Samson's Baby Blessing

We blessed Samson Labor Day weekend. He had the cutest little outfit that my mom bought for him and Kelly was so wonderful to host the get together at her house and cook all of the food for it. Oh I do have to mention that Trev cut and peeled all of the apples for the apple pie, which was no easy task since they were mini apples that we brought home from the orchard. I am so grateful to all of the people that were able to come to the blessing. This is the list as far as I remember it: Grandma Kelly, Grandma and Grandpa Taylor, Uncle Ryan, Aunt Kathryn, Great Grandma and Grandpa Varney, Great Grandma Mary, Aunt Tristan and Uncle Brantley, Aunt Hayley and Uncle Garrett, Tara, Jaime, Lindsay, My friend Chelsea, and of course all of the babies. If I left anyone out I apologize deeply. I am so grateful to everyone that was able to come and share this special day with us. I feel so grateful that we are able to bless our children, it truly is such a wonderful part of the church. These are some pictures I took of him in his cute little outfit. I also threw in some random pictures of him because I don't really have anywhere else to put them.

Family Pictures Continued

My wonderful sister in law was so nice to take some time out of her extremely busy schedule to take some pictures of our family. I already posted a few in the previous post, but these are just a few more. I love both of my boys so much and taking pictures of them was really fun, especially Benjamin. Samson is now 2 1/2 months old and a whopping 13 1/2 pounds and Benjamin is 17 months old. (only one more month and he is actually old enough to go to nursery.) He has been going for about 2 months because Kelly is a nursery teacher. It only took 16 months, but he is finally walking. He pretty much walks everywhere he goes, but sometimes he gets tired and reverts back to crawling. He is so smart too. He knows all of the animals and their noises and he knows a bunch of other words too. He loves to color and probably spends about 80% of the time he is awake reading his books. He has read some of them so many times that the binding is breaking. He is so entertaining all day long and I'm never bored with him around. Today Trev and I were doing p90x in the living room and he came in and started doing the workouts with us, it was so cute I wish I had filmed it. Samson is such a good baby. He is pretty much sleeping through the night and he is so content all of the time. I love kissing his soft cheeks and I love to make him smile. All three of the boys in my life are so wonderful. I love them so much and I'm grateful for them every day.

Family Pictures

Hayley was wonderful enough to take some family pictures of us. Here are a few of them. I will post the rest later.

Meet Samson

I know I haven't posted in awhile but things have been pretty crazy. I plan on giving an update as soon as possible, complete with photos but for now I just want to post some pictures that I took of our new addition. I went into labor two weeks early and Samson Scott Cram was born on July 1 at 7:00 pm. He is such a good little baby and so tiny. Benjamin loves to give him kisses and tries to put his binky in his mouth. I can already tell that he is going to be so different from Benjamin. These are some pictures that I took today. I'm not a great photographer but I did the best I could.

Samson Scott Cram 7lbs 120z 20 in
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Benjamin turned 1!

My little baby boy turned one last week on Wednesday April 6. This blog will probably be pretty long because I want to document this time for the future, since I have an awful memory. We had a little family party for him on his birthday with Hayley, Garret and the twins and Tristin, Brantley, Trent (Brantley's brother) and Patton. We also drove down this last weekend and had another little party for him with my family. I was trying to spoil him all day but he has had an ear infection so he was in a bad mood and ended up going to bed before everyone left the party. Trevor made homemade pumpkin pot pies and I made mini chocolate lava cakes for everybody. We figured it was probably the only year that we could get away with eating whatever we wanted on his birthday. I can't believe that he is one already. It really seems like yesterday when he was just so little and could barely lift his head up. He was so dependent on me for everything (he still is but now it's for entertainment purposes). He crawls all over the place and he is really close to walking. He has such a big personality and so much energy all the time. When he wakes up in the morning he spends a few minutes talking to himself in his crib (sometimes it's really loud and sometimes he whispers it's so cute) When he gets bored he usually pulls himself up and is just standing there in his crib talking to me until I wake up and get him. He does so many cute things all the time. I love when he spins in circles on his bum and when he shrugs his shoulders. He will eat anything we feed him (even green beans and peas yuck!) The older he gets the more I think he looks like my husband and the sweeter he gets. He loves to give kisses and hugs and when he isn't feeling good he will cuddle with me. I do think that he is going to be a biter though so we will have to work on that. I love him so much and I can't wait to continue to watch him grow up and I can't wait to see him with his baby brother. Here are some pictures from both birthday parties.

He was so excited to get elmo. He saw it in the store a few weeks ago and was playing with it. He was so upset when we took it away so now he has one of his own.

His first birthday cake
This is the best picture I could get of his shirt, he wouldn't hold still