November Adventures

It's basically been a month since I last blogged. November has come and gone in a whirl wind so I lost track of what day it was. We had so much going on so I have a few things that I will like to blog about.

I stepped out of my comfort zone and hosted a Baby Shower for my good friend Amy. I never hosted a baby shower before so this was a new experience for me. There was so much that I wanted to do and I realized I could get in trouble by spending so much money. I thought it was a great success and it was so much fun. I had it in my home and close to 40 people showed up! It had nothing to do with me but because Amy is such a great person and loved by so many people.


I cut Evan's hair for the first time. I thought he would be fine with it but I was shocked to find that Evan was scared to death. He was shaking so bad. We didn't get any pictures of him during the cut because Matt was busy comforting him while I was trying to hurry. I felt so bad. Once I was done he calmed down and went back to playing. He wouldn't hold still long enough for a really good after shot.


Thanksgiving was really special this year. Since Grandma Haymore has been having medical problems, Uncle David invited the whole family for Thanksgiving dinner. He planned it for the day after Thanksgiving so more people could show up. That let us have another Thanksgiving Dinner with Grandpa Thompson. We left Tuesday night so we could have more time with him. On Thanksgiving we offered to help make food but Grandpa declined. During dinner we understood why. He wanted to prove to himself that he could do it and oh my gosh! It was delicious!! We all couldn't get over how yummy it all was. I'm still craving his Turkey and homemade stuffing. It's making me hungry just thinking about it! I still felt bad for not helping prepare the food so I offered to help with the dishes after I put Evan down for his nap. Before we dug into pie and ice cream we drove to the cemetery to visit Grandma Thompson's grave. I never been there so I'm glad we went.


After the cemetery we went to a fun park. When I went to upload the photo's they were blurry. Our camera decided that it didn't want to work for us anymore so I'm really sad. I'm going through withdraw ls. I'm glad Laura took photos of the trip because I wouldn't have any so thanks Laura! They aren't super blurry but you can't see much of Evan's face. He was having so much fun chasing birds with Daddy.
The camera might be set to something that I can't figure out how to fix because we filmed him on this awesome swing and it turned out clear. I guess we need to fiddle with it more.

Thanks Grandpa for a great Thanksgiving and a fun stay!

For the Haymore Thanksgiving, we enjoyed being with Family and eating delicious food. Here are some pictures of our afternoon.
Preparing the food



Playing games before and after dinner

We invited the missionaries since they were in the building.

Most of the gang that was there


A picture of Evan


It was great seeing Grandma Haymore. She's looking great. Here she is with the Thompson Grandkids.


The plan was to go home the next day but Matt and I decided to stay an extra day and leave Sunday morning so we could have more time with Family. Laura stayed with us but before the rest of the family left, we joined our Hamblin cousins in the hunt for their two Christmas tree's. Aunt Gwen missed her flight home from Georgia so she couldn't be there was us. Another reason why we wanted to stay an extra day so we could see her. We went into the mountains and we were expecting it to be cold but it was really hot!





There were dogs there and the younger kids loved them especially Evan.



Before we left we had their yummy Apple Cider. We never had anything that tasted so good. Before we went home we stopped off at In and Out. A must have when we visit a place that has one. I miss not being able to go there whenever I want too.
Matt continued to help our cousins with the trees and he helped put up Christmas lights on the house when we got back.

Either Matt saw the fruit growing on their neighbors tree or Chris showed him. They brought them in to show us and they are huge! Can you guess what they are?

If you guessed a grapefruit you are wrong. They're lemons!

The guys had to try them hehe!




Here are some cute pictures of the kids. Faith was sitting on Alaina because she was in her chair lol.

That's better!

Evan playing with Faith

and just Evan.


We had a great time in California and we hope to visit again soon. We woke up bright and early for our drive home. Before we drove into Salt Lake we stopped to look at the Salt Flats. I never really saw them in the day time because we always drove through when it was dark. We also wanted Evan to run around.





Now we get to look forward to Christmas!

Happy Birthday Evan!

Evan turned a year old yesterday. Matt and I have been blessed with such an amazing son. He has brought so much joy into our lives that we can't imagine life without him. His Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles feel the same way. Thank you everyone for helping make Evan's birthday a fun one. He can't talk but from the look on his face the entire night let us know he really enjoyed himself. Here are pictures from his party.
Him with his presents


Evan wasn't interested in opening his gifts so Daddy did it for him.


He got stacking cups


Baby PDA


Pull and Pop Pelican


Car Seat


Leap frog Learning Table


Clothes and books that aren't pictured

Here is his cake that Matt made and I decorated.


Singing him Happy Birthday


He wasn't too happy when daddy help blow out his candle hehe.


