Isabellas Birthday

Today we celebrated Isabella's birthday at McArthur Mall at the Play Place, she is now officially 4! What a cutie she is really into Princess & fairy stuff especially Tinkerbelle, Kandice made a beautiful cake that was very yummy!

Gift Exchange

Last night, Sunday we got everyone together to exchange gifts with Sarah, Ed and Family...the older kids (ours) did a Secret Santa gift exchange this year we drew names and they had to guess who their gift was from. The grandkids did their usual Pollyanna gift exchange. We had Pizza for dinner, exchanged gifts and played games. Fun night!

Happy Birthday Ryan

Dec 27th we celebrated Ryan's First Birthday at our house, the pictures are not in the right order but you get the idea, the William's family, Jenny's parents and siblings and spouse and their children came over too, needless to say we had a houseful! Ryan really got into the cake thing!

Family Photos

The really great thing about having everyone together for Christmas was being able to take some family photos, I think the last time we did this was right after Brian came home from his mission! So it has been awhile and was way overdue. So here we are the Anderson Family Clan! Leah and The Fly's Lee, Jennifer, Jordan and Rachel

Brian and Nicole

Lee and Jennifer

The eight of us

Christopher, Kandice, Elijah, Chloe, and Isabella

Us with all the grandchildren

And last but not least all of us

Nicoles Birthday

Dec 26th was Nicole's Birthday, and we had a party for her Nicole blow out all 25 of her candles with one blow! WoW!

Christmas Day

It's finally here the long awaited day! Christmas Day! We started early with breakfast some of the family joined us for breakfast and some came for lunch/dinner so our day lasted forever! Its so good to have almost everyone here! Sarah and Ed come in tomorrow and we will celebrate all over again with them on Sunday. Kandice and Isabella opening gifts

Elijah...............
Leah and Chris...........

David and Ryan... (this is Ryan's first Christmas)

Brian and Nicole (sorry I posted this one twice)

Lee and Rachel.............





Brian, Bandit and Jill...............

Botanical Gardens

Brian and Nicole have been with us a week this past Sat and will be with us for most of this week, I am way behind in my Blog has it has been very busy, with Christmas and fun activities we made our annual trip to Botanical gardens last Tuesday night to see the Christmas Lights

Go Ryan Go!

Ryan discovered it was just as much fun to give everyone else rides as it was to take one..everyone got a turn, even his Dad, David and he didn't even poop out on us!

Ginger Bread houses

Last night we had a date with the kids to make Gingerbread house's it was great fun and somewhat messey! As you can see they all did a great job ....we had a few disasters, walls falling down and roofs caving in.

Elijah posing with his finished house.

Rachel hard at work on hers

Jordan in the early stages of construction

Leah supervising

David and Jenny, they even had a swimming pool in the backyard

Chloe right before her walls came tumbling down

Family Dog Club Christmas Party

About 1 hour after breakfast with Santa we had a date with the dogs at the Family Dog Club for the Agility Christmas Party, here is Jordan and Fitch cheering on their team mates in the relay race.

Rachel and Jill zipping through the weave cone challenge......
Jordan and Fitch competing in the relay race.......

Rachel and Jill playing monkey see monkey do..(instead of the dog following you through and over the obstacles, you had to follow your dog, great fun but the dogs were a little confused especially when Jordan followed Fitch through the tunnel!