Christian's First Trip to the Dentist

It feels like ever since Christian started preschool that he is growing up fast! He seems to be more mature and handles somewhat scary situations a lot better than he use to. I have found that if I begin to prep him a few days before we usually come out of it golden. The dentist was no exception. This is because of two things, I think. One we had a super awesome hygienist who was very good at speaking at Christian's level, and she aloud him to ask "what this?" a million times, always told him what she was about to do before she did it, let him touch the instruments- she was awesome! The second thing is, I scheduled our appointments together so I would always go first in everything, so she took x-rays of me and then take x-rays of him. I couldn't of hoped for a better out come.

2 Words

Two words I think I am using too much...

Today Christian told me "Evan is driving me crazy and bonkers!"

ha, ha :)

Mohawks and First days of school

Well I can't believe that I have a kid old enough to go to preschool! About a month ago I was telling Christian about preschool and he got really sad and said "Mom you leave me?" I was shocked that that would even bother him since we have been going to nursery for forever. After a lot of "getting pumped for preschool" talks, a preschool preview day and a new hair cut and new back pack, (see below) the first day arrived. We drove to preschool, he seemed pretty excited but I thought for sure he would be sad when the time for the two of us to separate. We walk in and I bend down to give him a hug to realize he's already walked in saying "See ya later Mom!" I should have been happy that everything worked out all well, guess I forgot to prep myself emotionally because I was a little sad, ha! But we love preschool, Christian is learning a lot and loves his teacher and me and Evan get to have some time together just the two of us.

Christian's teacher does Creative Thinking pages where she asked the kids some questions about what they have learned and writes down their answers. Here's a fun one they did on the sense of smell.

-What do you think smells good? muffins
-What do you think smells bad? potatoes (very funny answer because Christian really, really, really hates potatoes!)
-Whom smells the best in your family? pancakes (I made pancakes for breakfast that morning)
-Who doesn't smell so good in your family? Evan (ha, ha!)
-What does mom cook that smells so delicious? pancakes (apparently I make a mean pancake)




I am a pansy and I do not cut my boys hair because I am scared to- Dan cuts the boys hair. And he decided to emphasize the two cowlicks on the back of his head. What do you think? Kind of fun, I think :)

Anderson Family Reunion- Lots of Pics

At the beginning of this month we had our annual Anderson Family Reunion. We got to a place called the Pinnacles which is just past strawberry and we have three days of fun, fun, fun!


This year Mom and Dad brought up a whole bunch of "flying" things, this balloons were fun, they were so long and the kids loved to chase after them. (don't know why this picture wouldn't rotate for me, sorry)

Garrett, he's a fav


The newly weds


Ryan still thinks he is super man :)


Soda pop rockets, super fun!




We had our own put it together plans which the kids loved


the big kids had a good time too ;)


Sweet Tasha


My Mama


Katie and Evan

Christmas in July...uh, I mean August



Hanging out on the porch


Stephanie and Ty- don't you just want to kiss his cheeks!


Makay, freaks me out how big he is, I remember watching him as a baby


Water balloon slingshot


Patty Cake with Grandpa


Plenty of water and mud to play in


And we mustn't forget the awesome tire swing!

Shopping Carts

Dear Person who decided to attach the little cars or other ride on thing for you kids to the grocery shopping cart,

I really do appreciate the thought but I really, really, REALLY HATE THESE! Pushing carts with these attached should be made an olympic sport because not only are they ridiculously long and awkward to maneuver but almost inevitably they will be the cart that has some weird wheel that won't swivel or turn making things even harder then they should be. Also the "fun" factor of these carts has worn off for my kids. Even though they beg and plead for one every time I get to the store, and for some brain numb moment I say to myself "maybe this time it will be different"...it's not. My kids play in the attachment for approximately 2.5 seconds and then they are doing one or all of the following in no specific order: climbing on top of it, hanging their heads clear out of it so they get whacked by the shelf as I am trying my best to turn the stupid cart without taking the display out, or they have completely left the attachment all together and now are running up and down the aisle singing "The Wiseman" song from primary at the top of their lungs. Which brings me to the next point to why I hate these carts. Now that I have children crawling all over the cart and running up and down the aisles I become "That Mom"- you know, the mom whose cart is full of food along with 2 screaming kids. One kid is in the back crying because his mom put him there for not staying in the attachment. His foot is right in the middle of the bread that is in the cart and his other leg is dangling out of the cart because he is trying to get out. The other kid is crying because I've already been in the store way to long, all he wants is for me to hold him because he's tired and hungry. But you see this is not possible because trying to maneuver one of these carts while holding another child is beyond possible. And because you are "That Mom" you decide to give the stupid attachment one more go, and stick both kids in just to repeat the whole dang process again!
So, dear person who invented these things I have one question for you, do you have something against your mom and is this your sick way of getting revenge? Because if it is I will find you and kick your butt! And then I will gather all carts with attachments and destroy them.

The End.

Dinos

At the beginning of this month all my family was in Utah! On Tuesday we all decided to hit up Thanksgiving Point for 2 dollar Tuesday- it was a mad house with how many people were there, but we had a blast.

Camping :)

Before we had kids me and Dan were pretty spontaneous people... with the kids that usually is not the case any more. But a few weeks ago around lunch time Dan said "lets go camping!" and I said "okay, when?" and he said, "today after work" I freaked out and flew into high gear to get everything together. Thankfully we've been camping enough that everything was pretty much packed in boxes. I was excited because we didn't have a chance to go camping last summer and we haven't been this summer, and Evan has never been camping. We decided to head up south fork, and about half way up we realized they were no fire signs posted along the road. So we flipped around and headed up to hope camp ground instead. It was full. But we would not be beaten, we kept driving up until we finally found a spot, not the most ideal spot- but hey, it's only for one night.

Immediately the boys began to get as dirty as possible, they loved it- Evan probably ate about a 1/2 cup of dirt, ew, sick! I can't keep him from doing it, the worst part about it is hearing him grind the little rocks between his teeth- yuck!


Dan the man set up the tent. The boys were psyched, because even though we hadn't been camping we did set up the tent in our living room for a few days just to play in it- sorry if you think that's weird, we think it's fun.


Cooking dinner over the fire. Evan just learned how to blow, so the whole time Dan is making the fire and blowing on the fire to get it go, Evan was right by his side blowing to his heart content. :)


If you have a little chair like this I highly recommend bringing it camping- so much easier to feed the little one.


Christian, I believe, was truly in little boy heaven! After eating his hot dog we roasted marshmallows, he kicked back in his chair and ate each marshmallow at a leisurely pace all the while saying "I lovvvve camping!"


Even though it was a quick trip, we sure enjoyed our time, we're hoping we can squeeze at least one more in between Dan's Pimpernel rehearsals.