A Visit with Sam

This past weekend we had the wonderful opportunity to attend Sam's baptism. On Thursday Grammy and Poppa came to our house and the next morning the five of us piled into the car and drove to Pittsburgh. We spent the day hanging out with Aunt Abby, Uncle Andrew and Sam. After dinner we all piled back into the cars and drove to Titusville, PA which is Aunt Abby's hometown. We spent the weekend at Dick and Susie Shaffer (Abby's parents) and the Bodamer family (Abby's sister's family) and Aunt Sue and Uncle Ben. It was a wonderful weekend with lots of time together and lots of good food! We were spoiled by the Shaffers and their hospitality. It was very fun to have Sam and Emma together to play. They especially enjoyed playing together with the beach ball...very sweet memories! I have attached a photo album to look through if you are interested. We took over 300 photos so it has taken me a while to go through them all and narrow it down.

Here is a link to the baptism if you would like to watch it. It will be up until Sunday, May 10.
http://www.gbstelevision.com/videos.php

Here is a slide show with a few highlights.

Here is Emma when she first got to play with Sam...true to her personality she attempted to dominate the situation from the beginning.


In this video we were trying to get Emma to crawl. She doesn't do it, but I think the dialogue between adults is hilarious.


Sam and Emma enjoyed playing with the beach ball. You will see Emma shaking at the beginning. That is what she does when she is super excited about something.


Here is more playing with the ball.


Before the church service Sam and Emma were talking, growling and flailing at each other over the pews...very sweet!