A little getaway

Last week Samara and I were able to get away for a few days and we drove the three hours up to my sister's place. Samara has "a thing" about my sister. For some reason she has always been a little strange around her. We think it's because her and I look somewhat alike and it's weird for Samara. If we're in the same room, it's okay but if Samara is playing and my sister will walk in the room without me, she freaks out. So we were curious how she was going to react going to Aunt Denise's house.

She actually did pretty good. The first day it took a while to warm up but once she did, life was good . . . until the other kids came home from school and then it took a while for her to warm up again . . . until Uncle Tony came home from work. Then after a bit everything was all good again. She slept really well there but every morning she was kind of unsure about the whole situation. She's not used to being away for so long with just Mommy and without Daddy, Victoria and Austin. One morning when I was taking a shower in the basement bathroom, Samara went all the way up two flights of stairs to look for Aunt Neese to play and when I came up to find her, she was having a great time playing. So I think she may be coming around.

We had a lot of fun and although the plan was to get some scrapbooking done, we did more chatting and catching up than anything. It was a great time away and it all went by way too fast. Thanks for your hospitality Aunt Neese.

The last morning we were there, Samara and her cousin Erin were having a lot of fun playing dress up. Here are some shots of the two girls as a bunny, sheep, princesses, monkey, giraffe, angels and spinning in grass skirts. Too cute!