Samantha's first blog

Posted By pamelamyers on June 18, 2012

Yesterday was Father’s Day. I think it was a pretty darn good day for Mark. At least it seemed that way!  Sam celebrated Father’s Day with her Poppy by having dinner Saturday night, then we had dinner with her Pop Pop on Sunday.  Mark opted to open his gifts Saturday night, and who can blame him?  The sooner you can open gifts the better!

This year, Sam was pretty cute.  She was really adamant about wanting to buy Mark an orange watch. I asked her a bunch of times what she wanted to get him and that was always her answer. So, we bought him an orange watch.  Well, I bought it and she gave it.  You know, the kid has no credit cards.  Yet….  She also bought him some other clothes, a bathing suit that she picked out, and a Foo Fighters t-shirt. She got a matching one, so I will be waiting to get a picture of the two of them together in those!

Before dinner, I managed to get a few cute pictures of the little girl and her Daddy.

When Poppy came over, Sam and her kitty helped him open presents.  We tried to get her to sit on the couch, but she was very insistent that they sit on the table.  She is very bossy, my little girl.

Of course, no one gets to open their own presents anymore…

Sam spent so much time decorating her Father’s Day cards with her stickers.  She actually picked out everyone’s cards herself this year.  Here she is showing Poppy the results of all her hard work decorating.  You can see the presents she got him in the picture.  The bathing suit she picked out herself while we were shopping at Kohl’s.  There is a cute story behind his presents.  While we were shopping, I was trying to pick out some new socks for myself.  Sam kept throwing packs of socks into the shopping cart and I told her to stop. She insisted she wanted to buy new socks for Poppy.  I explained to her that these were ladies socks, not boy socks.  She was so forlorn over the whole thing that I finally told her we could go get Poppy some new socks.  You wouldn’t believe how happy this made her.  So off we went to the men’s section to buy some socks.  Thankfully, the ones she picked out were ones he would actually wear.

I bought him a DVD set of westerns and Sam seems to be pointing out which ones she wants to watch. Joe has westerns on all the time at home and Sam really likes it because there are always a million horses.

While we were making cards for Poppy, Daddy and Pop Pop, Sam wanted to make a card for Grandmom too, so we crafted one out of some paper and stickers.

Here is our little cutie helping her Daddy open his orange watch. The Foo Fighters t-shirts are on the side.

Sunday at dinner with the Myers’s, Mark took this cute pic of Sam and Maddox. Look how grown up they are!

Happy Father’s Day, Mark!  Sam is luckier than any other little girl in the world.  You do so much with her that other dads might not.  You let her run in the rain, dig in the dirt, and you teach her everything you know.  How to fix things, how things are made, and how they work.  You are patient with her, and loving, and kind. One of my favorite things is hearing her bright and cheery, “Hi, Daddy!!” when you come down the stairs in the morning.  She is so happy to see you and always says, “Daddy no have to work today” because I know that is what she wishes, that you could spend every day with her.  Sam will always grow up feeling her Daddy’s love and support, and your belief in her, and that is the best thing a little girl could ever ask for.

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