Sampson left us on Monday November 28th 2011. It has been a pretty ruff past 3 days so far for nick and I, we cant believe that he is gone and is not coming back. we miss his happy face when we great him and his always having to lean on us to say hi. He was THEE best dog we have ever had in either of our lifetimes, pretty perfect in every way, always minded and was so obedient (maybe not to me but ALWAYS to nick) we never had to put him on leash for walks in the mountains cause he would never run off. He loved walks and fetch, car rides (even though he would never jump into the truck he would only jump up and put his front paws on the tailgate and then nick would have to life the rest of him into the truck :)
He LOVED kaylin right from the start, as soon as we brought him home from the hospital sam had to know all about him and always would lay right by him, any noise he made sam had to check on him! they were the best of friends.
He hated the water, when he was just little he fell head first into a hole filled with water and couldn't get out, luckily our friend turned and saw him just in time and pulled him out before it was too late.
He knew nick was his best friend and loved him so much they had a true bond.
His most favorite thing was running free up in the mountains and hill sides.
I still cant picture him being gone, it doesn't seem real, it was so unexpected, one day he was fine and then next gone. It really shows that you NEVER know when its someones time to go or when they wont be there anymore, we wish so bad that we could have given him one last favorite treat or one last walk in the mountains, but we had no idea this was going to happen and didnt see it coming, it hurts a lot that we weren't there for him to comfort him when he needed us in the end, it hurts to know he was alone, it hurts a lot to not know why, we can only hope he just went to sleep and didnt wake up and wasnt suffering. WE LOVE HIM SO MUCH. He was nick and I first baby and will FOREVER be in our hearts and minds.
RIP SAMPSON, LOVE ALL OF US!
This year was so much fun! we just got to hang out with our kidos and watch their cute faces light up! It was another quiet Halloween with just being us and grandpa and grandma haslem, no cousins to hang out with this year.
Sunday night after dinner we did our pumpkin carving, this year we had home grown pumpkins from grandmas & grandpas garden, kaylin was excited he got to watch his pumpkin grow all summer long and then he got to carve it!
Kaylin was so funny this year, most every year i plan what he is going to be but now that he knows that he gets to dress up how ever he wants, he took in upon him self and said he is going to be what he wants to be this year!
For the hole month he said he wanted to be a ninja and have ninja swords, so we bought him the swords backpack and he loved them....until the day before Halloween when i got out the costume box to find kiptins and there he saw the puppy costume and he said he changed his mind and that he was now going to be a puppy!
So he was a happy pup...then on Halloween day he told me that he wanted me to dress up too and he picked out everything i was to wear! He said he dressed me up as Angelina Ballerina! He saw that i had two sets of angel wings and he said he really wanted to wear the white ones, i told him that boys dont wear wings and that they did not go with his outfit. He said "umm mom dogs wear wings...i can be "all dogs go to heaven" and wear the angel wings".
So i could argue with that right??
I just wanted him to be happy and get to be whatever it was he wanted to be....so "all dogs go to heaven puppy" is what he was!!! it was pretty cute!
For kiptin I couldn't decide what he should be, last year he was a skunk and it is THEEE cutest skunk costume i have ever seen...kaylin wore it when he was just a year old on his 2nd Halloween. We also had the tiger outfit and kiptin liked that one too, he wore them both...the tiger for most of the day cause he wouldn't take it off and then the skunk for the night since its a little warmer....i had to have him wear it one last time its just too cute!
They got lots and lots of candy. After the first 2 houses kiptin was getting the idea that if you go to the door they give you candy, he started to get so excited about running up to the doors, at about the 3 house he got his candy and held it up and showed us and yelled some cute "kiptin words" which sounded like "look more" he was so dang excited, it was so much fun watching him be excited this year!
HAPPY 6TH Halloween to kaylin boy &
HAPPY 2ND Halloween to kippers!
