We went to Build-a-Bear and built an E.B. from the movie Hop 
and then we went and saw Hop at the movie theatre.
We love Freestone Park and had a picnic there. She wanted to wear her blue tutu and got sooo many compliments on it. She pet almost every dog at the park and loved chasing the ducks. 
We did the Schnepf's farm Egg-Citement for Easter.
We had a great Easter and Samantha is still a great egg hunter, just like last year. She found even the most difficult, well hidden ones. She's so super smart.
May was even busier than April... We did a lot of swimming in our community pool. Samantha is getting really good at swimming. It won't be long until she's swimming without her little vest thing. We also have fun with water balloons and squirt guns.
We went to the zoo a couple of times. Samantha even met her boyfriend's friends. 
We went on a big vacation to California. It was sooo much fun. We went to San Diego, La Jolla's beach, Coronado beach, Corona Del Mar's beach, Seal beach and Disneyland!!!!! It was a great time with our great friends Megan and Cristian. He turned 4 when we were at Disneyland. 
Memorial Day was filled with family and fireworks. Samantha likes family...fireworks not so much, maybe next year she'll find them as cool as we do.
Samantha, all ready to go swimming at 9:00 at night. Lol. "Bed time."
June time. Samantha and Daddy set up a train track in our movie room and she loves to put toys on the train and on the train track so she can save them. It's a lot of fun, she loves trains.
We got another dog this month, this makes number 3 for us. From left to right they are: Alf, Jack and Charlie. Aren't they cute? Charlie is the most recent and still a pup.
We went to Canyon lake a couple of times and even had as many as 23 people all together once. It is always a good time BBQing, swimming, .
drinking,
and getting sun with our friends and family
Our friend Megan got discounted tickets to the circus. So we all went and it was amazing! This is Samantha all ready to go to the circus. 
Samantha was intrigued by it the whole time. We went to the pre-show where Samantha tried to dance like the dancers in the show. Oh, how I wish it was short enough for me to post here. Soooo cute.
I especially liked the tigers and elephants. Brandon liked the acrobats. :)
July was another amazing month for us. We celebrated the 4th of July at my mom's house, swam
and set off our own fireworks
(Samantha's still not a fan), but she likes sweeping up the debris from them.
We went to the mall a couple of times and even saw Rio, which was super cute. The second time we went to the mall was mostly disappointing, but we did get to ride the carousel (Samantha chose the Ostrich).
We've decided on the location of Samantha's 3rd birthday when we went to Makutu's Island again. We have the best time there. Samantha is even getting great at getting to the top of the play structure and going down the 40 foot banana slide all by herself (little daredevil).
This time was fun until someone stole my phone and camera and ditched them in a toilet in the men's bathroom after I called the police. Neither work. :/ I shouldn't have left them unattended; so I had to get a new phone and camera. Moving on to the end of the month. My mom had vacation time so we went to California! 3 times in a little over half a year, I am getting spoiled. We walked the Oceanside pier, went to Dana Point and Corona Del Mar for the tidepools, walked the mall, took a boat out to see a blue whale and tons of dolphins, drove down to La Jolla and saw the seals that hang out at the Children's pool, had a picnic at the Oceanside beach, took Julia "Maid of Honor" dress shopping and checked out the harbor gift shops. We had an amazing time!!! Here's a slide show of it:
Soooo many babies... my cousin just had her 2nd baby in June, his name is Walt.
2 of my closest friends have been pregnant in the last month, one just had her baby last weekend, 2 months early, her name is Marlie she weighs 3 lbs. 14 oz. The other is due next month.
So we'll have all sorts of new friends to play with soon. :) Samantha refers to every young person she encounters as her "friend" it is super cute and she is sooooo popular! We celebrated my brother's B-Day a little late since he went to Vegas for his birthday, I never did get an answer on whether he won big money...
We also got to see our friends Kristen, Seth and their kids William and Paige. Samantha had a blast playing with them.
My mom went on a date. They decided to be friends, but it is nice that she's putting herself out there. She's painfully shy and doesn't like stepping far out of her comfort zone, which is sitting in her living room watching the baseball game or a good movie. Curtis couldn't have turned out to be a better uncle, he really does enjoy Samantha's personality and Samantha loves her uncle. We still meet up as a family every week and chit chat over half priced appetizers. The wedding is sure creeping up on us, 65 more days. We have mostly everything payed for. The venue, my dress, photographer, honeymoon, and a lot of other odds and ends. We're taking some engagement pics today and hope to have invitations out next week. So I got my hair done and absolutely love it!
The hair stylist did a great job, going from dark brown to mostly blond in one day takes time, but I am so pleased with the results.
Samantha's 3rd birthday is coming up too, only 97 more days! :) I love my beautiful girl. Whenever I do her hair and ask to see afterwards she tells me, "I'm beautuful." or "I pretty." It's adorable. She is my world.
