Joseph and Chantele April 12, 2013

Jospeh came home from basic training on April 6, 2013

Proposes to Chantele Sunday April 7, 2013

Marries her April 12, 2013

 

Congratulations you two :)!!!

Pictures taken by Emily Wilkinson (Chantele's Bonus Mom)

 



Trip to San Diego

At the end of last year, my baby brother enlists to the Marine Corps. It's a bittersweet thing. On December 23rd he reported to Basic Training in San Diego.
He had a set back by getting very sick so he ended up graduating a month later then planned but he ended up having a great experience. It was wonderful going back after being away for so many years to watch his graduation with my family. Matt was promoted at work so he was unable to come due to the transition. Luckily Joseph was able to come home with us so he could see him, along with the boys.
It was my second time seeing a Marine graduation and I loved that my great friend Dawn was able to come see it with us. She needs to move to Utah!!
Waiting to see Joseph for the first time in months

Can you spot him?

Blogger keeps turning it but he's front and center

 Handsome!

 Proud family of a Marine

So this is what happens when you have your little sister take a picture of us at the Graduation. This is the only picture I have of Dawn :(. It's ok Abby, we still love you :)

After the graduation festifities we got to see the old neighborhood and friends. It looked like time stood still because nothing changed. So weird! It was also great being able to spend time with our family that lives on Manhatten Beach before going home.

Leanna Comes Home!!

Leanna came home March 28th from serving an 18 month mission from Edmonton Canada. We're so happy to have her home again. She has some amazing stories. Every letter she sent home I posted to a blog that I kept going for her. Please take a look!

 

Christmas 2012

 

 Cookies that Evan made for Santa

 Christmas Pajamas

 

 Is Santa here yet?

 Matt's mother collected all these pictures and gave them to him sometime before or after we were married. They were sitting in box so I wanted to put this book together for him. A lot of wonderful memories with her.

Made two of these for both mine and Matt's parents

Made for Austin and Amy Smith

 We all got to skype with Sis. Thompson :).

Lights at Temple Square

Instead of driving we took the Front Runner now that it's in Provo.

 

It was so nice because we didn't have to worry about parking. Driving may have been faster but it was packed downtown so it would of taken just as long finding a parking spot, if not longer.

We first went to City Creek for dinner. The boys loved the water. They wanted to get wet so bad even though it was freezing.

We walked around to see all the nativities and then we took the boys to the Visitor Center for a little bit to warm up. Evan loves the South Visitor Center so he can see the replica of the Temple. He can't wait to be 12.

 

 

 



ESG Christmas Party 2012

Matt's Company Christmas Party was another bowling party. I look forward to it because the boys can bowl all they want which they love. The all you can eat pizza is another plus

They mixed things up things this year and gave us the opportunity to win some cash. If we bowled a strike with a colored pin out front we got $20. Matt got a strike on everyone and brought home $60.

 Evan didn't get strike on a colored pin but he got a spare. He was given $5

Alex also took home $5 because ESG is awesome like that :).

 

 

 I wasn't so lucky. I never got a colored pin lol.

 

Vocal Motion

Back in September we put Evan in a Vocal Motion class. I'm so glad we did because he had a lot of fun. We also enjoyed watching him have a good time. At the end of the class he performed in three different performances in different locations, dancing and singing to Christmas songs. Christmas came early in our house because he would sing all the time. He also danced when he had the chance.

 

These videos were filmed during the parent performance. It was the first one they all did. The other ones were at the Provo and the Riverwoods Malls. It was great seeing friends and family come out to watch him perform.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Card 2012

Photo Card

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I wont give up!

I'm not giving up on this blog. If there's anyone that still reads it I plan to blog again...someday. A lot has happened that I would love to blog about but I'm busy with my family and CHRISTMAS!!

Happy Birthday Evan!

My baby turned five! Evan will always be my baby :).

It's hard to believe he will be in Kindergarten this coming August. Time goes by so fast!

Evan got a fun present for his birthday. It snowed!

We didn't play in it too long because not much was on the ground yet and we had lunch with Matt at his office after shopping.

At first we planned to have his birthday party on his birthday but I had a Leadership Training Meeting and a lot of our invited guests had it as well so we moved it to Saturday. We didn't want Evan to sit at home on his birthday so we asked Papa and Grandma Thompson to watch him and Alex at Lowes Xtreme Air Sports. Michael and Julie were in town from Cedar so they also had Elai. Laura rescheduled a date so she could also go. They had a lot of fun without us!

For Evan's party we also planned to have the party at the Thompson but since it snowed (a lot), we moved it to our place. It didn't snow as much in Spanish Fork so we had parking. Our place is small for the amount of people that were coming. That's one of the downfalls living in Utah and having a birthday in November. Luckily it all worked out and we all had fun! We didn't hold back on the Pinata. It's not a party without one.

 

My mom and sister are overreacting in the pictures ;) lol.

The kids were unable to break it so we brought out the big guns and got it on video.

Evan got some great presents and was very spoiled. Here's only a few.

Evan's cake made by Laura.

He keeps asking for a Lightning McQueen cake. I might just persuade him to do something different next year.

 I love this picture of all the Thompson grand kids with their grandparents even if they're not looking at me, except for Alex :).

Thanks everyone that came!

After the party we took Evan to dinner at Denny's and then the BYU football game against Idaho. It snowed so much the day before that it was comical when we got there. We had to do some snow removal.

 We had a lot of time to kill before the game so we had some fun playing in the snow. I'm glad I picked the very top :).