Santa Time!

This afternoon Sam, Allie and I went to the mall to visit Santa.  It's become a tradition of Sam and I's to visit Santa on the Sunday after Thanksgiving (or the Monday after).  Sam is so excited this year.  He took his pictures of the past two years to show Santa.  We are getting excited for Christmas around here.   Hopefully we will get all the decorations, tree and lights up by next Sunday.  We haven't been home for Christmas for the past two years so we haven't decorated since we lived in Utah, I'm excited to see what treasures my 9 boxes of Christmas decoration have that haven't been opened in so long!  

More Thanksgiving

Last Monday we packed up the car and drove out to Phoenix to spend Thanksgiving with family.  We arrived Monday afternoon and had a wonderful time with my mom, Mike and Sean. We kept Sam and Sean very busy going from one fun place, Amazing Jake's one night, a big indoor climbing place the next, to another.  Thanksgiving morning we woke up early and took Sean, Sam and Allie out to Red Mountain park to watch My mom and Aunt Sandy run in a 10K Turkey Trot.  They did so good, I am so proud of them.  It was fun to see.  I got to talk to my Aunt Charli in the morning, we sure wish we could have been in Utah to enjoy her turkey too. We enjoyed the rest of Thanksgiving morning and afternoon hanging out with the family before we headed out to North Phoenix to see Jason's family.  It was a great Thanksgiving week.  

I am Thankful for so many things this past year.  We have been so blessed and are so grateful for so many things I don't think I can even begin, or else I'd never stop.  

Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving in Phoenix

Thanksgiving evening we traveled to the other end of Phoenix to see Jason's family.  We had a nice Thanksgiving dinner with all of the Shapiro family, including some cousins who we haven't seen since before Sam was born (a lot can happen in 4 years).  I got to visit with Karen and Keith on Friday morning and see their beautiful baby girl.  Then we went to the Phoenix Children's Museum.  Wow, what an amazing place.  Sam had such a great time.  He has been talking about it non-stop.  We will have to go back next time we are in town.  Saturday morning we had a great brunch with Mar Mar and Uncle Dick.  Then we packed our little family in our little car and headed home.  The drive took us longer than we expected, but we made it home in time to say one last good bye to our good friends who are moving to Branson Missouri.  

Good Night

Just two last pictures I wanted to share.  Allie is sleeping and Jason took Sam to the local high school football game.  I am going to go enjoy the rest of my night.  Good night...

Allie attacks bowl

I already posted about how much Allie loves her new rice cereal, but I had to share these pictures of her literally attacking the bowl last night.  She is such a funny little girl.  This morning after her cereal she started squealing and I could tell she wanted to attack the bowl again, when I didn't let her she started crying.  She's not spoiled.  

S-A-M

Sometimes I let Sam play on the computer by himself while I cook dinner (or whatever other chore I'm doing close by).  The other day he was playing on pbskids.org (he navagates that site pretty well) he called me over to look at what he named his super hero.  I looked at the screen and saw he typed SAM.  I said, did you do that by yourself?  How did you do that?  He said, "Mom I found the S the A and the M, all the letters are right there."  I had to take a picture.  I thought that was pretty good for a three year old.  

Weekend with Nama, Papa Mike and Sean

We had a great weekend last weekend when Nama (my mom) and Papa Mike and Sean came into town.  Sean and Sam play really well together, and I got some much needed "primping" time.  I actually got my hair done for the first time since February.  I cut it pretty short and got it colored a little darker.  (Sorry no pictures this time, apparently I only take the pictures.)  For those of you who knew me when I was 5 months old, probably are having a little bit of a flash back looking at the bottom picture of Allie and my mom.  It was a great weekend!  

Allie's First Meal and The Zoo

This weekend we had a great time with BaPa in town (My dad).  We went to the zoo, the Santa Monica Pier, and lots of parks.  Sam stayed the night with Bapa in his hotel.  He had so much fun packing his bag and saying bye to Jason and I.  

We started Allie on solid foods Saturday.  She attacked the spoon and grabbed the bowl and tried to eat the rice cereal straight from the bowl.  It was so cute.  I guess she was ready.  Sam got to feed his baby sister, and he was so cute about it.