Christmas Lighting

For the second year in a row Sky put up the Christmas lights on the house, he loves doing this. It is amazing how fast he is growning up!

Thanksgiving Cooking!

At the Sampson house everyone participates in helping with the Thanksgiving dinner. This year Alex and Skyler peeled the potatoes, Kyle made the jello salad, Melissa made two rum cakes, Steve carved the turkey and everything else Lisa did...it's nice to have a family that is willing to jump in and help out.

Thanksgiving Morning

Every Thanksgiving morning Steve takes the kids to visit the Freemont Troll while Lisa get things going for the feast that evening. This has become a Sampson Family tradition. This year they all got up and went to Krispie Creams, than on to visit the Troll and they ended with stopping by the Ballard Locks.

Random Family Fun On Our Boat The Aquaholic

Summer 2008 ~ We were not able to spend us much time on our boat this year, but we still had lots of fun when we did. Most of the day trips were on Pudget Sound or Lake Washington.

Grand Coulee Dam Tour

Summer 2008 ~ While on vacatio at Banks Lake this summer, we went and toured the Grand Coulee Dam, this is something we have done on many occasions with Melissa and Kyle, but not with Alex and Skyler. This is always informational as is watching the laser show in the evening all about the Columbia River and the building of the dam.

Family Vacation At Banks Lake

Summer 2008 ~ One of our favorite family vacation stops is Banks Lake in Eastern Washington. This year we spent a week playing at the hotel, boating, swimming and tubing on the water at the lake. We even rented jet ski's for a day. As always this is a blast!

Trip To The San Juan Island

Summer 2008 ~ This year for Skyler's birthday he wanted to whale watch in the San Juan Islands...good thing we have a boat perfect for this. So we spent a weekend looking for whales, exploring the different islands and fishing. This trip was great but unfortunatly we saw no whales.

Still More Photo's Of The San Juan Island Trip

All The Boys Camping At The Ensign Ranch

Spring 2008 ~ For Alex's birthday this year he wanted to go camping at the Ensign Ranch, one of his favorite places to go. So we spent a weekend camping at the ranch, exploring, four wheeling and riding our bikes and dirt bikes. Fun as always...but very cold after all it was only May!

Hiking On A Beautiful Day At Carkeek Park

Early Spring 2008 ~ One day we woke up to a beautiful spring day after some nasty spring weather so we decided to hike at Carkeek park. We hiked ALL the trails and enjoyed a very pretty day!

Playing In The Snow At The Sultan Basin

Winter 2008 ~ Steve and the boys headed for the Sultan Basin to shoot guns one day this winter. The boys love to do this. In addition to shooting they found lots of snow to play in.