Easter!

I wasn't home for Easter this year which I was sad about, but that's an other post. Alan did a great job taking care of the kids and he even did an Easter egg hunt for them Sunday morning. There would of been more pics, but I accidentally erased some from our camera.

A break from life

This year has been hard for our family and in the beginning of April we took an unplanned much needed break to visit Alan's family in Colorado. We woke up on a saturday morning and said lets go. We quickly packed, through our things in the car and went. It takes 14 hours to get there and we drove straight through with a couple of stops. The kids did great.

We are usually in Colorado for Christmas and don't get to do alot of the touristy things, so this trip we got to do a couple of things. We went to an old western town and then we went to some cliff dwelings. The cliff dwellings were are favorite. One day mom Chase and I went out shopping to this really cute town while the boys watched Luke and Samantha. We had a great time.

Typo

For those of you who read my last post before I edited it, big correction. My 2 year old, skinny, minne daughter does not weigh 35.5 pounds. She weighs only 25.5 pounds. My kids are tall and skinny. I'm Jealous of them.

Samantha turns 2!!!!!

This is way over due. Samantha Turned 2 on Jan. 23! I can't believe she is already 2, I know we all say that, but really, it seems like she was just a baby and now she is officially a toddler. When she was born I fell in love with her right away. We had a small birthday party for her at our friends the Wilson's house. I usually make pretty amazing birthday cakes, well I have for Luke at least, but I didn't feel up to it this year, so Sammy got stuck with a store bought cake, which looked pretty great. I did make homemade rainbow layered cupcakes, I didn't get a picture of them.
She had her 2 year check up today. She is almost 3 ft tall and in the 98% for height. She weighs 25.5 pounds and is in the 25%. She had to have shots today, 3 in each thigh, 6 total. She took them like a champ. She didn't cry till the third one and she stopped crying as soon as I picked her up and felt even better when she got a sucker.

Samantha the day she was born.

Sammy at age one.

Sammy's 2 year old birthday party.

A year in Pictures

It's been a while since I updated this blog, so I'm going to start from today and work my way back. I got this Idea from my cousin and I think its a great way to look back on the year 2010.

January

Samantha turned 1!

February

I turned 26!

March

Spent lots of time at the park.

Samantha swung on a swing for the first time.


April
Samantha had her first Easter basket.


We went to sea world for the first time



Alan's brother Joe, his wife Kristi and their son Davey came to visit.



May
Luke turned 4!



June
Samantha had a mullet.

July
We went to Cape Cod.


Luke got his first big boy bike!

August

Samantha played model.

September

Luke started preschool!

October

Alan's family came to visit and we went to the beach, yes the beach. I got strep throat for the first time and gave it to Alan and his brothers.

Luke, Mike, Dan, Alan and Mark


November

Samantha got her first hair cut!

Alan got a new car!

December
We went to Colorado Springs for Christmas to visit Alan's family.


My mom came for new year's.

This picture isn't actually from that visit. I accidentally deleted a few pictures from our camera card before I coped them to our computer, sorry mom.

The Chase elf family

2010 Family Pictures

My friend Sarah took our family pictures for us about a month ago. Samantha did not want to have her picture taken that day, so most of the family pics are of her not smiling and when she is smiling the rest of us don't look that great. The family pic up above is not our official family pic this year, we haven't chosen it yet. Here is just a few of the pics taken that day.