Cookie Making Adventure

I've been terribly bad at posting (thanks for pointing that out, Ev), so here's a teaser. (And an added bonus. You get to see just how gigantically preggo I am.)

More on this later...

Do You Ever Feel Like This????

courtesy of the new baby giraffe at Hogle Zoo.

Hogle Zoo and more face masks...

First of all, THANKS TO BEL, one of Sam's fabulous aunts, for playing along with Sam and Soph on Sunday and once again donning the face masks. I believe that Sam kept his on for about an hour and kept trying to get Bel and Sophie to put theirs back on. :)



Leese and I took Sophie and Sam to Hogle Zoo last week. They had a great time! Sophie always wants to hold Sam's hand (which is so adorable). Those two cousins just love being together. Sam asked me this morning, "Leeesa? Boooohpie? Bwiiiiiiice?" Yep. He misses you. Ptown is too far away...

IKEA "dressups"

When Leese and I were at the IKEA here (yes, a dangerously short 20 minutes drive doorstep to Ikea's doorstep), I bought Sam a few "dressups" to have in his toy room. Sam tried them all on one by one and insisted that I take his picture each time. Yes... he was "posing" in these pics.







He LOVES them and wants to wear them all the time. He'll keep them on for hours if we let him! Bel came up over the weekend to watch Sam for us so we could go on a DATE and just hang out for a while. Sam LOVES bel. Especially after she played with all the facemasks with Sam and they made some of his funny faces...

Sam the monkey

Sam is pretty hilarious these days... and loves pulling new faces. He was posing for the camera yesterday and I think I captured his funny personality in some of these.



Sam saying "hi" to the camera. Then he would insist on seeing this pic on the little screen on the camera and saying "hi" back to himself.

Sam's monkey face, thanks to Tricia who taught him this. Usually he'll grab both his ears, but he would only grab ONE yesterday!

When I started taking pics, this is how I found Sam. Yep. He managed to put on my boots and was walking around as best he could (aka VERY slowly).

Sweet Sam.


This is what I get when I try to pose Sam.
"Sam, show me your truck."

"Sam, say CHEESE!"



Anyone who knows Sam knows that he LOVES LOVES LOVES to line up cars. So... enter our new toy room with these AWESOME built-in bookshelves and cabinets. The best part for Sam? The ledge above the cabinets where he can line up all his cars and trucks.

Some Moving Pics

Ahhhh, how we miss Boston already! Here's our last full day there. (MANY thanks to the Russes, Chases, etc for all the help, meals, babysitting, taking our food, etc. We MISS YOU GUYS!!!)

Here are all our boxes...




And, Sam thought it was funny to wear my hat while Matt and I were packing. Yep. He wore it for about 2 hours straight. He thought he was soooo funny.

Sorry... no pics yet.

Yes... I hear you! I need to post pics of our new house! And yet... I can't quite seem to make myself take pics of the unfinished rooms, undecorated walls, spaces I don't know what to do with yet, walls I want to repaint, etc. We're getting closer, but be patient! Pics to come...

We've ARRIVED

More later, but we made it to SLC! One thing I will absolutely not miss... the 5+ hour flights with a toddler on a regular basis to see family. Phfew.

We move into our new house on Monday and closed today. Can't believe that 100 signatures and an hour later, we have a substantial loan and are homeowners. Seems a bit too easy... are we old enough for this yet???

More once life resumes some sense of normalcy and we have uploaded some new pics. LOVE being closer to family here!!!

Sam boxes and shoes

Sam's not so sure about this packing business. So far he's been pretty good. Yesterday I was trying to pack some of Sam's books on the sly. BUT Sam discovered what I was up to and climbed on in! (He must have been channeling his cousin Sophie, too...)



He read books in the box for a while and then systematically took each book out of the box and handed them to me. Guess we'll wait on those!!!


Could someone please ship this to Sam's room in SLC?


Sam LOVES trying on Matt's shoes. Here he is this morning with what he found in Dad's closet.


Back to packing...

Thanks, Mitt.

Of all the reporters, phone calls, mailings, congratulations, suggestions, rants and raves and other random things that we've received from those Mitt fans and enemies who mistakenly think that Matt's name is Mitt or that he lives here or who knows what...

This one is the BEST.

I just got home from Costco today and there was a package sitting on my doorstep. Yep. An 18 inch long, FIVE POUND Hershey's chocolate bar with the inscription on it (see below). On the outside of the box was the gift message from the sender... "If able, please give to Mitt." (ummm... wouldn't you just send it to his home or campaign HQ or something???)



Mitt, if you don't mind too much, I think we'll savor this one for all the trouble we've gone through living in the same small town (and sharing the same last name) as you over the past 6 years you've been both governor and running for president. (And for those of you just wondering... Yes. We are distantly related. But nope. He's not my father-in-law as so many assume!)

So, thanks Mitt. Here's to you.