Good bye to a true best friend....

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!

Halloween!

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!