Samantha's Birthday

On Monday, the day before Samantha's birthday we did her Toddler Room celebration since I was going to take her out of school on her actual birthday. First they did their usual circle time and Samantha was excited and happy that I was there for her circle time. Here she is waving to me all excited to see me.


Enjoying her cupcake:


All the Toddlers and Hannah enjoying their birthday cupcakes:


Good Morning and Happy 2nd Birthday Samantha!! My traditional birthday picture that I take of each girl first thing in the morning on their birthday...I am sure they will love that when they are teenagers. :)


I let Samantha & Hannah eat their breakfast at their little table while watching "Curious George"...this was a treat b/c they hardly ever get to watch T.V. while eating at the same time.


On her birthday we decided to go the ArtBeast in Sacramento which is basically a kids art studio. We invited one of our neighbors across the street (the other was out of town who we usually play with too) and we had a lot of fun.

The first thing Samantha did was head straight for a toy we have at home...glad I paid for her to play with that in Sacramento:


After that she headed off to do some painting.


Sisters painting:


Samantha LOVES stairs...obviously b/c we don't have them:


Playing in the kitchen:


Playing with the washers and making a lot of noise:


More art:




Then we met Daddy for lunch and went to visit his office. The girls really loved playing hide and seek and running around in the office filing room...go figure!




At the end of the evening Samantha was excited to open her birthday presents...


Working hard!


Happy with her new play parachute:


The first present she opened was a medical kit...this was a HUGE hit and still is to this day. All Samantha wanted to do was take her temp, look in her own ears and everyone elses. She has also become very demanding ordering us to lay "DOWN!" as she says in order for her to give us a medical check up...it is hilarious.










Samantha got to pick out her own birthday cupcake at Nugget and was very excited about it. We are going to be baking a lot of cupcakes for her b-day party so this is why we did not bake anything this night plus Samantha, and Hannah too, love to look at the cupcakes at Nugget. The fancy carrot cake is for Adam and I. :)



Blowing out her 2 candles


Enjoying her cupcake:


You can probably see that her left eye looks a little funny...that is because the universe decided to give her pink eye on her 2nd birthday..good times.

And sisters enjoying themselves together:



It was a good day. :)

A few Christmas Pictures

Here are just a few pictures from Christmas:

Hannah, Samantha and Tulip (trying to get in the picture) on Adam's Mom's staircase on Christmas Eve.



This was just about 1/2 hour before Hannah's ear infection really set in and we were calling around trying to find a pharmacy open on Christmas Eve and having to bother our on-call doctor. She was awesome though and sent antibiotics to the one open pharmacy we found and all was saved! Yay!

Hannah with her cool new Aggie hat from Santa...


Samantha really getting into opening her presents. Check out the tongue...apparently you really have to get your tongue into opening up your presents. :)


The joy of opening up a gift!


Finally today is Samantha's 2nd birthday! Happy birthday to her! I will post later with pictures but we are sitting here right now waiting for the doctor to call as back as I am pretty sure she got pink eye for her birthday. Good times.

Happy Girls

Our big gift to our girls this year was a train table (that I got a great deal on at this 2nd hand kids store here in Davis). For years they have had train tracks but it was hard to bring them out b/c train tracks don't build well on carpet and everytime we would go somewhere with a train table they would always spend most of their time playing at this table.
We decided to give it to them last weekend because we are headed down to Adam's Mom's house for Christmas Eve & Christmas and since we can't bring it along and to give them a chance to play with it before we go. This is a great picture I captured of them jumping up and down with excitement when they saw the table.



I love this picture!

Winter has arrived in Davis

Thanks to our awesome neighbor across the street we have snow in Davis!! He drove up to the snow, loaded a trailer full of snow, came back down to Davis and built and igloo for the kids in the front yard. Now not just a simple igloo...he reinforced it with wood inside and plastic at the front entrance...when he builds things he goes all out. So after dinner last night the neighborhood kids were out in their snow suits playing in the snow...perfect for the first day of winter. Thanks Dave!!

Samantha getting in her snow suit and not enjoying it at all...


All the kids playing...


Hannah found a slide


Hannah at the entrance of the igloo


Samantha checking out the snow


Eating the carrots that are suppose to be for the snowman


Mom, could you please get me out of this snowsuit...


Samantha inside the igloo and here you can see the great construction on the inside


All the parents hanging out, drinking and watching their little ones have fun.


Making snow angels...or at least trying.


Samantha was so stubborn she didn't even want her rain boots on and wanted to walk around so I just let her...




Then she finally realized her feet were cold and wet so we had to take her socks off and she sat on a chair pointing to her feet and saying "cold"...yeah it was time to go home.


One more picture sitting on the snowman...don't ask me why she decided to sit on the snowman.


Let's hope the snow doesn't melt too fast so we have a few more days of fun!

Fesitvus for the Rest of Us

Seriously?!! This is what is wrong with our legal system. Apparently no one watches Seinfeld within the system. :)

F*#&ING TAPS!!!

Since I bike to work I am part of this "Go-Club" thing and get a free 12 day permit from TAPS (our parking "police" here at UCD) to use whenever I want throughout the fiscal year. Whenever you use it you simply have to write in the date and circle the day of the week. Well yesterday happened to be one of those days that I used it and I wrote "11/30" and at first I circled "W" for Wednesday...I guess I was being hopeful it was later in the week. Anyway, I realized my mistake so I crossed it out and circled "T" instead for Tuesday as you can see below:


And when I got back to the car after work I got this!!


A $218!! ticket for a "cancelled/altered permit" are f#&ing kidding me!!! I seriously could not believe it...this is a new low for them. How could you possibly think b/c I got the day of the week wrong that I somehow deserve a $218 ticket! I got the date right and there is no way I could have altered that and if you look at all the other dates previously there have been no alterations...come on! I am so MAD!! You better believe they are going to hear from me today.