Photo Fun!

We have been busy here at the Thompson house...but not too busy for some photo fun!!

Fashion Friday!

Welcome to Fashion Friday!

We are dedicating this day to my Lola!

I speak of her sense of style quite often and I want to bless all of you as much as we are blessed! This was her Thursday attire. Yes, we let her go to school like this. I suggest matching tights and those cute black shoes from Easter, but nope! Lola puts much thought into what she wears and feels beautiful because she is beautiful!

Check back next Friday to see some more fun fashion and sparkle straight from the girl herself!

BIG thank you to Laura who keeps Lola well stocked in sparkle shoes!

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UPDATE: Okay...I must say that Carly is taking notes and she just LOVES all of Lola's ideas!

Check it out!

More Snow Fun!

Enjoy looking at some Thompson Snow Fun!

Stop back tomorrow for our new Fashion Friday feature....

*smile*

Who is Jesus?

Growing up I always believed there was a God. I prayed the sinner's prayer many times and knew of this Jesus that was the "only way". But yet my mind did not understand this Jesus and His role. I guess today though I pray that He would continue to reveal Himself to me, I still don't fully understand and will probably not be able to wrap my earthly bound mind around the complete truth of it until I'm standing there right next to Him. All my life I was a crisis prayer. I only depended on God when I was in a rough patch and wanted Him to bail me out. The crisis would pass and then I would go about my usual business. But the void was always there...the void that only this Jesus person could fill.

I'm reading the book, "The Jesus Style" by Gayle D. Erwin. It is an awesome book that helps bring our mind to understand Jesus and who He really was...not just what our mind has brought Him to be. So who is Jesus....

"Since Jesus is everything that God is but expressed bodily form ad since all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in him, we can each say:

If I am to know God, I will know him through Jesus.

If I am to gain knowledge, it is deposited in Jesus.

If I am to have wisdom, i will find it in Jesus.

If God dwells in me, it is because Jesus dwells in me.

If I wish to study God, I must study Jesus.

If the Holy Spirit is active in my life, I will hear him speak of Jesus.

His personality, his life and his words are to be grasped and assimilated with all our energy. In everything he must have supremacy."

I just loved that! The only way to know God is to know Jesus. They only way to eternal life...is to know Jesus! Jesus is the bridge over our sin to our Father. He washes us clean! I've attached a link to He Chose the Nails by Max Lucado! It is awesome!!

My prayer is that if you don't know or understand this Jesus...that you will. That we may take one step closer everyday in our understanding Him and His will for this life He has given us.

http://hechosethenails.net/hctn.html

Enjoy!

~Tina

And the stockings were hung by the chimney with care...

While scrolling through the pictures this morning...

I thought I'd catch you up on a little of Christmas morning!

Here is Kolton and Daddy

Miss Lola

Natalie with her boot stocking

Tristin....

Then, here is Daddy with his stocking

And me (Mommy)

=) I did not want a stocking, so Keith took it upon himself to hang one of his old Army socks up there and stuffed it full...can you guess what I got?!

Never a dull moment!

And looking back at the pictures...it is pretty funny!

Profile Pictures ~YUCK!

So I was thinking that my twitter and blog posts need a profile picture right? Well here is my awful attempt at putting my mug on here. As you can see...not very clear first of all, then what's going on behind me? Shoes and drying dishes? Obviously not much thought there... and I guess I could have dressed up a little more, even though I do sport my "i heart keith" shirt throughout the week... Then the angle is kind of funny. But I guess we all find things that are wrong with our own picture right?! And thinking realistically as I type this out, it is a pretty good picture of the real me. Sometimes not really clear with a few clean dishes and a couple dirty shoes! The only thing that is missing is a bunch of kids and doll parts! =)

Any good profile picture advice out there?? Give me your thoughts!

SNOW Much Fun!

It's a bit warmer today...we are up to like 20 degrees!! I never thought that I would say that 20 degrees feels pretty darn good! We've had SNOW Much Fun today out in the backyard! The snow just isn't packing so we have one lump snowmen! =) Natalie's snowman had a cold little head, so we thought we would add some BbB charm and add a scripture crown.

Here is the start of Lola's snowman...

And the finished product!

Tristin's Ranger snowman...complete with clothes pin eyes =)

And here is Tristin with his "snow plow" making paths to his snow fort.

And of course we ALWAYS have to finish off SNOW Much Fun with hot chocolate and marshmallows.

That's our Lola...

In yesterdays news.....

Kolton is hanging out with his PaPa at Tristin's Pinewood Derby

Tristin did so great!! I first have to share (because I think it is so funny) that when Keith and Tristin first cut out his car it looked like a paddle. Keith joked and said they should call it "The Enforcer" in which Tristin responded..." Yeah, because we are going to whoop everybody's butt!" Well they didn't whoop everybody's butt, but he did SO GOOD and came home with two trophies and one ribbon. He was tickled!! GO TRISTIN!!