Warmed the Cockles of My Heart

After a leisure Sunday including church, a Mac n’ Cheese lunch, a brisk family stroll around our neighborhood (we have a neighborhood!), taking pictures, and talking to my parents via webcam, we sat down and watched a fireside we missed last week.

Presiding Bishop H. David Burton spoke and what he had to say was truly inspired, and answered a lot of concerns we have as a family right now.
What Manner of Men and Women Ought Ye to Be? is the title of the talk and you can listen to it here and there is a summary of it here.
We’ll keep you up-to-date with the latest news in the Thomson home as things progress. We have a feeling, between packing and our upcoming goals; we’ll be very, very busy.

We sure do love you.
-Angela

PS We look forward to hearing from this man

(again) next week. : )

Early Thanks Givin' & Other Thoughts

Early Thanksgiving:

We are so glad to be in our new house and are happy to get our home in order!
Seriously, it was the best move ever (We’ve had a few). Thank you to everyone who has helped in every way imaginable!
Since Monday was kinda crazy with all the unpacking we had a FHE activity Tuesday night. We made a gratitude chain to count down to Thanksgiving.

We are staying in Mass this year for the holidays, so that means…

bum bum bum!

I’ll be making dinner. Yes, me, Angela “Easy Recipe Supreme”
will be making Thanksgiving dinner! Hooray!

Here in the Thomson home we don’t know which to be more excited for-
Thanksgiving or the Day After Thanksgiving!
We usually decorate for Christmas the day after.
Mike’s family loves Christmas (my mother-in-law use to sing carols when it rained).
This year we started listening to Christmas music before Halloween!

Oh the Places You’ll Go!:
If you would have told me three years ago…
that I would be living in Massachusetts
I would have told you, “Phewie!”
If you would have told me three years ago…
that I would be almost half way to completing my life goal of visiting 20 LDS Temples before I die

I would have told you, “YIPPEE!

Mike and I love car trips. We went on a lot of them before Caleb was born.
We’ve seen a lot of landscapes and landmarks,

but who would have knew this would be the view from our living room window…

by all means Winter take your sweet time getting here. We’ll have some cocoa waiting for you when you arrive.

The Great Pumpkin: BELIEVE

(No real babies ate any real chocolate during the photoshoot)

Just a quick post of halloween scraps for Grandma then back to unpacking.

I'll try to post again later in the week.

Toodles.