November Letter

 Dear Family & Friends, 

Hope you are all having a wonderful fall. We sure our. The weather has been beautiful!! We got a little snow in Oct but nothing since and it's been a beautiful fall!! 

We took a trip to New Mexico over Thanksgiving to spend time with your Sintay cousins. I love them! Our first stop was Cortez Colorado where we met up with the Sintay's and went to Mesa Verde. That is such a cool place! We also stopped at 4 corners on our way to Los Alamos. 

Thanksgiving was great even though I am the world's worst eater and through a fit when I have to try new foods. ;)

My dad turned 46 the day after Thanksgiving. Mom had his present sent to Los Alamos. It is a really cool drone! I love watching it fly and watching the movie after. It goes so high. Dad was really excited!

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season. Hopefully I will get to see many of you.

Love, Sam Wade Barnhisel

October Letter

 Dear Family & Friends, 

Happy Fall!! Fall is beautiful on the mountain and my dad and I go on lots of adventures! I like to go and look at the valley.  Sometimes we hike and sometimes we go in the jeep, 4 wheelers or truck.

I love Halloween! It is so much fun. I love all the pumpkins. I listen to the sound track for Nightmare Before Christmas all day long and have all the songs memorized.

I finished up my soccer season this month. I love soccer!! I play all the time and just love it! My friend Carson was on my team and his mom coached.

We got a couple batches of snow this month. I love eating snow. It's my favorite food!

We went to a really cool Harry Potter castle. We got to see owls and potions and go to a wizard sweet shoppe. We got dinner there and my dad and brothers got to do an escape room. It was so cool!

I went to a lot of corn mazes this month. We went to one as a family and I went to one with Blair. I love to play in the corn, slide on the slides, ride the tractor and check out all the cool pumpkins!

I was a pirate for Halloween this year. Blair was a witch. We got to wear our costumes to school one day. That was Awesome!!

On Halloween night we went to the stake center for a huge trunk-or-treat. I went around and got lots of candy and then we tailgated with our fireplace and I got to give candy to other kids. I love Halloween!

I hope you had a great Halloween too and got lots of candy. I miss you and hope you are all doing well.

Love, Sam Wade Barnhisel

September Letter

 Dear Family & Friends, 

Happy Fall everyone!! We love fall up here on the mountain. We got to pick peaches off our tree which was super fun (even though I won't even try peaches). 

I started preschool this month!! I love it! KiddieHawk preschool at the high school. It's so much fun. I love playing at the store there and all the other fun things we do. My friends Blair and Leah go to school with me too. 

We went to lots of fun things this month. We went to a huge carnival at Payson Days and I got to ride on lots of kids rides, eat lots of yummy treats and even on the big Ferris Wheel with my dad.

We also went up to Midway for Swiss days which was really cool! We got to watch the parade and a concert and a yodeler. It was a really fun day!!

We also went up to our old stomping grounds and went to see the witches at Gardner Village. They were so cool and I loved looking for all the witches. 

I play soccer on my team and love it!! I want to have a soccer game everyday. I love playing with my team. I either run around happy OR it clicks and I score a lot of goals. No consistency with me but no matter what I have so much fun and just want my mom to sign me up for soccer again and again.

The colors of the leaves at our house are amazing!! We learned about fall in preschool and I love to talk about it. I am very inquisitive and ask about 537 million questions a day! Hope you are all doing well. 

Love, 
Sam Wade Barnhisel

August Letter

 Dear Family & Friends, 

Hello everyone. I had an awesome August. My august was filled with carnivals, fairs, and fireworks! But sometimes I just like to get away from all the noise and people, and enjoy the awesome scenery from my front porch. Its slowly turning fall and I can't wait for the leaves to start changing colors. I want to go gather some pirates gold!

I went to a carnival near me filled with lots of fun activities, including magnet fishing. There was also lots of tasty food. I won a few tickets that I used to buy a snow-cone. It was super tasty. I just love carnivals!

After the carnival, I went back and watched a firework show with my friends. The fireworks were so big! They blew up into many cool colors and patterns. Some of them were really loud too. Good thing we watched them from a distance, and not over where they were lighting them off! Fireworks are awesome!

That was all the big fun things I did this August. I'm almost to start pre-school with lots of my friends. I can't wait! Mom tells me there are lots of toys and games at pre-school! Bye! 

