Broncos Packers Monday Night Football!

Jason as a crazy Packer fan
Originally uploaded by jason_m_thomas

We attended the awesome Bronco Packer Monday Night Football game at Mile High Stadium last night. Yes I painted my face like a crazy person and Melissa actually went to the game with me like that. We drove down early with Paul and Jill Olson and some other Packer friends (and that Bronco fan in the background) to meet up with more Packer friends for some tailgating. Car after car pulled up filled with Packer fans who all came down to tailgate. It was amazing how many Packer fans were at the game. It was practically a home game for the Pack. A few times the Packer fans were able to get the "GO PACK GO" chant going above the crowd noise until the Bronco fans started booing and drowned us out. Melissa scored some AWESOME tickets from a friend on the 6th row on the railing next to the tunnel where the Broncos run out on the field. We felt like we were practically on the field when the plays were down in our end. I had a MNF cameraman filming me for most of the first half but apparently I didn't make it on TV. If you haven't heard, the game was incredible and came down to a literally last second Broncos field goal (in the end zone we were sitting in) to put the game into overtime. The Packers won the toss and on the first play, Brett Favre threw a touchdown pass (again into our end zone) to win the game. The place actually erupted with cheering Packer fans even though the Broncos were stunned silent. What an amazing game! Click here to view the stunning slideshow.

I'm an Uncle!

My brother Brian and his wife Katie just had their first child, a boy, Carson James Thomas. His email to me:

"It's a Boy! His name is Carson James Thomas. (Carson is Katie's maiden name and James is our favorite book of the Bible and Katie's grandpa's name). Carson was 8 lbs. 10 oz. - I say "was" because he's a sow. He's 19 1/2 inches long. I have no idea what this means but I was told it's important to include in this email for those who aren't as clueless as me about babies. He is not fussy at all and looks a lot like . . . a baby as far as I can tell. It's up to you to tell us who you think he looks more like. One thing we both agree on is that he's the cutest baby we've ever seen and we also agree that we have no bias.

Katie was a champ and did the whole thing without meds. I got an epidural for the sympathy pains. We are a VERY happy family and excited to come home to Healy. Thanks for your support and prayers - they were felt and appreciated. Here are a couple pictures of the newest version of the Thomas family with the life-changing upgrade "Carson 1.0". Enjoy the photos check out our website soon (later this week) for some more pictures and hopefully a video. (www.briankatiethomas.freeservers.com)
--Dad"

Sydney ladybug face paint

Sydney ladybug face paint
Originally uploaded by jason_m_thomas

Here's a funny picture of Sydney with ladybug face paint. Our neighborhood had a fall fair where she won some prizes and got her face painted.

Melissa running Denver half marathon

Melissa running Denver half marathon

Melissa running Denver half marathon
Originally uploaded by jason_m_thomas

Well Melissa successfully finished her first Denver Half Marathon! The picture of her running is pretty low quality but I took it off the Denver Marathon website. The other picture shows her shirt which she wore in memory of Kenna. As you can see it was pretty wet during the race and quite cold as well. Due to my mis adventures in parking I showed up to the race about 5 minutes after Melissa had already finished. I guess it serves me right for thinking she was that slow. Since it was so cold and rainly we didn't want the kids out for very long so I was trying to time my arrival perfectly. Anyway, Melissa did great and proceeded to shake uncontrollably once we got to the car. I guess a few hours in the rain at 40 degrees will do that to you. She's now going to scale the training back and let me run a little with her.

Christmas Picture

Goofy Picture Attempt

Christmas Picture Attempt
Originally uploaded by jason_m_thomas

Every year in the fall we go out into the beautiful Colorado wilderness and try to take a Christmas picture. We do this partially to enjoy the scenary ourselves and partially to make all our relatives in the midwest jealous so they'll want to come visit us. This year we went up outside of Nederland to the Indian Peaks Wilderness area to attempt to photograph a 4 year old, 18 month old, and two golden retrievers all by using the self timer on our camera. This usually leads to some hillarious shots and half the time we have to force ourselves to stop laughing when the timer goes off. You'll notice how attentive the dogs are in this picture. This was achieved by throwing rocks out near the camera in the instant before the timer expired. I guess I was a little off because they weren't looking exactly ahead but close enough. Click the photo to launch Flickr and check out some of our other attempts.

Bryce getting his first haircut

Bryce getting his first haircut
Originally uploaded by jason_m_thomas

Bryce got his first offical haircut (they actually cut all his hair not just the bangs) back on Sept 20th so I thought I would post a picture. There are few more in our Flickr photostream if you're interested. He was quite the trouper just sitting perfectly still the whole time. We went to this kids hair place where they let him watch the intro to Cars the whole time. Kids these days ...