Thomson Family Pictures

The last time my family got a picture taken was back in 2005, and that was only because it was taken at Erin and Rob's wedding.  To find a family picture of us taken before that, you would have to go back to when I was just leaving junior high.  So, you can understand how tickled I am to be able to show these pictures to you.  These were a long time comin'.  I whispered to my Mom's ear that maybe we should take a picture Thanksgiving morning, since we will all be around for Thanksgiving anyway, and tada..pictures!!

I love this of my parents and siblings.  I am not exaggerating to say that you are looking at my most favorite people in the world (as well as my husband and kids of course).  I don't know what I did to deserve such a loving family. 

My brother and my sisters.  Aren't we a handsome bunch? 

My cute mama and the girls.  If you swap out our hair color, I think we all look a lot alike.  I love these ladies.

Mom and Dad. Aren't they cute too?:)

Such a good pic of "J" and my Dad. 

Grandpa B with the little boys. 

Grandma and her cute little girls.

My little family.  It turned out pretty cute.

And last but not least, Grandma and Grandpa with the kids.

Festive

Thanks to the long holiday weekend, we had time to get our Christmas decor out.  Every time I do, it makes me realize how little I have, but that's okay.  The kids enjoy it, and that's what matters, right?  This year we pulled out our fake pre-lit tree that we have used for a few years only to find that the whole top and bottom sections of lights on the tree were not working.  It looked horrible, but somehow I was able to talk Chad into getting a real tree this year.  It made me so happy to help set the tree up, and smell the pine.  It reminded me of Christmas when I was a kid.   Me and the kids also had fun decorating it last night, even though somehow we had glitter everywhere when we were done. 

Stragglers

My lack of posts lately is more of not having anything to post of, rather than being too busy or lazy.  But, in looking over my pictures that I have accumulated over the last year on my iPhone, I found a few stragglers, if you will, that I would like to post.  I also just got this cool app that lets me makes these frames with my pictures (thanks Amanda) and I wanted to try it out...so fun.

I am sure you can imagine, but my kids like to take pictures with my phone, and constantly I am finding the evidence. I bet you can't guess who took these?

And these?

A certain mister was also caught when he was supposedly just playing a game.

Last but not least... I had to post these hilarious pictures we took of the kids with the "iFaceFat" app earlier this year.  We all got a good chuckle out of them. Ha ha ha..:)

Trick or Treat!

I was able to snap a few pictures of the kids before we left for trick or treating.  I think they turned out pretty cute this year.  Keaton is a zombie, Jack is the horse, (which now all of my boys have worn at that age), Sam is a vampire and Emmi is a witch.

The horse did not want to sit still for a picture but I just had to, he was too cute.  I am kicking myself that I did not get a picture of him in his costume from behind because it makes me giggle... maybe I still will.

I hope you all had a Happy Halloween!!

Pumpkins and Apples

We carved pumpkins at our house tonight, and we thought it was pretty cool that two of the pumpkins were from our own garden.

We did a pumpkin face, wolf, pirate skull and a monster. 

Isn't she funny?  She is just too darn cute.

Last week, we also made some caramel apples and boy were they good! We can't wait for all the fun tomorrow.  Happy Halloween!!

Ladies Night

Erin hosted the girls in my family at her house last night to decorate pumpkins like she saw in a magazine this month. We ate, chatted and crafted until late, blinging out the pumpkins as much as we could.  I love these ladies so much, and am very lucky to have them.  I think we all had a good time, and just might have to do it again.

Sam

Look who we finally got to come with us to a game!! Sam was very hesitant and wanted to back out, but I talked him into it.  Promises of his pick of all the yummy stadium food seemed to help convince him.  And like his brother, Sam sat and ate and ate for most of the game.  I bought pizza, cotton candy, and a cougar tail (a huge maple bar) and he was still asking for more at the end of the game.  Sam was rather quiet during the game and didn't look as joyful as he does in his picture, but I don't think he hated it.  I do know that he does not want to come to another game this year, but he just might come again the next.  I sure hope so.  It is fun for me and Chad as parents to have the 2 on 1 and be able to dote on each of them a little.  This is not the only reason that I will be sad to see the football season come to an end, (I just love those Cougars:), but one of them.

Tonight I got to spend a little bit of quality time with Sam as we worked on a project for school.  He brought this pumpkin home for school last week with the instructions to turn it into a character from a book, just no carving.  Sam was very excited about this, and was asking me all weekend to start it.  Of course I procrastinated until Sunday, but what else is new?  After looking over my very scantly supply of crafting supplies, I got the idea of turning into Splat from the "Splat the Cat" books.  I am not very crafty, but I think we did pretty well.  Sam's face says it all, and I know he is excited to take it to school tomorrow.  I just am hoping that "Splat" survives the bus ride. :)