Christmas is Coming!! AAHHHH!

Does anyone else feel like Christmas sneaks up on them? I totally always feel like I barely get through September and it is Halloween, Thanksgiving and then Christmas in like one week! It makes me crazy! I like to have my Christmas cards done by Halloween so that I am not stressed at all during the Holidays. However, this year I am just starting and don't know when they will be done. I really like to have them out on December 1st for the stress reasons again. We had our Christmas pics taken by Michelle again this year and I am so excited to see them! We totally got kicked out of a neighborhood we were taking pics in. There were no signs and we walked in without scaling any fences or having to cut through any walls. The lady threatened to call the Sheriff on us, but with some smart talking from yours truly, we were able to just leave....very quickly! Ruined the mood a bit. Anyway, just went through all of my decorations and cleaned everything out, plus organized them in their containers for easier access. I am totally excited to decorate for Christmas! Love Hobby Lobby!

Halloween 2009

SNOW!

We barely survived Raton Pass going into Colorado, but we made it! After dinner that
first night all of the kids went out into the snow and played. I am glad they did
because it heated up the rest of our trip and all the snow melted away!

Family Fall Festival

Every year, Grandma Thomason throws a Thomason Family Fall Festival for Family Home
Evening. Whoa! That's a lot of alliteration! We each plan a game or activity and the
kids rotate booths. Dinner was great as always, thanks Grams!

Brady with Tessa Knopp


Me with Tessa


Katelyn Todd, Cat and Sarah dancing in the moonlight


My beautiful daughter


My other beautiful daughter


Sarah getting ready to go out and get some treats


Cat posing pretty


The girls in their costumes

Andrew's Visit

Our nephew Andrew came to visit the week before Halloween. It was so nice to get to
see him. Since Angela and Jason's family have moved to South Carolina, we don't get
to see them as much! We miss them a lot and really enjoyed having the kids come
visit this summer and Andrew just recently. He is a great cousin to have around!

Andrew with our family


Andrew with Tessa and Alyssa

8 Tons of Cobble Stone

I hadn't really ever thought of what 8 tons of rock looked like, but now I know. Can you tell what Brady is going to be doing this afternoon?

Cami Dean Vinyl

Cami came over and put custom vinyl on my door for me today. I totally stole this idea from a blog (http://j-a-girl.blogspot.com/). I loved it and had to do it. The only problem was that I have a retarded door that has the smallest mid-section ever. However, Cami assured me that it would still look fabulous tucked into the nooks and crannies. I have to say that I agree!

All Sorts of New Beginnings, Starts and of Course...DRAMA!

Today is the day. They are finally spliting our ward again. It has been less than a year since they split us I hear some of you saying. It's true, but we needed to be split again the next week after last November's split. I am excited to hear how they will be doing everything and who will be called. Because they are spliting us, they moved our Primary program up to today and Catherine has a speaking part and is nervous that today is the day. I am helping to lead the music and love doing that, so no stress on me. As I mentioned before, I am training for a half-marathon. I have been training for two weeks now and feel good, albeit sore, but good. I think that I can do this! We bought a new dishwasher this week and it was delivered on Friday. I was so excited! Brady unpackaged it and it was beautiful. He spent all evening taking the other one out and hooking everything up. We put it on a quick setting for it's maiden voyage and got the shock of our life! One of the connections burst about a minute into the process and a geyser of water started shooting into our kitchen, flooding it! Brady grabbed his drill and was trying to unscrew the thing, while I am screaming for him to turn the water off. Once it was off, we both just kind of looked at eachother, lost for words. Then he started apologizing and I started laughing. We got it all cleaned up, but it took all of our towels and I have been doing laundry for two days. It now runs like a dream and I love it! It's always something right?

Training Day!

Okay, so many of you know that I pretty much despise running or excersice of any sort...however, I am training for my first and possibly last ever Half Marathon. I know, I know, I hear your cries of shock, surprise and stifled laughter, but come on! I am working hard to be able to run any miles consecutively so that I can be ready to start the training November 1st. I run the end of January so start saying your prayers that I don't die and rot on the side fo the road in Surprise, Az!

Cat's 1st Day of School

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