Fun times and Birthday Parties!

Isabella loves wearing her daddy's shoes around the house. He caught her the other day and thought he'd take a pic. So precious!



She sure does love ice cream or as she would say it "i ceme!" She also LOVES popcicles or as she says it "goggles"! I have no idea how she got "goggle" out of popcicle, but I definitely know what she's saying. The other eating picture is of white powdered donuts. I was looking at her stomach poking out of a shirt the other day and realized it was probably the result of eating 2 bags of donuts in 1 week! :)




A few weeks ago we went to Wade's 2nd birthday party. Barney was there and I thought Isabella would love it, but she kept her distance and just stared for a while. It was a really good time.

Aw.......she does love me!

Ok, so some of you may know how Isabella has been with me lately, but if you don't, this picture is a rare moment right now. For the past several weeks my little Isabella has wanted NOTHING to do with me! She just wants her daddy. :( It hurt my feelings so bad at first, but then I thought, ok she really needs to bond with her daddy so I'm ok with it. Well, it's been like 3 weeks and I'm so desperately wanting her to love me again like she used to! Of course she loves me, but I mean I want her to want to be around me and play with me. She's not wanted me to hold her, put her to bed, give her a bath, feed her dinner, play with her, much less look at her! I know it's just a phase, but I hope it passes quickly. So tonight she was pretty happy considering she's still not feeling well and she even let me hold her after her bath! I couldn't believe it! I kept saying to Peter, "look, she's letting me hold her!" She fell asleep in my lap. Oh, the Lord must have known I needed that tonight. So, Peter hopped up and grabbed the camera. I guess she really does love me after all! :) I'm definitely cherishing this moment for as long as I can. I'm not sure how long it will last this week. :)

Good Times.....

My husband is the best! Last weekend he decided to take me on a surprise date! Since having Isabella in our life we became major home bodies. We have maybe went on a handful of dates alone. So we decided to take turns once a month and surprise the other with a date. So, he started it off this month and he way outdid himself! Not only did he clean the house a few days before our date, and I mean major cleaned, but he also took me out to eat on Saturday night to J. Alexanders. I had never been there before and it was really good food. Then he had purchased tickets to TPAC to see Jersey Boys! What an awesome, fantastic show! We loved it. I didn't realize how much talent some people have. They were absolutely talented and unforgettable. The only picture I took was this one holding up the program. Then we got in trouble for taking pictures in the auditorium! What? Anyway, it was so much fun and I really appreciated all he did for me that week and taking me out on the date. I guess next time I'll have to think of something cheap! :)

That same weekend we had family in town from Illinois. My sister-in-law, Stephanie and her girls, Maddie and Mary came in and stayed with us. We all took a trip to the zoo. It was so pretty the first half of the day and then turned cold the last half. Very cold. I ended up started getting sick that night actually and I'm still not completely over it, 9 days later. But we had a great time with the fam! Isabella loved playing in the Jungle Gym. She ran everywhere! Her favorite thing to do is swing on the swings. She loves it! I remember loving it the most over everything else when I was little.

This past weekend was spent pretty much at home. With me being sick with a sinus infection and Isabella getting sick we weren't able to go to church or do anything for that matter for Easter. My dad and mom both saved us dinner and brought it to us. Thank you!! for the food. We really appreciated it. I wished we could have done something on Easter Sunday, but Isabella started throwing up and there was no way we could go anywhere. She's still got a terrible cough and we're taking her to see the doctor tomorrow about it. I really hope they give her something to help it. It just doesn't sound right. I'll let you know how it goes. Here are a few pics of Easter Sunday. Isabella opened up her things from the Easter Bunny at home.

Thinking ahead....

Hey family & friends,
I wanted to start thinking ahead for a place to have Isabella's 2nd birthday party this July. Sometimes places have to book several months in advance so I'm trying to do some research. I've thought of a couple of ideas, but wanted to get some input from friends that have tried and tested other places with their own kiddos. Does anyone know of any fun places to have birthday parties? July is so hot so I was thinking about something indoors. Any suggestions would be helpful, thanks!!

First Egg Hunt!

So, Isabella had her first Easter egg hunt today at MDO. She was not expecting her mommy and daddy to show up at her school. She was so surprised to see us! We both managed to be there and take pictures. Of course we were the only parents to go (first-time parent thing, yes I know!). We sure didn't want to miss this first. It was so cute!


