Sam's Birthday Celebration

Here she is opening her dad's card. He gave her a nice check. The card was rude... it made them all laugh.
Here she has opening the hat, scarf, and gloves Mike got her. She seemed to like them a lot and kept them on for awhile.


As Daren and Sam were about to leave, everyone posed up for a picture with the birthday girl. Happy Birthday, baby! Twenty-two years old... Sniff sniff sniff

Sam and Daren.

Sam and Mike
Sam and Jimmy
Sam and Me.

Christmas

Mike says it looks like Christmas threw up in our living room. I've put lights and bows on everything that'll sit still. This is the little metal tree I bought at some Dollar type store. I love it so much I went back the next day to get Kathryn one.
Here's our tree. It's nothing if not well-lighted.

I put little lights on the ficus.
Bows in the ferns.
Lights in the other tree thingie.

Here's the tree.

And some decorations. Oddly, in these pictures my house seems hardly decorated at all, but walking into it feels very Christmas-y.

Chelsea and two of Sam's old friends...

Chelsea won a spirit award for her volleyball team for her good attitude. That's her in the fron row, fourth from the left. This is Jeffrey and MacKenzie. She is a really sweet kid.
And this is Rocky. Samantha had the biggest cursh on him when she was 13. Sam, I put these two pictures up here just for you.