Samantha's first blog

Posted By pamelamyers on December 26, 2010

This year we spent Christmas Eve trying to do some fun things with Sam.  The whole week was so crazy,  baking cookies, wrapping presents, trying to get everything ready f0r Santa to arrive, that the time just slipped away. Mark and I had off from work  the whole week and it flew by like it was one day.

We got as much done as we possibly could so that on Christmas Eve we could relax and have some fun.  Our only order of business was to build Sam’s gingerbread house.  What an adventure that was!  This was really the first time I ever built one.  For some reason, even though my childhood Christmases were filled with traditional events, we never did the gingerbread house.  So I wasn’t exactly an expert builder.  It turned out ok in the end, but it was quite an uphill battle!  I don’t think we waited long enough after assembly to start decorating because the roof almost slid off at least twice.  We had it held up by load-bearing toothpicks and then when they kept collapsing, straws.  So funny. Sam didn’t seem to mind at all.  She had fun watching us make a huge mess and then tried to grab it and disassemble our masterpiece within minutes.  All in all, I think it turned out pretty well!  I bought gingerbread house molds last year so that someday I can make one from scratch, but with the way it went this year, I am glad we at least had a pre-baked one!

Later that night while waiting for all of our parents to arrive, we took some pictures.  Our little Zephyr cat was a super snuggly kitten. 🙂

Mark parents arrived first and Sam posed for a photo.  She was so excited, I really think she knew something was going on, even though she didn’t understand Santa.

She was getting tired, that’s for sure, but she was in such a good mood!  Sam was all smiles the whole night and all of her grandparents had a great time hanging out with her.  She was really so giggly, it was adorable.

As per our tradition, Mark read Twas the Night Before Christmas.  He only got a few pages in before Sam was wiggling away.  She is really hard to read to now.  She used to sit still for a whole book, but now that she is older she just has too much to do to read a book!  It has been a while since we have been able to read her more than a few pages of any book.  We are really looking forward to being able to cuddle with her and to read again.  But, since we want to maintain the tradition, he read what he could.

After Sam was in bed, we brought all her presents up to put them under the tree.  That is, the ones that we bought her.  Who knew what Santa was going to bring!

Then it was off to bed!  Santa is on the way and everyone needed to get to sleep!

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