Anderson Clan

Up-date

2012-01-30T14:52:00.000-08:00

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

2012-01-04T13:54:00.000-08:00

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

2012-01-03T13:17:00.000-08:00

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

2012-01-02T12:59:00.000-08:00

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

2012-01-01T12:26:00.000-08:00

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!

Our Very First Christmas Tree!!

2011-12-07T10:03:00.000-08:00

So Eric and I have been married for almost 4 years and this is the first time we've purchased a tree for Christmas! I know sad but true and who knows how much longer it would have been if it wasn't for Sharee. So thanks Sharee for inviting us to go out into the wild with you and your family to chop down our very own Christmas tree! It was a super fun trip and the kids enjoyed playing in the snow while the adults (okay the men) went in search of the perfect Christmas trees.

Here's Lily chasing me around. Daphne helped her figure out how to make snow balls and she really enjoyed throwing them at me and I wouldn't have mind it had I been wearing snow pants, but sadly I don't own any. They're on my Christmas list.

Here's Amber taking her turn to chopped down a tree (Arthur and Eric had disappeared with the saw and all we were left to work with was a hatchet).

Amber and Mike (Arthur's Brother) next to their Christmas tree! They worked so hard to get it down and ended up giving it to me and Eric (They ended up needing a smaller tree, one that would fit inside their car for their trip back home).

All the kiddos (besides Caleb and Sydney) standing next to their art work.

Cheese!

I need to get one of these metal framed backpacks the one I wore that day was not cutting it.

Playing some more in the snow

Arthur and Eric return triumphant!

Taaddaa!!

Eric showing off his muscles ;)

Standing by our tree!

Doesn't Caleb look huge on me?! Huge but cute, right? Right.

Eric roping down our tree to the top of our car.

No matter what setting we had our camera on this is the best picture we could get of our tree with its lights on. We have since put on the ornaments but we don't own very many because we've never had to decorate a tree until now, so I opted to not post a picture of it with its very few ornaments on because it looks rather bare, but don't worry we plan on purchasing some ornaments when they all go on sale right after Christmas! :)

Halloween!

2011-11-08T12:47:00.000-08:00

We did get pumpkins this year (normally we skip out) we got our's from Wal-mart, my goal for next year is to get them at a REAL pumpkin patch. Unfortunately we carved our's a little too early and they all rotted before we could use them as decorations for our Ward's Trunk or Treat activity.

So this year I just recycled the costume Lily wore last year (the "cute scarecrow") and thanks to Sharee and her willingness to share her costumes with us, Caleb was a Pea Pod and Eric and I were a farm couple. We spent Halloween night with Sharee and her family, we had mummy fingers, mummy mini pizzas, a watermelon carved into a brain, and rotten apple juice with sour gummy worms for dinner :) Yummy. This year was Lily's first time "Trick or Treating" and she actually did really well. I don't have any pictures of Halloween night because I forgot to charge my camera's battery (I know shame on me) but if you really want to see what our food looked like head over to Sharee's blog! Or just enjoy the picture's I did take :)

Carving time!

Lily's job was to play with the pumpkin seed, and boy did she enjoy that!

Eric never did get to finish this guy but it was suppose to be a Sailor...a little tribute to the Navy :)

You can't really tell from this picture but on one of the pumpkins I was trying to be fancy and carve a maple leaf on it using my brother-in-law's super cool technique of "shaving". It would have looked better if we had had candles but we didn't have any and then our pumpkins went nasty so we have no pictures that show the true potential of this carved pumpkin ;) Maybe next year.

We had some leftover stickers from playgroup and so Lily decided to decorate Daddy :)

A very pleased little girl with her artwork.

These next few pictures are of Caleb and I just love how easy it is to get him to SMILE!!

So Lily has recently entered that stage where you ask for a SMILE and get....

this

OR this...

Lily LOVES these two girls in our ward. Lydia and Lauralin are sisters and come from a great family, the oldest girl (Lydia-"The Bee") is Lily's favorite babysitter :)

Serious Farmer and Pea Pod, Caleb was too distracted by all that was going on around him to pay any attention to me :)

Balloon Festival

2011-10-10T13:54:00.000-07:00

First off I think I deserve a round of applause cause I'm posting!! Alright moving on to the good stuff...

For the past five or so years Sharee has posted pictures of her family's annual visit to the Albuquerque Balloon Festival, which takes place in October. For years I harbored feelings of resentment, bitterness, and jealousy for never receiving an invitation to come out and visit during that time so that I too could experience such an adventure...

Okay so I'm totally kidding I didn't feel that way, but looking at those pictures sure got me hoping that one day I'd get the chance to attend, and guess what...I got my wish this last Saturday!! Even though it was rather cold, super early in the morning(gotta be there early, 5'ish, if you wanna see the "Mass Ascension"), and Lily whom we all thought would be thrilled to be there was not, I repeat NOT a happy camper, we still enjoyed ourselves and are hoping that we'll be in the area for next years festival (it all just depends on where Eric's rotations will be). So Thanks Sharee and Arthur for letting us tag along with you and your family it was loads of fun!!

So here are a few pictures...sadly Sharee's camera didn't charge even though she had it plugged in the whole night before and we didn't come that much more prepared...our camera's battery was in the "red zone" from the very beginning, so we took what pictures we could...enjoy!

This little guy was a trooper, he slept for the first hour and was content to be held and watch the balloons for the next!

The Butterfly!

The cool thing about this experience is that we were smack dab in the middle of everything. There were groups setting up their balloons all around us and several times all we would have had to do was reach out and touch a balloon as it was being inflated. That's why this picture of Sean is so great, he was a little to preoccupied by the ever growing and looming balloons that were surrounding him to take notice of Aunt Jewels and the camera.

Me and the boy

It's not easy to smile at a camera with the sun right in your face, but these guys make it look easy!

The Haunted House!

