Our other child

Since Clara has been neglected on the blog front lately, here are some recent pictures. She wasn't too thrilled about wearing that hat, but she obliged...

I think she looks like a teenage girl, rolling her eyes at her mom for embarrasing her. :)

Trip to NWI

We headed to Northwest Iowa last weekend to watch Fred (Grandpa) in his debut role in the Spencer Community Theater's production of Over the River and Through the Woods. Fred was great... the star of the show! He really has a talent for acting! We look forward to watching him in many more plays!

Sam didn't go to the play, but enjoyed his visit with Grandma and Grandpa! He played piano with Grandma, read lots of books, and had great morning time with Grandpa while the rest of us slept in (He was especially excited that Grandpa let him eat a cookie for breakfast :)). Here's some pictures from our trip...

The snow... it wasn't this dreary, the picture is in black and white. Doesn't it look like water?! There was tons of it, as far as the eye could see!

See, bright and sunny :)

Sam needed his shades... or my shades.
He was a great traveler! He played (mostly with Ba Bill and Paco (Gaco), stickers, books, and his blankie), and slept (although his nap(s) were quite a bit shorter than usual) and watched a few movies. I was impressed with how little the dvds were on!! Within the 18+ hours in the car, I think we only watched like 3 hours of tv!

Showing the depth of the snow...

Of all the toys we brought, Samuel was more interested in playing with daddy's shoes...

...or playing the piano.

He actually did pretty well (I thought)... not just banging on it and singing along :)

Dancing again

Our little boy takes after Grandma and Grandpa Lutz and Aunt Gretchen in his LOVE of dancing! Some pics and videos of his mad skills...

Dancing with Papa

Dancing with Monkey

Dancing by Himself

Helping Daddy

He also like to help Papa with his push ups. :)

Wedding Weekend

Riley and Amy Logan!!

We headed up to Branson this past weekend for the beautiful wedding of our good friends Riley and Amy. Samuel got to tag along. I had prepared myself that one of us would likely miss most of the ceremony and we probably would have to leave the reception early, but Sam did great and looked so adorably handsome (I am a little biased though).

My WONDERFUL date...

...and my other date. We got through the ceremony with a lollipop, so his outfit was already stained before I could get a good picture of him in it... oh well. The girls...

The boys...

So, here's what got my one year old through a three plus hour reception way after bedtime...

Ham...
M & M's...

Cake...

Dancing...

( He loves to dance with "Ba Bill")

... and doing summersaults.

Thanks Kari for taking such great pictures!!