Thanksgiving Weekend

This year we spent Thanksgiving at Josh's mom's house. My mom and Tim were in Phoenix with her brother Jim and his family, while ironically my dad and Kaye went to Phoenix to hang with his cousin and her boyfriend. We only had 6 people, plus Sam at Pat's house, but the food and company was great as always. 

 

After Sam's nap on Thanksgiving she woke up with her arm out of her sleeve somehow...

Carol's birthday celebration during the holiday

4 Generations - Bogue/Bergers

Getting all the Christmas decorations out, she loves them!

Reading to herself in her favorite chair

Gotta love the leg warmers

Photos with Mom

After photographing a 7 month old yesterday (I work with his dad, and they wanted some Christmas photos), I was inspired to do a photo shoot with Sam for the first time in forever. I had yet to set anything up at this house, and we moved in last May. Plus, the last time I did photos with Sam she wanted nothing to do with it, and just walked away or cried. Today that was not the case. She was so cooperative. She wanted to get in different clothes, she wanted to stand in the right spot, she even moved one direction or the other when I asked her to. She's way too good at that. Of course the whole thing was short lived, but hey, she's a toddler, I'll take what I can get!

This is her telling me only 1 more, then all done.

Then I got this smile.

One last shot, hugging her duck

Oregon Zoo

We made plans a week ago to hit up the Oregon zoo on Sunday, and we just happened to get great weather. It was warm enough to walk around with a short sleeved shirt on and no jacket... Granted Kevin & Mer were still in jackets, but they're not accustomed to Oregon weather yet after living in San Antonio for the last 2 years.

Sam is finally at the age where she knows the animals and can communicate with us about them. She loves elephants, the fish, penguins, and the lions. She was excited to see all the water. Every exhibit that had water she pointed it out. Funny girl. She even woke up the next morning and the first thing she said was zoo. She gets it now. She mentioned the elephants and lions over and over again. Love that girl!

 

 

Sleepy Polar Bear

Duck Football Watching Party



Saturday we finally got all the kids together to watch a Duck football game (once we found a game that started early enough!) So we all gathered at the Manson's house 8 adults, 5 kids, football, food, and all sorts of toys.

 

That's definitely one of her faces

All the kids in the playroom. Sam has reached the age where she knows where it is and goes there on her own.

Super cute peanut

Claire in her birthday gown

Sam was not having picture time, yikes!

All the kids

They didn't understand why Sam was crying... neither did we for that matter. Quinton seemed particularly concerned.

She got a cracker and all was better

I think Ella was done with the little kids

nice socks Dan

Sam was giving fist bumps to everyone in the room. Quinton thought there was something in Sam's fist, he was trying to pry it open. Lol

 

Silly boy!

Giving Ella hugs

Jammie twins, hugging