Marissa's Soccer

Marissa is loving Soccer for 3 reasons.

1 she is good at it.

2 Her team is undefeated

3 Shane "Kissme" Jackson thinks she is hot in her uniform.

It is amazing how focused Marissa can be when you take boys out of the equation. She loved football but was only 1 of 2 girls in the league. She often got distracted and tackled her own team players which if it wasn't bad enough she was playing flag football.

This All girl soccer team is just what she needs to get some athletic skills and have fun with girls.
She was very excited to hear a neighbor girl tell her about her talk with Shane "kissme" Jackson. Kayla (a neighbor girl) and Shane "kissme" Jackson were watching some of the kids play soccer in our back park. Shane "kissme" Jackson turned to Kayla and said who is that girl she is hot. Just then Marissa turned around and Shane "kissme" Jackson realised it was Marissa and took back what he said. Now we are having a hard time getting Marissa out of her uniform because she says Shane "kissme" Jackson thinks I am cute in it.

Easter egg hunt.

Easter egg hunts are fun at the Thompson house. We hide 100's of eggs and spend months finding them. Mom found an egg from last years hunt last month. We send the kids outside and hide the eggs. We often start the hunt by saying I know a great place to hide an egg but I will need a ladder and a shovel.

The egg hunters about to begin. There are only a few rules. Not in Grandmas room, grandpas office or past the double doors.
Some find only a few and give up purely they are beginners.

The Pantry is a great place to look. Don't forget the oatmeal box, sandwich baggies, that jar of straws to many places to hide thing. I watched 4 different kids find eggs in there.
Even the Toilet is a good place to look. Their was a money egg in there.
Make sure you check every box.
No closet left unopened and torn apart.
This bed was made and the jackets on hooks. It always is a fun event that takes much longer than an hour. Thanks grandma for being such a good sport.

Marissa's Birthday

Here are a few of the not chosen Photos Courtney and I took of Marissa in her baptism dress. She is very hard to photograph. Very stiff and non compliant.

Yesterday was Marissa's Birthday party. Nothing like twelve eight year old girls and a 3 year old tagalong to make for an exciting party. I knew I wanted to make it short so we made it 90minutes. Every year Marissa's birthday is over spring break and only have of the people she invites to the party come. I let her invite everyone she wanted to compinsate for the 50% failing rate of party goers. I also waited until spring break was over to trow the party. Her birthday was a week ago. All but one of the girls showed up and a sister of anther came. We had quite the group.

Marissa loves to do crafts so we started out will Dolly neclaces then went on to washcloth bunnies. The neclaces were a little advanced for some of the girls but they loved it. Here is a link to the tutorial

The bunnies were easy and a huge hit with the girls. They all named their bunnies and played with them when they were done making them. Link and tutorial are found here. I was so tired when the party was over. I wouldn't have been able to do it without the help of Mom, Nicole and Courtney thank you so much.

Marissa's Baptism

With all the family dinners this weekend I figured it would be a good time to hand out invitations to Marissa's Baptism. Everyone is invited. Courtney did a great job taking her photo. I am thinking we might be able to play a guessing game with this photo. Guess how many freckles Marissa has and win a prize. The problem with that game is she get's new ones everyday.

Miss you.

Last month Derek and I went with Grandma and Grandpa to meet My new Niece. Derek decided that Arizona is a long way away. Not to far two weeks later he wanted to go again. He had a great time with his cousin Sadie. He loved the park and her pool.

Sadie is crazy. They made these candy necklaces and two weeks later her mom sent me a photo of her and she still had candy on it. Derek and David ate theirs the first day.
This is Eve. She is the chunkiest cutes baby I have seen sense my own.
We had a great time with David. He is so good. He loves both his sisters and is a hard worker. You should see him empty a dishwasher. I started out the trip sharing a bed with Derek but then Sadie kicked me out. She wanted to sleep with Derek. I went in after they fell asleep and found them spooning.
This is David emptying the dishwasher. I wish my kids smiled that big while doing their chores. We are counting the days until they come to visit next month.

It's official she chose.....

Nicole has done her best to keep us all in suspense about what school she was going to but yesterday she made it official. She chose BYU. I told her once we spent any money on school she had to decide. Yesterday we put a deposit on her housing. She is not sure she believes anything that everyone is telling her about BYU. Like freshmen never get the classes they want she got all hers. Also housing is hard to get. Last week was her sign up time and there was no housing available this week she got the housing that she wanted. So far so good.

Dallen

It is spring break and that means I get to take all the kids grocery shopping. That means the cost goes up because everyone wants something. To make my life a little easier I assign a little kid to a big kid so no one gets lost. Courtney and Dallen were together. Courtney wanted some deodorant so they headed off to that isle. When they returned Dallen had some also.

He was so excited that he sprayed it everywhere. When Nicole's friend Rachael came over he was so excited about it that he told her. At dinner Courtney was making fun of Dallen saying he has put it on 4 times sense we got home. Dallen said " No it was five times."

great Idea

I copied this straight from my sister Lolly's blog. I joined. It sounds like a great idea.

JILL

More Fit for the Kingdom

Sarah, is organizing a 12 week fitness program to help people like me get back into shape. It is a well rounded program and includes challenges that change every week (no sugar, no eating after 7:30, 4 servings of veggies each day, etc.) and daily challenges for the whole 12 weeks (1/2 hour of exercise, scripture study, personal prayer, no soda, etc.) You earn points for completing different portions of the challenge and she is going to keep track of all the points and put them on a spreadsheet so that we are all accountable to each other.

I have NEVER been good at exercising, but my lingering baby weight makes me very open to the idea and I know that being accountable to others will help me stick to it.

It starts April 11th. Any one else inspired to join?? Check out the blog that she has started for more details and either contact me or her to join

Derek's birthday

We are working on a Toy Story Party for Derek here are some ideas that I have found. I think the party will center around the little Aliens. The invitations

The cupcakes

Here is the cupcake idea

http://family.go.com/disney/pkg-disney-recipes/recipe-857832-green-alien-cupcakes-t/?cmp=otc-dis-toystory_aliencupcakes

Hobby Lobby has green t-shirts half price this week. I am going to make these t shirts for party favors.

Not sure what else we will do but this is a good start.