It's Bruce off of Finding Nemo!! At least it looks like Bruce :)

The Big 2

2011-07-23T17:52:00.000-07:00

On July 10th our little Lily, who is not so little (she's already wearing size 3T) turned 2. Her Aunt Sharee,Uncle Arthur and cousins, who live in town, helped us celebrate. We decided to do a pinata this year since Lily's never experienced one and she'd better get in some practice if she's going to be able to play with the big guys at Aunt Melanie's upcoming wedding in September. Yep from what I hear there will be three small white pinatas at the family dinner we'll be having after the wedding, I'm looking forward to watching all the nephews and nieces taking turns and possibly the bride and groom :) So yes we had a pinata, a tropical parrot since we had recently all gone to see the movie Rio together, thought they'd enjoy it and they did :) Now I have a confession to make I really wanted Lily to blow out her candles this year so I practiced with her on matches and then candles the day of. And guess what...it payed off!! Lily blew out her candles all by herself and I've got the video to prove it. So our Lily is 2 and we truly feel blessed that she's a part of our little family. We love her to pieces and are excited, and look forward to celebrating many more birthday's with her!

Just for fun here are a few fun facts about our Lily...
Absolutely LOVES Water - dirty, clean, in a cup, pools, bath, puddles, rain, ice...it does not matter the amount or the form it comes in she loves it.
Cuddle Bug...even at an early age Lily would hug back and she has continued to love being held and hugged.
Her favorite vegetable is Broccoli but it has to be cooked. As for fruit she's got too many to list ;)
She loves being outside but HATES bees and ants.
Loves her baby brother Caleb who she calls "Waylub"
Lily loves to sing - her current favorites are "I am a Child of God" and "Happy Birthday"
Lily is eager to learn and explore she loves to point to something and ask "What is that?"
Social Butterfly...Lily loves to wave and say hi to pretty much anybody she sees. She is definitely not shy.
Favorite animal...dogs, followed closely by farm and zoo animals :)
And lastly, when Lily gets REALLY excited about something she sorta tenses up and spazzes out, those of you who have witnessed this know what I'm talking about :)

Lily and her First pinata

She kept wanting to touch it instead of hitting it.

In the end it was Dallin who defeated the pinata by decapitating it.

Sharee and Daphne showcasing the remains of the pinata :) Makes some pretty fancy hats.

Lily saw what they were doing and wanted a shot at modeling as well

So I was trying (key word trying) to make some fun colored cupcakes to go along with the tropical pinata and I messed up on the frosting...the consistency was way too watery and therefore the designs did not hold :( But thankfully they still tasted good.

Thanks Gariety Family for helping us celebrate Lily's 2nd Birthday

Had to include a picture of this little guy!

25th Birthday

2011-06-02T19:20:00.000-07:00

I'm a little late posting this but on May 22nd I turned 25...can't believe I'm half way to 50 (yikes). We had the celebration over at Sharee and Arthur's place. Eric made a fantastic dinner and dessert but due to feeling horrible (flu bug) we decided to wait to have dessert later that week when I'd be able to stomach it. But despite feeling rather yucky I had a wonderful Birthday, So here's a big 'thank you' to all the friends and family members who called, sent cards, or e-mails wishing me well on my Birthday it truly made my 25th special.

Lots of Birthday Cards!!

This year I choose to get a kitchen aid and I'm loving it. Thanks Eric for letting me use it a whole month before my birthday!!

My wonderful sister Sharee has gotten me hooked on Loft...I really like there clothes. On our last shopping spree I went slightly over board and was going to put this little number back when Sharee took it from me, purchased it and informed me I'd be getting it for my birthday. Thanks Sharee and Arthur for the gift!

This book was illustrated and written by my niece Daphne :)

Thank you Daphne!

My fabulous hubby made me this super rich, amazingly good looking, Peanut Butter Chocolate Torte for my birthday. Thanks Eric you're the BEST!

Here I am getting serenaded to by the Gariety clan along with Eric and Lily :)

Oh and this bad boy was a gift from Dallin, Sharee's oldest. He purchased this candy bar with his own hard earned money and selflessly gave it to me as a birthday gift. Thanks Dallin it was a super yummy candy bar!

Thanks again to everyone who helped make my Birthday a special one!!

The Avocado and the Cutco Knife

2011-05-21T14:25:00.000-07:00

So Monday afternoon I was over at my sister's home trying to make some guacamole to go along with our lunch. Well I couldn't find the small perry knife I usually use for this trick and ended up using a very sharp cutco knife (the long,thin serrated knife in the photo below is the type of knife I was using).

And before I continue my story I'd like to know who hasn't tried getting an avocado pit out by using the tip of a sharp knife? Yes it's not safe but it sure works, in fact the cutco knives work so well that they go straight through the pit, the peel and into the poor unsuspecting hand. Now let me clarify that I was not holding the avocado in my hand but merely trying to steady it on the counter, but those pits are slippery little devils and now I have four stitches in my left hand, a middle finger that is partially numb, and a date set for surgery in hopes that the physicians can re-attach a nerve that they suspect I severed.

The surgery is scheduled for Friday May 27th. We are currently praying for a miracle...that this procedure will be successful, that the full use of my hand will return, and that we'll be able to wisely manage our finances. I'll be honest this has been hard, I have shed many tears of frustration and anger, all of which have been directed at myself. I've been asking myself a lot of "if only's" and the one that I find I ask myself the most is "if only I had listened to that prompting to be careful." However, despite my mistake, I am determined not to let this experience bitter my soul. In fact over the past few days I have come to realize that what I hope for in the end is a better me. So I have made my decision that no matter where this trial takes me or however long it may last I will allow it to change me for the better. I know that I have a loving Father in Heaven who is aware of me and my little family. I trust Him and know that He will take care of us.

On a lighter note I'd like to express my love and gratitude for my family. Thank you Eric for being so patient with my roller coaster emotions as of late (the bursting into tears every time I discover something else I can't do because of my injury) and for taking on extra duties around the house. Thank you Sharee for driving me to the urgent care center, watching my kids while I got stitched up and for being a sweet heart and providing us dinner that night. Thank you Mom and Dad, the rest of my siblings, and extended family members for all the phone calls (expressing your love and concern for me) and for the prayers you have given in my behalf. I appreciate you and love you all so very much.

