March 2011

Okay so I am a little behind, so much going on, but that's good right?...its nice to be busy! So thought I would simplify and do this blog thing on a monthly basis, so here's some of our happenings for March. Sarah, Ed and family came for a visit and we packed alot into those few days, a visit to the park, OBX and Jenny & Leah gave Sarah a surprise baby shower. We all so celebrated Rachael and Anna's birthdays with family and friends.Landon enjoying Lockes Point park

Rachael and her favorite B-day gift.

Anna at Lockes Point Prk

Landon

Leah and Landon

Isabella at NthWest River Park

Leah, Landon and Isabella

At the OBX

The weather was nice enough for the kids to get a little wet, Note I said Kids!

Anna Checking out Elmo on Landon's diaper

Rachael & Anna's bday celebration

Chloe growing up way too fast!

Chris AKA "Indiana Jones"

Anna taking out her candles

Rachael helping her Mom open shower gifts

Jenny, Rachael & Sarah enjoying the great food Jenny made for the shower, we sent the guys off to the Play place at Macarthur Center.

Chloe checking out one of the shower gifts, Next post April unless I get really ambitious and update before then!

Sat and Sun

Sat morning we drove over to Boulder, did some shopping etc, by the time we left Boulder it was snowing.

 Later we splashed around in the pool, there's something about sitting in the hot tub watching the snow come down!

The reason for our trip... King's Blessing day!

Denver Day 1

This cute little guy is the reason four trip to Denver! Our newest grandson, King Sterling Anderson.

Our first full day in Denver we went to the Children's Museum, while it was fun and interesting it was not what we expected from their internet ads, we were a little disappointed

Two cousins getting to know each other, Landon and King

Our Winter Vacation...the journey

I am writing this from Denver day 4 into our trip, you see I am already doomed behind before I ever get started! My plan was to end each day of this trip with a note and at least one photo to my Blog, so easy in theory but so hard in reality! So here I go catching up before we leave to go home next Thursday.

 We had a wonderful trip out, Leah and I were both worried how Landon would handle the flight(s) he did great, slept and looked out of the window he is a real little jet setter.

Christmas

Our December was a pretty awesome month, lots and lots going on! We made Gingerbread, celebrated 5 Birthdays spent lots of quality time with family and friends, played in the snow, did I mention that we had a major blizzard, 14 inches a rarity in this part of the world! we also made a trip to Indiana for Adam's baptism which was awesome! Spent Christmas eve with Jenny, Ryan and David (they are expecting a daughter in mid May)

 Below one of my many fav gifts,

 The first snow just a light dusting but exciting for the kids school was canceled and it came before Christmas

 Sweet treats with Leah and Jordan....................

 Bella making her Gingerbread man, awesome job Bella!

 Landon eating his Gingerbread

 Santa's newest and finest....Maggie May

 Story time with friends...and many Blokus games...........

 Tommy with his son Little T and Landon

 Landon not quite sure about this whole, "Lets play in the snow thing"

 Leah and Landon outside our house during the storm, we got lots more after this picture was taken.

Tis the Season..

this weekend we are in Indiana for a visit with Sarah, Ed and family and also to celebrate Adam's baptism which I will blog about separately, yesterday we did some fun stuff (shopping at Hobby Lobby) while the kids were in school) and then later we took the kids to see Santa at Bass Pro Shop (its free and you get a free photo) plus they have some fun activities for the kids to do and its all free for the most part

 I took about 6 pics of the one above and one person didnt bat an eyelash and that was Rachael everyone else was all over the place!

Deck The Halls

Usually we wait until the day after Thanksgiving to put up the tree and decorate for Christmas, but this year Leah was excited for Landon's First Christmas and so we decided to put at least the tree up early! So yesterday we unpacked everything dragged out our tree which we realized is now getting on in years (1994) Leah was five when we bought our first artificial tree! Its done well.

 Landon was in awe of the tree, I am sure if he could talk he would have said something along the lines of, "what a tree in the house?"

 He loved the lights and of course putting his very first decoration on the tree!

So now in the mood for the season we went ahead and decorated the rest of the downstairs so now its done and I can sit back and enjoy...I wish still shopping and wrapping to do and oh yes baking for Thanksgiving.