Where do I begin??

After many months of not blogging,  I have finally found to the time to start this long overdue update.

Lots have happened since Halloween!

Kellen had his 1st Thanksgiving & 1st Christmas!  A ton to talk about. So get ready for some reading & some pictures because here it comes!!

CHRISTMAS

Boys opening up gifts

GG came to our house to paint her unforgettable window paintings

First Chrismas meal

Cookie decorating

Many sleep over nights

Love having everyone over!

Brayden putting the star on the tree

Decorating was so much fun!

Boys Cutting down the tree

The perfect 1st Thompson Family Tree

{Kellen was in the jeep sleeping}

Mommy & Kellen @ the Ugly Sweater Party

Un-King Jon @ Cocia Mandy blowing on Kellen's face

GG & Kellen

{GG won the sweater contest}

Mommy, Cocia Many & Cocia Erin

Mommy & Daddy

{aka hot 80's executive wife}

Santa's first check on Kellen

Kellen's 1st meet & greet!!

THANKSGIVING

 Here is a picture of the gang from Thanksgiving. 

This year was Jason's family's turn so we traveled down to Napavine and

celebrated the holiday, what a great time had by all.

I emailed dad up in AK to provide us with a holiday blessing that I could share before the meal.  This is what I received...

"As we gather here for this special day we would like to thank God for the 4 F's...

food, family, friends, and last but not least....FOOTBALL.  God's neat, lets eat"

Thank you dad for those special words, not only did they bring a laughter to the room,

it made me feel like you were there with us to celebrate a great Thanksgiving!

The Gang

Daddy, Kellen & Mommy

Us with Grandma Ragland

{Conrad unfortunately broke his leg & couldn't be with us that day}

Tera, Courtney, Kellen, Me & Val

Jason Celebrated his 31st down there and

Had the boys over for poker, pizza & rock band...

{Jason took home the winnings by the way}

Rock band...

Who's the hot bassist??

Is that the lead singer of AC/DC??

{Phew....more updates to follow soon!}

Happy Halloween

Kellen's 1st Halloween!!

Well, he really dressed up last year also but  didn't know it.

Yep, he was our lil pumpkin belly which won us "best costume" at Ian & Sandy's Halloween Party... but this year, he was our little Monkey.

It was a toss up between that or a bear.

{our 2 favorite nick names for him}

We did not go Trick -or-Treating all night around the neighborhood though.

Just decided for picture purposes to go to Cocia Erin & Uncle Ashley's before they

went to Tiffany's as they do every year.  Then off to Babcia & Dzia Dzia's house.

Dzia Dzia was up at work but Cocia Hana & "almost Uncle" Irish were there.

We were glad they were there to see him & Cocia Hana was even dressed up!

Hopefully next year,

Jason & I can take Kellen out with Erin, Ash, Caitlyn & Ashee

and start our own tradition. 

We had so much fun seeing him dive in the candy bowl, only to

then give those pieces he picked to Mom & Dad!

Maybe we should have went out all night with him!

Happy Halloween!

Let the carving begin

We decided to forgo Sandy & Ian's 4th annual Halloween party this year & stay at home

and do some family pumpkin carving.  Jason got pretty creative with his 2 pumpkins.

{go Hawks & Steelers}

And I had fun watching how excited he was as they were turning out.

I had the honor to do Kellen's 1st pumpkin as well as my own...BOO.

We also like to decorate our door for all the little Trick-or-Treaters!

The little kids all loved it and said our place was the best place

they've been to all night!

My First Pumpkin

Kellen's 1st pumpkin search!

We heard wonderful things about Spooner Farms in Orting

so we knew we had to go for Kellen's first pumpkin.

First, I have to start by saying, Jason's phone was acting up so his GPS wasn't working so he called Verizon and had them try to fix it all while I'm driving towards that area.

We knew how to get to Orting so I just kept driving down 167, then to 410, got off of the

Orting exit and drove a few minutes all the meanwhile mad at Jason 'cause his phone is still not working and we need to get to the pumpkin patch soon! 

I pulled over and called Sandra, the ARNP I work for, who got on her computer and helped talk us through this tough time Jason & I were bickering about.  She told us to stay on the road we were on and we should run into it.  After I hung up the phone with her, we pulled back on the road and drove a few more feet (literally) and it was there on our right!!  Needless to say, we laughed and I couldn't be mad at his phone anymore.

So when we got there, we knew we were going to let Kellen pick out

his own pumpkin.  We put him down on the ground, let him crawl around and the

first pumpkin he went to touch was his.

We had a blast & will definately be going back next year.

Enjoy some memorable pics of our first pumpkin patch outing as a family.

Kellen on the search.

The ONE!

1 on 1 bonding time with his new pumpkin in the wheelbarrow!

Yummy!!

Visiting the animals.  Felt just like Grandpa's house.

Until next year....