Love, Sam Wade Barnhisel

July Letter

Dear Family & Friends, 

Hi everyone! I hope you are doing well. I love living in the mountains. My favorite thing to do is go on a 4-wheeler job with my dad and my dog. I ask for a ride every day!

4th of July weekend was so much fun! We had a breakfast party at the Harper's with my friends. It was great!

Then we also had a big BBQ at our house with lots of our family. It was our last party with Brandon before he starts his mission. I love playing with my cousins!

Dad loves to take us on adventures. This one was up Payson Canyon to the Grotto. We got a new (old) jeep and we love to go on adventures in it. It has really cool lights that change colors!!

My brother Brandon left on his mission to Arkansas this month. I miss Brandon. I pray for him all the time that Jesus will keep him safe and help him not be afraid. 

We took a trip to Beaver with my cousins. It was so fun! We stayed in a condo but got to go to camp where Aunt Amy was staying and play there. It was so much fun. We played corn hole, baci ball, bubble guns and of course lots of 4-wheeling.

 I hope you are happy and healthy. I hope to get to see you all soon.

Love Sam Wade Barnhisel

June Letter

 Dear Family & Friends, 

Hello everyone! Hope you are having a wonderful summer! We are although it is a HOT one! Good thing we live up in the mountains so it's a little cooler. 

I love to go 4-wheeling and ask my dad to take me out pretty much every day!

We try to do lots of fun things. One of my new favorite things is bowling. I love it and ask to go all the time!

We have a really cool park with a huge splash pad in town. I love to go there and play with my friends. 

Blair & Tilly live across the street from me and I play with them almost every day while our moms work. My life pretty much revolves around Blair & Tilly. :) Oh and snow-cones are my new FAV!

I am a good worker and love to help and do chores. I only get in the way a "lille bit". 

Hope you are all well and safe. If you want to come visit me in the mountains, I'd love to see you. 

Love Sam Wade Barnhisel

May Letter

 Dear Family & Friends, 

    I had a great month. I hope you did too. My month kicked off with a awesome mothers day. I love my mommy. She is the best. I took lots of pictures with mom, and had a nice meal. Mommy's are the best! 

    Arrgh! For my last day of speech therapy, I had a pirate party. It was so fun. I learned lots of new words and how to pronounce them in speech therapy. I love learning and learning how to talk better. I had so much fun at the pirate party. I got lots of chocolate coins and tasty treats. Pirates are so cool!

    I have tons of friends in the mountains, near me. They are super fun! I love playing with them. I go on lots of fun adventures with them. Mommy loves to have my friends moms over and I get to play with my cool friends. I have the best friends!

    Brandon graduated from high school this month too. I got to ride in this super cool limo with lots of snacks and drinks! I went to Brandon's school and he dressed up in this super silly outfit. After the graduation I went to olive garden and ate some tasty breadsticks! Congrats Brandon!

    My friends let me plant a garden in their farm. We planted lots of different fruits and veggies. I can't wait to see how big they grow! I love to be the water guy. I love to water the plants. I make sure the plants get plenty of water so they can grow super tasty food!

    Me and my family went on a little family trip. We got some food and visited some graves. We visited my uncle Brian's grave and some of my older relative's graves.  After that we had an awesome picnic in our backyard. I had chips, hot dogs, grapes, and a treat. I love my backyard. I love picnics!

Well that's my month. Or at least the big important stuff. I am having lots more fun with my brothers now that they are on their summer break. I love you all! 

Love, Sam Wade Barnhisel

April Letter

 Dear Family & Friends, 

Hi everyone! Hope you are doing well and enjoying spring. We are having a great time up here in the mountains and off on our fun adventures. 

We had an Easter egg hunt at our house with my friends. It was so fun. We had so many eggs and I had a great time playing with my friends and eating candy!

Over Spring Break we took a day trip to the San Rafael Swell which was really cool. We got to see some awesome pictographs and a dinosaur foot print.

I got to play on my first soccer team ever this month. We were the Cougars, were always blue and I LOVED IT!! I love to run in circles and chase the ball with a huge smile on my face. I asked every day if I had a game that day and when we got rained out I cried and cried and cried. I love being on my team.

We took a long weekend and Dad, Mom, Kyle and I went camping with Aunt Amy down in Capitol Reef. We did a lot of hiking and built fires and ate yummy food. I had a great time. 

I hope you are healthy and happy and doing lots of fun things too. My brothers are almost done with school and Brandon is getting ready to leave on his mission. Lots of exciting things going on here!!

Love Sam Wade Barnhisel