Grandma & Joey's Visit

Grandma and Joey were able to come down and visit for a few weeks and it was wonderful!! Unfortunately we took them to the airport today :(
I was amazed at how instantaneously Sam seemed to be so comfortable around them when we picked them up!! It was so exciting to see how she remembered them from previous visits!!! Sam is in a "kissy" stage where she loves giving kisses...she started this the day grandma came down, way to time that one mom! Grandma enjoyed many kisses from "Ssssss" as Sam refers to herself as!!

Happy Independence Day!!

Happy Independence Day!! It's the fourth of July and we are fortunate enough to celebrate with my mom and little brother, Joey! We began the day fairly uneventful, but ended with a bang!! I've been really wanting to go to this one location and take pictures of Sam where a few of my friends have had professional pictures done. And since I haven't had professional pictures done since Sam's birthday I figured I'd take a few amatuer ones :)...The only problem was my child was much more difficult to get to smile for me than she is for the professionals! Although she did learn to stay where I told her to...lol...she would start to walk away and I would tell her "back back back" and she would mimic me "ba ba ba" and go back to where I had put her and plop on the ground for about two seconds before doing it all over again!

Happy girl after getting some of Grandma's candy...

Grandma sharing...

Samantha begging...

Dance, dance, dance...

Grandma's here! Time for a date!!

So as many know, Michael and I work opposite days to save on babysitting fees and to spend the most amount of time with our quickly growing daughter! Well, the downfall to this plan is that we see each other very little!!! So...mom came to visit and we hit her up to watch lil' Sam overnight so Michael and I could just spend a night together...just the two of us...alone!! It was WONDERFUL!! We went to Boise on Friday afternoon where we went to dinner at McGraths Fish House (AWESOME FOOD!!), then we went and saw the movie "Grownups" totally not what we expected but it was a great movie none the less...maybe even purchase worthy! Then stayed the night at the Oxford Suites...I love that hotel!! It has the most amazing rooms plus two free evening drinks plus a hot breakfast buffet for sooo cheap!! Saturday morning we packed up and hit Kohls real quick on the way home. It was so refreshing to spend a full 24hrs with just the two of us!!