Pop Goes the Monkey

So, Adam has done all of the posting so far, mostly because I just can’t figure out how to do it. I remember when I was a kid and we used to laugh because our mom had a hard time playing Nintendo with us. I now find myself rapidly turning into my mom. I have no idea how to plug our TVs into the wall and hook them up to the cable, TiVo, and DVD player and now that Adam has an i-phone I can’t figure out how to turn it on much less make an actual phone call with it. But, that being said, since it is Adam’s birthday I can’t really expect him to do this post so here I am attempting it.

Adam is such a great husband and dad. He has a million times more patience with our children than I do (then again my patience is usually almost nonexistent) but his patience is probably the thing at this point in our lives that I appreciate the most. He works hard to provide for our family and we love him to death. Happy birthday!!!

I just wanted to take a second to wish my wonderful wife a happy birthday. Sandy is such an amazing person. She works 20 hours a week to help pay the bills. She watches our kids every day. She also does the vast majority of the cooking, cleaning, and other various chores. She’s a great friend to everyone who knows her and always considerate of their needs.

Anyways, I really am grateful for all that you do Sandy. You are my best friend and a great partner in this journey. I couldn’t do it without you. We all love you so much.

Sandy came and brought the kids up to my work tonight so that we could drive over to Thanksgiving Point. They’ve got a lot of fun stuff going on right now. We decided to do their Barnyard Boo since Cassie’s still pretty young and we had to lug Peter around.

We did the the Barnyard Boo last year as well with Sam and Jessie for Cadence’s birthday. It’s pretty fun for the little ones. There’s a lot of random activities and lots of animals to look at. It’s fun because Cassie knows how to say the names of all the farm animals, but this is the first time she’s seen them all in person while knowing what they are.

She’s pretty bashful around them, though and she never really wanted to get too close. She also didn’t want to try the pony rides again this year. She just likes to keep her distance and name the animals from afar. She does pretty good with the names and sounds, but for some reason she thinks pigs are really pirate piggies. Weird?!

Hello and welcome to the Thomson blog. Sandy and I both have existing blogs, but we wanted to combine our efforts and get everything in one place. Over the next few months, we will probably be updating some of our old blog materials and other items from our family photo collection.

Here is a picture from Cassie’s first birthday in July, 2007. We went up to my parent’s cabin and had a birthday dinner up there.