More Pictures from the Photoshoot

Nicole, I will send you a disk with all the pictures on it but for now I thought that I would wet your palate a little. Here are some pictures from our recent photoshoot with the boys. I already posted one of Max by himself so here are a few more samplings. You would think that Turner was looking at something funny but really he was looking at the tootsie roll dangled above my camera that we promised to give to him if he smiled. See he can do it with the right motivation!

Party anyone?

My friend is having an Usbourne party in the Utah Valley anyone want to come? Send me your address to my email teamthomson2005@gmail.com. It is Sat. the 15th! Please come- if for no other reason just to see me!

Maxwell David- 7 months

Turner is really into full names right now. The other day we were at Ross and there was a young toddler there. You know how toddlers exclaim their joy when they see a baby.. well that is what this little boy was doing at the sight of Max. "Baby, baby, baby!!!" Turner looked at him with narrow eyes and a serious look on his face and retorted: "No! Maxwell David!" The little boy persisted and so did Turner, pretty soon I had to leave the isle and head for a place of peace away from the war of the toddlers. Well my little Maxwell David is now 7 months old! It has flown by fast and I can't believe that we are on the downhill of the first year. Max has become a very happy child. (I know you can't tell from the portrait- stinker!) He loves to laugh esp. at his big brother. He wants to be right in the middle of the action and hates to be alone. He is still nursing like a champ but doesn't really like baby food. He would rather eat table food- a slice of bread or a hand full of kix is heaven sent. If he is going to eat baby food it is going then he would prefer sweet potatoes over anything else. He will sometimes eat peaches and pears but has literally thrown up over squash and green beans. Max is sitting up like a champ and can roll to get anything that he wants. He is a light sleeper and would prefer to sleep with mom and dad but has been sleeping "through the night" for a couple of months (except for when we are visiting family because I think he knows that I am not going to let him cry and wake everyone else up. And then it takes a week to get him back into the habit and then Turner get sick and is waking him up in the night...) He LOVES toys and is easily occupied with them. We love our Max and can't believe that he has only been with us for 7 months! We love you Max!

Halloween Happenings

We made it through another Halloween. This year we threw together costumes at the last minute and I have to say that I am pretty proud of ourselves. Turner was a cowboy, Max a court jester, Me a bride and Josh my bridesmaid. The dresses were in the closet just begging to be worn :)
(I know I know your not suppose to cross-dress, good thing my mom doesn't read my blog.) Turner and Max were invited to Stacy's Scardy Tot party-it was so fun! We had a blast being immersed in toddler world. (thanks for the picture Stacy I stole it from your blog!) Friday night Turner and I carved his pumpkin that he got at the pumpkin patch with GG and Crapa. We threw homemade pizza in the oven (our typical Friday night dinner) and ran around until we were all ready. After the candy was gone I turned off the lights and headed out to join the kids. We ended up at the McKays where they have a fire pit and doughnuts. We didn't even need coats it was such a warm night.
This is Turner's face when we informed him that he couldn't eat his Halloween candy until the next day (we sure are mean!) Max had a blast trying on Josh's wig- so this is what a daughter with a lot of hair might look like- cute if you ask me! We had just a great holiday and look forward to celebrating for the next couple of months! Now to decide where we are going for Thanksgiving...

Happy Thought- good quotes

One of my favorite quotes came up in a conversation with Josh tonight and I thought I would pass it along: "Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response and in that pause choose." -Rollo May. I love this quote! Steven Covey has been given credit for it before but it is really the work of Rollo May.

I am back!