For those of you who are easily grossed out the following picture is one you may not want to view...

On a funny note the doctor who checked out my hand asked whether my crooked pinky was normal or not...that made me laugh and I showed him my other hand and told him "Yep its normal, I was born that way." :)

March and A Bit of April

2011-04-16T15:38:00.000-07:00

Again I have dropped the ball with my blog. Lets face it, I'll probably always be a bit inconsistent with my posts but at least I haven't given up on it entirely. So here's an update on our family for the past month or so...

Lily knows she's not suppose to be in this swing (she's too big for it) but when she smiles like this its hard to not run for the camera.

The boy taking a morning nap.

From an early age Lily has had an obsession with electronics (computers, cell phones, iPods, TV controllers etc.) she has yet to grow out of that...as you will notice in the picture above she is very pleased with herself for having successfully found and snatching mommy's phone. Right before I took the following picture I asked her to please give mommy the phone and this is what she did.

She pulls the hide behind the back move accompanied with one of her smiles I can't resist taking a picture of.

Caleb is a super happy guy and its rather easy to coax a smile out of him, I love it!

When Caleb is not using his car seat Lily enjoys sitting in, especially if we've got one of her Disney Sing Along's on (Thanks mom for giving us those).

Here's that happy boy again, can't get enough of his smiles!

Look, even when he's on his tummy he's happy (Lily hated her tummy time)!

So this last week/weekend our good friends Rebecca and Mike Bates came to visit us. While they were here we went out to dinner to PF Chang's (love that place), played putt putt golf, real golf(the boys that is), visited the zoo, took a walk to the Temple, played games, let the Bates get caught up on cartoon movies such as Tangled and Despicable Me, and visited the aquarium and botanical gardens. We loved having them and I think Lily especially loved the extra attention. Thanks again Mike and Becca for making time to visit us we promise to visit you once you get settled out in Indiana (Mike just recently went out there for a job interview and got the position, yahoo for Mike!!)

Playing with blocks

While Becca was here Lily's hair got done everyday it was wonderful!!

Last Sunday Caleb had his baby blessing, Lily was suppose to be in the picture but refused to smile (she was actually throwing a rather large tantrum). And that is why there is no Lily.

Gave Lily a popsicle after her nap, left the kitchen, came back a few minutes later, she's dyed orange and not happy cause her fingers are cold.

Here's a happy Lily thawing out her hands in the kitchen sink filled with warm water.

Here we are heading off to the temple.

Thanks Mike for carrying Lily pretty much the entire time.

Lily loves water, so of course the fountain was her favorite part.

Lily smelling the flowers on the Temple grounds (She wasn't always this nice to the plants...let's just say that some of the flowers are now missing a few petals because they had the misfortune of attracting Lily's attention).

Sharee and her kids were able to join us for the visit to the Aquarium and Gardens, so here's Sean, Hyden, and Lily sitting on the star fish.

This bad boy was Lily's favorite, I think she was rather fascinated by its teeth/beak.

Lily and her favorite fish.

Lily, Hyden and Sean

You are all now up to date on the Andersons :)

Caleb Smiles!!

2011-03-11T19:29:00.000-08:00

So Caleb has been smiling for a few weeks now (yeah and he's not even two months yet) and I've been meaning to post this video but it seems like there's never enough time. So here's me making time!!

I love this little guy!

Arthur's Quadrathlon!!

2011-02-20T14:59:00.000-08:00

So for the past couple of months Arthur (my brother-in-law) has been training for his first quadrathlon, which he completed yesterday. It consisted of one way 13 miles bike ride, 5 miles run, 2 miles cross country skiing, and 1 mile snow shoe up to the top of Mt. Taylor. Then you go back down (same distance, same events but in reverse). The weather to be honest was crap, super windy, rainy and rather cold. Winnie the Pooh would have called it a rather "blustery day". So with that said the kids all did a surprisingly good job of waiting for Uncle Arthur/Dad to cross the finish line.... please see Sharee's blog for video and better pictures of race. Just wanted to say way-to-go Arthur for not giving up and finishing your first quadrathlon despite the crummy weather!!

Valentine's Day

2011-02-20T14:39:00.000-08:00

So yes I know I'm a bit late on our Valentine's Day post but here it is. Those of you who frequently look at Sharee's blog will already know that we had a little Valentine's dinner together and after wards a balloon fight, which Eric started. Sharee has pictures and I got a small video of the fight hope you enjoy :)

After the video ended I joined in the fight :)

So this was our dessert that night, a Triple Chocolate Mousse Cake (want the recipe click on the following link http://annies-eats.com/ go to categories press desserts, select chocolate and search for mousse cake). It was pretty amazing, I'm not gonna lie and I had planned on getting a "before we dug in" shot but as you can see I forgot and by the time I remembered to document the master piece this is what was left of it :) Come to think of it this could be the reason why the balloon fight broke out in the first place, too much sugar :)

N-e-ways we had a great Valentine's Day this year and hope everyone else did to!

Lily and Caleb

2011-02-18T21:42:00.000-08:00

Here are a few pictures of Caleb and Lily from this past month. They are both growing so quickly it's crazy.

Caleb is a pretty easy baby, he's mellow when he's awake but right now he does a lot of sleeping :) so we'll see if his personality changes as he has more awake time.

Gotta love those checks!

Caleb's eyes are open!!

Our dirty clothes basket has become one of Lily's new toys. She likes to empty it of its contents and place her baby dolls, mickey mouse, and the nearest blanket in it then push it around or she'll get in it as well and then usually at some point it tips over :) Its rather entertaining to watch.

Lily was trying to take off her shirt by herself and it got stuck around her head and as a good parent I ran and grabbed the camera instead of helping her get it off so I could document this event :)

Eric and I sure love these two!!

