Sam eating ice cream for the first time

Sam's 1st Thanksgiving

Sam had a busy Thanksgiving. He had places to go & things to do...


...such as spend time at Gma & Gpa Adams' house hanging out with Grandpa Adams...

...get some snuggle time in with Grandma Adams & play with Uncle Luke...

...spend lots of travel time in the car seat (such a silly goose)...

Back to Topeka to spend time with Gma & Gpa Briden, (but Mommy didn't get any pictures while we were there...we'll have to get some from Grandma)...

...then up to Axtell to spend the night at Great Gma & Gpa Shirley's house where he played with Uncle Josh....

...laughed with Great Gma Shirley... and also played with his cousin Job (who's only 6 weeks younger than Sam), explore the house, work in some snuggle time here & there...

It was great to spend time with all the family! Samuel had a great 1st Thanksgiving!

Busy Boy

Video of Sam crawling around the house.

Sam at Sam's Club

On the way out of town to Gma & Gpa Adams' for Thanksgiving we had to make a stop at Sam's Club to get a few things. Samuel was in such a funny mood & was being so darn silly & cute while we were in line to check out that I just had to take a few pictures & share...

His little "bear hat" was made for him by our friend Maizie (12 yrs old) at church. Thanks, Maizie!! :-)

And this (below) was the sunset as we were loading up the car to go. :)

Beautiful!! :) I love Kansas sunsets!

Heart Concert

On November 5, my friend Liz & I went to see Heart in concert here in Topeka. My mom got the tickets through a friend so it was totally free, which was awesome! Liz & I have been friends for most of our lives...since 2nd grade or so. During our summer breaks we were pretty much inseperable! One of the things we loved to do together was rock out to our favorite bands & singers. Heart was one of our VERY favorites so it was only right that we got to finally go to one of their concert together! :-) We made an entire 'girls night' out of it with dinner & all.

It was a great show & those ladies have definately still got it even after 30 years or so! Ann (the lead singer) has such an amazing voice...I tried to record a little bit on my iphone, which I'm attaching below. There's no way an iphone recording can do justice, but wanted to share anyway.

SUCH a fun time! Thanks Mom for the tickets, & thanks Liz for an awesome girls nite out!! :)

Samuel's 1st Halloween

Sam was a little monkey for his very first Halloween. This is a picture of Sam & Mommy at our church's "Trunk-or-Treat" Halloween Party. His face in this picture looks like he's thinking, "Is this over yet?!?" :)

Earlier on Halloween day, before the church party, Uncle Andrew & Lynette came over to say hi & see Sam in his costume...


...here's the boys being silly...

...what good lookin' boys!

Later that night we went to Gma & Gpa Briden's house so they could see him in his little costume. :) After all the costume pictures were taken though he traded the monkey suit in for some comfey close & played a game of peek-a-boo with Mommy. :) (That video will come later...as soon as we can figure out how to get it from facebook to our blog :-/ we're working on it)

Sam crawling