My dear friend's wedding...

I have made some really great friends at work, many of them pictured in the first picture down, but by far one of the greatest was the bride, Cralene. I had the pleasure of being able to orient her and get to know her both in and out of work! She has a heart of gold and I couldn't be happier for her and Grant as they were joined in marriage yesterday!!! And it was a BEAUTIFUL wedding with a BEAUTIFUL bride!!! I was disappointed though that we had to leave a little early from the reception (due to a tired child!) so I missed the breaking of the beloved piggy bank and the cake cutting...but we had a lot of fun while we were there!!

Some of my co-workers

Our little family

The bride Mrs. Cralene Gould

Eyeballing the fountain...

A good parent would've stopped their child from trampling all over the the landscaping to get to the water fountain...what do I do? Take pictures of course :)

So, Aiden Zunino here kept trying to kiss Sam all night and in the picture below he was trying to dance with her. But our little Sam wasn't going to have anything to do with little boys! She turned her head each time he tried to kiss her and pushed him away just after I snapped this picture...good job Sam...keep it that way, boys are bad until you're old enough to get married ;)

Sam pacing in and out of the building dancing while she was walking and chanting "dan dan dan" aka "dance dance dance" :)

Tired little girl!

I have always found it so cute when little kids fall asleep in their highchairs, but have always thought there was no way my lil' one ever would...she only falls asleep in her bed or pack'n'play! Well...lately since we've taken her binky away, she's decided certain days she just isn't going to take a nap, instead she'll play in her bed for the two or three hours we leave her in there. And yesterday was one of those days! I actually left her in her crib for almost two hours, then decided to try and get her to lay down with me...about a half our after laying her down with me, I was drifting off, but awakened by Sam licking my face! I opened my eyes and she started giggling hysterically! Everytime after this that I closed my eyes that's what she would do...lol. The only problem with her not taking a nap yesterday was we had an evening wedding to be at...so after hours of failed attempts at a nap, I gave her a quick snack in her highchair and hopped into the shower. When I came out this is what I found...

Needless to say, the quick 15 minute nap she had in her highchair was not long enough and she did not last very long at the wedding...but we did make it through the wedding and almost two hours of the reception!

A fun summer day...

Today was soo much fun!!! Summer finally decided to show up here and we took full advantage of it! We began our day at the lake where Sam LOVED being in the water!! We had a picnic in the park then went home for a much needed nap for all of us! When we woke up from our naps it was time for Michael's softball game, Sam and I watched about the first 15 minutes then proceeded onto the playground area where she finally got up enough guts to go down the slide!! ...until she accidentally went down backwards as shown in this first picture and scared herself half to death!!

Father's Day

So today's Father's day, which also happens to land on my birthday this year. Unfortunately for Michael and I we are both working today, he is working 6am til about 630pm and I will leave for work the second he flies through the door so I can make it on time for my night shift :( ...but I wanted to take a moment and talk about my dad and husband...

My dad...my dad is one of the smartest people I know! It doesn't matter the subject, he is usually extremely knowledgeable about everything!! He is always a very honest, patient man with a good work ethic and an extremely generous heart! The one thing I remember about my dad from growing up is every morning he would sit at the kitchen counter with his breakfast and his Bible doing his devotions! He was and is always there for all of his children, he is an amazing dad!

My husband, the father to my daughter...People always say girls marry someone similar to their dad...that statement might be true! Michael is a very honest, patient man with a good work ethic and an extremely generous heart...see the similarities lol...but he's more than that, he's gracious, loving and pure!! I have loved him for so long, but when I watched him transform into a "dad" it made me love him even more! He is a great father to little Sammy! He is loving and patient...even when she has her ever so dramatic girly moments!!! Watching him interact with her makes me love him even more! So Happy Father's Day baby!! I love you so and thank you for all you do, you're the best!!

This is what Sam and I made for Michael while he was working on Father's Day!

Our not so summer, summer days...

Even though our weather has been less than hot for this time of year, Sam has still loved very much playing outside and in the water!! We have taken her swimming twice over the last two weeks and she's loved it! Hopefully the weather catches onto the fact that it's nearing the first day of "summer" very soon and warms up so we can play out in the sprinklers more often!!

So this one's a little overexposed...darn sun...but it really captured her excitement!!...

Package from Grandma

We got a package from Grandma C yesterday, so this morning I let Sam open it up right when she woke up. First she pulled out a tshirt and realized it did her no good at the given time, so she promptly threw it to the ground and dug into her box once again. This time she came up with a few stickers that Grandma had gotten at the doctors office, a Dora or "Doda" as Sam would call it and a Veggie Tales one (both shows Sam LOVES!!). She carried these stickers around for hours, she wouldn't even drink her morning cup of milk or break into the bag of M&Ms in the bottom of the box because each hand was occupied with a sticker! Finally amidst her walking through the house one got stuck to the kitchen floor and the other is somewhere unbeknown to me. The moral of the story, my child will pick the free stickers over the tshirt and candy anyday!

Playing with toys and helpin Daddy fix the sprinkler system...

People always say that children grow so quickly...but I don't know that anyone really understands until they have a child of their own! This last week Michael and I have really been noticing our baby girl growing up! Not only is she looking more like a toddler and less like a baby, but she's also acting a lot more grown up!

So my daughter's a Dora freak! Notice the toy she is playing with of course has "Doda" on it and in the picture below you can see the Dora towel and pjs that Sam found in my nicely folded piles of clean laundry (that aren't so nicely folded now) and has drug all over the house all morning long!

Ah the infamous sprinkler system...each year there's a new problem that arises. Usually it's a cheap fix...but always seems to be time consuming. This year Michael has thus far spent three nights working on it and informed me that he needs to redo the pipes you can see pictured
below :) But boy do I appreciate when it does work because I am terrible at remembering to water my lawn and garden...yeah so that garden I planted a week ago hasn't exactly gotten all that much water and is really looking more like sticks than plants :( Oh well...next year I know to wait until the sprinkler system has passed it's test run I guess!

Sam started out playing on the half built deck...but quickly figured out Daddy was playing with something that looked much more exciting...the sprinkler system. As Michael was replacing the wire caps Sam was picking them up and they kept her occupied for the rest of the night! It's so neat to watch her try and fit the caps together and then figure out they're just big enough to fit her fingers in...I love watching the wheels of her head turn!