Snow White and a 5 year old Birthday

Fun dress ups from Aunt Angie!!!! Perfect for a Snow White party. Brinley wanted to watch the movie for her party so we ran with it. Our good friends Kevin & Tori have a huge projection screen TV so they let us crash their house. The kids loved it! There was popcorn EVERYWHERE, but it was great. It was her first friend party and it was a BLAST!!!
Brinley wanted a pinata so we made our own, FYI they are super cheap and fun to make!!!!
Don't they look so sweet????
For Christmas my mother in law gave me the CUTEST cupcake book, so Brinley picked the owls!
Owl "pupcakes" as Brin calls them.
The birthday girl!!!!! I asked her he she could stay 4 and she said, "If I don't turn 5 then I can't go to school" I guess we will let her turn 5!!!!
My little Snow White girls waiting for the party to start!
I couldn't reset, this is Brielle's "ho-se" She LOVES it!!! All partied out!!!!
When I grew up the Birthday kid got to pick dinner. Brinley wanted Pizza, so we had a Pizza party!
Lots of fun girly presents!

I can't believe I have a 5 year old. She is such a good helper! She informed me this morning that 5 year old's can do the dishes all by themselves. (We'll see how that works out) She loves helping Mom and loving Brielle. They recently taught Brielle how to crawl out of her crib. She is super thoughtful and talks like a grown up. She loves to wear high heels and can even run in them. She can't wait to go to school and loves playing with friends. She is totally into Barbie's and anything Princess. She is always concerned when others are sad or hurt. She is so sweet! We have been so blessed to have her in our family!

Winter Wonderland!!!!!

Clint's long awaited T-shirt blanket!!!!
Brin & Trail enjoying the Leapster's that Grandma and Grandpa Sampson gave them!
A girl cousins sleepover, Rebecca, Abie, Brinley and Sarah. They were like sardines! Memories!
After Christmas Celebration at Papa and Grandma Winters'Our normal family Christmas pic, with Dad in uniform. We are lucky we can enjoy time together
Our little crew, happy as can be on Christmas day!

One of Brielle's favorite toys from Santa
Brielle was one of Santa's little elf
Trail is a pure boy!!!!!
Brinley loved Santa this year!

This Christmas we were so blessed!! Someone decided to do Secret Santa for our family. They went above and beyond and this year we ALL BELIEVE in Santa. We will never forget this Christmas! It was a HUGE reminder that there is still so much good in this world! We are so thankful that we were able to go to Meridian and see my family and enjoy New Year's and a Baby blessing for my sister's new baby. This Christmas I learned that as long as you have family surrounding you we don't need to stress about what is under your tree!!!! We were able to focus on the true meaning of Christmas! What a blessing!!!! I hope you all had such blessings as well!

Trick or Treat

Tired after the Trunk or Treat.




Trail is very determined, which is hard as his Mom, but he spent lots of time working on his pumpkin and did a great job.

The Sampson Garden produced 10 pumpkins this year. It's so fun to watch them grow!

The kids had so much fun dressing up for Halloween! They looked so cute (Brinley thought she needed to be a Tinker Bell Vampire for the pictures, lovely) I had to also share some cute pictures of Brielle's curly locks. Here's hoping the winter is mild this year!

Would you believe?

Trail and Kallie driving in the kids new car, so fun, Kallie is a crazy driver (Brielle is sitting in the flowers)
Trail (hiding) Papa, Brielle, Celinda (my mom) Parker, My brother Brandon, Sister Angie, Brin
Hanging out with cousins....Brinley, Parker, Trail, Sarah, Abie, Rebecca, Wyatt, Jaxsin
Chuck E Cheese with Papa and my nephews Parker and Jaxsin (Trail didn't want his picture taken)
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Hiking up McConkie Ranch to see the petroglyphs about 20 minutes from our house.


Larry helping Trail with his bow and arrow! What a hit!!
A totally chessy Trail smile!




Brinley and Trail ready for preschool!
I love these curls!!!! That is my stamp on the girls! It reminds me of my hair when I was little!
Clint is in the orange hat, guarding the bear cub in the shed.
Dax and Clint carrying the trapped bear. They are a great team.
Brinley and Trail taking a peak at the cute baby bear. They wanted to pet it, but I had to break the news that this bear wasn't as kind as the ones on tv.


Would you believe that there was a baby bear 2 doors down (which in our area means about 300 yards) from our house yesterday? Clint let us come check it out. It was really exciting!!! Maybe a little scary watching my husband in the shed with a baby bear. But that is all in a day's work for him.

The kids are getting bigger with Trail turning 3 and Brielle turning 1 this year. August is a party for our family. We were lucky to have my Mom and niece Rebecca come to enjoy Trail's party and celebrate Brielle's a little early. Brielle is walking and loving it! I can't believe my baby is 1.

To help with the long hunting season we have just come into, I decided to take the kids and go to Boise. We were there for 2 weeks and loved being with family. We went to Wahooz and rode the race cars, went to Chuck E Cheese with Papa, saw Great Grandma Barb, celebrated my Mom's birthday and enjoyed being together. Thanks for putting up with us for so long!!!!

Here's to a new season!!!!

New look for the mother of 3

the closest picture it was like (yesterday)
Feeling like a new woman

My cute niece Rebecca came and is a huge helper!


Today was Trail's 3rd birthday! Wow has time flown! I will post pictures of the festivities later. But with my Mom in town I got brave and chopped my hair! I needed a pick me up, something to make me feel cute! I need that as a Mom often! Hope you like it!!! It is totally different than anything I've ever done. Thanks to my friend Jamie, it's awesome to have a friend who does hair!!! Brinley did the double take when she first saw me and gave me her stamp of approval. (They are brutally honest sometimes, so I know she isn't lying)