His first taste


He loved the frosting!


Big Bite!


Cleaning up the after math


During his bath a friend of ours came and he got another gift!


The Saturday before his party we got his pictures taken. She took close to 200 pictures and they all turned out so cute! Here are some as promised.

First Born Tag

Our baby boy just had his first birthday so this Tag is dedicated to him. Here is a description of our day one year ago . . .the best day of our lives.




BABIES FULL NAME? Evan Matthew Thompson



WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THAT SPECIFIC NAME? Matt and I had a hard time deciding on boy names because we didn’t like what each other liked. We almost named him Camden but we were afraid people will make fun of him because it’s the last name of the 7th Heaven family. Anyways, just one day I was outside and I heard the name Evan and I thought it was a nice name so I told Matt. To my surprise he liked it because it was his Grandpa’s name. Even though I’ve met Grandpa Thompson a couple of times I don’t remember ever hearing his name. It grew on us the next couple of days so we decided his name will be Evan after his Great Grandpa Thompson and Matthew after his Daddy. Great Grandpa’s full name is Evan M. Thompson.


WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? We were both ecstatic! We found out at 10:30 p.m and we were too excited to wait till the morning so we went to our parent’s homes to tell them our good news.


DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Yes! We just couldn’t wait the full 9 months to find out.


DUE DATE? November 6, 2007

DID YOU DELIVER EARLY OR LATE? 3 Days past due


DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Not one bit :)


WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? Mexican Food


WHO IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? Everyone had their moments

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX? Boy

DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS WITH YOUR PREGNANCY? Nothing too serious. I had to take things easy the last 4 weeks of pregnancy because I went into pre-term labor at 35 weeks and 6 days. They made me take more naps during the day and not to do heavy labor around the house. Oh darn :)! At my 40 week appointment my doctor checked me after being away for 2 weeks and was worried about the size of his head against my pelvis. He told me to anticipate a C-Section if he doesn’t come in the next 5 days.


HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? 10 hours


WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? Matt. It was around 5:00 am so hardly anyone was on the roads yet so it was a calm ride even though I was having some painful contractions.


WHO WAS IN THE DELIVERY ROOM? Just Matt


WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? C-Section


DID YOU HAVE AN EPIDURAL? Heck yes! I asked for it right after they checked everything. I was only in the hospital an hour.


HOW MUCH DID YOUR BABY WEIGH? 7 lbs 13 oz and 20 in long


DID YOUR BABY HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS? A few. Since he came on his own my doctor let me labor and try for a regular delivery because he didn’t think he could persuade me the other way from the beginning. I’m grateful that he allowed that because he was there for me and not just the money and I got to see how the natural process works if I have nothing but c-sections from now on. They broke my water and saw that he went #2 so the NICU was on standby. They gave me pitocin after a while to speed things up. After the first hour of monitoring the baby and I, things were going great so they doubled my dose. After a few mins, my nurses came rushing back in because Evan’s heart rate dropped. After putting me on oxygen and putting me on my side his heart rate was still low so they had to stop my contractions completely. They let things go for an hour to see where things were. My contractions came back but nothing was progressing so my doctor gave me the option to either move forward on the regular delivery or the c-section. We decided on the c-section because we didn’t want to risk an emergency one so we just went for it then. When he was born he was using all his energy to breathe so they took him to NICU to monitor him. He was doing great and he even beat me to the 3rd floor where the post partum rooms and nursery were.

WHAT HOSPITAL DID YOU DELIVER AT? Utah Valley Regional


HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRSTBORN NOW? He turned ONE today!



I tag anyone with children

Here are a few more pictures

Happy November!

I'm surprised that it's been really warm these past couple weeks. Usually it's so cold and we usually have snow from what I remember around this time. It was such a beautiful day that I couldn't have picked a better day to get Evan's 1 Year pictures done by a sweet lady in our old ward. She's the same lady that did our family pictures earlier in the year. I know he has another week left till he turns 1 but I don't think it will make a huge difference and plus I wanted to have his pictures for his party we're throwing for him. We had blue skies with a light breeze. She got some really cute shots of him and since yesterday was Halloween, she took a few in his costume. I got a few with my camera but other than that, I have no idea how the pictures turned out except for a few in the tree's. I'm looking forward to seeing them.


Instead of just going home or staying over at our Parents places since we were already down there, we took a drive up to Strawberry Reservoir through Provo Canyon. It was a beautiful drive and on our way home we decided to take Spanish Fork Canyon instead of another route that Matt planned to take. We were amazed at the view and had to stop to get pictures.








I'm so glad that we decided to go on the drive on the spur of the moment because I feel rejuvenated for another week.