Playing in the snow

After I got off work on Christmas Eve, I decided that since we got quite a bit of snow that I would get Samantha all bundled up and head out and play. She LOVED it! She loved walking in it and touching it. It was great! We also went sledding on Christmas day. She LOVED that too! She kept saying weeeeeeeeeeee...lol. I'll have to get those pictures from mom.


Alright, I'm ready to go, Mommy!

 Walking around in the snow

 All smiles! :)

 She's so stinkin adorable all bundled up! I LOVE IT! :D

Christmas

On Christmas Eve we always stay the night at the in-laws. We've done it for about 4-5 years now and I totally love this tradition and don't plan on changing it anytime soon. I love just hanging out with them and looking at their beautiful Christmas tree and pretty decorations. It's more Christmasy over there then it is at our house. lol. We always get to open a present on Christmas Eve. Which is always pajamas.
We all got up pretty early the next morning. Except Samantha...lol. She's the only one that slept the longest. Seth had to wake her up, actually. lol
We all dug into our stockings. We got a lot of goodies, that's for sure! :o)
We got to open our gifts once Seth's brother and his family came over. It's always fun to watch a 2 year old open gifts! :o) Samantha wasn't that into it though, which kinda stunk. But hopefully she will be next year! :o) She got a lot of great stuff. Lots of toys, a little 4-wheeler, pop-up tent, a little folding table and clothes.  Seth got a lap top, gifts cards and clothes(he's hard to shop for) and I got a cricket (WOOHOO), movies, new coat and a few other things.
We had a great dinner! Believe it or not, the men made, LOL! Usually Seth's mom makes dinner but this year, I guess the guys wanted to make it. lol. After dinner we just hung out and played with all of our new goodies.
It was such an awesome day!


Opening her Christmas eve gift

 Christmas pjs

 Her new bike from Daddy

 Her new 4-wheeler

 Daddy chillin in the pop-up tent with Samantha

 My new(AWESOME) Cricket

 On her new bike!

2010 Christmas Picture

Here's our Christmas picture! I think it came out great! :)

 Daddy being silly! At least Samantha looks cute! LOL

My baby is...

14 months old today! It doesn't even seem possible. She does so many things now that she didn't just 2 months ago. She learns everything so fast. She's just beautifully amazing! I love her with all my heart and soul!

Santa Clause 2010

Here's Samantha with Santa, as promised! :)

Samantha knows her S'

Samantha got a package of foam bath tub alphabets and numbers from her cousins for her birthday. During bath time I work with her on her letters and numbers(mainly letters, for right now). She knows her s' that's for sure. She knows a couple more letters but not as good as she knows her s'. This little girl amazes me every single day!

Here's the proof :)

'Tis The Season

I decided to get Christmas photos taken of Samantha. I didn't think I would but I just could not help myself. She did amazingly well. Usually she just wants to run off to explore, which ended up happening after about 15 minutes into the session. But she did a GREAT job!
Grandma came along with us. She suggested that we should go see Santa Clause while we were there.  The ladies at Sears told me a little trick to try to get a good photo of her with Santa. Well, lets just say the "trick" didn't work, AT ALL!  She completely freaked out. It just broke my heart that I played that nasty trick on her. :( But all in all, we got a decent photo. I'll post that later.