Charlotte memories cont. 4th year

Charlottes travels continued through this year. Moving from Maryland to San Antonio. traveling to california and Hawaii. We went to Sea World and Disneyland. She even got to go on a submarine ride in Hawaii.

Charlottes 3rd birthday



In May we were able to go to California on our way to Hawaii. Charlotte loves her mickey hat and still wears it a lot




Yep she got a tatoo, at the polynesian cultural center



We stopped for a big family reunion at Sams parents on our way to San Antonio



Yep we are San Antonio-ians now




We got to see Christmas lights at the Alamo and riverwalk

Charlotte memories cont., cont. 3rd year

Charlotte celebrated her birthday with an elephant cake and lasagna



We have been lucky to have lots of visits from Grandma and Grandpa, this is at the national aquarium in Baltimore



We drove down to Georgia to see Sams parents for spring break



Again courtesy of Anheiser Busch we were able to go to Busch Gardens in Virginia



We took a trip to New York, luckily visiting Sams mission is the same as seeing the church history sites in New York. This is Charlotte in the Sacred Grove.



We went to Utah for Christmas meeting up with all of my family.



We were able to see the Christmas lights on the Washington D.C Temple, Temple Square and the National Mall. This is D.C.



Man all that white stuff, I think we have forgotten what that is.

Charlotte memories cont. 2nd year

We continued the traveling trend into her second year. Besides the things listed we took a trip to Utah and several into downtown D.C. Though contrary to our normal we had our holidays at our own home.

Her second year of life started with her 1st birthday.




We went to a Washington Nationals baseball game



Courtesy of Anheiser Busch we got to go to Sesame place in Pennsylvania



We went to Hershey Pennsylvania and visited a real chocolate factory



Charlotte had her 1st princess Halloween, she looks a little raggedy for a princess

Charlotte memories-1st year

Charlotte is my poor middle child. She is very easygoing and is therefore sometimes neglected, because big brother and little sister take a lot of time. We have a lot of fun together. She is a very good sister. She is very tolerant and patient with Caleb and very helpful with Samantha.

Here we are in the Hospital. Katie, Bonny, Carisa and I were all due within 4 months of each other. Charlotte was the last baby girl to come, the picture is missing Evynn and Carisa.



Here she is with a proud papa. She was Sams birthday present that year.



Charlotte was a very well traveled baby, going on a plane for the first time at 3 months (I was 19 the first time I flew). Here she is with Grandma and Grandpa on one of the few rides she could go on at Disneyland



She lived at Grandma and Grandpa Hiltons for the first few months of her life. Here we are saying goodbye before leaving for Maryland



We drove cross country from Utah to our new home in Maryland when she was 6 months old.



For her first Christmas we got to drive down to Georgia to Grandma and Grandpa Grindstaffs.

Christmas flashback (just this past Christmas)

It's already february and I have three birthdays in the next week and a half so I better get Christmas taken care of first. Sam was there too, I was just to sick to take pictures.

Aren't they adorable when they sleep.







Sandra looks great early in the morning doesn't she?




We had a hard time doing the line-up in the hall.





Didn't you know that Charlotte turns into a zombie on Christmas




Here is Caleb, he didn't want to be in front of the camera at all




Emily and the girls



Grandpa





Grandma

Our Hospital Adventure

We were all excited last night because Caleb doesn't have school today and Sam doesn't have work (unless he is called in). Then Charlotte tripped and hit her head on a chair (MOm and dad's old kitchen chairs). I though she just bumped it and went to hug her, then I saw her forehead. Yep big gash, lots of blood. I hurried and put pressure on it and Daddy said it needed stitches.

Sam doesn't do well with our kids accidents and injuries. He can handle autopsies, and strangers injuries just fine. So I took Charlotte to the ER. It was packed we got into the ER about 8:30. They triaged her and the nurse wasn't sure she would need stitches, stupid nurse. We waited and waited. We were called back about 12:30 and yes she did need stitches. We still had to wait around forever. Charlotte fell asleep after they put the lydocain on. We finally got discharged about 3:30 a.m.

It was awful, I am so tired today. Then when they discharged us they said we could come back in a few days to get the stitches out. Yeah I don't think so, there has to be some benefit to daddy being a DR.

January

I've been sick of looking at our same blog over and over again, like Katie I keep expecting it to change.

We will do posts of December once we get around to taking our pictures off of the camera. We found out in December that we are expecting baby number 4. It was a big surprise. Samantha turns one next month, so they will be around 18 months apart. Luckily I have a very helpful husband and kids. I have been so sick with this baby, so I haven't been able to do hardly anything. In church they probably think I've gone inactive, they even have a sub for me on the piano (at least for now).

Everyone else is doing great. The kids are back in school and lucky for me Samantha is a very easy, happy baby, who naps a lot.