Up-date

I know I've gotten behind in posting so to make it up to those of you who check here regularly to stay up to date on the latest Anderson Clan doings, I have posted what has taken place here and there for the past month or so.  Just scroll down and view the posts you'd like! Let's keep our fingers crossed that I'll be able to stay on top of blogging this year!!

Christmas at Tahoe

This year we celebrated Christmas with my family up at my grandparents cabin in Tahoe. It was a lot of fun despite the fact that most of us came down with a nasty 24 hour bug.  Good thing there was a washer and dryer up there ;) Well since it was the first time we were ALL together since Reed had come home from his mission we took a family picture.  Unfortunately not ALL of us were smiling....and one of those grumpy little faces was our lovely little Lily. Out of all the best shots, for everyone else, Lily was consistently NOT smiling.  Oh well at least she's in the picture right? I have also included our Christmas morning pictures, Lily again is not smiling in any of them (we'll blame her foul mood on the nasty bug).  

This was Caleb's very first Christmas!

Okay I guess Lily is sorta smiling in this one :)

Jacob, Emma and Reed! Love you guys!

Most of the gang, the other half is behind me or to the side ;)

We finally got Caleb some boy toys (match box cars!)

Nona helped make Lily's dress ups and though Lily looks totally not excited or happy I promise that this girls loves her dress up's so thanks mom for your help!

Caleb and cousin Carter (they were sitting like this for at least 5 minutes supper cute).

The married sisters got a present from their hubbies this year...tickets to see Celine Dion live in Las Vegas!

The family photos, and with a grumpy Lily in every shot :)

It was good to be with all of you this Christmas we love you!!! 

Ginger Bread House

This last year Sharee was able to fly out to California  and sing the soprano solos in the Messiah performance that our Dad was in charge of directing. Arthur went along for moral support and to help strengthen the bass section :) Daphne had been invited by Aunt Jenny to come out and stay for a week to do a bit of home schooling with her cousin Jemma, so she flew out as well and since Sydney flew free she went too.  Their 3 boys were lucky enough to be entrusted into the care of their awesome Aunt Jewels and Uncle Eric for a few days.  During that time we feed them good food like pizza and ice cream, and helped them to unlock their inner creative side by building a ginger bread house! Are we awesome or what? So thanks Sharee for bringing over that ginger bread house kit the kids had fun making it :) and yes we did have pizza and ice cream but I promise I fed your boys other good things...healthy things :) Enjoy the pics.!

Here's a picture of the finished product with all of its creators :) and then...

It was time to eat it!!

So I sampled a bit and thought it was pretty nasty. But despite it being break your teeth hard and sickening sweet, the kiddos appeared to enjoy it. 

Hyden and Lily, those two are silly.

Lost & Found Box AKA Our Broken VCR

So we once had a VCR/DVD player, which was nice cause we had several older movies on video as well as some classic Disney Sing Along's that I grew up :) Well the other day we were trying to start a video for Lily and the VCR section would not work :( So Eric started fiddling around with it trying to see if he could fix it.  Well he wasn't able to fix it but he did find this.... 

Several of Lily's hair ties, a bobby pin, a few pebbles, one dice, half eaten wheat thins, bits and pieces of tissue and random broken plastic bits (I only included one piece of the last two stated items because I didn't want to clutter the picture).

First Snow

So the first snow we got to play in this winter came at the beginning of December of 2011, and Eric was good enough to bundle Lily and himself up to go outside and build a snowman.  I sadly didn't have any snow pants so I stayed inside with Caleb, made some hot chocolate and watched them have fun from our kitchen nook windows. 

 Caleb kept going back and forth between looking out from the front door and the kitchen windows, he spent a good 10 minutes watching Lily and Daddy outside playing :) 

It wasn't a ton of snow but there was just enough to make one decent sized snowman :)

Funny face!

Tadda!