Football season is finally here!

Ashleigh's game was first up today... if I do say so myself, she makes one cutie patootie cheerleader! She did a great job cheering on the Rams today. I will have pics of it later, even tho she told me that I was not allowed to take pictures :)
Zach's team played their toughest game of the regular season right out of the starting gate. They hung in there until about the 4th Quarter... our QB threw and interception and they ran it in for a TD ... we kept them from making and extra point and then they scored again before the end of the game... TYAA Blue won, 12 - 0. Our boys did a good job and we couldn't be more proud... TYAA was a good host at BTW HS field.
There isn't another game until after Labor Day. It's a good thing, cause we have some boys nursing some injuries.

UP ON MY SOAPBOX ... the government

OK ... now on to another topic ... the government ...
That's another thing that has been bothering me right now ... especially since to presidential race is in full swing.
First of all, President Bush's approval rating is down ... and I think that some people out there who are saying it's all president Bush's fault are not looking at the big picture... yes, he is the President ... but do you REALLY think he single handedly runs this country ... and that it is all his fault. If so, I think that you need to take Government 101 and learn how our government works....
Second of all .... I would really like to know exactly what Obama or McCain can do for this country... basically, the Republican's and the Democrat's spend so much time fighting against each other and always talking about what they haven't done or bashing the other parties that they have lost sight to what really matter... what can they do for the USA? Instead they are all acting like a bunch of elementary kids saying "But, the Repulicans did this" and the Republican's counter with "No we didn't ... blah blah blah ... the Democrat's did that" ... oh come on .... both parties are working so hard to be against each other and trying to figure out how to "one up" the other, that they have lost sight of the important things! They need to quit acting like children and figure out what they can do to better the USA and work together for the good of this country!
Thirdly, I wouldn't want President Bush's job if it were given to me! NO WAY! NO HOW!
I couldn't do what he does ... I couldn't listen to the bickering and the fighting and the name calling and try to get anything done while they are fighting against each other. I wouldn't want to make the decisions he makes, to go the places he goes, talk to the other leader's of the world... etc... Someone needs to step up that can put on a referee's jersey and a whistle and yell "TIME OUT!"
Lastly, it says in the Bible that we should pray for our leaders... it does not have an ammendment that says "you don't have to pray for them if you don't like them or don't agree with them" by the way... it's a clear command.... I pray for all of our presidents that they God protects them, that they make the right decisions for our country etc.... I pray whether I like them or not.
I have always said, If you don't like how things are run, get in there and try to do something about it ... run for city council, mayor, govenor, president.... PRAY FOR OUR GOVERNMENT! If you aren't willing to help the situation by getting yourself involved, and all you can do is complain and criticize the government, then sit down and shut up.

Up on my soapbox ... the war in Iraq

I haven't gotten "up on my soap box" in a while .... and I have some things on my mind that I need to get out!
I was just listening to my new Steven Curtis Chapman CD "This Moment: Cinderella Addition" and I came to one of the bonus tracks that got me to thinkin' ... the song is called "What I'm fighting For" .... Here are some of the lyrics...
"I watch another sun fall on the desert sand
And Slowly I can feel the ache returning to my heart
I heard somebody say today we lost a man
And everybody's got their own opinion
On whether it's a good or bad thing we're doing over here.

But there's a little girl in Georgia lying in her bed tonight
While her mother holds her close and whispers, 'It's gonna be alright'
And they'll preaay themselves to sleep
And dream about the day when I'll come
Walking back through the door
'Cause that's what I'm fighting for


We passed another playground on the road today
A little group of girls looked up and waved at us and smiled
I think it's in their eyes I see the biggest change
Still everybody's got their own opinion
I can see the good and bad but when I close my eyes ....

But there's a little girl in Georgia lying in her bed tonight
While her mother holds her close and whispers, 'It's gonna be alright'
And they'll preaay themselves to sleep
And dream about the day when I'll come
Walking back through the door
'Cause that's what I'm fighting for

I know everybody's got their own opinion
I'm just here to do my job and I can't wait to get home
to that little girl in Georgia lying in her bed tonight
While her mother holds her close and whispers, 'It's gonna be alright'
And they'll preaay themselves to sleep
And dream about the day when I'll go
running back through the door
Back to what I'm fighting for
This is what I'm fighting for"

First of all, let me tell you, as I was listening to the song and mopping my kitchen floor, I was standing there with tears streaming....

