Baby Update

Ok so if any of you were wondering how this baby thing is going, here we go. I think I am 9 weeks along, meaning my baby is the size of a grape now. Exciting. Two weeks ago it was a blueberry, last week a kidney ban and now a grape. The baby is getting bigger.

Being sick. Not so much fun but do able. I throw up every morning. My food is digested so it is always lots of exhausting dry heaving. Lately I have been getting sick after eating too. Not very often but it has happened about 6 times. I ate lunch the other day and a few minutes later it all came back up. It sucked because I had to go back to work and I was real hungry soon after. Besides that I get nausous throughout most of the day. Some days and good and some are real bad. Just depends.

Hunger. Mainly when I am having a good day, not very nauseous, I get really hungery. I eat and eat and eat and eat, and am still hungry. It is weird. My little grape is real hungry.

Sleeping. All I need to say is I sleep alot. I go to bed real early almost every night. It is sad how much sleep I get. Life is boring right now becasue all I do is go to work, go home for a few hours and then sleep. It does seem to help me feel better the day after I get a ton of sleep so I will just keep on sleeping.

Doctors Appt. Still not here yet. It seems like it has taken forever to get here. It is next Friday November 7th. I guess time slows down when you get pregnant. It is going to be a long 9 months.

I still haven't told everyone. I decided to wait to tell people in our ward and on facebook until I have gone to the Doctors office. Some people I have told get really excited and others not so much. It is interesting seeing peoples reactions. Alot of people's reactions suprised me. More negatively though than anything. Suprised some people weren't excited for us. Oh well. I do want to thank you who did get excited and happy for me. Mom and Britt made me really happy. Thanks!

Well thats the update for now. I will let you know how the Doctor's visit goes next week.

Love you all!

Poor Shelby

Poor Shelby, too bad he couldn't live on forever, we all loved him. Here's a picture of him that I took over the summer. Although I think we would all agree that he was in bad shape, and that he's better off now.









On a brighter note, I'm including a picture or two from up here in BYU.

Here is our trash can, we had a deal to stack the trash, and whoever knocked the tower over had to take out the trash. I eventually thought it was disgusting, so I then took out the trash.
I drank some orange cream soda, and it turned my tongue orange. I thought it was funny because it was the same color as an oompa loompa from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Anyways, I'm having a great time out here, especially since I had practically no homework to do today. I hope everyone else is doing well also.

Trip to California

So I know it's been over a month since Christian and I went to visit Mom and Dad in Cali but we finally found a cord so we could download our pictures. Funny thing is, we didn't actually take very many pictures while we were there. Anyways, here are a few...

This is the only photo we managed to get from Jet-skiing at Lake Berryessa!

Here is Mom, side-ways mini golfing at Scandia

Here is me and Steve, looking angry...we were probably losing or something

Here is the cheesecake I made from Mom's recipe for the Cheesecake Factory's White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake. And it was darn good, at least I thought it was. Too bad I didn't get a picture of the amazing ribs I made...

In addition, we went with Steve to Six Flags, we all went to Mendocino to sea-kayak (which was soo hard & tiring and where Dad almost drowned), and I went to Claim Jumpers for the first time (where Mom had the best salad of her entire life, just ask her)... plus we experienced a train ride to California instead of a flight, that was ... interesting, to say the least.

Shelby, We Miss You...

Anyone with pictures or memories, please post them ...

He was such a cutie.

Thanks Ashley...

Ashley,

This provided a whole night of entertainment for me and Christian ... the only problem was that I couldn't find any pictures of Ryan to use...

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Ode to Ma and Pa

Well I have just been thinking the past couple months how lucky we all are to have such great parents. I have talked to alot of people with crappy parents. One's who don't really care about the kids, are disrespectful to the kids or all in all bad parents. I am just gratful we all got so lucky to have gotten Mom and Dad. You guys rock. I sure do love you and am pretty sure the rest of the kids do too. Thanks.

Free Gas

So Tuesday night there was an IFT Social up in Liberty Park in SLC. Christian and I decided to go, mostly because of the free Famous Dave's! It was really good BBQ and I ate way too much. Well, the best part of the night was the raffle. Last year, Christian won our DVD player and this year I won a $50 gas card to Flying J's. The only problem is that we don't even know where a Flying J is around here. I guess we're just lucky, alot.

Christmas

I bought my airplane tickets for Christmas!!! I am officially going home for Christmas! I am so excited it has been 3 years. Everyone else should hope on that train too. I want everyone to be there since I will for sure. Love ya.

