Graduation Day

Okay Here is the info for graduation day!
The graduation ceremony will be held at the Austrad Auditorium in the Browning Center on Campus of WSU. The Convocation will begin at 12:30 pm and will probably run until 2pm. Those that can come should probably be there by 12.
We do have a little lunceon prepared afterwards at mom and dads, yes I finally made a decision! Just ask Mom and Jenny if your wondering what that means....
Hope to see you there!!!

Happy Birthday Kody

Sorry Kody I am a day late on your birthday blog.

Kody is our forth child. You were our surprise baby. Everyone has a surprise baby.

You were born on April 26th, 1985, Papa Thompson's birthday. You were late just like most of your siblings. Dr. Moore had to start me. You were a very big baby, 9 lbs. Back then we didn't have to many options for pain during labor, so your birth was hard for me. We had lots of visitors at the hospital, Grandma and Papa Thompson, Vickie and Debbie, and I think Trevor was there too. Trevor didn't come into my room but I think that he was there.

Papa was pretty happy when you were born on his birthday. Dr. Moore induced me on the 25th, but as usually it was the middle of the night when you were born. Dad had picked out your first name, Kody with a "K". But then when you were born on Papa's birthday we just had to give you Papa's name for your middle name.

Dad was working in Ogden, he had graduated from BYU two weeks before you were born. So during the week I was home with you, Summer, Justin and Jenny. Dad came home on the weekends.

You were blessed on June 4th, I think. You were only about 5 weeks old. But I wanted to bless you in a ward where we knew people and so that our friends would be there. You wore the same little outfit that Justin wore. Aunt Debbie designed and made it. You almost didn't fit into the outfit, Justin was so small 5lbs 13 oz, and you were so much bigger. So I suppose it was good that we didn't wait to bless you, or you wouldn't have fit into the outfit.

After dad blessed you, you started to cry. So I took you out to the mother's room. I just couldn't get you to stop crying. So the two of us ended up spending all of Sacrament meeting crying in the mother's room. I really should have waited to bless you. Then we both would have been more stable.

We moved up to Washington Terrace soon after your blessing. The house that we rented had two bedrooms upstairs and two bedrooms downstairs. You had the upstairs bedroom, Summer, Justin and Jenny were downstairs.

We had a little porta crib for you to sleep in. You slept in this little porta crib forever. You loved it. We tried to get you to move into a big boy bed when you were older but you just loved your little crib. While we were in Provo you slept in Summer's room. Which by the way you slept through the night as a newborn. When we moved to Washington Terrace you stopped sleeping through the night. I think that Heavenly Father was helping you to sleep so well because he knew that I needed my sleep because I was a single parent of four children. It was a great blessing to have you be such a good baby.

After we moved to Washington Terrace and you got to be with dad, and get to know him. You turned into a daddy's boy. If dad was around all you wanted was him. This was real sad for me, up to this point none of the other children had really shown such a big preference. But, when Danny was born she was a mamma's girl so that kind of helped me to not feel so bad about you wanting dad so much.

While we lived in that house in Washington Terrace we had many accidents. You were in your walker-I know now that walkers are not safe. I had a gate up to the stairs, but you pushed real hard and fell down the stairs. That was scary. But you did fine.

You had your first birthday in the Washington Terrace house. We got you a little fire engine riding/walking toy. It had a siren and a horn. Who knew that someday you would be driving a huge ladder fire engine truck and be the engineer on that truck.

We moved to Layton in June.

You were baptised and confirmed on May 1, 1993. One of my good friend help me make you a special cake for your lunch after you baptism.

We lived in Layton until the summer before you started 7th grade. Then we moved to So. Weber in August right before school started, so you went to Sunset Jr High and then Northridge High school.

There is many more memories of your life that I have, but I will save them for other birthdays.

I love you and I am very proud of you! Happy Birthday Kody.

First Day On The Job And Kody Got On TV

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

Senior Year Tag

IN YOUR SENIOR YEAR DID YOU...
1. Did you date someone from your school? Yes
2. Did you marry someone from your high school? Sure did
3. Did you car pool to school? yes a little, sometimes with my sister
4. What kind of car did you have? a red, Ford Mustange, dad's other girlfriend Linda had a red Ford Mustange too. Kind of funny.
5. What kind of car do you have now? Charcoal Toyota
6. Its Saturday night...where are you now? Home usually by myself. Kevin works most Sat. nights
7. It is Saturday night...where were you then? With my girlfriends
8. What kind of job did you have in high school? Macey's grocery store
9. What kind of job do you do now? Sub. teacher, mostly at Clearfield High School
10. Were you a party animal? NO
11. Were you considered a flirt? probably
12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? No I was an artist.
13. Were you a nerd? No, I'm not smart enough to be a nerd.
14. Did you get suspended or expelled? No
15. Can you sing the fight song? No.. but I can sing the school song for Northridge High School. I have spent way more time there than at my high school. I have graduated at least five time from Northridge.
16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)? My art teacher, Bill Larsen, we called him Mr. Bill. All of the girls liked him. He was young and cute. Mrs. Jean Paxton, she taught Social Studies.
17. Where did you sit during lunch? The lunchroom. We didn't go out to lunch very often.
18. What was your school's full name? Cottonwood High School
19. When did you graduate?1976
20. What was your school mascot? Colts
21. If you could go back and do it again, would you? No
22. Did you have fun at Prom? Yes
23. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with? Yes I married him.
24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion? No. I didn't have that many friends and if I want to see them I would call them up and get together. We did go to one of Dad's reunion. It was awful. The people all got drunk and continued to make fun of people. It cost a lot of money and the food was terrible.
25. Do you still talk to people from school? A few.
26. School Colors? black white and gold

Happy Easter!

Smile guys! Look happy!No, no, Hannah! Stay there!C'mon guys! Look at the camera! Oh well.

HAPPY EASTER!

One of my favorite talks this last General Conference was an especially powerful message from Elder Holland. It seems very appropriate to share this time of year:

"Brothers and sisters, one of the great consolations of this Easter season is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so. His solitary journey brought great company for our little version of that path—the merciful care of our Father in Heaven, the unfailing companionship of this Beloved Son, the consummate gift of the Holy Ghost, angels in heaven, family members on both sides of the veil, prophets and apostles, teachers, leaders, friends. All of these and more have been given as companions for our mortal journey because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the Restoration of His gospel. "

--Elder Jeffrey R. Holland