There is a friend of ours, whose name is Matt Hash, that we met through the Army that has a wife, 3 boys and a little girl that is on his 3rd tour in Iraq. They are now stationed in Georgia, so that song could have easily been written by Matt.
He is proud to serve in the military and he is proud of what he is seeing in Iraq. He wants to be there to not only help the Iraqi people, but also, to keep us safe here at home.... I am sorry, but if you are pitching a big fit about this war and NOT praying for our soldiers and for peace in Iraq, and are putting down our government and NOT supporting our troops... you should be ashamed of yourselves! First of all, whether or not there were WMD's there or not, the fact is, is that there are terrorists out there who would love a chance to get into the USA again and do the fighting over here. If we didn't go to where they are, they would be here. Do you realize that? The war would be in OUR own back yards ... not over seas! When you gripe about how wrong the war is and all the Cindy Sheehan's of the world go out there and criticize this war, you might as well be stabbing the soldiers straight into their hearts... by the way, the soldiers who are fighting to keep our butts safe can hear the criticism .... it hurts them right to the core! AND their families can hear you, too. They need to hear that we are supporting THEM and praying for them.... now, you may not be a supporter of the war in Iraq.... even I don't like the fact that it is still going on.... but rather than criticizing our government, you should pray for our troops and support them until their safe return home. STOP bashing them and start supporting them.... believe me .... they want to come home .... but they won't until their job is done... let them hear your support... uplift their spirits .... do something positive for them .... and as the saying goes ... if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all!

Update for August

Hello! I am being terrible about posting but I've been so crazy busy that I haven't had time to blog! Zach has started football practice, well, sort of... it started last week and he went on Monday and then we went on "vacation" for a few days, so he missed Tuesday ... then there is no practice on Wednesday .... Thursday, we returned from our trip and Zach and Ashleigh were complaining of ear aches.... So he missed practice that night, Friday morning, I took him and Ashleigh to the doc and found out that both of them had ear infections... her's was an "inner" and Zach's was an "outer". They both were pretty miserable. They have been on antibiotics since... The med that Zach is on must have a unlisted ingredient of gold, because it was $100! For ear drops! WOW! I must say that the pharmasist doesn't have a very good sense of humor because I looked at the ingredient list and asked him "which one of those words meant "gold"? Ash's was just the pink stuff, so her's was cheap. They are both almost finished with the antibiotics.... Zach's torture ends tomorrow morning and Ashleigh's ends Saturday. Practice on Monday (yesterday) was cancelled because of the heat (104 degrees) .... practice tonight starts later than usual. Zach is really looking forward to getting back to practice. Ashleigh has been cheering this summer... cheer camp was 2 weeks ago and practice is 2 days a week for and hour and 1/2. She is 100 percent cheerleader and really gets into it. Allie just signed up for soccer for the fall... no word on practices yet. Saturdays are going to be a little hectic around here.... Ashleigh cheers for football in the AM and Allie's games are usually in the AM too.... thankfully, Ash's squad only cheers for home games, so no traveling there! Allie plays at the local sports plex with local teams. Zach on the other hand may be doing a lot of traveling this year cause the division his team is in has 3 teams that are and hour 1/2 away. Hopefully they won't be all away games :) Here are some pictures that we took recently....

As a friend recently pointed out, I don't have anything about my other pets on here except for Joey :)
I just recently started a blog about all of our furkids .... check it out :)
Thompson Furkid Adventures

Kids ....

