Sampson Family Photoshoot

I love pictures!!!! I get my kids pictures done every year on their birthday. For Trail's birthday though I was too pregnant to go to the city to get his done. A good friend does a great job so the day I went into labor with Brielle we had made plans to get his pictures done. Life finally settled down enough and we finally went this last week and had her take some pictures. She did a great job and I am so thankful to have these awesome pictures to capture these sweet little ones! It's hard to believe we have 3!

Our Brielle's special day...

Beautiful Brielle!!

Look at those eyes!!!

Our growing family

Grateful parents

My brother Brandon and some nieces and nephew with Brielle


My sister Angie and her daughter Abie and son Jaxsin

All of my nieces and nephews, for the most part they even cooperated

My Mom and Dad (Papa)

A smiley baby Brielle!

We were so blessed to have our family come to Vernal for Brielle's baby blessing. Family is amazing. It was wonderful to spend time with them. Clint gave Brielle a beautiful blessing! We have been so blessed with 3 wonderful kids. It is special moments like these that I sit back and am so thankful for all we have!

A protective brother and other random pictures

Keeping a watchful eye over his sister

Trail's idea of canning pears (don't we wish it were that easy?)


Trail happily canning! We did tons of canning, it has been my stress relief and super rewarding!

Brinley on her 1st day of Preschool

Our precious Brielle with her brother close by

Three kids sleeping on the couch = PRICELESS

Our 1st Day back to church (wow 3 kids, I still can't believe it sometimes)

With three kids there aren't too many dull moments, hence the not blogging for a while. The adjustment hasn't been easy, it is a struggle to find balance and time for myself. I find myself getting frustrated and then something will happen to make me laugh. The other day it seemed like I had been after the kids all day, cleaning up mess after mess that my mischevious 2 year old was making. Trail and I were in the bathroom and all of a sudden the bath toys spilled out of the container onto the floor spilling water everywhere. I said, "O Man" and Trail busted up laughing. If you haven't heard him laugh it can be very contagious. So we sat on the floor and laughed together. Laughter is the best medicine, it physically lightened my load! So my advice to any tired, down trodden Mom - find something to laugh about!

Grandma's love pictures....

Grandma was begging for some updated pictures of Brielle, so this is for you Mom!!! I heard the kids laughing the other day and went to see what they were up to, I went in to find Brinley "making Trail's hair handsome" by putting shampoo in his hair, but it also got all over the floor of the tub and they were sliding all over the place. Listening to my kids laugh is one of my favorite things! We laughed and they got an early bath that day! Brielle has been so fun! She has been such a good baby and doesn't complain too much when she is mauled by Brinley and Trail. Life with 3 kids is an adjustment, but I am enjoying our little ones!

Our Heritage

Not long after Brielle was born, Clint's Grandma Denton passed away. She was an amazing woman. She always told Clint not to mourn when she passed away because she would be with her husband. She left a heritage of hard work and faith. She was one of the most optimistic people I have ever met. She had 11 kids, 43 grandkids and Brielle made 60 great

grandchildren, but whenever you talked to her she was so excited and happy to hear what was going on in your life. She showed so much interest in our lives! We are so thankful for her example! Although it wasn't the best of circumstances it is always good to be surrounded by family. She left quite a posterity behind!

Some explanation-(All of the people trying to get the great grandkids to smile scared Trail - hence I was in all of the pictures too. And for my own peace of mind, no I was not pregnant in the pictures but Brielle was only a week and a half old. Someone asked me once if your belly goes down right when they are born. Don't we all wish that was true????)

And then there were 5!

Our precious little baby finally arrived!!!!

Clint is outnumbered! Although most people were sure it was a boy, Brinley and Trail got a little sister!!!! Brielle C Sampson (Her middle initial is for both Grandma's, Celinda and Cindy) arrived Friday August 21st at 12:39am. She weighed 8lbs and was 20in. She has tons of dark curly hair!! She looks a lot like Brinley did when she was born! I realized you have to be careful what you wish for. I was telling my Mom I wanted my water to break just so I would know I was in labor for sure and I wanted a faster labor than the 8 hours of my other 2. Sorry but every new mom has to share their story so here it is! Well Thursday night I went grocery shopping even though Clint said he would go in the morning, I just felt like I should get it done. Clint went hunting, so my friend Kari kindly watched the kids so I could go shopping. It's a good thing because when I got home and was putting groceries away I started getting contractions. With lots of urging from Clint (I didn't want to get sent home) we left for the hospital at 11:30pm and got to the hospital at 12:05. By that time my contractions had been 2 minutes apart for a while. I was dialated to a 6 1/2 cm. Not long after my water broke (wow that was scary) and I was an 8 1/2. I was anxiously asking for an epidural, but I had to have an IV first. Not long after my water broke I had the nurse check again and I was at 10 cm. Needless to say I didn't have time for an epidural, the doctor (mine was out of town so it was the on call doctor, but I didn't really care) walked in with his wranglers and carhartt shirt got his 2nd glove on and she was her. Once she decided to come she flew out! Clint screamed "It's a girl, it's a girl!!!" We are so lucky she is here and healthy. She gets lots of attention from Brinley and Trail! What a blessing and miracle!!!!

Trail's the birthday boy!!!!

My baby boy turned 2 today!!! Time flies that is for sure!!!! He is no longer that chubby cheeked baby. He is a BIG BOY! It's been so fun to reflect back on the day he was born. My kids birthdays have been so emotional for me, it makes me so thankful for the opportunity to be a mother! He loves cowboys so it seemed fitting to give him a cowboy birthday. Clint had a great idea to bring Dollar, the horse to his party. (They have horses for work that he uses a lot, so he brought one of those) Trail got a special ride with his Dad! I even tried my hand at a horse cake. I'm just thankful that is resembled a horse. He was such a cute little cowboy! I can't believe he is 2!!!!