Sox Win!

As many of you know, Derek is a huge Red Sox fan. Since birth actually. I think it would be hard to grow up in New England and not be a Sox fan. So we were ecstatic last night when they won the World Series. He is in Red Sox heaven. We also realized that both of our kids were born the years the Red Sox won the World Series. So....if we have a baby next year, you'll know why. Oh man, I gave myself an anxiety attack just thinking about that.These are the clothes Derek would put on before each game. He started when they were down in the Cleavland series 3 games to 1. They brought them luck (so he thought). So he wore them 7 games in a row (they won all of them). With out washing them. Gross.

This is Mason throwing a tantrum because I wouldn't let him have my Diet Coke.

chatter box

Reese loves to talk. This is what I wake up to at 3am. I'll have to admit, I would much rather hear this than screaming (but I'd really like to hear nothing). Enjoy!

Pumpkin Patch?

Okay, so we we weren't able to go to a pumpkin patch this year....so we opted for the not so traditional pumpkin patch. We went to Safeway. There were about 20 pumpkins left and they were all pretty ugly. We got just an ugly one. Mason loves it. We will carve it Monday night for Family Home Evening.

Trunk or Treat

We went to our ward's "trunk or treat" at the church last night. The kids dress up in their costumes and go around to everyone's car to get candy! Mason absolutely loved it. He couldn't believe people were giving him candy. While he was walking around to the cars, he stopped, looked at his dad and said "I love Halloween". Smart boy. We'll also take him trick or treating on Halloween night around the neighborhood. As you can see, Mason was a dragon (although most people thought he was a dinosaur or a monster), and Reese was a mermaid. We think they are pretty cute!

Goodbye Elder Thompson

Last week, my baby brother left on his mission to Hamburg Germany. Well, actually he is in the MTC (missionary training center) in Provo Utah for two months to learn the language and learn how to teach the gospel. Then he will go to Germany in December. Alec will be there for two years and can call home on Christmas day and Mothers day. He also can send weekly letters. We said our goodbye's here and that was REALLY hard for me. It was much harder this time than when my two older brothers went on their missions when I was in junior high. We will miss him so much, but we know he is doing the Lord's work. We are so proud of him and his example to our children. My parents took these pictures right before they said goodbye to him.

Rice cereal

Reese had her first encounter with rice cereal a couple weeks ago. I'm curious if any baby really likes that stuff, because both of my kids weren't impressed. Now I have a HUGE box of it that will end up in the trash. Good thing it was only a dollar!

Bad, bad people

Yesterday our house was broken into while I was running errands. I drove into our driveway and saw the front door had been kicked open and knew something bad had happened. I called Derek and then 911 (staying in my car). An officer was there in 5 minutes and he had me go to the 7-11 down the street until he checked the place out with another officer. Derek got there soon after that. My mom was able to come pick up the kids before I went back. Then we assessed our loss. New plasma TV, XBOX 360, PSP, games and other little electronics. They didn't touch our check books or bills. The crazy thing is, I had put our lap top on top of the fridge that morning because Mason kept trying to play with it. I have never done that before and apparently he didn't see it up there! What a blessing, to lose personal information and ALL my kids pictures would have been devastating. He also didn't open up one of the drawers to see our new digital camera! It sucks having your stuff stolen, but the worst feeling is being violated. We have renters insurance so we know we'll get our stuff back, but I have this sick feeling inside all the time now. I wish it would go away already!! We were moving out anyway this week, so I decided to just pack up last night and get all the important stuff out. I never thought this would happen to us. Even a locked, dead bolted door won't keep bad people from doing bad things!