Caleb Eric Anderson

2011-01-19T20:04:00.000-08:00

So as of 2:30 this morning Caleb, the newest member of our little growing family, is a week old. I apologize to those who have anxiously been awaiting pictures of this little guy but things have been busy :)

Caleb was four days shy of his official due date, weighed in at 8lbs. 3oz. and measured 20 and 1/2 inches long. His was a quick birth, we arrived at the hospital around 1:30 and he was born an hour later. There was no time for an epidural or an IV. It looks like next time we'll be scheduling an inducement since this one was cutting it a little too close for my liking :) We're just grateful that Caleb is finally here and doing well.

Father and Son

My wonderful mother is here this week and I'm so grateful for her and her willingness to help, she is an angel and I love her so much!

Lily loves "Baby Caleb" we just have to supervise her time with him or he could end up losing an eye since Lily loves to poke at them. She also enjoys tugging at his ears, pulling at his short hair and playing with his nose.

Here Lily is giving Caleb a kiss

Lily has just learned where her chin is, she's pointing Caleb's out for us.

I'm way lucky to be living so close to my oldest sister Sharee. She was super awesome and helped watch Lily for us during the birth and during the days while Eric was gone to school and I was still in the hospital. So thank you Sharee for everything you're amazing and I love you!

Sharee's two oldest, Daphne and Dallin, came to visit me in the hospital (they snuck a chocolate "hand scooped" shake in for me, it was so tasty).

This is our current family picture, we'll definitely be taking another one sometime soon and I wont be wearing p.j.s

October

2010-11-13T13:21:00.000-08:00

So I did make Lily a costume for Halloween this year but she refused to wear it. Sad I know, however we did get a few pictures of her in the costume, mind you they aren't the best because like I mentioned earlier Lily wasn't very cooperative. If you can't guess what she is she's suppose to be a "cute" scarecrow :) maybe next year she'll let me do her hair and makeup and then she'll really look like a "cute" scarecrow. Oh and I've also posted a picture of my growing belly :) Enjoy!

Lily was more interested in eating the skirt then wearing it.
And the poor thing is teething so that's why there's lots of drool spots on her shirt.

Thanks Emma for helping me make the necklace that Lily didn't want to wear :)

Just two more months to go! And still no name :( Boy names are hard and Eric doesn't like any of the ones I like....FrUsTrAtInG!!

Lily's Newest Trick

2010-10-09T11:10:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I was trying to clean up the house a bit so I gave Lily a small bowl of Trix cereal to keep her occupied....Well it worked, maybe not in the way I had intended but o'well. Here's a video and a few pictures of Lily having fun with her Trix cereal.

She was originaly licking the trix ball then sticking it under her nose but in this shot she stuffed it up her nose and was keeping it there by sniffing in :)

A Bit of This and That

2010-09-22T09:14:00.000-07:00

So lets see about a month ago Eric and I went camping with our friends the Bates. This was Lily's first camping trip and over all she did pretty well ... the falling and staying asleep did present an issue (I guess we've trained our girl too well that sleep time happens in the crib) but we did have lots of fun. In fact while camping Eric and Mike did a little fishing with their bare hands (okay armed with a hatchet and a few sharp sticks but Eric got rid of the hatchet after his first attempt with it didn't go over so well). In the end they managed to catch a rather decent sized salmon which was promptly cleaned, cooked up and devoured :) Fresh salmon is the best.

On Labor Day we went to the Idaho Falls Zoo. Its not very big but it was still fun and Lily enjoyed herself which is what matters right?

Lily doesn't care to hold hands much but some how Eric got her to do it

This little otter was quite the performer and was probably my favorite

They had several of these big guys

Here are some picture of Lily's first bike ride. We don't personally own any bikes but Mel's boyfriend was nice enough to let us borrow some. Lily loved it and Eric and I have decided to save up our money for some bikes... so we probably should see if we can borrow those bikes again since it'll be a while if we wait till we purchase our own :)

Mel and Jade on the tandem

Me and Emma

I hadn't ridden a bike since I was fourteen so I felt and looked a bit awkward
as you can tell in this picture.

I didn't get a picture of it but when Eric really got going Lily's legs would seriously fly up in the back, it was rather funny looking.

Randomness:

Eric was doing a few push-ups and to Lily this is an invite to climb aboard so she did (just helping Dad make the most of his work out).

Lily's hair is growing and can now fit into a little pony tail

For a while Lily's form of entertainment was to climb through the legs of our piano

Family Pictures

2010-08-22T16:00:00.000-07:00

While vacationing in Tahoe California with my side of the family, Eric and I decided to take-up my sister's offer to take a few family pictures for us. So thanks Melanie for taking the pictures and thanks Jenny for letting us use your amazing camera! These are just a few of the pics. Mel took :) Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Lily!

2010-08-12T08:45:00.000-07:00

So Lily is 1 and has been for almost a whole month now, yes this post is a bit late but here it is. Lily was not interested at all in getting dirty so we have no footage of her tearing her cupcake apart because it never happened, though Eric did try his hardest to encourage her to do so. She wasn't sure what she was suppose to do with her wrapped presents so we did most of the unwrapping for her.

Lily's hand is messy here because as I mentioned before Eric was determined to have her "destroy" her cupcake so he helped her smash it but Lily didn't care for that too much.

Lily with all of her new presents (mainly toys, a few books and some much needed clothes. This girl is growing like crazy).

Over all I think it was a good first Birthday and I'm sure by her second she'll be a little more exciting to document.

Cool Runnings

2010-07-15T07:29:00.000-07:00

Eric ran the Teton Dam half marathon again this year and I made it to the finish line before he did this time around and got a few pictures! They're not very good to be honest but Eric was pleased that I even got some since last year I was too late :)

Here's Eric coming down the last strip of the race, I apologize that its blurry.

Eric is the blue speck crossing the finish line.

Lily wasn't a very happy girl while we were waiting for Eric to come in but she cheered up a bit once Eric was holding her.

