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.

Our history of cars

This is the car we had when we were first married. I know, cool car right. We had a few problems with it and in 2005 the transmission went out and that was the end of our sports car. Good thing too because we found out a couple of weeks later that we were pregnant with Luke and there was no way we could fit a car seat in its shelf of a back seat.

This is the car we bought next. This was a great car for us and had some sentimental value. We bought Luke home from the hospital in it. It protected us in an accident that in most situations there would of been more damage to the car and us. It got us safely to Texas and we brought Samantha home into. After a great 5 years with the car it was time to say farewell. This last year it had some problems, Alan wasn't aways sure it was going to turn on and towards the end it would come home smelling like gasoline and you could smell upstairs in Sammy room, so we have moved on.

Alan's last day driving the car

Our new car, a 2011 Toyota Camry. We looked forward to having this car for a long time.

Luke's preschool Halloween party, Pumpkin patch and trunk or treat

This year Halloween was kind of low key around here. Alan and I weren't feeling that great, we didn't decorate and as you all know Halloween was on Sunday so we didn't take the kids out, but they still had a good time with the few things we do.
Luke had a Halloween party for preschool the Wednesday before Halloween. The moms and siblings were invited, so Sammy and I spent the morning with look playing games, eating good food and watching Garfield's Halloween. After the party we went to a pumpkin patch near by and the kids got to jump around in the bouncy houses and take a pumpkin home.
On Saturday night our ward had trunk 0r treating. Sammy had a great time and wanted to keep going around, but Luke got scared and came back to the car and handed candy out with me. There was tons of people there and we used up all candy, so we had no candy for Halloween. We had to turn off all our lights and hind upstairs till the kids went to bed. This year Luke was Iron man and Samantha was a little witch.

It looks like Luke is trying to karate kick the pumpkins.

Luke's preschool class and their siblings

So done with the picture taking.
Always will to put on a smile and take a pic