Life!!

Well it feels like summer here in California! I am loving the weather. Shane has been working really hard on his business and keeping really busy. We hardly see each other with my 8-5 schedule and his photography jobs being on the weekend and at night sometimes. We are also still taking my grandpa to dialysis 3 days a week. We did have the opportunity to meet up last Friday for a date night. We went to the new water show at the Disney's California Adventure Park. It is called World of Color and it was great. We waiting hours to see the show and I loved it. I am a huge Disney fan and it didn't disappoint me at all.
With all the good in our life with jobs, family, and church we still have our trials. Since they are my trials they seem huge. Our most recent happened yesterday. I was having Shane come to my office to have a cleaning and on his way his engine in his BMW died!! It is very sad to say the least. Not sure what we are going to do! But we will figure it out and it will be okay!!!
We are excited to have Wyatt come in 33 days! We are counting down. I am also excited for my birthday in 16 days. I am getting old but I still love my birthday. I think because we always celebrate it on 4th of July. It a big celebration with my family. It's my special day! Everyone likes that. I will post pictures from World of Color soon.

Summer is here!!

I love summer! Not only because my birthday is in the summer, I just love the warm weather. It is getting really warm here lately. I came home today from work and Shane had the air conditioning going. I grew up in a house where we only ran the air if it was a super hot day at least over 100. I love the warm fresh air with the windows opens.
We have had a busy fun week. We started the week with Memorial Day. That was so nice to have an extra day off. We had a pool party and bbq over at our place. It was fun but Shane told me I can never have a party again. I made him rearrange the furniture on Sunday night and he was not happy with me. I am one of those people where things have to look perfect to me to be happy. It was the first time some of the family was seeing our new place and I needed things to be perfect. It turned out great! I wish I had pictures to share but I misplaced the battery charger to my camera and so I have to rely on Shane to take all the pictures until I find it.
After the party Shane took off to Carlsbad for the rest of the week. I left work tuesday night and drove down there and spend the night with him. He was shooting pictures for the California Senior games. He was shooting pickleball all week. It was fun for him. I love Carlsbad. It is close to the ocean and beautiful. So glad I got to spend one night down there. I would of loved to spend more but I had to take grandpa to dialysis since Shane was gone and of course work.
My grandpa is doing alittle better. We are still taking him to dialysis 3 days a week. He goes in to surgery on the 17th of June and then we will see from there. He will probably be back in the nursing facility for a few more week and then go home. If all goes well with the surgery.
Shane has had a busy week like I mentioned with being in Carlsbad. Then tonight he is gone to another event shooting a 45th wedding aniversary. Next week he goes back to shooting more graduations. He is shooting nine graduations total. June is a busy month. Then the middle of July we have Wyatt coming to visit for a month. We are so excited to see him. This has been one of the longest times we have spent without seeing him.
I will try to post pictures soon of all the fun things we are doing. I am sure all this text is boring. But we are doing good and enjoying the summer weather.

I have an awesome husband!!!

I am so proud of Shane! He is really doing everything possible to make his photography business work. He is running 2 parts of the business. One is Thompson Photography and that is for weddings and events in color photo's. He just started a new part of the business called Shades of Grey. That is higher price photography all in balck and white.
This weekend he has had 3 calls for photography jobs. One is a wedding for next weekend, one is for an anniversary party on June 5th and the last one is for a birthday pool party at a big house in Corona on June 12th. Nothing is set in stone yet. He is gone right now to meet with the bride and groom for next weeks wedding. But everything sounds really good. If he gets all three it would be great.
Shane is such a great husband and I pray everyday things really take off for his photography business. He loves it so much and I believe that you should be able to do what you love and make money doing it! He trys so hard to make things work for us. Most of the time he has really bad luck and things just don't work out the way he plans, but I hope for him this does.
Other than that we have had a busy week. I worked alot of hours and Shane spend most of his week running my grandpa to dialysis or the doctors. My grandpa had a bad week. He was sick alot and some days Shane would get there and he would not want to go to dialysis and they had to reschedule his doctors appointment one day. This made for Shane having to do alot of extra driving. But again Shane is such an awesome husband. One day he had to clean my grandpa up after dialysis, he had an accident while in dialysis. Also on friday my grandpa was not feeling well and didn't want to go to dialysis, Shane stayed with him for a while and talked with him and helped to cheer him up. Yesterday I went along and when Shane left the car to go get a wheelchair my grandpa turned around and said that I had a good man. I do have a good man!
I love you Shane! I am so happy to be married to you! You make life exciting. You take good care of me and my family. Whenever someone needs something you are there with a helping hand. You always ask me why I love you and why I stay married to you, these are a few of the reasons why!!!

