Monday, November 16, 2009

Fall Time











this blog seems to becoming a tri-yearly blog (is that even a word? i don't care)
so for the fall, september, nate and i started off visiting our super cute new nephew, james. apparently he looks exactly like a "thompson boy"....he really just looks like a boy to me :)
october, we then went to disneyland for our 2nd year anniversary and had a blast!!! the weather was fantastic, a little on the warm side, but not too bad. and we had breakfast with the characters TWO days in a row!! i know, we're special :) since it was october, disneyland was set up in halloween attire. there were 3 rides that they made "halloween-ish", the haunted mansion, space mountain and tower of terror. the haunted mansion was cute, they decked it out in nightmare before christmas props, but of course nothing like the original ride :) space mountain was kind of a downer, they changed the soundtrack, slowed the ride down and projected some kind of ghoul resembling a mix between "the mummy" and the balrog from lord of the rings. and to top that off we waited in line for over and hour to ride space mountain. oh well, it's all part of the fun. to end, tower of terror was pretty much the same ride, no real changes that we could see, i think they were just advertising it as a special halloween ride because it's twlight zone-ish.
on the ride back from LA we had a chance to stop and have lunch with nate's brother and his girlfriend, that was a lot of fun! we had some good laughs, mediocre food, and a great time of fellowship. we're all hoping that the girlfriend becomes a thompson soon! she's fantastic!
then at the end of the month my sister and i hosted a halloween party where the attendants had to dress up as a holiday of the year. we had some wild costumes! it was also fun, because it was where our youngest sister stepped out with her boyfriend for the first time! he's a great guy, real sweet.
now into november, we started off by celebrating my grandfather's 80th birthday. it took a long time to plan, and with lots of the usual family bickering(probably more than should have been), the party went off fairly well. we all had fun, and was a really neat thing to celebrate the life of a man who joined the US Navy, married my grandmother, who persisted even though she said no 3 times, live through WWII, Korean War, Vietnam, has 6 children, 9 grandchildren, and 2 great-grandchilden. and to this day is walking every morning and drinking his one glass of wine every day, and still has a mind as sharp as a tack! all in all we had a great time.
now approaches the holiday season and boy do we have plenty of holiday things to do. and of course with my job i get to juggle both working holidays and spending time with family, oh the joys of life! :) so far though it's actually working out ok. i get to spend thanksgiving with both families, and i get christmas eve and day off. so far so good! i can't complain.
so thats what we've been up to in a nutshell, kind of a large nutshell, oh well...

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