The Holiday's

Happy New Year to all of our friends and family. We had a terrific Holiday Season this year. Soooo many Christmas's that Samantha asked me tonight if we were having another one. We started with an early Christmas with Stephan's family on Dec 16th were Samantha got her favorite Dora slippers and jammies. We then flew to Arizona on the 19th where we spent a fun filled week making cookies, a ginger bread house, went the zoo and the Botanical Gardens (My personal favorite). They had a Chihuly exhibit going on and I am just in love with his artwork. One familiar piece is the ceiling in the Belagio in Las Vegas. Here is his website http://www.chihuly.com . We all had an awesome time in Arizona with Aunt Victoria, Granny Gail and Aunt Rose and we ate and ate and ate and felt soooo spoiled. Sam's personal favorite was the unlimited supply of Chocolate Milk that Granny Gail kept in stock. Samantha was especially excited on Christmas day when she got her camera she had been asking for and a stocking full of goodies including nail polish. When she sat on Santa's lap she told him she wanted a surprise and then decided she wanted a camera so she was very worried that Santa would not know. But the big guy came through! Hunter was all smiles the whole vacation which was wonderful. He loved his his Aunt's and his Granny Gail so much.
We then rented a car and drove to California to visit my family and all of our old haunts. It was ton's of fun and we had another Christmas with my family. Samantha was spoiled rotten by her Grandma "Friend" (Sam's new name for Grandma Jenson) and her Aunt Lindsey. Much to there chagrin her favorite gift was a pair of scizzors her Grandma got at the dollar store to go in her craft kit. It was pretty funny. However she is now playing with all of her gifts in full force. She got a Barbie Laptop and everytime Stephan gets on his laptop she gets hers out and sits next to him. Hunter was a fan of all of the Gift Wrap and the millions of people willing and excited to hold him. He put on a great show! We got to see many friends while we were there and were bummed that we didn't have time to see all of them! But please know we did our best!
As for New Years we hung out with my family and my Aunt Carolyn and Uncle Mike and their kid's came over it was a blast however we went to bed at 10:00 SERIOUSLY. Sooo old! The next day we got on a plane and are now back in NC missing the West Coast however loving the feel of our own bed!