More Boring Stuff

So it has been a week since I posted last. I just have to let you all know what is going on in the big town of Cokeville, Wyoming and the Thompson family. Our biggest challenge has been in helping Shari come up with some good (notice I said good, not cute) boys names. Of course she will reject every name I've given her, you know like Billy Bob Benjamin and Bob Billy Benjamin Davis, or Jakob William and Ammon Scott William Davis. It must be something about the name Bill or William. Shari, it has to be a manly name, not cute. By the way, William is in the top ten most popular names EVER!!!

Kandyce is doing well at school. We don't hear from her, but we know she is alive. Brady is doing sumo primo on his mission. He had a baptism last week and was to have one yesterday. He is loving life there in Latvia. Here is a picture of his baptism. They were cleaning out the limbs and garbage before the performed the ordinance. We have been praying that he and his companions and the other elders in his district will be able to form a branch there in Jelgava.

Breanne is also doing well as you can see from all of her posts. Bre, you need to get a new computer. They have some nice ones at apple.com.

Kennan and McKenzie are doing well in school. Of course here is the annual picture of the kids on their first day of school. (Sorry it was late posting, they've only been in school since August).

Kennan played in his first junior high football game on Saturday. I didn't get to see it, but he said he did alright. It was more of a jamboree. All of the 6th graders make up the 7th grade team. He said that on defense, he was the cornerback and the opponents quarterback (a very big kid according to Coach Briant Teichert) ran around the end and the only one between him and the goal line was Kennan. Kennan ran up to him and the kid lowered his shoulder and ran right over the top of him. But Kennan held on to the kid and pulled him down for the tackle. It knocked the wind out of Kennan, but he was really happy. Coach Teichert said that Kennan made such a great tackle that he (Kennan) got a little emotional. He had tears in his eyes, if you get my meaning. Kennan's first home game will be Tuesday, stay tune for more pictures and updates.

McKenzie is the setter for the JV team and is a serving specialist on the varsity. They played Evanston last Wednesday. The freshmen and JV won, but the varsity lost in 5 really close games. In game four McKenzie scored the last 4 points to win the match. She had two aces during that run. For the weekend the varsity went to Pocatello to the Highland tournament. They did really good. They finished 5th out of 17 teams. Out of the top 6 teams, 3 were from our pool on Friday. They beat some big 5A schools. We get a little following when people find out that we only have 90 kids in the entire school (7th thru 12th grade) and we can compete with the big boys (I should say girls).

The boys football team played Shoshoni and won 42 to 0. It was 35-0 at halftime. I don't know all of the details, but I'll try to find out. If you are really interested, I think I've found a way to get Channel 39 on the internet. I'll be doing some test runs this coming week to see if it will work. Then you that are far from home will be able to watch Channel 39 on your computers. We'll see.

Ellen and I are fat and happy. I mean we really are FAT and happy. I'm not eating as much as I used to, but I need to exercise. I do have a big problem with my foot and I'm scared to start playing basketball in the mornings because of the pain it causes, but I have to start some time. We miss our married kids and grandchild, but we know they are happy where they are and they know they will always be welcomed when they come home. We'll even let them bring their husbands. They are always welcomed here.

Just an after thought. We were playing Madison High School yesterday and the girl who was helping with the books kept yelling at the setter, "Lets go Shar. Come on Shar." So I asked her what the name of the setter was, she said "Shari". I told her that I had a daughter named Shari. She laughed and I asked her if there was a Breanne on the team, she said yes, the middle hitter. I told her that I had a daughter named Breanne. I then asked if there was a Kandyce, she said no. Holly Grandy was with me and she asked if there was a McKenzie on the team and she said "no, but Shari's older sister's name is McKenzie." Was that ever a Twilight Zone.