The Samuel Family

Eric with Owen

We had a nice Christmas this year. It was hard without Mom but fun to watch Lucas experience his first Christmas. Kim and Dad came over and stayed with us. Kim was here for two weeks and Dad came for a week. I love having my family all together. It is always sad for me when they leave.

Kim also brought her boyfriend, Brent, to meet the family. Brent is our friend Sarah's brother. They met at her daughter, Maddie's, birthday party in May and have been doing the long distance relationship since. Brent is in Providence and Kim is in Boise, but both of them are moving to Bend when they graduate in May. We are all excited about that.

Lucas gave Kevin and I an early Christmas gift and started crawling. He is all over the place and so happy! Now I just have to clean the floors EVERY day. His hands are on the floor and then in his mouth. Yuck. He is also starting to pull himself up on to things with more confidence and really likes to hold our hands and walk around. Maybe he will be walking by his first birthday?