Pick up Six

I took this picture this morning five mintues before we had to leave for church.  I wanted an updated picture of my six children for my first blog post titled, "pick up six".  Maddy came up wtih that title which I wanted to use as a creative blogspot address, but it was already taken, along with every other creative thing I could think of, so I ended up with a boring one (barryandaverythomason.blogspot.com). Oh well!

Every Sunday afternoon (well, mostly) I send out an email to family and friends to let them know what the Thomason clan has been up to.  It's a way to keep in contact and feel not so far away (I have emails sent as close as WA and as far as PA). Hopefully by setting up a blog I can send better/more pictures. I still plan on sending an email to inform of the update.

So what have we been up to this week?  The usual homeschooling and Maddy had two softball games.  Their team still hasn't won a game yet, but Maddy is showing improvement in her form.  She has worked her way up from sixth in batting order (out of seven girls) to third. More importantly she has enjoyed every minute of it!

We follow the public school's calendar and since they had no school on Friday for "fall break", we took a day off and went on a fun field trip to an indoor waterpark that is just over the mountain - 35 mintues from our house.  The best part is that we can use our homelink funds to purchase monthly passes, which we did on Friday.  They have three pools, waterslides, hot tub, sauna, steam room, teen room, climbing wall, exercise room, gym, child care.  The kids had a blast and played hard for 4 hours.  Then "Aunt Heidi" invited them over for the afternoon/evening.  She taught Maddy how to use their four wheeler and fed them all waffles and ice-cream for dinner.  Barry and I had a nice quiet afternoon and even went on a date to the Chewelah HS football game.