. Utah Temple, which was amazingly beautiful.

Powell was a blast this year. There were more people on the houseboat this year, which meant less wakeboarding for me. We played lots of games, watched movies, got rained on, had a bat fly into the houseboat, ate great food, and got to spend time with some of Lesley’s siblings and their kids. I didn’t get a very long lasting tan at Lake Powell. When we arrived back in Washington, I immediately turned white again. Bummer.

About a week after returning from Powell, we packed up again and went to McCall, Idaho with friends from the ward—The Deru’s, McClain’s, and Dennison’s. We stayed at the Deru’s parent’s cabin on the lake. (If I remember right, McCall is about 8 or so hours away from where we live.) We wakeboarded, skied, wakesurfed, and dock jumped. We went to hot springs and just hung out and had a great time. I introduced them to the wrath of stinky Parker.







Lesley and I celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary on Sept. 12th. We stayed at a timeshare in Blaine, Wa., which is literally on the Canada border. Lesley and I went surfing as much as we could this summer. I finished my classes at University of Phoenix and now I’m studying to test out of the remaining credits for my Bachelors in Business Administration. Lesley recently underwent wrist surgery to re-route some tendons and file down a painful bone spur. She has had a bum wrist for the last month or so. Lesley also started school again at the end of September. She is in her final year of her Radiation Therapy program at Bellevue College. She is working very hard on homework and working in Valley Medical Center across the street from our apartment complex. We moved into a two-bedroom apartment at the end of September. Lola would have her own room if she didn’t like sleeping on mommy and daddy’s bed. So it has been very busy and I will use that as an excuse why I have not updated our blog.







One last thing I wanted to talk about before I post this……I was able to fly down to Utah for a long weekend. My brother’s farewell was Sept. 27th. He went to the MTC on Oct. 14th. I’m glad that I was able to attend this and see him one last time before he left. He did a great job in his talk. He spoke with power and with humor. I’m proud of him for always being such a good person and outstanding swimmer. I have enjoyed my friendship with him over the years.





Halloween was a lot of fun. Lesley and I dressed up as a Bavarian couple from Germany. I wore my lederhosen and Lesley wore an authentic German dress. She called us Hanzel and Grettle. We went to a party at the Dennison’s with a bunch of other couples from the ward.



Well, I successfully rambled on and on. Now its time for me to go to the gym and work on my six pack so Lesley can do our laundry on my washboard abs. (yeah right!) After the gym I need to run to the store and get some ice cream to cancel out my workout.

Adios!