Sam's Birthday #2

Sam's second first birthday celebration with the Palmer's was a few days later. We had all the Calgary Palmer's over to have Sam's favorite foods: chicken finger's (hand made by Bryce with plenty of dipping sauce choices), mac and cheese, grapes and chocolate milk. We had a balloon theme and filled up a bunch of helium balloons. This may have resulted in some high pitched conversations among cousins.

Hyrum loved collecting all the balloons but never did float away.

Sam with the balloon cake.

Sam got his very own recliner and felt like such a big boy. Now there is less crying over the one chair we had...2 is better than 1.

This is Eloise enjoying the chair and her gift hand picked by her cousins of new shades and shirt.

Sam's Birthday #1

Sam was on lucky 1 year old and had 2 birthday parties this year. The first was on his actual day of birth January 14 with his Salmon grandparents. We had a delicious Pizza Friday party. We are so blessed to have Sam as part of our family we love his fun adventurous spirit.

Grandma and Grandpa got him this cool truck and the picture only half shows how much he loved it. he pushed the buttons and got on and off all night and then it was the first thing he did the next morning.

He was very spoiled with so many fun gifts thanks everyone!

Reading stories with Grandma.

I made cake pops for the occasion which turned out pretty yummy and fun to eat. I did forget to buy some foam to display them in and so we stole some packing foam from the printer and made it look as cute as possible.

Happy Birthday Sam!

New Year's

So this post is very late and I apologize. I was recently called to be the Primary President in our ward and since I have felt like I can barely keep my head above the water. I am just now starting to feel a bit more normal and like I can catch up on all the 'other' things on my very long life list. Here is a few highlights from our New Year's adventures in Medicine Hat.

On the 30th we had a fake new years party (due to other happenings on the 31st) and made some yummy Chinese cuisine and a Wii competition.

We made sure to do plenty of dancing.

Dad made his traditional New Year's day Italian dinner. So delicious!

Here is my fist attempt at a video on the blog. Finger's crossed. The cousins had so much fun together. Happy New Year.