Our first ultrasound was yesterday – we are having a ……

•July 8, 2009 • 2 Comments

GIRL!

She appears healthy and is on track for a Thanksgiving arrival!

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Happy 4th of July!

•July 5, 2009 • Leave a Comment

After it rained all night on the 4th, but we did make it out tonight (5th) for a little sparkler fun.

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Old Friends

•July 5, 2009 • Leave a Comment

On Friday night, Courtney had a chance to get together with some of her very good old friends.  It was great to see everyone.

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Window Box Flowers – Geraniums and Moss Roses

•June 25, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Over the years we’ve tried various combinations of flowers in containers.  This year we stumbled on a combo for our window boxes that put on an amazing morning display.

Dwarf Red Geraniums and Yellow Moss Roses

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Parker’s Summer Cut

•May 5, 2009 • 1 Comment

For the past 3 summers we’ve given Parker a summer cut – Look at all that hair!!

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A Thompson BABY!

•April 8, 2009 • 1 Comment

We had the rare opportunity to have the *entire* family over to the house last night to share some news!

We are having a BABY!!

Sometime around Thanksgiving we hope to welcome a new one into our home!

Parker helped us break the news.   We made him a shirt that said, “I’m going to be a Big Brother!” with a picture of a stork carrying a little one.   We released him into the room and he spread the word to everyone (not fully understanding why everyone was so happy to see him – but he loved it!)

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Fishing

•April 8, 2009 • Leave a Comment

I got back out on the lake in my Kayak this weekend and finally found the FISH!

Not too big, but caught (and released) a handful of them; these are the first few.

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Plantation Shutters

•March 24, 2009 • Leave a Comment

If you want plantation shutters – we have a contact for you; RC Strickland with Blue House Blinds and Shutters.

We met him on our doorstep one Saturday morning.  He called with our order status about weekly and in 4-6 weeks he delivered and personally installed these custom color matched, solid wood plantation shutters.  They turned out great and the price was right!  We’ve asked RC to build us a few more sets for the new bonus room.  We also had him install 2″ blinds on some of the back windows; they too look very nice and are much nicer than ones we installed in our TX home from HD/Lowe’s.

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SOLVED: The Case of the Missing Earplugs

•March 1, 2009 • 1 Comment

My wife occasionally wears earplugs because she claims that I snore.

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Well, her earplugs kept going missing and just this morning we cracked the case.  I had dropped in to see if she was awake yet and our Golden Retriever was, as always, tagging along.

I jumped into the middle of the bed to say “good morning!”  Parker casually walked up to the night stand, which is just about level with his head, sat his face on it and just before his tongue swept the earplugs into his mouth I said “No!”

Courtney rolled over to see what he was doing.  She looked at the slobber mark on her nightstand and said, “Hey, I’ve seen that slobber mark before and had wondered what it was.  So THAT’S where my earplugs have been going!.”

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Of course, Parker denied all claims, sat his face on the bed, and looked cute until mom laughed – he was off the hook.

Bonus Room Pictures

•March 1, 2009 • Leave a Comment

A few new pics of the house.  We recently completed the Bonus Room and had plantation shutters installed.

The first two pictures are experiments using software to stitch together multiple pictures.

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