Catching Up. Part 1

The best thing about Scott still being in school is having 3 weeks off for the holidays. It was a VERY lazy 3 weeks but a fun lazy 3 weeks. I still can't believe this will be our last year of school, what is real life like? Guess we'll find out in a year.

Here are some photos of the holidays with Nana susu, Pop pop, Tiffy, Shellie, Stacie, Matt, and the coolest cousins ever Max and Jack. 

Tiffy don't be mad:)

Sammie's first present in her life!

Sammie's first rice cereal, lookin skeptical but she loved it.

Green smoothies

Whoever thought of putting spinach or kale in a smoothie? I can picture this person saying "I like spinach, I like smoothies, why not?". They begin making the smoothie: spinach, yummy strawberries, bananas, orange juice, and pineapple. Lookin good so far.

Blend blend blend. And then this is what they see:

It took a brave soul to first drink one of these.  Scott and I have always wanted to try these mysterious green smoothies that everyone raves about. The awful color held me back for many months but we finally made the decision to make one and I can now say that the rumors are true: healthy and delicious. Another new years resolution started. This house will be seeing many a more green smoothies.

Better late than never

And...we're back! Back to blogging with more photos, hopefully more documentation of our lives together, and more Sammie Sammie Sammie. Three cheers for new years resolutions of keeping up a blog.

Since the last post my little lady Samantha has grown so much. Every week she seems to learn something new. She had her first taste of rice cereal Christmas morning. At first she was unsure of this new slimy texture but she is now very anxious to eat her big girl food. Here is a cute video of her anxiously eating solids. 

Christmas week also marked the time she started to use her hand-eye coordination. Santa was worried she wasn't old enough for chew toys quite yet but she proved him wrong and knew exactly what to do with them. Hold them, chew them, slobber on them- what a smart kiddo.

Who needs princesses when you can have super hero action figures

My arms have gotten good exercise from holding her bottles but I can't say I'm not anxious for the day when I don't have to hold up anymore bottles.

She loves her toes!

Santa was also very generous to me and Scotty. Scott received the all-knowing, superior iphone. It is sleek, smart, fast and makes him look very handsome and intelligent. 

My favorite part is using the facetime with my family so they can see Sammie grow, and so I can see little Tiffy grow- what a beautiful young lawyer she will be. Scott gave me a bunch of stuff and I mostly love my new Ninja blender. This year will be a year of green smoothies, running, and trying to fit into 3/4 of my wardrobe again. 

Don't know where this little chubbster photo came from but yes that is Sammie.



Hot tubbing anyone?

Before the end of this post I would like to announce that I am finally done with making caramel apples! Yipee! Until we meet again in October. 

Sammie's Blessing

It is always so fun to see family.  Scott and I have been lucky to have most of our family live so close and even when they aren't close they are always willing to travel to come support.  I've said it before and I'll say it again, we have been blessed with such amazing family and friends. Grandparents, parents, siblings, and a bunch of friends all traveled to come to her blessing. We couldn't have more loving and supportive people in our lives- Sammie is one lucky girl.  

Sammie is so lucky to have a Grandma Sally, especially this Grandma! We love her!

4 generations- I'm the odd man out, I'm told everyone else looks similar

Love family pics cause I love these two cuties!

These are some priceless faces of the girl cousins of 2012- Amy, Makayla, and Sammie

Full dress in all of its beauty.  She's already so strong and can stand on her own...kind of

Just love my little girl

John must have taken this of himself, so he gets it posted on the blog:)

Baby Pirate Hiker

This was our best Halloween yet, and that is saying a lot since last Halloween looked something like this...

The reason why it was so great is because of this little beauty.

I wish we had thought ahead and done a family theme but we came up with some decent costumes. Scott's was creepy, mine was lame, but Sammie made up for it.

Matching moustaches! What a bunch of good lookin ladies.

Oh and this is what she looked like before we turned her into a pipe smoking baby pirate.

We are so blessed to have Samantha in our home. In the two short months we've had with her, we've had so much fun.  She has spent quite a bit of time in her carseat. Some would say her parents are crazy (we will not name who), for taking her all over Utah since she is so young, but we only have her living in our home for a short period of time so we are going to enjoy every minute of it while we can! I know she has enjoyed traveling to see all of her family and friends who love her.

This last week she went on her first hike! We couldn't resist the perfect weather November has been providing- who knows how long it will last.  We hiked to a place called the living room. It's just above our apartments and has a great view of Salt Lake City.  The view point has benches made out of rock so hikers can enjoy the view while lounging on the comfy rock "couches", and watch tv made of rocks as well (this doesn't exist up there yet but I am making plans). She was such a good girl and stayed awake for most of the hike without complaining once- surprise surprise huh?  I think she enjoyed looking at all the new things she has never seen before...although I'm not sure how well she can see yet.

Poor girl, she has many more of these hikes to endure:)