Sledding with River

Ok this is kind of a test run but I was wondering if this would work . .

Make a Smilebox collage

Finding Time . .

As a new year has begun I have noticed a new trend this year, no one is blogging nearly as much. I chalk it up to all the new additions in our families no one has the time anymore. We are all recovering from the holidays and lets face it we are just plain tired! I can't believe that I haven't updated for so long but like I said it is hard to find the time. We had a great Christmas we were lucky enough to get to spend Christmas up at the Snow's Cabin with lots of family fun! The following Sunday we did Christmas with my family and the kids were spoiled to say the least. We have been baking up a storm and enjoying our new Christmas Vitamix (Yeah, thanks Snow's), playing in the snow and just having a good time. We had a fun filled 2009 and are looking forward to many new adventures this year.

New Christmas pajamas

Christmas morning at the Cabin!

Pappa Snow getting everything he asked for, look at that vest NICE!

New addition to the Thompson family, we love you Stella!

Our traditional pink snowman, this year she was a diva!

Oh the weather outside . . .

This is what our trees looked like right now, doesn't it make you cold just looking at it? I haven't updated for a while so there are a plethora of pictures on this one but I will try to make it not so long. New Moon girls night was a blast even though Happy Sumo lost our reservations so I didn't get my sushi we still had a lot of fun!

Thanksgiving at Aunt Erin's was crowded but that is what makes it so fun we had over 30 people in one house. What more could you want than good food and lots of family?

Breakfast with Santa is a fun tradition my family has, down at Thanksgiving point. Good food and lots of fun stuff for the kids.

Friends at the tree house trying to milk the cow and drink the milk.

Bri and I snuck away and took a little trip to Disney Land, we didn't take pictures because we had to much fun and I didn't feel like carrying around the camera the whole time. But the weather was beautiful and what can I say Disney Land in December is really fun!

Last but not least Christmas pics with the family what can I say, but this was the best one.

Playdates, Turkeys, Sisters and Sharing

Happy times are here! We have been busy playing and enjoying the holidays already. Hope everyone is having as much fun as we are this season!

Lizzie and Addie are good little friends having a pajama party all day long!

The mighty hunters are bringing home the bacon, or in this case the turkeys. Posing with their winnings!

Sisters, unfortunately Charlie didn't know what to think about this picture taking thing!

Sharing, caring everybody sharing that's the thing to do!

Life according to Lizzie

These past few weeks Lizzie has been saying the funniest things and I keep forgetting to write them down. This post may be boring for some of you but I needed to record some things so I don't forget them. This is Life According to Lizzie. . . .
The other day I made Lizzie some eggs for breakfast and they were warm enough that there was steam coming from the plate, she covered her eyes and said "Oh the smoke is hurting my eyes."
At the store the bag boy was making idol chit chat asked Lizzie how she was doing she replied "I have just been sick, I had Swine Flu." Luckily he couldn't really understand and he just smiled and I hurried off.
This morning as I was fixing my hair Lizzie marched down and announced that she couldn't find her iron to iron her blankie, I told her that I didn't think she had a iron ( I didn't even know she knew what an iron was, that's how often I use one). To which she replied "Oh it must have died," I wonder what they are teaching her at preschool?

A Scary Halloween Visitor

Friday morning Lizzie woke up with a fever and by the afternoon we decided to take her to the doctor. Yes they unofficially confirmed that she has H1N1, unfortunately the test is only right 50 percent of the time so really they said even if it came back negative the doctor would still say that she had it. The bad thing is they only give the medicine to kids under 2 and since she was to old they sent us home with a prescription for Charlie and just told us to watch her. If she developed a cough with mucus then we should worry. So unfortunatly our Halloween was a little lame, we quarantined ourselves and just stayed home. Saturday she still had a fever but she was feeling a little better. Mainly she was just wiped out and would just keep saying how tired she was. We let her carve some pumpkins and she actually trick-or-treated to about 5 houses then she was done. Needless to say I was glad that we had so much fun the week before she didn't mind to much. Today she is doing even better and her fever is almost gone, so far no one else has caught it. Of course Thursday I made appointments for them to get vaccinated on Tuesday and Lizzie catches it the next day go figure.

Lizzie carving pumpkins, it was actually a really nice day but since she was sick I made her wear her coat.

Some of the finished products we didn't get a lot of close ups.

Bri came up with this one all by himself I was really impressed.

Here we are going out trick or treating my mom gave Lizzie this mask that glowed and she insisted on wearing them it was really quite cute.

October Fun

I honestly can't believe that October is almost over time is flying by, before we know it Christmas will be here. We are enjoying the holiday seasons and the lovely fall weather, although I could do without the snow in October. If you don't know or have forgotten my family really gets into holidays and honestly we have had so much Halloween fun already I am expecting Halloween to be relaxing in comparison.

Charlie has started eating solids and boy was she ready. I started Lizzie around 5 months and it took her a while to like her cereal so I decided to wait a little longer with Charlie. She LOVES to eat and eat seriously she will eat a helping of veggies, then some rice cereal and then some milk to top it off. She eats this at least two times a day and sometimes three, I am not to worried though because she is only in the 25th percentile for her height and weight so I have no idea where all the food is going.

Look at that hair Aunt Katie already gave her a haircut and it's still crazy. Although good news it is coming in underneath I think pretty soon I will be able to put some clips in it, we are excited!

I haven't put a picture of River up forever and I thought it was time. She is still hanging in there and this January she will turn 9. I can't believe I have had her for that long, we are lucky to have such a good friend.

After Brian came home we spent a few days at the cabin, it is definitely getting colder but we still had a lot of fun. Lizzie has discovered the joy of s'mores.

We went to Heritage Park with our cousins on Saturday. They have a really cute Halloween celebration for the kids where they can come and wear their costumes and Trick-or-Treat.

Thanks Emily for inviting us we had a lot of fun!

Charlie was Little Red Ridding Hood and she was really cute!

Why we accessorize

The spirit of Halloween has already come to our house and we are having fun! Today when I was dressing my girls I realized why we have to accessorize our kids.

For those of you who haven't met him this is our little brother Charlie, haha!

Oh wait I mean our little sister Charlie, unfortunately her name doesn't help her out.

Needless to say I do have two really cute Halloween Girls!