Easter - Part Two

Dad and Connie Visit

Dad and Connie visited a couple weekends ago.  I didn't do so well at getting photos, but these two were from my Instagram feed, that weekend.  Top photo: Dad and Brian enjoying green beers (made green by chlorophyll not food coloring) at Whole Foods.  Bottom photo: Sam enjoying bubble time with Grandma C.

Fun In Ravenna Sun

Birthday Time

Aunt Shell, Sam and Daddy

Wagon

Sam's Grandpa Birger and Grandma C gave him a not-so-little red wagon for Christmas.  Addison and Jenna spent a good chunk of Saturday night pulling him around the basement in it.

Gifts

The Schilowsky's and the Dohmen's (minus Ann) came over for some chili and monkey bread on Monday night.  Each of the girls brought us/Sam a little gift.  Ava brought a book about Pete the Cat who rocks in his school shoes (not to be confused with Peet the Dog who also rocks in his school shoes), Addison brought us a Christmas card that she made and Jenna brought coupons for her babysitting business.  

Sam had a great time listening to Ava read him the book that she brought and then playing with all the girls.  They made a house out of a big cardboard box and the "UPS man" (also known as brooke) brought them a "Cabbage Patch Doll" (also known as Sam) who loved snuggling up with them in their house.  

Sam and Friends

We have had a lot of company over the past ten days.  Ken and Colleen stayed with us November 30 and December 1st.  They were kind enough to help us deal with broken car issues and also stayed with Sam on Saturday while I had to work and Brian coached a basketball tournament.  Dad and Connie stayed with us the night of the 5th before they headed to Seattle the next morning to see a couple of my favorite people.  Mom and Dave arrived on the 6th and spent that night and the night of the 8th with us.  We don't get to see them again until February, so we had some early Christmas celebrations with them.  

Sammer has enjoyed spending so much time with his Grandmas and Grandpas.  He also managed to get some lovey time with Ann, Jason, Ava, Michelle and Jenna while Ken and Colleen were here.  

And tonight the fun continues as we are having dinner with Michelle, Justin, Jenna, Addison, Ann, Jason and Ava.  Yay for family! 

Knock It Down!

This video (from a few months ago) totally cracks me up.  Jenna and Ava built a tower with plastic cups and then told Sam to "knock it down."  For some reason, he thought that was hilarious. 

Words With Jenna

This is how Jenna and I play Scrabble:  we play it the real way (without keeping score) and then she asks me if she can cheat and I tell her no and then I try to make a funny word because I know she will get a kick out of it and then we play some more and then she asks if she can cheat and I say yes and then we give up on the game entirely and just try to use up all of the tiles and make more funny words while we are at it.

Once all of that happens, we end up with words like birthdaysuit, peea, barenaked, gordy, poopgazi and foolc.  Poopgazi is my favorite. 

I like that girl.  

Thanksgiving 2012

We traveled to Kansas City, MO for Thanksgiving.  

The highlights:

• Sam enjoyed his first nights in a hotel.
• We all had a great time in the swimming pool.  
• We enjoyed the kind hospitality of Brian's aunt and cousins.  
• I really appreciated the traditional Thanksgiving slush (with lots of yummy vodka), since I didn't get to partake last year. 
• We stopped at a fabulous scrapbook store on our way home and I got lots of goodies to get me started on next year's Project Life book.
• We ate too much.
• It was great (as usual) to spend so much time with the fam. 

Red Robin

Sam and I had lunch at Red Robin with Michelle, Addison, Jenna and Ava, the day before Thanksgiving.  It is so fun to watch him light up when his cousins are around.

Also, thanks to Uncle Jason and Auntie Pril for the cute cloud bib that they bought for Sam while they were in Paris.  It goes so nicely with his eyes.  :)