These two are my EVERYTHING. Love is what I see when I look at them. I have been working the past 3 months and letting daddy have a turn to stay home and be mr. mom (he has never had the chance to spend all day everyday with his boys ever and I wanted him to have that chance at least one while they are still so little) and I didn't know how much I missed their laughing and cuddling and yes some times even their fighting, until I got to have a few days off and be back home to my comfort zone...I think I will have to admit that dishes, dusting, deep cleaning and on some days even laundry are the chores I will take over being gone and away from my sweet boys all day everyday! Home is the place for me, and just being MOMMY is what I love the very most!!
Goodbye to summer and hello fall! The mountains are changing so fast this year, we have already had the first snow fall on them. We decided to take a family hike up to the Cedar lookout point and we walked down the trail a little ways until it got to slippery and muddy for the kids, nick found out the hard way and slipped right to his back while he was holding kiptin.
The boys loved it of course, anything that has to do with outdoors is right up their alley cold or not! Kiptin loved touching the snow and kaylin found some cool hideouts under some trees and brush!
We got some pretty pictures by some trees that are changing colors...I love fall its so pretty and smells so fresh out!
18 short months have come and gone so fast. Kiptin, where oh where do i start??? there is so much about him, he is just like his big brother kaylin and yet so very very different. He has a mind of his own and when he wants something...he gets it, one way or another good or bad :)
Kiptin has a smile that makes you have to smile no matter what you are feeling, its that good! He is so silly almost all day he is trying to do things to make someone laugh, and it works, he keeps us laughing! He loves playing games like peek-a-boo, hide and seek, chase him around the house, and "where's kiptin" he hides behind his hands and thinks we cant see him until he moves them! His vocabulary had exploded this past month here are some things he can say:
mommy
mom
mama
dada
baba
puppy (just a couple days ago he started saying it since we have new puppies in our house)
keke (kaylin)
out
on
off
up
down
juice
owee
jaida
sam
grandma
water
shoes
there are some of the things he can say (im sure im missing a lot). He understand almost every single thing we say to him, if we tell him to go some where or put something away or sit down or what ever it is he just goes and does it, if he doesnt know what we are saying he will walk around the house over and over again trying to figure out what we said, then he will come to us in a shy way with his hands rubbing together and babble something to us!
He waves bye bye, learning to blow kisses, and he knows where his nose, ears, eyes are almost his mouth but forgets sometimes or doesnt understand what im saying. He gives high fives, I tell him to go get his shoes and he will go find a pair of his shoes and bring to me or try to put them on him self.
He try's doing everything that kaylin does, he loves kaylin and gets so excited when he sees him, kaylin goes into his room every morning and kiptin just jumps up and down! He LOVES to ride with his daddy or mommy on the motorcycle or four wheeler, and will go for hours and hours, he even fell asleep riding and still holding on tight!
He loves air planes and points to the sky every time he hears or sees one, he loves cars and trucks too. A funny thing he does is when i ask him for a kiss he walks over to me and puts his face down so i have to kiss the top of his head!
Here are some of the nick names we have for him:
kippers
kipper snack
kipin (thats what kaylin calls him)
kippy
We just love him so much he is a fun little kid and is growing up way to fast. I miss the little baby stage but LOVE his little boy stage at the same time!
We love you forever little kippers!
Kaylin Graduated PreSchool in may 2011, I cant believe this will be my last summer with him before he starts "big kid" school. He has learned so much this year and I have loved watching him grow and learn so many new things. He is always so proud of himself when he learns to do something new! He was so excited for to show us all the time that he could write his name all by himself. I know he will love kindergarten and learn even more, now me on the other hand, I cant stand to see my baby grow up, i want him to stay little FOREVER, He will always be my little boy no matter how big he is. We love you so very very much kaylin boy, you are and always will be "my sweet boy". Go out into the world and set your dreams big and go after each one cause there isn't anything in this world that you cant do! We know there is something BIG in store for you!
We Love you FOREVER!