Eric was pretty tuckered out after his 13.1 miles that he ran in 1:25.47 and Lily was simply content to lounge on Eric:)

Bad Computer!

2010-07-13T10:02:00.000-07:00

So our computer broke again but thankfully its back now and lets just all keep our fingers crossed that it stays working.

I'll be putting up knew posts through out this week since a lot has happened and I really just don't want to cram it all into one post, so stay tuned. Our first post will be a simple video of Lily (I had planned on putting this one up the day out computer broke for the second time in one month, better later then never right?) In this video Lily has mastered the "surprise" look ... hope you enjoy!!

Let's Play Catch Up!

2010-06-03T18:13:00.000-07:00

Alright, so for the past two and half weeks we've been without a computer and that's my excuse for slacking in the updating department.

Well I had my 24th birthday on the 22nd of May. I had a joint celebration with my Aunt Esther who lives in town and who's birthday is the day before mine. We had a BBQ and it was a blast! Unfortunately we forgot the camera and therefore have no pictures :( A big thanks to all those who made phone calls or sent birthday cards!!

So we've replaced our old car, which broke on us just around the time our lap-top gave out, with a Toyota Sienna. I never thought I'd be a mini-van person but I'll admit I sure like our Sienna. It drives so much smoother than our little Mazda and I love how much space we have!!

And of course I've got to talk about Lily since it's been a while...Lily's newest trick has been walking!! She's still not completely sure of her self but she's a brave little thing and keeps trying :)

Lily's Laugh

2010-04-15T06:46:00.000-07:00

So we have these two little stuffed figures of Winne the Pooh and Piglet and the other day we figured out that if you throw them in just a way that they end up colliding in mid-air little Lily laughs pretty darn hard. The best part is that we caught Lily's laugh on tape!

My Name is Hope

2010-03-04T16:27:00.000-08:00

I just want my family members who regularly check this blog to know that I love Jesus Christ. I know that He lives and that He is the true source of hope and happiness. I have felt of His love in my life and personally know that he shares in our individual trials, sorrows, joys and triumphs. He is my dear friend, elder brother, champion and Savior.

The following link is to a video, its message, music and pictures are beautiful and I just thought I should share it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JsD2AWpOc4&feature=player_embedded

The Marshmallow Test!

2010-03-04T10:05:00.001-08:00

Okay so click on the link below and watch this video that's on youtube, some of the kids in it are pretty dang funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWW1vpz1ybo

Guess Who's Crawling?!!

2010-02-27T19:15:00.000-08:00

Lily has started crawling this week! She's a funny thing though she'll only crawl if she's properly motivated and cell phones, lap tops, battery chargers...basically any electronics, do it for her :) Here's a little film hope ya enjoy!

A Hawaiian Sunset

2010-02-22T14:20:00.000-08:00

The sunsets over in Hawaii were beautiful and the coast line was just a 5 minute walk from the plantation.

Too bad we don't have mailboxes like this one back in Rexburg.

Hawaii!

2010-02-19T10:18:00.000-08:00

Well we're back from Hawaii! The Stone reunion in Kona was a blast! Loved the weather and the plant life over there it was incredible. Just want to give a big thanks to Rebecca and Mike who watched Lily for us during the week and half we were gone you guys are awesome! Here are a few pictures hope ya enjoy them...

One beach we visited during our stay...that sand is so soft I loved it!

I'm never going to stand next to Nat again if I'm wearing shorts that is unless I'm as tan as her which will probably be never :)

So the pictures are a little bit out of order sorry about that but this is one of Eric on his way back to the plantation to complete the 5K run...I jogged a bit but walked most of it :)

While we were there we ran a 5K marathon in remembrance of my Aunt Kathy who passed away in a car accident this last summer...the above picture is of the family getting ready at the starting line.

If you look closely both Eric and Jacob have little green geckos crawling on their hands

These were some sweet vines! Just about everyone in my family has a picture of them climbing them, even Jenny and Sharee who are both 6-5 months pregnant, are they awesome or what?!

So much fun!

Me and ALL of my sisters :)

A side view of the Upper house (We stayed on a plantation my wonderful Grandparents rented for the entire family. There were two houses and they each had 8 bedrooms).

This was our (Eric's and mine) personal little patio every bedroom has one.

Tennis or Basket ball anyone?

The amazing swimming pool (you can see the Lower house from this shot).

Okay so it's turning out to be more than just a few pictures and my enternet is way slow so you'll just have to wait for the next post which will feature a Hawaiian sun set :) And for those of you who are dying to see how much Lily has grown since our last post scroll down :)

As fun as Hawaii was its good to be home :)

Knee Time!

2010-02-02T11:00:00.000-08:00

Lily has discovered her knees and spends a great deal of time on them rocking back and forth no crawling yet and hopefully we've got a few weeks before that happens.

Okay so Lily has been making this face lately where she'll scrunch up her nose its super funny and this picture really doesn't do it justice because I took the picture too late this shot is of her coming out of making that face but I guess it'll have to do for now till I catch the real thing on camera.

Lily can go backwards but hasn't figured out the forward part yet...sometimes I'll be in the kitchen and notice Lily's "talking" has become muffled so I'll go check on her only to find that she's disappearing under our futon or coffee table :)

I think she looks like a little bunny rabbit in this one :)

Yeah she's playing with some of her spit up gross huh? And how awful of me to take a picture first and then clean it up :)

Lily's Swim Suit

2010-01-18T19:36:00.000-08:00

Okay so we've got roughly two weeks and a couple of days before the Stone reunion in Hawaii Yahoo!! Well Eric thought we'd better have Lily try on her swim suit the one Nona (my mom) bought for her when she was born and I thought for sure it'll fit. Well I'm thinking that Lily is going to need a bigger suit cause this one is a bit tight and not quite long enough for her :) By the way Lily had her 6 month check up today and here are the stats:

Weight: 18.8lbs 91%
Height: 28.3 in. 99%
Head Circ. 17.3 in. 83%

She's definately a healthy baby!

Just look at those thighs!

