Friday Night Party

What makes a party?  A trip to the store for ice cream and being together on a Friday night.

Girls Weekend

By some miracle, I was allowed to walk onto the BYU XC and track team my freshman year of college and what a wonderful experience and time of life it was.  Because nearly all of my free time/social time was spent with those ladies, I made some amazing friends… Some of my best girlfriends in the world.  At the end of January we had a fun girls weekend where five of us met up in Phoenix for a weekend away.  The highlights included visiting Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter camp, Taliesan West, an intense hike, Bollywood dancing (3 pregnant women shaking it = hot), and lots of good conversation and food.  I didn’t take hardly any photos and those I did take I managed to delete off my memory card (when you get around to it send me a CD Kristen) so I am going to link you to these amazing blog posts so you can see what a great time it was. 

Kristen posted here

JoLee posted here and here and here

The Face Only a Mother Could Love

I don’t think so!

  

  

   We Love Brothers! 

Announcing…

The Hyrum and Nicole Anderson family our pleased to announce that we will be adding a new addition to the family in May! Most of you probably already know, but for those of you who don’t, you will be glad to know that we will NOT be renaming our blog. In keeping with the trend we will be having another boy.

Scottie and James are excited to have another brother but Scottie did have some confusion. Yesterday I asked him if he was excited to have a new little brother and he said he was but wondered what we were going to do with James. I told him James was staying and he said he only wants one little brother. Sorry Dude, James stays.

I love my two little boys and am delighted for another little man child. I just am not looking forward to finding another name. We will be taking suggestions in the comment section.

Merry Christmas! This cuteness and knowledge is your Christmas present as well as ours!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope your day was as nice as ours was.

  Scottie wanted the turkey leg and you would be surprised at how much he managed to eat of it.

The “adult table” I am sure everyone will hate this one.

We love pie!

Just Like Riding a Bike

About three weeks ago Scottie learned to ride his bike without training wheels.  He was about as proud of himself as they come.  We were proud of him too.  Here he is in all of his four year old glory.

       

Happy Halloween

We had a frightful time on Halloween night. 

   

We carved a pumpkin after church.              Scottie put on his costume shortly thereafter and remained a “space man” the rest of the night.

        

We had a family dinner and the cousins all came in costume.  Check out our vampire, spaceman, Captain America, camouflage diva, and Superman.

   

I stuffed James into a lion costume, much to his chagrin, but once he got outside and got some candy, he cooled off. 

   

Thanks for the fun cousins!  We miss you already.

Congratulations Josh and Katie!

While in Washington, we drove over to Spokane for Dear Josh and Katie’s wedding.  It was fabulous and we were glad we could be a part of it.

    

They drove away then back again in an amazing old fashioned car which Scottie and James had to check out before they came out of the temple.

   

What a happy beautiful couple.  Congratulations guys, we love you!

Four is a BIG Number

Scottie is a big boy now.  He can write his own name.  He can dress himself (we don’t mind that his shirt is often inside out or backwards).  He is a super kind older brother and rarely tries to harass James.  He loves school.  We are sure glad he is around.  We got to go for a visit to Seattle and were there on his birthday.  What a party!

        

Grandpa took him on a motorcycle ride and he told me he wasn’t even scared.

We went to the park.

Grandma let him decorate his own racecar birthday cake.

We had a party with the cousins.  His older cousin shares a birthday and turned 8!  Scottie looks a little sad in this picture because there was a little candle blowing out mishap but we had an excellent time.  To top off the evening we got to go spend the night at some favorite cousins house and have a yummy dinner.  What a day. 

Scottie’s Early Birthday Party

Since we are going to be in Seattle next week, we decided to have an early birthday party for Scottie.  After the nearly 80 degree weather all last week we decided to have it outside but were surprised this week with amazingly powerful thunderstorms and rain, and then yesterday was the coldest day we have had this fall.  All the kids were bundled up though and had an amazing time. 

9 little boys made it to the party.  So we had 11 little boys (counting James) running around eating pizza, and raising a ruckus, and a couple little sister siblings.  Luckily the moms stayed around too.

We had a ghost pinata which left the kids with way too many treats.  With the padded bat, they were unsuccessful beating the life out of the poor ghost so eventually after the pinata fell from its rope a few times we switched tactics.

James had a blast eating way too many treats.  I think he is on treat probation.

They all had a blast and went home with chocolate faces from these little owl babies I made.

Happy fourth birthday Scottie!  We love you!