Well the Thompson weakly update is about to begin. Hope you have plenty of time to read to the end…..
Wednesday July 25 proved to be another busy day. I finally finished all the plums and was ready to do jam. I wanted to get done sooner than I had the day before so I set Jaime to work. She would stir the mixture on the stove while I cleaned jars and set things in motion. I was usually done by the time the mixture was boiling. Once the mixture was done I would fill jars while Jaime measured the sugar for the next batch. We did four batches in about 3 hours. That was awesome because the other day I did two batches in 7 hours. Afton slept through all of it. Milo and Niah played nicely together and Alix was at a playdate. Scott dropped her off on his way to his doctors appointment. She got to play, then go swimming and then go to the library to see an astronomer. It was an amazing day for her. By the time she got home we got right into chores. We were done and dinner on the table and eaten by the time Scott got home. He pounded a dinner and helped with the final clean up. By that time it was 7 pm and time for Enrichment meeting. We were having it at our house and I was teaching homemade yogurt. Two sisters showed up which was perfect. We had so much fun talking and eating recipes made with yogurt. It was great.
Thursday I was suppose to go out to Brentwood again but my friend had to cancell on me. That was ok, I needed a day of rest anyway!! I didn’t actually take the whole day as rest. I spent some time going to the grocery store to get a few things for dinner. We had the sister missionaries over for dinner. Scott would miss all the festivities because of how late he gets home when he rides the shuttle. But the sisters and kids and I had a great time. We grabbed Scott from the shuttle and then came home and put kids right to bed. It had been too many late nights for the kids and we wanted to get them to sleep at a decent hour.
Friday was to be our busiest day by far. Jaime was suppose to have her first Activities Day activity, but it got cancelled, yay for me! We all went to the park for a few hours. Came home and showered everyone, dressed them in jeans and rootbeer t-shirts and headed to Scott’s work. It was the day of the company family picnic. They rented out the apitheater in Mountain View to hold the event. It was AMAZING!! We’ve been to other company picnics before, but this was awesome!! They hired a fair/circus. Think of any and all fair/circus’ you have been to, but make it all free. They had ice cream carts, popcorn carts, frozen lemonade carts, cotton candy (pink and blue), plus a buffett. In the family section they had hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, grilled cheese sandwhich’s, salads, fresh fruit, capri suns, waters, brownies, cookies….. So much food. Then they had clowns, face painting, goofy hats (everyone got to choose one for free), contortionists (spelling?), science shows, arts and crafts, balloon shapers, a tumbling area, bounce house…. It was fun!! Then if you went to the non-family side (which families were welcome) there was so much more. They had games (you could win prizes), different bands playing throughout the park, a ferris wheel, more food (chilie cheese fries, yummy!!), more ice cream places, reptiles (you could hold/pet snakes bigger than…..). Anyway, I could go on and on but I’ll spare you!! We had a blast. The kids LOVED it. No restrictions. They could have as much of what ever they wanted. They thought it was the coolest thing. We were there from 2 pm till 8 pm. The kids were pretty wiped out but it was worth it. We came straight home and put all those tired kiddos to bed. It was funny, I had us all wear our root beer t-shirts from the family reunion so that it would be easy to pick which kids were Thompson’s. I also put a white bow in each girls hair. That way if anyone got lost I could tell a security gaurd what they looked like. Aparently it was a hit. We got stopped a number of times by google people taking pictures for the picture board. We also had random people stop us to take pictures. We had numberless people ask us for the recipe. And there was a group of performers that, everytime they passed us, would cheer for “the rootbeer family”. It was pretty fun. The kids enjoyed the attention (well the adults did too…..).
Saturday morning was busy. I was up and 5:30 am and off to the store. I got home about 7 am. Scott went straight out and tried to figure out his car problem. The kids and I started cleaning. By 9 we were all done and started cooking. At 10 am a new family in our ward showed up and we had breakfast with them. She works days, he works nights so we asked them over for Saturday breakfast. We had all kinds of food; pancakes, eggs, busicuts, sausage gravy, bacon, hashbrowns, milk, oj and fruit. Everyone got very full. We had a great time getting to know them better and all the kids played awesome together. They have three kids who are the same ages as my three youngest. It was fun. At 12:15 I said my goodbye’s and dashed out. I was doing one last catering job with Gayle. Again, it was fun and we really enjoyed the time spent. It’s fun to work with Joey and Gayle and the other people who volunteered to help. We were cleaned up and in our cars by 5:30 pm. We had planned to meet at 6:30 and have dinner together. We went to Chevy’s. We had an amazing meal. We waited for a while and the bill never came. Finally the manager came over and said they were having problems with their computer system and said it would be a few more minutes. We jokingly told him that if there was no bill, that ment it was free. Well after another 15 minutes, we bailed on Joey and Gayle cause the kids were just getting too restless. We later found out that the manager came over to the table and told them they could leave. They could not get the register to work, did not know how long it would take and the dinner was on Chevy’s. We got home and put the kids to bed. Then Scott and I spent a few minutes putting my mom’s couches in the van. Mom was moving and needed some additional help and so I was scheduled to go to Fresno Sunday Morning.
I got up and left around 3 am Sunday morning. I got to mom’s around 6:30 am. Steve had been there since Saturday morning and was pretty wipped out after a full day of moving. I was to be his releif. I got right to work clearing out a space to put the couches while the rest of the house slept. Sara got up and helped, then Steve made his presence known as soon as I finished (perfect timing….). We emptied the van of the couches and headed to the old place. We took my van and mom’s van. We got everything out (well, almost) in one trip. It took a good 2 hours to load those two vans but it was worth it. We unloaded in about 30 minutes. We went back for the last little bit, vaccumed and cleaned a little, then closed the door forever. It was a good feeling. We went back to the new place. Had some lunch. Did a couple of things for mom and then we both headed home. We got out about 2 pm. Not bad. Steve was pretty wiped. He did a great job and I was just there for moral support, Steve did most of the work (well, maybe Kenneth did most of the work). Upon arrival home we had dinner and then the kids were ready for bed. It was a warmer day than it had been so the kids had a hard time falling asleep because of the heat. Finally the house was quiet and Scott and I made it to bed by 9:30. Early for us, but much needed.
Monday was a fun day. We had a playdate scheduled with a friend. We ran a couple of errands first and then went to our playdate. First we played, then we ate lunch, then we washed our van (it really needed it), then we went swimming, then we had a snack, then we went home. It was a very fun day. Upon arrival home, we did our chores and ate dinner. By the time Scott got home we were all pretty tired. We tried to do a formal FHE but it was too hot and we were all tired. So we just played and sang some hymns and then put the kiddos to bed. I bailed at 9:30 am again but Scott was up later. He tried to fix his car, but with no sucess. I felt bad for him. He is just not able to do the things he used to yet. It will take time for him to get back to where he was before.
So here we are today. I spent the morning tring to fix one of our cabnits. It did not work. I made some peach jam and returned some phone calls. It has been a “lazy” day. We love it. We made some homemade lemonade and so the girls took a blanket outside and put it in the shade. Then they drank lemonade and read. It was very cute. The typical summer look. We are now inside doing some light school work, reading and being quiet so that we don’t wake up the little ones who are sleeping.
I’m going to miss summer. It has been fun. We only have four weeks left and then we have to start school again. It will be good though. I think my kids are about to have their brains fall out of their ears after all this playing!! Much love to all.
We are looking forward to Jaime’s baptism in a few days. It will be a very fun event.
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