Hippty Hop, the Easter Bunny visited Sami

The day before Easter Sami colored Easter eggs.
She had so much fun!

I think it is safe to say she's my daughter.

Just like her Mommy she has OCD.

She did not like the thought of eggs being more than one color. Each egg could only be one color. She thought it was

too messy.

That was one busy Easter bunny. Sami had a total of 3 Easter egg hunts on Sunday. The first was at home. Then she was invited to Caleb, Sue & Nate's house for her second Easter egg hunt.

Last but not least, Grandma's house.

Talk about hitting the jackpot. Of course the 3 year old finds all the eggs with money in it ($15. total) and she was just tossing them to the side to find the ones with candy.

Exciting News!!!!

Sami got to make the big announcement.....she's going to be a BIG sister.

Baby Sherwood is due at the end of October.

"Sleeping Booty, It's me Yami"

For Samantha's birthday I took Justin and her to Disney. They had the best time.









Justin was so amazing. He carried Sami on his shoulders for most of the day.

For dinner I tookthe kids to Goofy's Kitchen. While you're eating dinner the characters walk up to your table and talk to you. Well, when Sami saw Sleeping Beauty at another table she proceeded to stand on her chair and waved down Sleeping Beauty by saying (well, actually it was more like screaming), "Sleeping Booty, It's me Yami. It's my birthday"!






Too cute!









Justin is such a good sport.










Can you tell she had a fun birthday?

Happy 3rd Birthday, Samantha Grace!!

Can you believe she's 3 already?? I can't. It's amazing how fast time flies. To think 3 years ago Chris and I went thru the hardest/greatest experience of our lives. At that time, we were barely able to think 1 day ahead, let alone years later. She is truly our miracle baby.

For her birthday she got a little play cottage. She adores this present (and so does Mommy because she'll play in it for hours).

In the middle of her birthday dinner Sami decided to climb up on her Pop Pop's lap and give him a kiss. This picture is priceless. Can you tell she has him wrapped around her finger.

Daddy and his little princess.

"Mommy, I heard Santa's reindeers last night."

I woke up to Sami at my door saying, "Mommy I heard Santa's reindeer last night." I then asked her what she heard and she told me, " I heard their bells." Those sentences pretty much summarize the spirit of Christmas. I guess there really is a Santa Claus.

Chris had to work on Christmas so we celebrated on Christmas Eve.
I had to keep the kids upstairs all morning till Chris got home. Talk about "Mission Impossible" but I did it. It was all worth it to see the look on the kids faces when they saw their presents.




Can you guess which was Sami's favorite? She refused to get
out of her truck and the only way we could get her to open her other presents was to let her do it while sitting in it.








Daddy feeling like the luckiest Daddy in the whole wide world.









Mommy feeling pretty lucky too.







Her second favorite gift: a Dora Bouncy Ball. Look at those
pigtails, need I say more.

My family. The best Christmas present of all.

Yummy Christmas Cookies

We're baking cookies again, but this time they're for Santa.

Sami taking a moment to pose for the camera. I told you she was a ham.

I love this picture. No matter how many times you tell Sami "no" she definitely has her own agenda. This is her "drinking" the holiday sprinkles directly out of the container.

So much for not contaminating the food. I don't think Santa will mind, at least I hope not.

The final product: Yummy cookies for Santa. Don't worry we didn't forget Santa's reindeer. Sami & Justin sprinkled oatmeal on the front lawn for them.

Finally.....Snow in the Desert!

As everyone knows I'm from NY where it snows in
the winter, like its suppose to.
Well this year it was the first time I wasn't
able to get home and I figure God felt sorry
for me so he made it snow just for me.





You can only imagine how
happy I was to see snow.
For once, it felt like winter.







The kids weren't the only ones who enjoyed the snow.











Sami absolutely loved playing in the snow.
She had several snow ball fights, made 3 snowmen and 1 snow angel.