Bike Accident

St. Patrick's Day this year we celebrated in style. I made corn-beef and cabbage, then skipped dinner to take Scottie to the doctors. Scottie crashed his 2-wheeler coming down hard and breaking both his radius and ulna. He will sport this beautiful green cast for 4-6 weeks. He has been such a good sport. Poor little buddy.

Scottie, James and Dad lounging together.

Aren't my boys cute. Can't wait for the fourth to make his debut in May.

Happy Birthday James!

James is 2! He is one cute little rascal. He has a lot of personality. His current loves include cooking, (I cannot do anything without him pulling up a chair to "help"), trains, teasing Scott (he harasses Scott way more than vice-versa), playing outdoors, and generally being cute and mischievous. To celebrate his birthday I took the boys to the aquarium and botanical gardens.

James in front of the Shark tank.

Playing with the trains at the Botanical Gardens

Climbing on the child-sized ants

We ended the evening with a hike and picnic in the mountains and a chocolate cake.

Life is good.

Drunk Driver

I forgot to blog about this. A month or so ago we had an exciting event. A drunk driver drove through the back of our block wall, exposing our beautiful shed to the road. Luckily for us he was insured. Thank you All State for our brand new wall and for keeping our boys safe and out of the road. The best part was when Hyrum got to take a sledge hammer to it.

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.