Sami's World

We have had the most amazing garden this year. We’ve been doing compost for 2 years now. This last year we decided to put our compost pile where our garden would be. So this spring we spread out all that beautiful soil. Added a bit of cow manure and rototilled it all in till the soil was nice and wonderful. Read the rest of this entry »

We attended the last A’s game of the 2011 Season on September 21. Instead of inviting our good friends the Dalrymples we let each child pick a friend to invite. Read the rest of this entry »

No pictures but we did finally have that garage sale we’ve been talking about for a year! We spent all of Friday cleaning out the garage, deciding what we were going to sell and how to arrange it. Then, instead of putting everything away, we just prayed it wouldn’t get stolen in the night. We had about 5 hours of sleep before getting up again and putting all the final touches on the sale. Read the rest of this entry »

Alix has always been my more crafty one. Constantly asking to do crafts, sewing, coloring etc. I’ve always hesitated to let her do much for 2 reasons: 1-if she was doing it everyone wanted to do it 2-I didn’t want a mess. Read the rest of this entry »

We had our first apple harvest in September. I can’t remember exactly when we did it but it sure was fun. I forgot to get pictures of everything we did but here is the list: Read the rest of this entry »

Afton hit a milestone! Fifth birthday’s in this family mean PARTY! Afton got to invite 5 friends for a party. She picked princess theme. Since I had Jaime and Alix’s parties to plan, I felt as though Afton’s got neglected a bit. But it all turned out wonderful. Read the rest of this entry »

Scott and I celebrated our 13 year anniversary on September 4! What a fun milestone to hit. We are in the teens. Seems like a long time and yet it has flown. In a few short years I will have been a Thompson as long as I was a Sutherland!! Read the rest of this entry »

Well, I’ve kept all my faithful readers in suspense long enough. I will now post about September. Since you all are not used to me being up to date, I didn’t want to disappoint. I think now is a good time to write about September…. Read the rest of this entry »