Two Years!!

2010-01-04T09:11:00.000-08:00

As of today (Jan. 4th) Eric and I have been married for two years and let me tell you time has flown by!! We were blessed with an addition to our family in July and absolutely love our little Lily. She is a joy to have and has brought Eric and I that much closer together as we have supported each other in making the adjustment to parenthood. We've enjoyed the time we have been blessed with and look forward to the years ahead.

Thank you Eric for being my best friend, you're a wonderful husband and a great father to Lily. Happy 2yr Anniversary!!

Love ya forever,
Your Jewels

P.S. Thanks Mel for taking our Family photos this year you're the BEST!!

A Little Bit of This and That

2009-12-01T19:21:00.000-08:00

Okay I know I've been slacking on my blogging so to make up for it I've posted pictures, lots of them :)

Here's Lily taking a nap on Daddy just thought it was photo worthy :)

Lily falls asleep in some pretty interesting positions this one is fairly normal looking but some of her other ones look like they hurt.

This is Lily's bumbo seat and she loves it!

Lily can now roll over, back to tummy ... she hasn't quite figured out the tummy to back move yet but I think it'll click pretty soon here.

Okay so when Eric and I were out visiting his parents this Thanksgiving his Mom and Dad gave all the couples a Nativity Set as an early Christmas present. The cool thing about it is Eric's Dad made it...carved all of those characters and painted them too!! Thanks again Mom and Dad for the gift we love it!

The Three Wise Men

The Shepherd boy and his Sheep

The whole set :)

Lily smiling after eating a bunch of rice cereal

Look at those big beautiful eyes :)

I love this little girl!

In my family we have a tradition of taking a picture of daddy holding up the baby with one hand, the kid is suppose to stand but as you can see Lily isn't quite ready.

Still not ready, maybe next month :)

Well that's it hope you enjoyed the show!

Baby Talk

2009-10-27T06:50:00.000-07:00

Lily has become quite the talker lately and I've gotten a few video clips to prove it :) Both clips have movies playing in the back ground and if you can guess what they are I'll give you brownie points. Oh and in one of these little clips Lily decides to go to the bathroom at the very end, I'm sorry about that, I put it on anyways because its the better of the two clips (of her trying to talk that is, the other one is more of her screaming to be honest). Well enjoy!

So I couldn't get the other clip to download I'll keep trying but for now it's just this one, sorry.

Photo Shoot

2009-10-13T16:59:00.000-07:00

My sister Melanie took some pictures of Lillian and me the other day, it was a little windy hence the hair being all over the place and Lily's eyes being half shut most of the time, but despite all of that we had a good time. After the serious pics we thought it would be fun to take a few silly ones, Lily was a good little girl while Mommy and Aunt Mel took a few crazy shots, hope ya all enjoy!

Had to put this one in, Lily is a drool queen (she's not even teething yet!) and with her drool she often blows bubbles isn't she a talented little thing :)

As I said before it was windy :)

We never could quite get Lily to look at the camera oh well maybe better luck next time.

....and
here are some of the crazy pics

Yeah, we had fun maybe a little too much fun :)

What's in The Heating Pipe?

2009-10-01T18:07:00.000-07:00

So Sunday night Eric and I heard some scratching noises coming from our furnace room and when we went to investigate it, the noise stopped. Well the next day I kept hearing the same mysterious scratching noise so I went to the furnace room again and finally figured out that the scratching was coming from inside the black heater pipe. I thought for sure it was a rat or a mouse...and with the weather getting colder here I thought we'd better get whatever it was, out of there before we needed to use our heater. Now I don't know about everyone else but I'm not particularly fond of the smell of decaying flesh and personally prefer a homier smell that Yankee candles give off so I called up the Landlord and he came around Wednesday and took care of the problem. Well it ended up being a bird and the poor thing died in the pipe before we could release it back into the wild.

Pictures of Lily

2009-09-27T17:08:00.000-07:00

Lily is growing fast so I thought I'd post a few pictures of her modeling some super cute outfits she's received from family.

Thanks Sharee for the outfit and Natalie for the bow!!

Lily really enjoys standing up, unfortunately she almost always tosses her cookies when she pulls this stunt, we're hoping that one day she'll be able to stand without spitting up :)

Daddy's little girl

Thanks Sandy for the outfit, Lily finally fits into it and got to wear it to church today! Thanks Jenny for the bow it helped hide her bawled spot :)

Tummy Time!

2009-09-14T11:16:00.000-07:00

So I've been making sure Lily gets some tummy time everyday lately and sometimes she likes it other times it really ticks her off but I got some pictures of her the other day when she was in a good mood. I apologize ahead of time she was moving a lot so some of the pictures are bit fuzzy.

Lily just taking a nap (I put socks on her hands to keep her from scratching her face up as well as to prevent her from sucking her thumbs, she's tried to on several occasions when there have been no socks to stop her).

Pretty impressive for a two month old :)

This is the only picture I have of Lily smiling and its really only a half smile. This girl is super tricky, she knows when you've got a camera and doesn't like to smile for it so I had to practicly steal this one :)

Projects and Piano!

2009-08-10T14:42:00.000-07:00

The following pictures are of the sewing projects I did last semester in my Home Decor class, my mother has been after me for a while to post pictures of them so this is for you mom, hope you enjoy :)

This is my first rag quilt it turned out a lot nicer than I thought it would.

When my Mom was out here helping with Lilly I had one more project to finish (these curtains) she helped design them and walked me through the construction process, thanks mom!

This was my first project in the class, hot pads...I've decided that I'll buy hot pads from here on out they're just a little too much of a pain to make.

Here's my pillow, just look at that job on the zipper its pretty much invisible :)

The pillow was made from some of the leftover material used to make the bumper pads
for the crib.

Lilly, Grandma and Grandpa Anderson

Lilly and Grandma Anderson

So last week Eric's parents drove out from Washington to visit us in Rexburg and brought with them their piano. They said it wasn't being used back home and Eric told them we'd love to have it so now I have my very own piano!! Its been so nice to be able to play again any time I feel like it, so a big thanks to Biff and Kim we love having the piano and loved having you visit.