Hello all! I hope that you had a wonderful 4th of July... We got to spend it with family and had a great time as always. Zach went to camp a week ago. He had a great time being away from me and Troy for the first time ever. He said that he didn't miss any of us at all :( While at camp, he learned some songs, and he taught a funny one to his sisters ... and they performed it for us..... here it is for your entertainment pleasure .... as you can see my son is quite the character :)

Long time, no post :)

I didn't realize how long it's been since I have posted! Wow!
It's the beginning of summer break and the kids are already "getting along" so well. NOT!
It's going to be a long summer.
Ashleigh is the only one in any activities right now. Allie just finished up Soccer, which she loved and Ashleigh has been playing t ball. She has also started tumbling classes at a new gym here in Owasso. It's called All Star Legend. Ashleigh really loves it and is learning a lot. If your child is looking for a gym to learn tumbling, it's a great one to go to.
All the kids will be getting swimming lessons this summer ... any suggestions would be helpful :)
Zach has a few football camps, church camp and VBS .... Al just has VBS until Fall when she starts soccer again. Ash is my busiest bee with the previous activities mentioned plus VBS and Cheer camp.
Not much else going on... just chilling out as much as I can for the summer...
The storms on Sunday didn't do anything to our house except turn over some lawn furniture and the grill.... but across the street, neighbors lost part of a fence, another one lost shingles and the one next to that, the basketball goal blew over. The wind was blowing pretty hard, so we are blessed because we have most of our shingles loose and are in the middle of home owners insurance to get a new roof put on, and didn't lose any shingles. :)

Regular Season Over

I haven't posted much about football this year. Mainly because when you win most of your games 35 - 0 over and over, like last year, there really isn't anything to post..... We only lost 1 in the regular season.
Tonight we played in the 1st round of the play offs. The boys played hard, but lost 19 - 0.
We have the Sooner Classic coming up in a few weeks. Here's a link if you want to check it out.... SOONER CLASSIC
The coach is giving the boys a week off of practice then, it's back to the grid iron for practice.

First loss

Zach's team lost to Jenks Black on Saturday 20 - 6.... they handled their first regular season loss in 3 years like champs ....(a lot of these boys have been playing together for at least 3 years).
The team went together to the TU game that night and they were acting pretty up beat and normal... they had a great time at the TU game and TU won, so that made it better. (I guess that I had fun at the TU game, too)

Way to go POKES!

OSU finally showed up to play ball today! It's about time my Pokes showed us how they CAN play! Now let's let that team come out of the locker room for every game. Zach was there with his Uncle Travis and had a blast! Cheri and Jimmy said that Zach needs to go to every game since OSU won, he must be what caused it....
I had Zach wear his OSU jersey just in case they needed him to suit up and play :)
OK POKES! Let's keep the momentum going and win some more football games!

Games

Last week, Z's team won 34 - 0 and this week they won 33 - 0, so we are having a really good season so far.... the next game will be the biggest challenge of the year. We will be playing a undefeated team from Jenks. It should be a fun game.
Zach did well today when he got to play. He even got to run the ball! I was a proud momma! He loves playing football and when he's not playing, he's on the sideline cheering on his team mates!
Ashleigh and Allie had a game to cheer at this weekend at 8AM. Only half of their Squad showed up, so it was interesting. Then we headed over for Z's game which had started at 8:30. We got there about half time. His game was over by 10AM... It was really strange being done with football so early in the day!
Go Owasso 4th Grade Black and Go Owasso Rams flag football cheerleaders! :)

Game today.....

Owasso Black had a pretty good game today. They won 33-0. As you can see by the picture, it was a muddy game... but they had fun and that's all that matters.

We made Zach ride home in the back of his dad's truck cause he was so muddy. I washed his uniform and thankfully it all came back clean :)

The girls were supposed to cheer this morning, but the flag football games were canceled .... the girls were bummed but I was totally fine with it. Getting damp at the Owasso High School game last night was enough for me :)

Girls cheer and zach football

Football season is now in full swing. Zach's team won their first game a few Saturdays ago 20 - 0. He is getting to play more this year and is doing well. Their next game is this Saturday.
The girls are cheering together on the same Flag Football squad.... They are having a blast and are enjoying cheering on the boys. I think Ashleigh likes watching the boys a little too much, but, after all, she is my daughter, so what else should I expect ;)

First day of school

.The kids had their first day of school today. Zach is in 4th grade this year, Ashleigh is in 1st grade and Allie is in Pre-K.
They all had a great day.

