Halloween Preview

This is a preview of Gabe in his Halloween Costume. It is a cell phone picture, but still pretty cute.

Girl's Camp

Okay so this is my second attempt at writing this blog - this is hard to get the pictures where Iwant them!! Tom is our blogger but has been busy and we've gotten requests for an update so I'm giving this a try.

Gabe and I went to Girl's Camp this year - he came last year - but inside instead of out which BTW is alot less stressful. Girl's Camp was the third week of June which meant with this year's crazy weather - a cold and rainy time. We tried to stay warm any way we could.

It was really muddy - check out my shoes and the wheels on the stroller (I don't know how to rotate . . . sorry.

Here's the cute man enduring the cold weather!

Gabe's thought "Mom, why do you make me do such things?"

Here is the all of the gang. We survived! Everyone was such good sports and we had a great time.

Look at Him Grow

My mom suggested the we take a picture with Gabe by the same stuffed animal each month to see how he has grown. He is still a little guy, but it is fun to see him grow, even if it's just a little.

Family Trip to Pennsylvania

In May Jana's brother Kyle graduated from medical school in Hershey Pennsylvania. We (Jana's whole family and ourselves) took the opportunity to travel to PN and visit some of DC while we were there. It was a wonderful time. I should have posted something a long time ago, but as you can see I didn't. So, I'm just going to post a bunch of pictures for the sake of time.

These are all of the cousins that are the same age as Gabe

This is the whole group in front of the Washington DC, LDS Temple

Gabe and Jana in front of the Judicial building

Gabe and his Aunt Alisa and Cousin Ella who live outside of Baltimore and met us at the Zoo

Gabe with his cousin Londyn

The fam in front of a bust of George Washington at Mount Vernon

Gabe and the four cousins again

Everyone worn out after a day of monument hiking, and we still weren't done

The group on their way to the Vietnam Memorial

Us in front of the WWII Memorial and the Washington Monument in the background

Gabe was eating his toes for the first time and we managed to get it on camera, it was hilarious

Us at Hershey Park with the Hershey Kiss

The cousins all swimming, it was cold water

Gabe with his cousin Kaysen, who we think he looks a lot alike.

Gabe was a pretty good kid the whole trip as you can see

Well, I know that was a lot of pictures, but I'm too lazy right now to write about everything. Maybe soon though.

Conference Weekend and Gabe's Blessing

Well we have had a lot of fun with family lately. Over General Conference weekend we stayed with Jana's sister and her husband. It was a blast. Of course, we took some great pics of Gabe and Bentley.

This is Gabe checking out the mobile above him, as
you can see he really liked it.

This is Gabe and his cousin Bentley playing
with Jeremy (Bentley's Dad)

This was a moment of weakness, we let them
watch TV.

The following weekend we were able to go to Jana's parents house for Easter. It was a great time. We got to watch our niece get baptized, Jana's sister do amazing at Junior Miss, and bless Gabe. It was a great time.

Jana and me with Gabe after the blessing.
(This is apparently where all Prom pictures are taken at the
Thompson household, we felt so honored.)

Gabe in his blessing outfit and several posses.

At one point he had his hair all duded up for the blessing,
but it looks like he managed to "sleep" it back to normal.

This is Gabe the Cougar fan, thanks Trenton and Angela.

Thanks everyone for such a fun weekend. We got to see lots of family and a few friends that we hadn't seen in a while. We look forward to when we get to see you all again.

Denver and Back Again

This past week was a blast. On Friday of last week we received a visit from my best bud Adam Aullman, his wife and their new baby Madeline. They were in town for a quick visit to the Dr. so they spent the night with us. It was fun to meet the newest member of their family Madeline. Gabe also enjoyed the visit.The following day, after work, we flew to Denver to surprise my brother Reid for his birthday. Emily, his wife, organized it all. It was a lot of fun. In the airport Gabe decided that it would be a good time to fill his pants, so he did so, with vigor. He managed to blow out of his onesie and pj's. So in the airport he was stipped down to nothin and changed to his ugly yellow, backup pj's. He looks rather pleased with himself doesn't he.

While in Denver we played with my brother and his family, it was a blast. We went to church with them and played with them all day Saturday. Reid and I even got some golf in at the local driving range. This is Gabe on Sunday in his church duds.On Sunday we sadly headed back to the airport and flew back home to reality. It was a great trip and fun for Gabe to meet his cousins, aunt, and uncle. It makes us want to live closer to family. On the way home Gabe decided to wait until we were airborne to "go potty" (I don't know if it is "going potty" if its in your pants).
The rest of the pictures are just put here cause they're cute. Look at this wild man's hair.
Here is Gabe with his neighbor.

I think that our blog mainly consists of pictures and more pictures. So here are some more pictures for your viewing pleasure.

This is Gabe and his cousin Bentley getting to know each other.

Here is Gabe with his church duds on.

Our first walk.

Getting a little tummy time on his tummy surf mat.

Gabe with his fat dad (still has some "baby" weight to lose) and beautiful mom.

The gorgeous, get well flowers from Grandma B.

Bath time-one of Gabe's favorite, daily rituals.

That is about it from us. We are doing well, Jana is healing and feeling much better, and Gabe is growing up.