We have been so busy! About a month ago my grandpa went into the hospital. It looked like he was not going to make it. So we all rush up to see him and I wish that day I would not of went. My grandpa was not in the right frame of mind and he was talking crazy and it has flooded my mind with the memory of that day since. But as grandpa usually does, he has got alittle better and has been moved to a nursing facility. Shane has been great and has stepped in and is taking him to dialysis three days a week. The first night was hard for my grandpa and Shane. He had to basically pick him up to move him from the car to wheelchair. At the nursing facility they are working with him and he has physical therapy two times a day. It is helping him to get a little stronger. I wish they would of done this when he was in the hospital. They let him sit or lay in bed for a month. No wonder he has no strength in his legs!

Other than that, I had my friend Becky and her family come out to California for a visit. I had not seen her in over 12 years. We just got reconnected on facebook a few months back. That was nice to catch up with her.

Micheal just had his 10th birthday last weekend. We went miniture golfing and then a bbq and party for him at my parents house. I think he had a great time! I can't believe it has been 10 years, time does go by so fast.

Shane and I have a quite weekend plan at home. Nothing exciting going on. Sounds so good to me! I feel like I run run run all week. Then every weekend we have a ton of things planned. Nice I have one quite weekend. I do have a surprsie date night planned for Shane tomorrow. Sunday we are going to church with my mom and then going to my parents for dinner afterwards to celebrate Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mothers out there!!

Were Back!!

It has been so long since I have posted anything here on our blog. I don't know where the time has gone since December. Well to give a quick overview we have moved twice. Shane has gotten a new job and then layed off from that job and I got a promotion at work. Life has been crazy, stressful and I am ready for it to slow down.

We are finally settled into our new home in Corona. It is small but we are enjoying having our own place. We have had our stuff in storage for over a year and it is so nice to see it again and put it out. It has been nice to go through all of our stuff and get rid of things that we don't need or use.

I have posted pictures from the last six months of some of the funs things we have done. Mostly Disneyland, our San Diego trip and the holidays.

Pictures that go with the last post

All the family

Merry Christmas!!

Well once again it has been way too long since I posted anything! The past couple of months have been busy. I have mostly been working long hours, and then trying to fit family time in afterwards.

We have also had the oportunity to have a few vacations. In October we went to San Diego for 4 nights for our anniversary. We had a wonderful relaxing time. I love San Diego!!! We also went away for Thanksgiving. We got to have two vacations in one. We went to Utah to pick up Wyatt and then headed to Colorado. We were able to spend 4 days in Colorado with my family. We had a wonderful time. We went ice skating one night. We did a 4 mile Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning that I am very proud of myself for. We got up at 3am the day after Thanksgiving and hit all the big sales and crowds out shopping. That was a blast! We just had great family time with Wyatt. Then we headed back to Utah to return Wyatt and have a few days with Shane's family. It was nice to see everyone. I got to go see New Moon with my sister in law Wendy! That was great! We did more shopping, had a family dinner with everyone, and I visited with old friends that I use to work with at Get Away Today! Unfornately, when we returned from our vacation Shane was let go from his job.

Since we have been back from our Thanksgiving getaway we have been busy and got right into the Christmas season. I absolutely love this time of year. I love how everyone is so nice and people go out of there way for others. I love all the family get togethers and parties that don't take place other times of the year. I especially love that we can take this time to celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. It makes me reflect on the year and see if I have accomplished the goals I set to be a better person and to be more like Christ. Also to set new goals for the year to come. I just love everything about the holiday season and wish it didn't rush by so fast!

We have been busy this past week. It feels like everyday I have something going on. We had our church christmas dinner this past week and my work christmas dinner. Both turned out great and were fun to attend. This weekend we went out on Saturday the most rainy day of the week to buy the Christmas tree! I love buying a real tree, I love the smell that feels the house. I love the hunt for the perfect tree. Even in the rain it was so much fun! After the tree shopping we made a gingerbread house and played games. It was such a fun family day. Today we had a wonderful day at church and then we had family over. We had an early family Christmas party since some of the family leaves for Colorado this week for Christmas. It was fun to be together with them and celebrate.

The next few weeks prove to be busy when I look at my calendar, but I know I will enjoy every minute I get to spend with my family celebrating the holiday season. It is nice to be home with my family this year. We are very sad to not have Wyatt with us!!!!

We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season! (this is your Christmas card or letter! Sorry have not got around to it this year)

Love,
The Thompson's