It's Been Too Long.....

Like the title suggests, this is going to be a loooonnnnnnggggg update. We'll start in November: One of my best friends, Megan, and I started a ritual on doing some sort of activity together with our kids every week. The first activity was Mesquite Groves Aquatic center. Jambos was our next adventure. Daddy found Samantha a Cardinals outfit that was super cute on her.
Happy 2nd Birthday Samantha!!!!! We celebrated her birthday on the Saturday before her birthday with a Tinkerbell themed party. She was very spoiled with presents and a bounce house slide.
For her actual birthday we took her to Chuckee Cheese's and let her play games. :)


The next week we did a picnic with Megan and Cristian. Sooooo cute. :) At this point she already refers to him as her "boyfriend." We entered Samantha into a Christmas beauty contest. She won best smile. :) The next week's activity was held at Makutu's Island (a giant indoor jungle gym that has a 40 foot slide that is amazing.) Here's a great video of Samantha and her little cousin Mollie on Thanksgiving:
We liked Makutu's so much that we decided to go again with Brandon the very next week. Samantha doesn't like the maskot and ran from him like she was running from the bad guy off of a horror film. We went to a couple of holiday festivals. One she got to get on a steer. And Sanata's lap (She's not a huge fan yet.) We went on the Polar Express train, it was so much fun. Unfortunately I lost those pics due to an SD card error, but it was a great time. There was snow and everything made it really look like we were in the north pole.
We also went to Zoo Lights and Samantha loved it even more than last year. We had a great Christmas. Samantha was spoiled by Santa Clause with a trampoline, Barbie jeep, Easel and lots of other amazing presents. I got the perfect camera and Brandon got a dual wine cooler.








We even caught Santa in our house!!! These are our Family Christmas pictures. They turned out so cute.


We also went to SeaLife aquarium and learned about all sorts of cool fish and sharks. We are now in January. We spend a lot of time at the zoo and Samantha loves to feed the giraffes. And she also likes to pretend to pet the babboons. Doesn't it look like she's in their with them. :D We also went to California this month with Daddy to visit my sister. We went to the beach and of course Sea World. It was a lot of fun.

The week after's activity was Kiwanas Park with these three little amazing people.




Samantha "I can't reach it." Lol. She's trying to get the Basketball and she'd jump in to get it if we'd let her. We also went to Disney On Ice. Even got her daddy to come (this isn't exactly up his ally), but he enjoyed himself. He especially liked the Toy Story part. On to February... We went to the Renaissance Festival twice this year. We enjoyed ourselves both time. Samantha even dressed up one of the times and went on the Bunjee jump trampoline (which she loved!)
Samantha was excited about meeting a Fairy the second time and I was excited to meet Toothless off of "How To Train Your Dragon"

We went to the Children's Museum with Megan and it was soooo much fun and really neat. :)


This is Samantha with her closest friends minus the little girl in the background that we don't know.
We had a great Valentine's Day full of love and chocolate, who could ask for more?
We went to the Zoo with Megan and Cristian, who also have memberships so we can go as often as we want. We rode the camel together and fed the giraffes together. :) We also learned during this trip to the Zoo that Samantha is terrified of poop. One of the goats pooped those little balls that look like dog food and Samantha threw the BIGGEST fit EVER! I turned 23 on the 23rd. In celebration of my "Golden birthday" we had a Luau, it was a lot of fun with both close friends and family. Delicious food and beautifully decorated.







We went up to Flagstaff as a family to see snow, it was soooo much fun. Samantha likes to eat the snow, we built a snowman, sled down the hill, made snow angels and had a snow ball fight.





She's also starting to piece together her own outfits.... Lol!
Moving right along into March now. We Tatted up Samantha's arms and got her picture taken professionally. They turned out sooooo cute!


We went up to Prescott to visit Malaysia, who is only 2 months younger than Samantha. They had a blast being monkeys jumping on the bed. We spend a lot of time at the Zoo. :D




This time we went hiking afterwards, it was fun too.



Since this post is getting pretty lengthy I'm going to go ahead and end it here and start in April with a new post.