This first picture is her walking out of her classroom with Ms. Amy, who she LOVES! She just saw us waiting in the hall for her. The next one is her and daddy making their way to find the eggs.




She gave a big smile for us while she looked for the eggs. I bought her basket a couple of days ago and let her practice finding them at home so she would have somewhat of an idea what to do when it was time for the egg hunt. She seemed to catch on pretty quickly.



Egg hunt over. Back to the classroom we go! She actually does have about 12 eggs in her basket, you just can't see them. Way to go Isabella!

The Thompson household

Here lately, we've all been busy around here. Today was a fun busy day! Isabella and I went to mom's for her photography class and the students used us as "models" to practice their skills they'd learned. I thought it was only going to be Isabella in the pictures, but they put me right in the middle of it! I felt like a celebrity for about 1 minute :) About 20 women flashing their cameras, telling me to look at them. I started sweating! I'm not used to being center of attention. I think Isabella is much cuter! She was such a little actress. She laughed, clapped, smiled, and made all kinds of silly noises while everybody starting snapping shots. I think she LOVED being center of attention. Here are some of the pictures from today.

Beth Moore Live Event

I was so excited the other day when my sweet friend, Susan, asked me to go with her to Beth Moore's convention this weekend! She's the pastor's wife at Goodlettsville First Baptist and Becca also came along who is the youth pastor's wife there.

In the picture is me, then Becca, then Susan.

Although it was specifically for pastor's wives she knew I had been in that position not too long ago and invited me to go along with her. (I was a junior high youth pastor's wife for 3 years, up until last August when we stepped down.) I can't tell you enough about how amazing God is to speak through this tiny lady! I've seen her one other time when Adrienne and we drove to Cincinnati for the weekend to hear her. She's just so witty, passionate, hilarious and just down-right silly. But she's also able to connect with women like no other. If you've never heard her in person you have to check out her schedule and go to one of her events. You will not be sorry. On Friday night she asked the audience to sum up their life in 6 words before Christ. I am soooo not good at those tasks! But I came up with this: Blinded, insecure, not knowing my place. Ok, so now I'm going to tag my friends about "6 Words" and you have to do it! I love hearing what other people say. Then yesterday she asked us to use 6 words to describe how we see ourselves now, at the end of the event. So here was mine: Carnal thinking comes with Jesus alternatives. I know, not great, but that's all I could come up with in the 3 minutes that she gave us :) Basically her message was about things that aggravate us and how to use a Jesus alternative to deal with our aggravations. For instance: Relationships-an aggravation would be "Whoever we consistently seek approval from, we become their slave" and an alternative would be "Seek God's approval, find your peace". So she always had a Jesus alternative to the things that bother us in this life. Usually it's the way we think about ourselves (either more highly than we ought to or not good enough) or the relationships around us. She gave an illustration about when we've been treated wrongly. She said all of us are under authority and to humble ourselves and not lash out at people or speak badly about other people. For God will take care of them if we allow Him to. Trust God to deal with others. Let other people be ugly without us getting in the mud with them. Fight for true godliness and fight for your heart. We are called to be crucified to our carnal flesh . Starve the things you don't want in your life and feed the things of the Spirit. I could go on and on, but that was the gist of her conference. Maybe someone reading this needed to hear it. I hope so, and I hope everybody is doing well!

Here's a couple more pictures of the event. Travis Cotrell led worship and it was amazing! Beth is on the right in the corner on stage by the punching bag. (which was part of an illustration-along with pink punching gloves!)

Isabella is finally loving Mother's Day Out and church now! Yay! She practically jumped out of my arms to go play this morning at church. I wanted to cry just thinking about how happy it makes me that she's happy. I know that sounds silly, but I can't help it. Anyway, Peter's working a lot more now that it's almost Spring. The baby tigers are out on display at the zoo. He says they're so cute and should attract a lot of attention soon. I'm hoping we can go visit the zoo in the next couple of weeks. I'm especially looking forward to Spring Break. I can't wait to have a week off and just have fun with Peter and Isabella. I'll hopefully blog soon again. Until next time...........don't forget about the "6 Words" before and after Jesus..... I tag Amanda, Mom, Leshia, and Nicki!