Here's the piano :) Its pretty solid and took six guys to get it down the stairs into our place.

These are the stairs the boys had to maneuver the piano down, surprisingly no one got hurt and the walls only suffered minor injuries.

I apologize that this picture is out of focus but its of the guys working up a sweat getting the piano down the stairs.

Lillian's Blessing Day

2009-08-03T08:39:00.000-07:00

Eric found Lillian had pulled her flower headband over her eye during her nap the other day.

This is how it's suppose to be worn, but personally Lillian does a pretty good job of pulling off the "one eyed Jack" look.

Melaine took and edited the following pictures of Lily's Blessing day

So this is Melanie uploading this post, Jewels went to the store and will be back to edit this and write really cute things about each picture!! but I figured that I would just post it anyway so that way you can look at all the fabulous pictures I took! yes it was me.... I am Nacho, an eluchadora..... NACHOOOOOooooooooooooouuuuuu....

Pictures

2009-07-15T16:40:00.000-07:00

So Lily is a little yellow and my mom mentioned that setting her in the sun should help with breaking down the jaundice, so today Lily did a little bit of sunbathing during her nap time.

Lily is a sleeper and this is one of the few shots we have of her with her eyes open. I affectionately call it "The Mug Shot". The widows peak is Eric's as is the nose, cheeks, eyebrows, "wickedly good looks" as Eric puts it, infact the only thing that might be me is the crooked pinky. She's definately daddy's little girl.

Here is my mom sunbathing with Lily. My mom has been out here since sunday doing everything from cooking, cleaning, washing, stocking our fridge with delicious food, feeding Lily, watching chick flicks with me, and weeding my very small section of a garden. My mom is truly amazing and I don't know what I'm going to do when she goes home. Thanks mom for everything you've done, you're the best and I love you so very much!!!

Lillian Has Arrived!

2009-07-12T14:13:00.000-07:00

At 6:00 am on Friday Jewels woke me up saying she was going into labor and that her water had broken. I thought she was kidding at first, then when she didn't laugh I knew she was serious. So we packed all the necessities and sped off to the hospital and checked in. Jewels was already dialated to 5 cm and sure enough her water had broken. A couple hours, an epidural, lots of ice and a few good pushes Lillian Loween Anderson was born; 11:38 am MST July 10th, 2009 to be exact. Jewels was strong throughout the labor, she would quietly count and focus on breathing when contractions came. Jewels says the worst part of the whole thing was the 5 attempts to getting an I.V. into her wrists, her veins are so small even the seasoned nurses had difficulty keeping a good flow. Well both baby and Mom are safe and recovering and I'm becoming less tired.

Lily came 2 weeks early and still weighed in at a healthy weight of 7 pounds 10 ounces, she was 19 inches long, has a little dark brown hair, she's also a good mix of both her Mom and Dad.

Lily and Dad at the hospital.

Lily and Mom a couple days later.

Thanks to all those who have helped and given support; Mom, Dad and Lily really appreciate it. We have Lily's Nona (Jewels Mom) coming to help for a week, then Natalie (Jewels sister) will come and help and then Lily's Grandparents on the Anderson side, will come to help. Mel's also been a great help to us also.

Most of all I want to thank Julianne for the many sacrifices she has made during our marriage and especially with our first born, Lily, I love you Jewels!

4th of July Weekend

2009-07-08T10:03:00.001-07:00

So since I can't travel very far away from Rexburg, being very large with child, Eric and I spent the fourth of July weekend within a two hour radius of Rexburg. On Friday we drove over to Mesa Falls and spent the day out in the "wild" with a couple from our ward. Saturday we had a barbaque and homemade icecream with the same couple we spent (the Bates). Friday with. Later that night we headed out to Idaho Falls to see the fireworks, they set them off by the Snake River (right next to the Temple). The Fireworks were pretty impressive, the traffic however was horrible, it took us one hour to just get out of the parking lot and onto the main road toward the highway. Over all we had a good Fourth of July despite the fact that we couldn't spend it with family.

The Bates got a camp site to stay at over night but I wasn't willing since Eric and I have no mattress and I would have had to get up at least three times during the night to go to the bathroom. However we did stay long enough to make tin foil dinners, s'mores and a super cool shelter thing because it started to rain :)

The pole reading is not entirely correct. Eric is tall yes but I'm not that short, the ground was not even at all.

Teton Dam Marathon

2009-06-16T09:38:00.000-07:00

So this last Saturday Eric ran a half marathon(13.1 miles). He came in fifth place which I missed because I thought he told me to be at the finish line by 9:00 but apparently he told me to be there before 9:00 (I don't hear so good when I'm half asleep). So Mel and I got there around 9:00 and we had the camera ready and we're waiting and waiting and finally after 20 minutes of waiting and watching several runners go by that were not going very fast at all and I mean they were going really slow, Melanie says "those runners couldn't have beaten Eric, we've had to miss him." It was about then that Eric popped up behind us and I had to tell him the bad news that I didn't get a picture of him crossing the finish line. Thankfully Eric was a good sport about it and was fine just possing in front of the finish line with me.

Way to go Eric!!

Mel's Play

2009-06-06T20:21:00.000-07:00

For the past month and half Melanie has been attending rehersals 5 out of 7 nights of the week (all rehersals lasted on average 3-4 hrs) for a play entitled SMASH. Melanie landed a lead role and has been performing the play here at BYU Idaho for the past two weeks. Last night Eric,my mom, my dad, and I were able to see Melanie perform and she did an amazing job. We were all very proud of her. My parents were only able to stay for a short time but while they were here my mom helped me dress up the baby crib with the dust ruffle, mattres sheet, and crib bumpers that she all made(she is a very good seamstress). When my parents dropped Melanie off at the beginning of this semester my mom took me out to select material for the baby's crib, and since I'm not much of a seamstress she offered to take the material home and work on it. Thanks Mom for all your hard work!

