Samson family reunion 2014

This year the Samson family reunion was held at the goodfellow house in kanab. We went July 23-27.  The days were spent at the pool and the nights we were catching up with family we haven't seen for awhile!! One day was spent at lake Powell playing on the beach and in the water. It was a great trip and we loved spending time with family!!

 

Lava

No summer would be complete without a couple trips to lava!! We went up the first part of August with some of our friends and my family. We ate good food, sat around the fire, went on rides on the trail, went to the pool and the hot pots! The pool was a little disappointing! They closed it four times while we were there for "clean ups" and medical emergencies. Since we couldn't swim for very long we ended up leaving the pool early. We had a great time with some great company!!

Fair week

This past week we enjoyed several days at the fair in tremonton! It's one of my favorite times of the year! Such a great way to end the summer. We went out Wednesday night to the parade and spent all day Saturday at the fair and auction. We got rained on both days we were there! Brinklee slept for four hours on Saturday so it was nice to be able to walk around and look at things. She loved all the animals of course!! Saturday morning before we left I got brinklee dressed in her cute button up shirt and boots. She hated it!! She kept saying mom I don't like this jacket! She then went to her closet and got a dress and said "wear pretty dress??" She was pretty mad I wouldn't change her!! I think I'm in trouble already!! We had a great time at the fair!!

Summer Fun

This summer was super busy and we jam packed it with as much fun as we could get in! My little sister Abby left on her mission so we spent some time with her before she left. We took Brinklee to the zoo. We saw all the animals and got to ride the carousel.

 

Abby left for the Baton Rouge, Louisiana mission in the middle of June. She spoke in church the Sunday before she left and we had a big dinner at my parents afterwards. Brinklee and Abby sure have a special bond and it is hard to have them apart!

Jared and I ran Ragnar Wasatch Back with his family. We were in the suburban with Mont, Darcie and Jared's cousins Scott and Kristin. We had a blast! It is so much more fun when you run it with family!

Angie and Tyler bought a boat so we went out several times. Brinklee liked it for the most part!

 

We made several trips to Lava. We camped on my parents property, rode four wheelers and went to the pool and hot pots. Brinklee loved the kiddie pool, especially the slide.

 

No summer is complete without the Box Elder fair and fair parade. Brinklee loved to sit and watch all the floats go by and was really good!

Finally Jared's parents started building a house close to ours. Brink loved to go help and play in the dirt. Jared helped with a lot of the framing and is currently helping tile. It has been a fun process. We've had a great summer!

My one year old!

Brinklee had her first birthday in July! She has grown so fast and I cannot believe that it has come and gone. For her birthday we had a party at grandma and grandpa stokes. We had a barbecue and cake and ice cream. We had a piñata and brinklee opened her presents. She wasn't too sure about digging into her cake which surprised me. We had a great day with our family. At one years old brinklee can:

*walk EVERYWHERE!!

*has 5 teeth, three on top and two on bottom

*drinks vitamin d milk

*eats all kinda of food

*loves her Jo

*wears mostly size 12 or 18 clothes

*wears size 3/4 shoes

*says mom, dad, nana, poppa, hi do (Jo)

*gives kisses when she wants to

*has the sweetest personality but can throw a major fit!

She is the light of our lives and we love her so much!!

Major update

I have been a major slacker when it comes to my blog so I need to catch up! This is what has been going on lately!

My dad gave us some awesome tickets to the jazz game. We went down with the spendloves. We took brinklee down with us and she did surprisingly well!

For valentines day weekend we were going to go st George but brinklee got rsv so we just stuck around home. We made a romantic dinner and celebrated with the 3 of us.

We threw Cami a baby shower for her baby girl. It was the first party we held at our new house so I was stressed and then it snowed on top of that. We still had a lot of family come out and support her though!

We had some friends come up to Ogden so we got together. Brinklee and hazyn are going to be friends I just know it ;)

We took our first trip up to lava. Brinklee loved it!! She thought it was just a big bath tub!

Cami had her baby Ana in April. We love her! She's such a sweet baby!! Brinklee looks so huge to me now!

Brinklee had her first Easter! We had a great time at the stokes. Brinklee loved gathering her eggs.

Jared's sweet little grandma samson passed away. She was a great last and we will miss her but we know she's in a better place!

Jared graduated from weber with his bachelors degree in advanced radiology! We are so proud of him!

My mom also graduated again! She got her masters degree! Good job momma!!

We went down to the tulip festival with my sisters and mom and aunts. It was so pretty!!

We took brinklee on her first hike. She did pretty well but was a little onery because we were gone forever but she eventually fell asleep.

And finally brinklee is getting so big!! She was 19 lbs 15 oz at her 9 month appt. she eats just about anything. She can say mama, dada, nana, Jo, hi and tu (tuck). She has two upper and two lower teeth with one more on the top coming in. She can stand on her own and can take a couple steps. She sleeps through the night. She is such a sweet girl and I just love her!!