McCall Thompson Family Reunion

 We had a wonderful time in McCall the beginning of September for the Thompson Family Reunion. I wish I got more pictures, but I was still under the pregnancy sickness bug and wasn't thinking right. We enjoyed a delicious meal at the Pancake House one morning, went boating and took a family bike ride.

Scott was obsessed with hunting this year and he went up one morning with Steven to set up his hunting camera and shoot an elk with his bow... but no luck this weekend. He eventually got his deer a few weeks later, though. There were tons of deer walking around our cabin. So beautiful up here.

 

When we took our family bike ride, a lady asked us if we could take a picture together with the Clif Bar sign, why not if she supplies a box of free clif bars to everyone? Yes, thanks!  We had a great time this weekend!

{Cole turns 6}

Cole was on a flag football team (The Orange Tigers) this Fall, his first time playing and he finally got the hang of it around the end of the season. He loves it, and loves playing defense and running up and grabbing the flag off the guy on the other team with the ball.

On the morning of his actual birthday, he had a game, and I signed up to bring treats that day so I could do cupcakes and have him celebrate with his team. His coach is awesome and had the team sing "Happy Birthday" to him, which made him feel special.

After his game, we took him to the Mountain Home Air Force Base for their annual Air Show. It was awesome. It was hot. We got shaved ice and funnel cakes to survive. We explored some jets and played around with guns a little before the show started. Once the music went on an the jets cruised by overhead... it was amazing! SO LOUD! Lots of parents brought headphones for their kids to protect them from the noise, wish we would've known. But a cool experience.

 

After the Air Show, he wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese for pizza, presents, and games. We spoiled him crazy today, we know, but we didn't do a friend party. He got these walkie-talkies he's been wanting and this Flying Heroes spinning flying action figure thing.

 Then the next day we had a family combined party to celebrate him and his cousin Kenzie's birthday (They're born two days apart). He wanted a batman cake, so he got what he wished for.

 And then he was spoiled by presents from grandparents and cousins and aunt and uncles. Thank you all for making this day one to remember!

September Outings

 September has been in full swing of activities and weekend adventures. First state of business, all the kids needed dental appointments before going back to school. The oldest two both had cavities... very degrading to their daddy the dentist. Then Brock allowed them to clean his teeth for the first time, he did great!

 For Labor Day, we took the kids to the zoo, hadn't been to the Boise Zoo for quite some time. My kids were spoiled by living in big cities where there were dolphin shows at the Indy Zoo... but still we enjoyed this time together.

 Scott flew to Houston, TX to meet up with some friends from Indy to go Hog Hunting.... but details of the hunt weren't gathered beforehand, and it wasn't what Scott thought, so they took a chartered deep sea boat out and caught a few. Even one had teeth like humans (check out bottom right hand corner)!!!

 Scott is always on for a camping or fishing trip with the kids... since I've been pretty sick the last couple months he's taken one, two or all of them for the night. In the pictures above, was the first time he took all 3 by himself. It rained and so he got one of their cabins, but there was a hot springs swimming pool, the kids were in heaven!  Below, he went on a few scout camp-outs and usually took Cole.

Canning season has begun, we did pickles this year, something new we hadn't canned before. And we juiced our plums from our two trees.  Still have the grapes to juice now!

Park City 2014

 This is super late, but I wanted to document our Park City trip we had the last week of June. I didn't do so well at taking pictures, since I wasn't feeling the greatest (pregnant), but these are a few I remembered to take.

We always go bowling and the kids LOVE it.

 My mom gives a couple bucks prize to the kid who scores the highest. Also $20 to the adult who scores the highest, fun times.

 Swimming day is always a must as well, it's always so hot and the kids love swimming together with their cousins and aunts and uncles.

 I finally figured out what worked for Brock to swim. A puddle pusher, and he can swim all by himself. Way to go Brock!

On our way driving home from Park City, we stopped in Ogden to go through the Open House. It was a cool experience for my kids to walk through a temple before it was dedicated and get to see what it's all about.

Baptism Dress Photo Shoot

 My amazing friend took these of Ella in her dress, love them, love her!

{Ellas' Baptism}

 It's a surreal experience when your oldest child gets baptized. It seemed there was no way she was old enough yet. We had a combined baptism with Ella and her cousin Brynlee. What a cool experience this was to have all of her family there with her that day, except Papa, and Ryan and Kiley and family.

 Above:My sister Jenna, my mom, Me, and the girls Brynlee and Ella.

 Below: Grandpa and Grandma Thompson

We had the baptism at 4pm, so right afterwards we had a dinner for everyone. Scott made his divine pulled pork, and we had many sides, plus a cake honoring the special girls.

Nana spoiled them with gifts. We gave Ella her own set of scriptures.

 Here's my whole family (missing Fred)

I wish we got some more pictures of everyone else who showed up, especially a group one of the Thompson side. Steven and Kassie and their 3 girls were there, and Robbie's sister Sue & Mike were there. We also had some dear friends show: Danielle Olsen and kids, and Stephanie Christensen and Sage.  Charlie also had a bunch of his family travel to Boise for the occasion. Such a wonderful day!