So I have arrived back from my homeland. It was great to be with my family and enjoy those relationships that haven't been fortified in a long time. I didn't bring my point and shoot camera so all of the snapshot were left to my sister, parents, and cousins. So I don't have copies of them yet and probably by the time I get copies ya'll won't be interested in my trip any longer. So here is one of my sister and I have some portraits of my nephews and my kids I will post soon. Although the hardest thing about taking pictures of your own kids is that you can't be the mom and the photographer at the same time- so they aren't smiling in any of them but my sister's kids look great. We went to the Phoenix Zoo, the temple, the Prescott Zoo, my cousins took Turner to a Pumpkin patch, we rode a pony, did crafts with Grandma, Turner and Max had their first plane ride, went to homecoming, and overall just had tons of fun hanging out with cousins. I wish I could say that I was glad to be home but I feel like I belong to two different worlds and I am not completely whole in either one. I love AZ but I love UT also for very different reasons. I hope that someday we can find a happy medium.
Natasha's wedding was wonderful. She looked beautiful and her husband (Clint)seemed so excited to be marring her. The ceremony lasted all of 10 minutes but the message the sealer had was amazing! He talked about how he raised 7 children and one of them (Gary) was very good at trying to turn Mom and Dad against each other. One day he sat his son down and told him how much he loved him. He also stated that if he got to the other side and if Gary wasn't there he would be very sad. It would be really hard but if his wife wasn't there then he wouldn't be able to make it to the Celestial Kingdom. So although the relationship that we have with our children is important, it is the relationship that we have with our spouse that is the most essential. The truthfulness of his message was really impressed upon me. It is so easy to get sidetracked while raising small children. His message really helped me rededicate myself to my marriage and make sure that is my top priority in my family.

AZ here I come!

Well, tomorrow morning before the sun is up I will be on my way "home." Josh doesn't like it when I call my parent's house home because it is suppose to be that this is my home now. I love my little town in the Mountains but AZ will always be home. There are so many that I love that live there that it will take many more years of living here before I have the same type of attachment to this place.



I am so glad that I will be there for a couple of weeks because I want to see as many of you as possible! So please email me your phone numbers- teamthomson2005@gmail.com or call me 801.440.3304 on my cell phone. I really need some time to just relax and be with dear friends and family! See ya soon!

It's raining it's pouring

Monday we took our cute little Max to the Dr. for his 6mo. check up. 6mos. can you believe it! Well while we were there I happened to mention that Turner had had a couple of episodes where his heart was racing so fast that I couldn't count the beats- for no apparent reason. It turns out that he probably has a heart condition called supraventricular tachycardia or SVT for short. This isn't a good thing as while he is having an episode his body isn't getting nutrient rich blood because it is pumping so fast that it doesn't have time to get the things that it needs to take to the rest of his body. If his episodes last longer than a few minutes that it could be very dangerous. I have to meet with a pediatric cardiologist at Primary Children's Hospital and rush him into the Dr. or the emergency room next time it happens so they can preform an EKG. Well the ped. cardiologist is booked until Dec. so I guess it is just a bunch of waiting for us. And just for the cherry on top- our dishwasher kicked the bucket the same day. What does all of this mean? That something great must be right around the corner.

Thank You For Your Love!

I have been very touched by the out pouring of concern that has been expressed for Josh and I after my last post. Josh has been having some severe pain in his abdomen on and off for the last month or so. He had been to the doctor and he hadn't been able to diagnosis he up to this point. He was scheduled to return today for more testing but after a series of attacks on Friday he decided that he couldn't wait and went to the ER in Salt Lake since he was down there for work. By this time I was pretty sure that it was Gallbladder disease due to the fact that I had my gallbladder out last October. After tests the ultrasound confirmed that his "gallbladder was chock full of stones and contracting down around them." (Dr. Patel, discharged consultation)

They decided since he was so far from home to discharge him so that he could have the surgery up here with the surgeon that preformed my operation. The only downfall is that he is booked 2 weeks out just for a consultation! So he is trying to eat very carefully to avoid another attack. He is home from work today so he can meet with the Dr. The biggest problem with all of this is that I am suppose to be leaving Friday for 2 weeks for my sisters wedding. I am worried to leave him while I am gone. I am going to have to make a list for him of things he can and can not eat and hope that he doesn't have another attack again because then they will probably have to do an emergency surgery. So in short we are doing well now and thankful that it wasn't appendicitis!
P.S. on a happy note, if I am able to really leave- I will be in AZ for 2 weeks! Anyone down there want to hang out?

cancellation

Due to my husband being in the ER all day today, the weather forecast and lack of interest the sisters reunion is cancelled. I hope this last minute new isn't an inconvenience for anyone!