We need to have a talk.

First off. Steve, Congrats! You are off to college. What a fun and exciting time of your life. You will love it. Find lots of cool friends and have an awesome time!

Second. Mom. Don't be sad. We all love you and wish we could all live with you in Benicia, but we can't. Just think of all the free time you will have for yourself and dad. Yeah. Also you will just have to start planning more vacations to visit us. I found a good website that tells you of good deals on flights. You can put where you want to fly to. I put in Spokane to Oakland and it tells me off cheap flights. I just saw one for $160 to oakland. It was only in September so I didn't get it but they have some good deals. The website is airfare watchdog. You all should sign up for there emails.

Lastly. To everyone else. Your lives must not be very exciting since there aren't very many posts. Unfortuantly I don't believe that. Let us know what is going on. Love you all.

Question for Everyone

Hello everyone. I was thinking about planning our next year fam reunion here in Montana so I was wondering a few things. How long could everyone come for? There is alot of stuff to do and I could plan over a week of places to see and things to do, but how much time to people have? A week or a weekend? Also when could everyone do it. Mom mentioned we would have to do it before Steve's b-day in July because he will be leaving on his mission if we want him to come. The only prob is that it isn't super hot here at that time so we would run into a few issues. For one if we go to Glacier National Park the "going to the sun road" which is the road that goes through the park, might still be closed. It was this year. Next I thought it would be fun to rent a boat or jet skii's and have a fun day on Flathead lake. It is a huge beautiful lake. It might not be hot enough in June to enjoy it. So let me know what everyone thinks. June, colder with steve or August, more fun no bro. I guess the real question is when would everyone be able to go on a trip. Because obviously we all want Steven there. Let me know. Once I know I will plan an awesome trip for yall.

Also, I started my own blog for bro and i. It is brodieandashley.blogspot.com. Check it out. Love you all.

Sons Of Liberty

OK, Last week, I went up near sacramento for the 2008 Sons of Liberty LDS Scout Encampment. It was pretty cool. It's pretty much a massive Scout gathering, where a bunch of stakes from Northern California come and listen to speakers and do activities. We had Elder L. Tom Perry, John Bytheway, President Dalquist (The general young men's president of the church.), and Hank Smith (A funnier John Bytheway) come speak to us. They had ziplines, a huge slip n' slide, rock climbing, and rappeling and tons of other stuff. There was about 14 stakes there, and about 4000 people. It was really fun, except for the fact that it was boiling lava hot out there. And no showers. That stunk. Or, more appropriately, we stunk.

Morell Falls Hike

This weekend Brodie and I went on a beautiful hike up near Seeley Lake, MT with our friends Sarah and Eric. Morrell Falls is the waterfall we went to. Afterwards we made our own camp site and camped! It was loads of fun and the waterfall was gorgeous! You can see a pic of the waterfall if you go to this website! Wish you guys were here to go on these adventures with us!

www.seeleyswanvalley.com/Textformatting/Hiking%20Pages/MorrellFalls.html

Hiawatha bike trail

The other day I took off work and went on an awesome bike trail called the Hiawatha Trail. It is located on the Idaho Montana border. It is old train tracks that they turned into a bike path. 15 miles and through alot of dark long tunnels. Beautiful and really cool! It is all downhill 15 miles and at the end there is a shuttle to take you back up to the top. So since Brodie is brave he wanted to try to ride all the way back up. I tried. I took about 1 hour to go 2.5 miles. I then realized we wouldn't get done until 9pm if we kept up. I went down to the shuttle and Brodie went up. It took him 1 hour to go 13 miles! He is crazy awesome and I am, I guess real slow. Fun trip!

Ink EXPLOSION!

Nothing of interest has been happening lately. Jim has been pretty busy at work and stuff. I have been working but nothing very interesting ever happens there. For all of those that don't know, I got finally got my baby tooth pulled out. I got knocked out for the operation and for those of you that don't know, being knocked out is quite a strange experience. I was completely nervous about the whole thing. I thought it would be like in the movies where the person slowly fads out into oblivion, however, that was not the case. The dr. put the needle in my hand and after a few seconds I started panicing because nothing was happening. I was like, 'Oh no, it's not going to work because I am panicing too much'... and then clunk, I was out like a light. My panic is the last thing I remember. I then mysteriously woke up in the car with a huge blob of gauze covered in blood and slobber. Not a pretty sight, just ask Jim. Strange, strange experience. So yeah, now I am missing a tooth.

