Christmas Decorations in Baltimore

While we were in Baltimore we saw these pretty Christmas decorations. The poinsettia tree was my favorite, but the gingerbread house looked really yummy! It was huge! Taller than Sammy! I think he could have layed down inside it.

Happy Birthday Sinny Girl!

My cute adorable neice is one year old today! I can't believe how fast the year has flown by. And I can't believe all that this little girl has gone through! She had open heart surgery when she was just 2 weeks old. She was in the hospital for almost a month! And just look at her now. Look at those chubby little cheeks. Don't you just want to pinch them. We love you Sydney. We hope you had a wonderful birthday!

Sammy

A picture is worth a million words and I don't know that I can say anything to add to these pictures. To me they show exactly what Sammy's personality is like. He is so sweet and funny and even when he is getting in the garbage for the 10th time or trying to play in the toilet for the 11th time I can't be mad at him. Everything he does makes me smile. He is just the happiest sweetest little boy! What a lucky mommy I am. We took these pictures during dinner the first night on our trip to Baltimore after we had dragged him around all day! He was still so happy and just hamming it up for the camera. He was playing peek-a-boo with the napkin in the second picture. I just love this kid!

The Science Museum

This is the science museum we went to in Baltimore. It wasn't my favorite place. I really like science, but I felt like there were some areas that were not as well cared for as they could have been. But there were a lot of fun and interesting things there.

We aren't exactly sure what this was. I have decided it is either the horn of a Crumple-Horned Snorkack or an Erumpent Horn (for those who don't know what either of these are refer to Harry Potter book 7). Either way, I felt very privileged to have seen one.




This is the kid room of the science museum. We only got to play in the water for a little while and then Gracie decided to throw some of it at another kid. We quickly navigated away from that area...


This was actually my favorite part of the science museum. This guy gave a presentation on electricity and his appearance was the epitome of a science nerd. At first I thought maybe it was a joke... you know the thick glasses and oddly combed mullet, but David assured me that it wasn't and that I should not laugh.


The pulley experiments were fun. I was pretending that Gracie was really heavy to make her laugh. That girl has the most infectious laugh I have ever heard!





There was a plethora of experiments at the museum and Gracie had a great time (Sammy was kind of just along for the ride. In a few years he will probably appreciate it more...). David had a great time... he was the picture taker though so he isn't in these pictures. Sorry babe. It was a fun day though!

The Bay in Baltimore

The first thing we did after checking into our hotel on our trip to Baltimore was to walk down to the bay. It was really neat. We saw some really big old boats and some dinner cruise ships. We saw a huge anchor. Gracie is standing on it in the last picture on the second row. We saw cannons and a mock ship's helm. Then we saw these fun paddle boats. We figured they probably only let you go out on them in the summer because they were all chained up, but Gracie really liked them and wanted to go for a ride.

The Tremonton Plaza in Baltimore

We went on a short trip to Baltimore while David was out of school. This is the view from our hotel room. We were on the 27th floor! They asked us if we wanted a "high room or a low room." We chose high. The view was kind of smoggy, but still neat to be able to see everything. It was an older hotel, but they still treated us like we were pretty fancy with valet parking and bell boys and stuff. The next morning however when we were getting ready to check out, we wished we had chosen a "low room" because the fire alarm went off. We had to carry Sammy and Gracie down 27 flights of stairs!!! That was my work out for the day!

Santa Came!!!

Ok, it has taken me a long time to post these pictures, but the SD card that had these pictures on it was misplaced, and I just didn't feel like I could skip this event and come back to it later so I haven't posted in a while. But finally here they are (drum roll please) the Christmas Pictures. We had a really fun Christmas! David and Gracie and Sammy and I spent the holiday at home, just the four of us. We would have loved to be with our families, but since we couldn't we made the best of it and had a great time at home.




Gracie got a new bunk bed for Christmas. We moved her in to it during the night. She was really surprised when she woke up Christmas morning (actually I had to go wake her up... it was about 6:00 and I just got so excited I couldn't wait any longer!). Eventually the bottom bunk will be for Sammy but I think he will stay in his crib a little while longer.


It is moments like these that I wish that I had had Gracie's bangs cut. We are trying to grow them out, because David loves them long, but I wish you could see her pretty eyes and just how much they sparkled!







Here is my cute Sammy. He had lots of fun on Christmas, and while he got lots of fun presents, he seemed just as content with this old orange golf ball. If only we could all me just as happy with what we have huh?

Gracie has been very excited about horses lately. She actually makes the funniest (and most realistic) horse sound I have ever heard from a girl her age.




My mom made me this really pretty Christmas blanket. I finally made myself put it away a couple of days ago. I didn't want to. I wanted to snuggle under it every day until next Christmas!







Here is Sammy with one of his new trucks and with Daddy's new car.

Gracie has been pretending about Christmas since Christmas. She always pretends that she is and Sammy are Reindeer and Mommy and Daddy are always Santa. Pretty funny isn't she.

Sammy got his very first sippy cup in his stocking. He seemed to like it Christmas morning, but it has since lost some of its charm. Much to his mother's dismay he would rather nurse than anything...

Here is Gracie eating her Christmas breakfast. She just couldn't leave all of her presents in the living room. She had to bring Cootie to the table with her!

We had a really fun time! There is nothing in the world like seeing the excitement in your children's eyes on Christmas! I remember all the magic when I was a child and this surpasses even that. We hope everyone had as memorable of a Christmas as we did.