The Thomson's

Well we are all still suffering from a sugar overdose, but aside from too much candy, Halloween was great! We started last Monday by carving some pumpkins with the Watson’s.

Ryenn even helped clean out the “guts”

Brix hung out (literally…ha) in the jolly jumper while we made our masterpieces

here they are! the one on the right is Josh and Crissy’s

I was debating back and forth between dressing Rye up as Cinderella or a witch. She had both costumes, thanks to Grandma Lori. I put both dresses in front of her and had her pick one and the witch was the winner! I found a second hand monkey costume for Brix, which worked out great.

i sat them down to get some pictures and all Brix wanted to do was eat Rye’s skirt ha. she wasn’t real impressed : )

the cutest monkey i ever did see

Ryenn the witch

this one is my favourite of the little monkey. his smile kills me : )

Roger was talking to Ryenn on the phone earlier in the week and asked her if she was going to get candy on Halloween. Her response was “candy and money!” Haha, I’m not sure where she got that idea. Who’s kid is this anyway? It was pretty funny though. We practiced saying “trick-or-treat” and Cody took her out to a few friends’ houses around town while I stayed home to hand out candy, then we all got in the vehicle and went out to see Cody’s grandparents on the ranch. It was a good night and Rye had lots of fun! She loves treats so I think she felt like she hit the jack pot!

I just wanted to share a few pictures of my cute family. Hope you enjoy!

notice how brix and rye look so much alike in that one

Well little Brixter is 4 months old! It’s kind of crazy to think our family ever existed without him. And what did I ever do with my time as a mom of one? Man, I had it good! ; )

The past four months have been great though. Brix is a really good baby. He sleeps good at night (most of the time) and he is happy during the day. Unless he’s hungry. Then he’s not so happy. I think he gets that from his dad : )

Brix has the cutest laugh and the most adorable smile, if you can get it out of him. He always smiles for me, but people he doesn’t see as much he really makes them work for it.

Brix is only 4 months old, but he is already an awesome little brother. He puts up with a lot of mauling and hand holding and kisses and cheek squishing. I’ve even caught him being sat on. And the other day, during his bath, Ryenn dumped a bucket of water right in his face. And through all of this he doesn’t even bat an eyelash. I think deep down inside he is just laughing away because one day, he will get her back. But maybe they will be the best of friends and get a long great. A girl can dream, right?

He’s already on his way to being bigger than his sister. He is about 18lbs! And he just started rolling over a couple days ago.  

on his way over to his tummy

We put Brix in the jolly jumper last night. He doesn’t quite have the hang of jumping yet, but he seemed to like it…

…for a few minutes

'”someone help me”

This is him today. Ryenn was making him laugh. She really is a great sister and couldn’t love her baby brother more. I’m so lucky : )

And here are my two most favourite little people in the world.

A couple weekends ago, Mom and I ran in the 5k fun run in Glenwood. I heard about it 10 days before race day and wasn’t sure I’d be able to do it, but I thought it’d be fun, if I survived : )

Mom was totally up for it. She’s been running consistently for months now so she is an old pro! I had been running a little bit in the weeks before the race, but I was just trying to get some exercise, not training for a 5k. And the last time I ran 5k was in the Cardston family fun run in 2009.

So three years and two kids later, here I was trying to run 3.1 miles, again.  I figured if I was going to enter the race, it would be pointless if I couldn’t run the whole thing. That was my goal. And since I’d done it before, I figured I could do it again. Well I “trained” for those few days and all too soon, race day was here. I was nervous the night before and that morning, for some reason. I met mom at the Glenwood school where we registered and stretched and psyched ourselves out. I told mom if it came down to one of us winning at the end, I would show no mercy and leave her in the dust.

10:00 rolled around and we lined up on the start line. The gun went off and we started our run, side by side. Things were going pretty good…as we passed the ``kilometer 1`` sign. So we kept running, and I was doing okay, but we were only 2 kilometers in. I could tell at this point that things were going to get ugly.  I wasn’t used to running outside on gravel or having the hot sun beat down on me (at least that`s my excuse).

Mom was beside me just a runnin` away. At about 2.5k she made me eat my words, and her dust, when she took off. I was still running at this point. Not very fast, but I wasn`t walking. I wanted to walk so bad, my lungs were about to give out. But I didn`t come this far to walk half of it, so on I went. I had to keep talking myself out of stopping, because that`s all I wanted to do. Lay down, right there in the ditch and just try and breathe again. Mom was quite a bit ahead of me, still going strong. If my mother could do this, surely I could too.

Not fast enough, I turned the last corner and the finish line was in sight! What a relief! I might actually make it. At this point I was so excited to be done, I mustered all the energy I could and ran a bit faster (if it can even be called running). The sooner I got there, the sooner I could collapse on the ground and cry.

Well, I did it! Not the crying part, but the race! I made it across the finish line and I ran the whole 5 kilometers!

Mom beat me. But I still love her ; ) And looking back, I`m so glad I didn`t give up. Mom and I both actually got the best time we ever have. It felt great to accomplish a goal! And I learned a couple lessons in the process; I can do hard things! And training for more than a couple weeks would probably be beneficial.

Half marathon, here I come!!….maybe. It might be a good idea to see if I can survive a 10k first ; )

thanks mom! that was fun. you are an inspiration!

Ryenn stayed home with Cody and Mal came to the race to watch Brix. Thanks Mal!

The season of football, that is! Cody is the defensive coordinator for the high school football team and that keeps him pretty busy. They have practice every day during the week and a game every weekend, so having Cody home for more than a few hours in a day is definitely a treat. But he loves it, and that makes it worth it : )  I’ve taken the kids to a couple home games this season and aside from Ryenn being terrified of the cougar mascot, they loved it! The weather has been super nice too. Because of that I’ve come to a realization; football is sure a lot more fun to watch when you’re not freezing your butt off!

our family at the Cardston Cougars first game of the season

our future football star (at least his dad sure hopes so)

It seems that fall will always equal football at the Thomson house. As the saying goes, “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em”. So I will enjoy it while it lasts and then do a little happy dance when it’s over : )

So I think it’s pretty awesome that Brix has two other boy cousins that were born within a couple months of his birthday. Lindsey and Jeff welcomed Nash to their family on May 10th and Kami and Mark had Max on Aug 10th. This is the last picture taken of all these boys before we met them : ) And the three stooges are the boys, not us girls, in case anyone was wondering!

Nash was born a couple weeks later.

This is us sisters now, with all our baby boys!

Max has a little bit of catching up to do in the chubby department!

Can’t wait to get these boys all together again at Christmas when the Drew’s come home from Saskatoon!

Well thanks to the crazy hail storm that happened in July, Cody and I were able to buy a holiday trailer for a pretty decent price. It is a little beat up on the outside but it works great! We got a chance to try it out a couple weekends ago. We headed out to Spring Glen Park with the Boehner's and stayed for a couple nights.

these two had a great time

Brix was really good the whole time

our first family camping trip in our new trailer

look at that beauty! tuck tape windows and all : )

We had a lot of fun. Camping with a trailer is definitely the way to go! Can’t wait til next summer when we can use it again.