Dorothy's Baptism!

It was such a special day and Dorothy loved every second of it.  I spend half the week and all night getting all the food ready to make it special.  We are so proud of Dorothy and her decision to be baptized, she has set such a wonderful example for her younger siblings.  The bishop told us how smart and well prepared for baptism she was and I know it's because all of her cousins examples and the many FHE lessons we have had about baptism.  It was a very spiritual day and we feel so blessed!

All dressed in her new dress and ready for her special day!

Dressed and ready to go!

James and Dorothy ready for her baptism!

The towel with her name embroidered from the Primary!

So much family support thanks to all who came!!

The girls (James was chasing Preston down for the family picture!)

The best family picture we could get (all the others Preston was giving the camera the stink eye!)  Preston and Violet really wanted to go play with cousins and did not want to take pictures!  

Our big girl, Dorothy we are soooo proud of you!

BIG NEWS!!!

The Thomas family is launching 4.0 due for release 7/24/12

At week 16 I am craving everything and feel blessed to be through the nausea because throwing up in public bathrooms will go down as one of the worst experiences of this pregnancy!  Zofran is not a miracle drug but did help.  We are VERY excited about this new addition... will we find out the sex of the baby?  Undecided I love the surprise of it but Preston may need to know what it is this time because he REALLY wants a boy.  I will let you know!

* I did not have an ultrasound picture so you get this;)!*

Date Night!

Last week we were lucky enough to get some tickets to the Jazz game from Evan and Kelly.  We are always so excited to get tickets from them because they are such awesome seats!  We left for the game and stopped for dinner at Zupas.  Of course I had to get my Red Mango fro-yo during halftime so the game ended up being a complete success- oh yeah and the Jazz won!!

At the game Jazz VS Blazers

After the game in front of the Energy Solutions Arena!

Alice in Wonderland!

Lifehouse put on Alice in Wonderland for the Winter ballet, Dorothy was part of the Caterpillar train.  The ballet was beyond cute and all of the girls did such a wonderful job!  I am so happy with this dance studio and can't wait till Violet starts next year!

Ready to go!

Dancing!

Dancing with Alice and the White rabbit!

All the performers!

Fan club!

A tea party!

For Violet's 3rd birthday she wanted to have a tea party.  So we invited 8 little girls from her nursery class and cousins and asked all the girls to come dressed in princess attire.  They played games, danced, had a tea party, had cake and opened presents.  It turned out great and Violet loved every second of it!

Set up and ready for the party!

Ready for her guests!

Her tea party cake!

I think my smile stems from finishing making that darn cake!

Cake

Opening presents!

After the party!  Preston dressed up as The Mad Hatter because it was a tea party!

The party was a HOOT!

For Dorothy's party this year she wanted to have a 'late night' so we invited all the girls over from 6-9 for pizza, tons of candy and a movie.  They all came in pj's so it felt like it was late, we got carried away and ended up with 25 girls but they had such a good time I would do it again!  

Ready for the party!

The candy bar Dorothy insisted on having!  I think the kids all went home sick!

Before all dressed and ready!

The boys who *suffered* through the madness!

Watching 'Enchanted'

Opening presents!

I still can't believe she is 8!!!

Of course we went with the owl theme for the late night!!!

Girls Retreat!

A few weekends ago I went away for the annual girls retreat, this was my 3 year going and it's something I look forward to all year!  We stayed up WAAAAY too late, did some digital scrapbooking (almost done with baby books!) watched movies, went running (which is one of my favorite things to do!) and went hot tubbing.  

The group!

Too many ladies in one hot tub!

This is after of 3 nights of no sleep, I am looking super!