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pamelamyers | December 24, 2013

Here are some pictures of our house this Christmas. We added the reindeer this year, which Sam was super excited about. They used to belong to my parents, but since they were tired of dragging them around the house every Christmas from storage, they now graze in our yard!

I think this is the most lit up our house has ever been. I am pretty happy with our festiveness.

We and our neighbors, Joe and Debbie, had the most lights and decorations on our block. It looked really great coming up the street seeing the brightness.

Poor Santa! I hope he has a good grip!

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pamelamyers | December 24, 2013

Oops. We have been watching the Peppa Pig holiday episodes with Sam quite a lot lately, and those Brits do say Happy instead of Merry. 🙂

This Christmastime has been so wonderful with Samantha. She is so excited, so filled with wonder and joy. We have been crafting, and baking, and counting down our days on the Jacquie Lawson Advent Calendar and on Sam’s own paper calendar. We wrapped, we sang, we decorated, we visited Santa, and we saw the lights and now we are ready. Christmas Eve is here and Santa is on his way.

Sam keeps asking me what I want Santa to bring me. My answer to her is always the same, and one she doesn’t quite approve of (mostly because it doesn’t seem like a true gift to her, I would imagine). My Christmas wish, my best Christmas present, is for my beautiful, amazing daughter to be happy. We love you, Samantha!

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pamelamyers | December 24, 2013

I just reminded Sam that today is Christmas Eve. She told me she is going to stay up all night to see Santa. Her plan:

“Let me tell you how we are going to do it, Mommy. First, I will sneak down the stairs and tell you if it’s clear or not clear. If it’s clear, then you can come down and we can hide behind the green chair to see Santa. But you can’t talk to me, not even a little bit, because Santa might hear us and look behind the chair.”

That’s the plan. Operation See Santa. Hopefully, she will be too exhausted to see this plan through and will crash pretty quickly. I am wondering if this year will be the first that she actually sneaks downstairs in the morning to see if Santa came. I hope so. I actually would love to have her come bounding into our room screaming with excitement. That’s what Christmas morning is all about anyway, right? Children screaming with joy. I waited a long time for that and will gladly wake up early to hear it.

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pamelamyers | December 24, 2013

Mark and I are both lucky enough to have quite a bit of time off around the holidays. Since Sam is not in school right now (she has an almost three week break), and Mark got his new camera, there have been quite a few photo sessions in the Myers house. Here are the results!

These were taken not long after we put up our tree. Sam was so excited that our house finally was starting to feel like Christmas!

I’m not quite sure where this pose came from, laying her head on her hands like that, but she has been doing it a lot for photos recently. It looks cute, so no one is complaining.

I can’t wait to spend Christmas with that adorable face!

We have been building quite a few fires recently. It has been really nice. I don’t know why we never did this before. Sam usually plays quietly in front of the fire, usually with Mark. Legos are her game of choice most days.

Our sleepyhead in the morning looking rumply and cute.

And, trying out to be a model, apparently!

We can’t forget Mark’s original model, Zephyr. We love our beautiful furry girl as much as ever!

Mark seems to take a lot of pictures of Sammy in her pajamas. She always looks so cute, and so little.

I love this face. It’s the annoyed face we will be seeing a lot when she is a teenager!

What did I say about her looking so little? Yeah, scratch that. She looks so grown up sometimes, it scares me.

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