Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas! xoxoxo

Love, The Thompson Troop

Getting Ready for Christmas!

Maizie has been on the look out for Santa and his elf's...

She found these foot prints and Quickly grabbed the camera and took a pic so she had proof...! She had been on her Best Behavior, I hope they have seen her doing something Good!I was cleaning up the family room and noticed something in the fire place.

I got a little closer and found this cute note taped up for Santa, from Maizie!

Millie Decided to give herself a Hair cut so she could be looking Top Notch Christmas Morning!

I about died when I saw all her darling curls laying on the counter.

She is sporting a mullet! Wish I had a photo so show.
No its not that bad but we will have to work some magic to hide the short chunks!
Looks like we are in for a Great Christmas!

Our Lil Service Project

So we finally wrapped up our "Service Project" and got them delivered to the

The bundles of cards we delivered!I had to lay out some of them to show how Cute they turned out!
The kids have Mastered the art of tying blankets!
They all grabbed a corner and whipped out 23 blankets.


Here are some of the blankets we Delivered.
The kids are dropping off the Bags and Bags of Goodies!
The House was Amazing... we had to get Special Clearance to enter the gate and front door.

We got our own Personal Tour of the house. It was so Wonderful to see all the Good people have done to help others in need.

I wanted to Thank everyone that helped...

Debbie Jarvis = Blankets

Amanda Jammes = Cards

Bethany Amberson = Blankets

The Middleburg Primary = tied blankets and made cards

Heath's Agents = Blankets

(We tied blankets at the Christmas Party)

Kim Demmick = Blankets and Cards

(Kim was even moving and days before she was leaving I ran into her buying more material to make blankets. Amazing!)

Thank You Thank You!

Some of my Favorite things about the Service Project:

Having my kitchen table full of cards, paper, glue, stickers for 3 days while we whipped out 23o cards! Nice Work Thompson Troop!

Having Millie be totally worried about the sick kids...

Millie: "I hope the sick kids don't throw up on each other.."

I had to laugh and Count my Blessings when we think "Sick" we think throwing up... Not Cancer!I'm thankful for my Healthy Family!

Watching the kids dig in and have Fun serving others.!

Our Tour of the McDonald Home, It helped see just how Blessed we are!

Watching the Primary kids glue up those cards.

Going to pick up the boxes of goods from the Demmick home the morning they were moving!

Thanks again to everyone who helped!~

We know those kids will be very Thankful for the Cute Blankets and Cards!

xoxoxoxo

Reason to Smile!

Maizie was Quick to Forgive me when I sent her to school in her Pajama's.

Only Problem was Pajama Day is Tomorrow.

About 3o minutes after I dropped her off it hit me...

Wrong Day...

I quickly grabbed a change of clothes and ran to the school. Maizie meet me with a Big Hug and said, "it's OK Mom, I will be ready for Tomorrow!"

Heath and McKinnley made a Fancy Dinner!
Notice the Fire Heath is making...
It was Delish!
Steak with sauteed Mushrooms and Onions in this
Incredible sauce, Rosemary Potatoes and Peas!
Lucky Me... I get to clean up the Grease!
The Jacksonville Jaguars are playing the Indianapolis Colts tonight.
Kade is for the Colts...
Heath is for the Jags...
Kade got into his Jersey for LUCK!
We all curled up on the couch with Gmat's Famous Mint Brownies.
Love my Boys!
Other Reasons...
My car battery died, Heath was with me to get me a New Battery!
I have Clean bed sheets to climb into tonight!
Only one more day till the kids are out for Christmas Break!
My neighbor gifts are all finished ready to deliver!
Heath ran errands with me and we had a yummy lunch date!
I have a clean fridge, with Eggnog inside!
Life is Good!

A Lil' Fun in the Sun

Hip

Hip
Hooray!
We spent the afternoon at the beach ...
We found all kinds of Treasures...
Shell, and more shells!

Madison found a marker and began decorating.

Kade found a Horseshoe Crab

This is My Treasure! HOT!

We had a Perfect Afternoon!

Nothing like going home with salty, sticky legs and sandy feet!
Maizie had enough of walking around in wet jeans and decided to ditch them
and run around in her undies... Oh we Love the Beach!

Nothing like a Hot Sunny day in December!

Borsh Anyone?...

We had to do it... With Heath and Kathryn both 1/2 Russian..

We had to Celebrate with a Russian Feast!

When dinner was over we cranked up the music and had a Dance...

A party is not a party with out a dance!

These Monkeys had some crazy moves!

It was a wild night!

My Teacher

Last night Heath myself and Millie were laying on my

bed talking when

Out of the blue Millie says,

"My Dad is my Coach and My Mom is my Teacher. "

I said, "Oh yea what do I teach you?"

Millie says, "To cook."

She then proceeds to tell me how to make brownies...

"You turn the oven on. Get the eggs and smash them in the bowl with brown stuff.

Then you have to run open the door and let the smoke out...."

I guess I haven't left a very good impression on her with my cooking skills if what she remembers about making brownies is running and opening the door to let the smoke out...

Bummer!

Our Christmas Elfs

We Journeyed out to pick out our tree

and oh did we find a Cute one!

The kids loved rummaging through the Christmas box to find all the ornament treasures and decorating the tree. I found myself following behind and tryed to even out the tree. It seemed to be bottom heavy... several places had 3 or 4 ornament's on each branch.

I loved to watch their Excitement as they Decorated the tree.

We couldn't help but Smile, after it was all decorated.

We climbed on the couch

turned off the lights and watched the tree glow! = Happiness!

I love this time of year for Many reasons... Here's a few.

-The smell of a Fresh Cut Tree...
-Turning on the Christmas tree lights each morning and night...
-Dancing to Christmas Music...
-Always being on watch for Santa's Elf's..
-Singing the song, "You better watch out, You better Not Pout over and over cause Maizie and Millie have asked me to sing it again.
-Making Hot Chocolate for all to share...
-Sitting on the couch each night quietly and enjoying the tree and lights...
-Writing and coloring to Santa... (My fridge is covered with art work for Santa)
-The warm-togetherness kind of feeling!

Our Thanksgiving Day.

After a Yummy Thanksgiving Feast we went for a drive and enjoyed the beach. I convinced everyone to take a photo...Here one of our Crazy faces... Heath was getting CrAzY!!

We are Thankful for Each Other!

The Turkey Bowl was Fantastic!

The Thompson Boys Couldn't be Stopped!

(K.Jarvis your photos were Awesome... I hope you don't mind I borrowed them!)

Heath was the QB ran in 3 TDS!

Kade was the Receiver and Scored 4 TDs!

Way to Work It Boys!

We finished the day off with some fun card games... and big plate of Pumpkin Pie!