Melanie is sucking on a jaw breaker (been working on it for a while now) and mom is hand stitching the foam pads inside the bumper pads.

The before picture and now drum roll please.....

The finished crib. Thanks again mom you're the best!

B-day!

2009-05-24T15:43:00.000-07:00

So Friday was my 23rd birthday and Eric and Melanie did a super job of pampering me. Eric got me up in the morning and took me to the baby's room where I found my new glider all set up and waiting for me to try it out. Mel gave me one of her famous massages which was fabulous. And when I came home from class Mel and Eric were hard at work decorating the place. Dinner was amazing juicy steak, corn on the cob, sweet watermelon and potato chips. Over all my b-day was a great one thanks to Eric, Mel and all the family phone calls I received.

We're Back!

2009-03-19T07:05:00.000-07:00

Well its been a while and I apologize, having no internet really makes it difficult to stay on top of the important things in life such as blogging :) Due to many family requests this blog is dedicated to the little bump that is slowly taking over my tummy. Hope you enjoy!

Thanks mom for the top, the stripes are very slimming.

Hey Eric is pregnant too!

This dress, modeled by the pregnant Jewels, is the property of Jenny Reed who has been so kind as to loan several articles of clothing to me for the cause.

So I'm not real big but I've got four more months to go and I'm sure I'll be plenty big by the kids B-day.

Portland Zoo

2008-12-22T15:53:00.001-08:00

So I'm just now getting around to really updating the blog....I've taught Eric how to make a post so hopfully over this Christmas break they'll be a few more posts made before school starts back up. N-e-ways over Thanksgiving break Eric and I went to Oregon to spend the holiday with Jenny,Brandon and their two little ones Jemma and Carter. One of the days while we were out there we took a trip to the Portland Zoo, it was cold but lots of fun.

Weird Quirks

2008-11-17T13:21:00.000-08:00

So I was tagged by my sister Sharee to give 6 quirks about myself so here they are:

1) I can't sleep in past 8:30 a.m. or I feel like a fat bumb and as a result don't do much during the day.

2) Milk by its self tastes nasty but I'm okay with it in my ceral.

3) I eat most of my meals standing up (unless we have company over or I'm eating out...my mom warned me that my husband would hate this and she was right, it drives Eric crazy. He doesn't get why I do and neither do I...I'll just blame it on early morning seminary).

4) I can't fall asleep unless my feet are covered (yep even in the summer time when its supper hot the feet must be covered...its a curse).

5) I can't be late to class I wont go if I'm late, always have to be early or right on time, never late.

6) When starting a book or considering to read it, I peek at the "ending" and if the ending is good I'll read the whole book.

I think its funny how most of my "quirks" have to do with eating or sleeping :)

One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure

2008-08-02T21:03:00.000-07:00

So Eric and I share a garage with three other families. There's a lot of random junk stored in our garage but there was one piece of furniture that I believed to have potential. The item of furniture was a mini hutch made from particleboard. After doing a little research we discovered that the little white hutch had been abandoned by its previous owner and we were free to claim it. Now don't expect anything amazing I'm just trying to update my blog for those of you who are sick of seeing my roll recipe so enjoy the following pictures which show the before, middle and after process of my little hutch.

Recipe Time

2008-05-08T07:53:00.001-07:00

So I worked at a Great Harvest bakery for two months and picked up on a few tricks. No this roll recipe is not from them I'd get in trouble for passing on their "Trade Secrets" but I really do like this recipe so if you're feeling up to experimenting you should try it out along with the Potato Cheese Soup I'll be including at the end of this post.

Prepare & Set Aside
1 pkg. Yeast (1 Tbsp.) dissolved in
2 Tbsp warm water w/ 2 tsp Sugar

MIX
1 cup HOT Water
1 tsp of Salt
1 Tbsp & 1/2 tsp Shortening
1/4 c. Sugar

When the yeast has done its thing mix with water mixture & add 1 beaten egg.
Slowly add 3-4 cups of Flour. Knead in the bowl 8-10 minutes.
Place the dough in an oiled container/bowl and.....

Refrigerate for 30-60min or longer ( I've made the dough the night before and they've turned out fine)

Pull dough out of fridge (should have doubled in size)

Cut dough into stips then into smaller sections (no bigger then a handful of dough).

Roll the dough into smooth round balls (use the palm of your hand and fingers to apply adequate pressure)

They should look like this.

Place them on a pan (don't forget to spray first). They should be rather close to one another almost touching.

Let them rise in a warm place for 30-45 min (double in size)

I do 12 minutes but sometimes it looks like they can use a little more time (1-2 more minutes).

End Product...pull apart & enjoy!

Oh yeah here's the Soup recipe that's really good with the rolls.

6-8 potatoes 1 cup sour cream
2 cups milk 8 oz. cheddar cheese shredded
4 cups chicken broth Pepper & Salt to taste
2/3 flour
2/3 butter
8-12 stripes (break into bits)

Bake potatoes until soft @ 400 degrees; then peel mash or cube the potatoes (personal choice). In large soup pot combine flour & butter to make a roux. Cook for 1 min, then slowly whisk in the liquids. Add salt & pepper, potatoes, cooked bacon & cheese. At last minute stir in sour cream. Soup will be thick. Well there ya go, hope you guys like it.

My Garden

2008-05-07T19:22:00.000-07:00

So Eric and I spent quite a bit of time digging out a huge juniper bush and pulling out nasty crab grass to make this spot look so good.

I decided to plant my tomato plants this week because it had been so sunny and warm. But the day I do it starts to get all over cast and super windy, so I put those covers around the cages to protect the plants.

Here's one of my tomato plants. I grew them from seed and don't they look beautiful :)

The fun has arrived! (name the movie)

2008-02-09T12:24:00.000-08:00

Hint: A flying man in a loin cloth...

So hi I'm finally hip and cool like the rest of you all bloggers are. Please make comments so I don't feel all alone.