Allie started preschool and is in the class with two of her cousin's, Addison (Stephanie's son) and Brendon (Heather's son. Westin (Kayla's son) is also in preschool but he is in Tulsa

Wow.... long time, no post :)

It's been a really long time since I blogged!
We didn't get the house with 5 acres..... we backed out of the deal.... (long story)
But, we did put in an offer for another house, and well, we closed on Friday. Right now we are just working on getting the house ready for us to move in permanantly... we are in our rent house until Aug 15th.
We will be moving things gradually.
Um, Z's football season is about to be in full swing. We went to a Tulsa Talons game tonight with some of his team mates.... Practice starts Monday. It's amazing how much some of the kids have grown since I saw them last in November.
The girls will be starting Cheerleading soon. They will be on the same squad and will be cheering for flag football.
Ashleigh accepted Christ as her Savior a few weeks ago and was baptized. She was so excited about her decision and we celebrate it with her :)

Baseball and house

Zach played a baseball game last Thursday, and I had made a deal with him. I told him if he hit the ball, that I would reward him with extra points (we have a reward system at home from doing chores, etc....) The girls also had games at the same time, so I was back and forth between the games (the fields are in the same ball park). I had just gotten over to Zach's game, and his team was batting.... I asked him how he did while I was gone, and he said he hit the ball! I was so excited for him, but sad cause I had missed it. Then I walked over to the mom's and they told me that he hit it and did really well. I hate when I have to miss any of my kids games. Luckily, there aren't many times they play at the same time.
The girls are really doing well with TBall. Ashleigh still loves to play catcher and Allie still squats like a frog on the feild and will only get the ball if it comes right to her.
We still haven't heard whether our offer has been accepted for the house with 5 acres... I guess that's the chance we took when we bought a "for sale by owner".

Just 2 days of school left....

Well, there are just 2 days of school left... then the kids will be home every day for a "fun filled" summer.
Ashleigh "graduated" from kindergarten last week... and Zach's awards assembly is today. Field day is tomorrow... somehow, I got roped into helping with Ashleigh's class.

Ashleigh Graduating

The kids are also full swing into the middle of baseball season. Zach plays right field and is doing really well when the balls are hit that far. He plays "kid pitch", so, there's more of the batters getting hit by the ball then the batters hitting the ball.
He still has some confidence building to do as far as batting goes, but he at least tipped the ball at the last game. I told him that it's one step closer.
My ball players

Crossing Jordan Cancelled :(

One of my favorite shows, Crossing Jordan, is getting the ax. Yep, NBC has made a big mistake again. And not only are they cancelling the show, they ended the season with a cliff hanger and there are a lot of loose ends. I hate it when they end shows like that. I need to know what happens to the crew after the plane crash.... and what of Lily and Bug and the baby AND Jordan finally admitted that she loves Woody! They can't end it this way!!!!! And they were just making Kate half way likable!
It's about the only show that I watch, without fail, every week! Sigh.....
Hopefully, NBC will come to their senses and change their minds.

TBall and Baseball

The girls finally played a game Monday night after 2 weeks of no practices or games. They did pretty well. Ashleigh got to play catcher the first inning. She has such skinny legs that the shin guards kept on spinning around to the back of her leg. She likes doing it tho'. Allie was her happy self. After fielding, the rest of the team came into the dugout to bat, and there was Allie in "lala" land still on the field playing in the dirt. :)
Zach's team has played 2 games this week with 2 more to go.... all the rain has doubled up their schedule. They lost he one on Monday night..... but the won the one last night 15-14. They barely pulled out the win, but they pulled together and did it.... it was an 8PM game, so it was nearly 10 when it was over. The parents were tired, and the boys were pumped up from winning.... I was afraid that Zach would have trouble going to sleep, but the rush wore off by the time we got home (we can see the stadium lights from our house, so we're not that far away).

Another one bites the dust....

Another game was cancelled... the girls were bummed. Zach was bummed because his practice was cancelled as well.... we'll see we get to "PLAY BALL" tomorrow night. It's suppose to rain all week tho, so we will see.
I am thankful for the rain tho! As one person put it the other day, God is watering all our outside plants for us, so we don't have to!
So thank you God for the rain. :)