The other exciting thing that happened recently is that Jim left a blue pen in his pants which then proceeded to go through both the washer and then the dryer. Pen in the washer, not so bad. Pen in the dryer, bad idea. There was blue ink over all but 3 items of clothing, and the entire inside of the dryer was covered in ink streaks. Argh! It was aweful. Luckily most of the clothes were Jim's. Needless to say we need to go shopping for him now.

That's all.

My fun Saturday

Hello everyone. Just thought I would let everyone know that the new Batman movie is Awesome and everyone should go see it! Brodie and I had a fun day Saturday. He was working in Whithall, MT and I had a work party that day so I drove up to Whitehall with my co-workers to meet up with him. He then went to the Lewis and Clark Caverns near Whitehall. They were awesome. When everyone comes up here to visit me we will all have to go! Lots of stalagtites and stalamites and stuff like that. It was really cool. After we got out we got out of the cave we saw a live rattlesnake that the park ranger was trying to catch. It was ratteling a lot. First one I have seen. Then we went to my work party in Bozeman Mt. Afterwards we went to the Batman movie and like I said, awesome. Pretty good day.

Glacier Forest. It was beautiful.

There were tons of waterfalls at the park.

A boat ride in Canada!
Fun bike ride.

Canada, eh.

Yeah for the cute baby deer! It was a twin.

Deer Attack! My friendly deer buddy game me a little scare by getting a little too close a little too quick. Don't worry, I told her who was the boss.

Me and my buddy hanging out.

Cardston, Alberta Temple. It was very different than the temples I have seen but very beautiful!

nice shots

Kristin and Beebs. Nice photos. Looks like awesome photography skills run in the family. You guys both got some real good ones.

River rock

I'm like a bird...

Part of the fam

Blue Steal

Inlaws in the Wild West

Catman in the wild

Holding up traffic

Pics from the valley of fire

Orem Summerfest

Well, I just thought I'd share some of the fun we had yesterday. We headed up to Orem's Summerfest, their little city festival. It sounded like fun, carnival rides, booths, music, food, etc. Well, we had barely parked and gotten out of the car when I remembered that I left my hair-tie in the car and wanted to go back and get it. And of course, the one time I happen to not bring my keys, we realize that the doors are locked and Christian's keys are still in the ignition. Well, it didn't take long to get back in but it did cost 40 bucks. At least we got the student discount. Anyways, we then headed to the fair. We walked around, ate food that cost way too much and then decided to go on the "Zipper". Didn't sound scary but lets just say that I screamed a lot and felt really sick afterwards. Turns out that we didn't actually see what the ride was actually doing until we had gotten off and watched the next round. I decided that I probably wouldn't have gone if I had seen what it really did. Well, we waited awhile until I felt less sick and then went on the "Gravitron." I didn't want to go for fear of throwing up but Christian had never been on one before and didn't want to go by himself. Well, it was fun but I felt even more sick afterwards. We walked through a small but still well-stocked car show and had some ice cream that they freeze right in front of your eyes ( it tasted exactly like Dippin' Dots but without the pellet shape). We then went home but watched the fireworks from Rock Canyon Park in Provo later that night. Overall, a fun though somewhat sickening day in Utah Valley.

Zions

Here are some of our favorite photos from Zions!

Most of the Thomas Children

The Hike up to Angel's Landing

View of the Canyon

Under Weeping Rock

One of the Emerald Pools (while we were lost)

Silly Christian

Long Jim

View from Angel's Landing

Ashley and Brodie atop Angel's Landing

Steve in his Time-Out hole

Driving out of Zions

Mom says we like the blue danelion and the yellow sunflower. I don't care.

SNOW IN JUNE!!!

I just had to let everyone know that it snowed here in Missoula and Rexburg yesterday! June 11th! Crazy! All the mountains around us were completely white like they were in December. I can't wait any longer for summer weather. It is supposed to be 80 degrees tommorrow and hopefully it will stay warm so I can have some summer fun!

My Vote

My favorites are the one you picked and the bird one. But they are all super cute! You should just switch it up every once in a while for fun. I looked for a while and didn't find any of those on the websites you gave me. Good searching.

So, a vote is in order.

Which of the following backgrounds would you like to see on the family blog?

Welcome

Welcome, Thomas Family to our new family blog! This way we can keep everyone updated on past, current, and upcoming events. With this new blog we can share photos and stories with the whole family before we get too busy or forget. So here we go. Share anything you got. A funny story, an awesome picture or just a simple thought. Thomas family its time to stay in touch.