Tribute to a Best Friend

"Sampson", "Sammy", "Samsonite", "Sammy Mimosa", "Sampsy", "DimSum", "Fatboy Slim", the missing Beach Boy member, the ham for the camera,

Cailin's boyfriend

our christmas reindeer

our fearless stick retriever

our water baby

our gentle giant

co-founder of CaiBenSam

our lover of outdoors and peeing on all things outdoors

our halloween princess leia

You were many things to us, Sammy, but most of all you were our best friend and part of our family. We love you! You will be missed!

trick-or-treat!

halloween at uncle paul & aunt kristen's house:

aidan as a skeleton

ronin as superman with uncle paul

superman with his daddy

aidan putting candy in his brother's bag

trick or treating

fish in captivity = fun

So after checking out large slabs of igneous rock in the ghetto of Baltimore we went to the aquarium. We even saw a dolphin show!

nemo!

look at that face! (you kinda have to look in the glass though)

playing guitar at Hard Rock Cafe.

rocking out.

yummy!

...it was really Hilary's drink.

they love eachother. they are so freaking cute.

passed out as soon as we got in the car.

stewey is sleepy.

Help Us Decide

So we are redoing our countertops in the kitchen. We are getting granite and I went down to Baltimore on Monday to check out some slabs. (Why Baltimore?? Because it is the cheapest place I found... plus it gave me an excuse to take my nephews to the aquarium) We are trying to decide between these two slabs:

option 1

option 2

full-size version of option 1 (sorry i don't have a full-size of 2)

So please let us know which one you like better.

Beginnings

kristen ... this is the blog for you and paul :) if you dont update it and make it very special to you ... i will be sad.
ill send you the password and email.
and if you need help trying to figure things out. text me :)
and if you want the picture changed of you and paul. let me know. or you can do it yourself. ha.
you can delete this post.