Sunday, November 27, 2011

Random Phone pics

Here are just a few pics from my phone.  

Pop wanted a pic for his phone. 


Samuel had a no biting or hitting day at school, so he got Baskin Robbins.


One of the nights Casey was gone to Prescott for opening week of deer season, we got into our pajamas early and had breakfast for dinner.  He chose donuts over biscuits.


Avoiding bedtime.


This was after a whole week of good behavior!


 Another good day!  Can you tell we are in the bribery stage of discipline? :-)


Another stalling tactic.  Nope, he's not potty trained, nor does he EVER act interested unless we want him to do something he doesn't want to.  


Last Sunday, he had a diaper malfunction, so we came home from church in just our sweater, diaper, and church shoes.  He wasn't the tiniest bit phased by it. He still got his sucker for using good manners when we left the Children's wing.


After his bath time one night last week, he put his washcloth back on his head and came running in saying, "Look, I'm like mommy with a towel on my head."


He loves to read!  Aunt Juju showed Samuel the Pigeon books.


Thanksgiving 2011

We went to my Aunt Gin's house this Thanksgiving.  Samuel got to play with some cousins we don't see very often.  



This picture cracks me up.  My cousin's little girl, Addison, lost her tooth and when she pulled it out, it went flying across the room.  This was the search for the missing tooth. Notice how far away I am.  I.  Don't.  Do.  Teeth.



The men all sitting around talking football.



Uncle Carl got some quality snuggle time with Chase.


Samuel and Jon Curtis.  They played surprisingly well considering they're both boys who don't have to share boy toys often.  :-)


Samuel and Pop played outside a lot that day-cooking is boring to a toddler.  Who knew?


Chase was SO good with all of the noise and commotion.


Oh how he loves Pop!!


We took some pictures of the boys for Mom and Dad's Christmas card.


It was a wonderful day!

O Christmas Tree

Right before we left for Thanksgiving, we put our tree up.  This is the first year Samuel has been around for this process.  I have always done it while he was gone with Casey during opening week of deer season.  He was pretty excited about  the whole thing.  



You know how every year when you put the tree away after Christmas and you find that one ornament you missed when packing ornaments?  Yeah, I do it EVERY year.  Samuel really wanted to hang that ornament early.


We let it fluff overnight and then finished with lights, ribbon and ornaments the next day.  He really enjoyed hanging ornaments.


As we hung them, I was enjoying the memories. I ran across a few that I couldn't remember and it made me so sad. So...I decided to start a little notebook for all of my ornaments. I wrote about the ones I knew and remembered and will add to it every year when we get new ones.  I'm looking forward to adding to it.


Sunday, November 6, 2011

Go Hogs!

Saturday night, we went over to a friend's house to watch the game.  

There were kids everywhere!  We all have kids now and her house is very kid friendly.  I didn't count, but I'd say there were at least 18 with the friends some of the bigger kids brought. And of those 18, 3 were girls.  Only 3!  

And here they are-Bella. 


Emma and Eva. Seriously, these were the only 3 girls.  And they managed to hold their own.


Some of the mommies-Courtney, Kelly, Nikki, and Liz.


Here's where all of the boys hung out.  The great outdoors!



The grown boys-Chad holding Parker, Grant, and Travis.


This is Liz, our hostess. She'll probably kill me for using this picture.  :-)


Just a Lazy Saturday

This Saturday was spent in our PJ's til noon and just playing and playing.  


Samuel has really started enjoying playing pretend with all of his Little People farm set.  He's reading to them now.


Maddie is never far away.  She loves her brother!


He's also really gotten independent and wants to dress himself.  He actually got these pulled almost all the way up-just upside down.


See-Maddie is his favorite sister.


Don't get wet!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Happy Halloween!!!!

This was Samuel's first Halloween to actually go trick or treating.  For his first two, we only went to friends houses to show Samuel off and didn't do the whole candy thing.  In fact, last year is one I would like to forget.  :-)

This year, my sweet friend, Vicky invited us to come trick or treat with her family.  They have moved into a new house and have a fun neighborhood for the kids.  

It was absolutely perfect. We rode around on golf carts until we found a few houses lit up, we would stop, and let the kids go nuts, load up, and move on!  It was like a scene from ET.  Kids and families were everywhere!  

This is Vicky(aka Miss Bicky.)  Everytime we would leave a porch, Samuel would start yelling for Vicky.  He loves her!  


The pics got out of order.  This is on our way over.


Enjoying a juice box and pizza before we went Trick or Treating.


Off we go!!  Notice he has boots on.


This was the first house we stopped at.  Samuel just wasn't sure what to do with buckets full of candy!  He was so good to say "Kick or Keat" at every house and say "thank you" when we would leave.  I was so proud of him!



By the time we made it to the 4th house, we had taken the boots off.  They were just a little too big and everytime he stepped up the stairs to the porches, he would lose one.  We put them into the golf cart for the rest of the evening.  He ran around in his sock feet the rest of the night.  It was such a pleasant night and everyone's yards were dry, so he was just fine.


What fun!!


This was exactly what I had hoped and dreamed of for Samuel's first trick or treating experience.  Vicky and her family made it so special for us!