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Thanks for stopping by! I use to blog to "keep in touch," I use to blog to brag, I use to blog for an outlet. I have now realized I blog because these are the things I want my children to know/remember about our life together as a family. These days won't stop passing, but having a record of it when it is all a memory will be priceless to me.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Thadeus the Thankful Turkey

We had a great Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving just might be my FAVORITE holiday! I love love love getting together with extended family and sharing a meal and warm thoughts together. I happen to think that gratitude is the key to living a happy life. We felt especially blessed this year since we happened to be able to share the holiday with two more children. Really who would of thought! Last year at this time I didn't even know I was pregnant yet and here I am a year later with not only two but four wonderful children! I posted something on Facebook everyday that I was thankful for. Believe me, some days by the end of the day I had to really think hard but I could always come up with some type of blessing from the day.
we spent the month giving Thadeus our Thankful Turkey feathers by thinking of things that we were thankful for! It was really fun to see the boys think of things they were they were thankful for! About half the time Max was thankful for Jesus :) It was cute and I loved it! I think one of my favorite moments was when he declared he was thankful for "Toop Toop and Melia!" at the top of his voice in such a cute sing song way! Some of our other favorites were friends, going to preschool, the Barkers, snowflakes, dolphins, Daddy, food and "this pizza right here." We loved it and I think we have started a new tradition! Although since I have seen a couple of places where they did it with a tree branch and fall leaves, much cuter so we shall see, something of the sort hopefully will be done by the Thomson family each year.

Friday, November 19, 2010

up to no good!

My kids are great. They really have adjusted well to being pushed aside for twins but when I am busy with the babies.... they unleash their pent up frustrations on my house. Usually I get frustrated but when they climbed inside the linen cabinet that is over the toy shelf, I thought to grab the camera and snap a picture. I probably wouldn't have been as upset if they hadn't knocked off all of the toys on the way up. I mean lets face it the linens were already a mess, I haven't had the time or energy to reorganize that closet for a while!

Hu?

I'm so pretty!

Ok so since I figured out how to blog from my phone, I may be posting a lot of these one picture one line posts!

Thursday, November 18, 2010

So big!

The big twins sitting in the bumbo chairs! Sometimes it isn't until I take a picture that I realize how big my kids are getting!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Attempt 1

I am going to attempt to get a good picture of all four of my kids. I realize this is a very lofty goal! I am going to keep track of all my attempts in the mean time. So here is attempt number 1. So the twins are screaming... maybe I shouldn't try to do it right at nap time.

Funny Max!

This little guy keeps us laughing all day long!

Lets argue

I am sure that there are many who try to imagine what my life must be like. I have 4 kids- 4, 2, and two 3 month olds. They are all home with me. My dear sweet husband works 40+ hours per week with a commute in there of at least a half an hour each way. Then he goes to school from 6-9 pm Monday through Thursday. It sounds worse than it is but it can get hard some moments.


The other night I was trying to get my big boys in bed and trying really hard not to get frustrated with the dragging of the feet. Yet I wasn't doing so good. I have really really really tried lately to not make threats that I know I won't follow through on. So when Turner was playing instead of putting on his PJ's, in a moment of "I don't remember how I am suppose to handle this situation" (that moment happens a lot around here,) I blurted out "if you don't get your PJ's on right now you will regret it!"

Well, he started crying and said "I won't gret it!" then he completely breaks down and in pure frustration he cries out "I don't know what gret it means!" It made me laugh, take a step back and really try to enjoy just being with my adorable kids.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

How do you set the table?

I have to admit I am a COPY CAT! I love to get inspiration from other blogs. I read all these tutorials and think... how do people come up with these ideas? It isn't my strong point. But I did have a problem that I figured out how to solve... in a crafty sort of way!

My husband and children have no idea how to set a table! I was sooo fortunate to have been raised by a very classy lady who sets a pretty table. Our family really valued meal time and the table was always set nicely. My favorite part as a little kid was picking out a centerpiece from a cabinet for the middle of the table. I was a married woman before I realized that not every family ate this way. When we ate there was always a table cloth spread or placemats. We learned early on where the proper place to put the fork, knife (and which way the blade pointed), spoon, and glass. It makes being together as a family something special.

Lets just face it- families don't do this as much and it is really affecting society. Ok not having the table set like a magazine may not be the downfall of society but families not eating together is. There are a lot of statistics that support families eating together. There are benefits such as reduced risk of obesity and drug use...

I think I went off on a tangent there- I really was just posting my latest project but I do feel pretty passionate about families eating together.

So I decided to make placemats that showed my kids how to set the table properly. It required a lot of thread and in the middle of my project I ran out. Josh likes me having a sewing project because I will watch movies with him while I sew. So I had told him that I had run out and he offered to stop by the local craft store on his way home from school to pick me up a spool of thread. Now I had just gone through 300 yds and wasn't quite half way done so I told him to get the biggest spool they had, because I wanted to make sure he didn't get me one of those small spools. Weelllll- my baby delivers! He brought me home a 1200 yd spool of thread! I almost started laughing. And then I worried that it wouldn't work on my machine but it did! So I finished the placemats the next day! Here they are. It works great. I can have Turner set the table and he knows where to put everything- even my husband can set the table properly now. And I love how cute they are!

And the idea was 100% totally out of my own head!

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Homemade Halloween

I realized as I was downloading all of the pictures that the things about Halloween that were the best were the things we made together! This picture is of the boys looking out the window. Everyday the week of Halloween we did a Halloween art project to decorate our window. It is kinda sad you can't really see all the awesome things we did from eye ball lights to giant spiders but we had a lot of fun!


It is kind of a tradition around here to get mysterious treats dropped off during Halloween called being Boo-ed. We have watched year after year as people around us have been boo-ed and we haven't. But this year we got boo-ed! So we made these treats to boo fellow neighbors :)


(They are spiders in case you can't tell!)


The whole family got in on the action.


One thing I love love love about living in Utah is that when a holiday is on Sunday we tend to celebrate it on Sat. So sat. night we had Josh's family over for some scary pizza before we headed out trick or treating. Unfortunately it was RAINING! Cats and dogs and the wind was blowing crazy. It ended up being a bad night for trick or treating but the few houses the boys went to... it was good enough for them!

Jack-o-latern pizza:



Mummy Pizza:

Halloween morning we had spooky pancakes.




A Ghost and a Bat


We decided for Halloween to all be characters from Dr. Seuss' The Cat In The Hat. Turner was the Cat, Max was the fish, the twins were thing 1 and thing 2 and Josh and I were the boy and the girl. We all dressed up on Friday night for our Church Halloween party. This the second time in life since twins we have all gotten together for a picture. The other time was in the hospital when I was recovering from a traumatic c-section. Don't worry I fixed that the next day and had my neighbor take a picture of us- check the side of the blog to see.



These are better pictures of the kids in their awesome costumes!








OK so if you never had twins this is how the twins photo shoot goes down. One baby screams so you calm them down and then you try again so the other baby starts screaming. You never have a good picture with the both of them.




See this is how cute Amelia was before I put the both of them together :)
Thing 2:





Thing 1:



The Cat:






The Fish:


She really does like to pose for the camera!

This is our first mother/daughter picture! We are getting ready for church Halloween day. If you recognize the skirt it is left over material from Max's fish costume.


It was a great Halloween. That night we topped off the festivities by celebrating at my cousin's Halloween party. She is an amazing hostess and is always having people over. If you know me, you know I LOVE LOVE LOVE any reason to be together! I hope you all had a fabulous Halloween too!