Where is the Anderson Family!!!

So many of you are probably wondering where we are or what has happenend to us over the last 3 months and let me tell you alot has happened. So much has gone on that I have not had any time to update our blog.

I feel like the non-stop going started with my trip to Vegas in April.

My sisters, parents, and I went to Vegas in a "Girls Gone Wild" weekend. Our childhood friend Jodie got married and we were all thrilled to leave our children at home with their dads. Of course, we all had a great time.

Here's a picture of me going down the waterslide 7 months pregnant. This baby is going to love adventure. Keely and I will be having babies close together again. This time we will be having boys.

Then I photographed 2 weddings at the LA Temple back to back.

I also managed to squeeze in a trip to the SB Zoo with Addie's class.

Believe it or not, I squeezed in another photo shoot. This time of Senior pictures and maternity pictures.

My sweet hubby took me to Hawaii on our 10 year anniversary. This was our first trip with no children and we had the time of our lives. A huge thanks to my mom and dad for watching our children.

This is our lagoon in front of our hotel. Our hotel is in the background right off the beach.

We went to Hanauma Bay (world famous snorkeling), but our favorite place in the world to snorkel is Shark's Cove on the North Shore.

We enjoyed watching 5 sunsets on our trip. This was our last. We sat on the resort loungers and ate ribs and juicy pineapple.

Chad's step-brother got married, and he officiated the ceremony.

The kids danced their hearts out... They ended up being the entertainment for the evening.

Emma officially graduated from Pre-School. Here she is with her teacher.

Addie graduated Kindergarten. Here she is with her teacher.

Addie's first crush was with Brandon from class. Looks like he likes her too. The two were the tallest kids in all 4 classes of kindergarteners.

Our annual trip to Palm Springs was a BLAST this year. The resort had two water slides. This little one for the kids, and a big one for the adults. The kids must have went down the slide 100 times each. Our first day, we were at the pool for a total of 7 straight hours.

The adult slide had 3 turns on it. Addie just cleared the 48 inch minimum.

The kids enjoyed having their cousins there and playing with them.

Adam loved watching daddy play "real man" ping pong and take his lickings from Uncle Mike. But daddy won a few times and got Mike back. Adam had to play in between games.

He even told Chad, "Lift up your shirt dad." In "real man" ping pong, the loser lifts up his shirt and the winner gets to blast him with the ball the number of points he won by.

The biggest laughs at the pool came from Chad and Mike timing their slides to splash unsuspecting victims as they walked past the pool slide. The lifeguard told Chad his splash of the fully dressed supervisor was the best she had ever seen. She got soaked from the face down. She turned around and gave Chad an evil look, but he raised his arms in triumph and shouted, "Yeah!!!" as everyone laughed...

I finished transforming the toy room into baby Brandon's room.

We went to pick our own blueberries.

Adam didn't understand the concept of pick the berry and put it in your basket to take home. He had his own 3 Step process to picking berries. Step 1: pick the berry. Step 2: eat the berry. Step 3: Repeat steps 1 & 2.

Emma lost her 1st tooth. She was so excited the tooth fairy was going to bring her something, she had trouble going to sleep. The tooth fairy did come and brought her gum and a dollar bill.

Our cousin Graham joined the family on June 14th. He came in interesting fashion. Be sure to check Keely's blog for details.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter

Love, Addie, Emma & Adam

Camping Time

Here we are all loaded up to go home. Adam didn't want to go home and kept saying, "No leave camping..."

We even had the bike rack on the back of the van.

Here's our goofy family picture of this trip. Adam and his bike were inseperable.

Sleeping like a bug...

The girls really loved the campfire and making smores.

Little Buzz Lightyear liked his hot chocolate in the morning.

We had lots of fun with our friends. The kids really loved riding bikes, playing with friends, going to the beach, and painting rocks.

We had one really great day of sun while camping so that day we spent 5 hours at the beach. The kids loved it and I loved just sitting there and talking with friends and watching the kids play carelessly. Addie and Brooke are looking for clams in this picture

Best buddys! Kelsey & Adam

Is it a boy or girl?

So today is the day to find out if we are have a girl or boy baby. Or as Addie putts it "Today we are finding out whats in my moms belly" Like it might be something other than a baby.
I asked the girls to draw me pictures of what was there guess and Emma who doesn't ever like to be wrong drew both a girl and boy so she could be right no matter what but if you ask her she says its a boy. Addie drew a girl but has been tell people all along we need a boy so Adam has someone to play with.

So after all the guess

it is a

BOY!

and we are so excited.

TAG

Here is a tag that even I can do.

So you can do it to.

Rules:
Go to the document setting/my pictures on your computer
Choose your 6th file
Choose your 6th picture
Blog about it

I took this picture in Jan 2009 it is of Emma with her class pet Owl. The Owl gets to spend the weekend going home with the kids and they get to write about what they did with the owl. The kids love it!

We love Baby Aubree

Emma loves that she was the first couison to get to hold Aubree.

We are having alot of fun with our new cousin

Aubree Kristine Bigler

Born January 27th at 9:08pm

She weighted 7lbs 4oz and was 20 3/4 inc. long

I was able to be there when she was born and let me tell you it is crazy to see your baby sister become a mother. Ashlyn is a great mom and she has already learned that motherhood is the greatest and hardest thing in life.

Aubree 2 weeks old

Family Fun in Januray

Last month we had another great family trip to Disneyland with lots of memorable experiences. Addie and Emma became official big kids by riding all the big rollercoasters. The girls both agreed that space mountain was the favorite rollercoaster so they road it two times in a row.
Adam also was a big boy because he wasn't scared of Captain Hook. When Adam saw Captain Hook, he ran right up to him gave him a hug and the told him "I feed you to the crocadiles Captain Hook" it was all so cute.

Adam has officially been brainwashed that Disneyland is the happiest place on earth.


Adam and I (Christal) both love the Buzz Lightyear ride, but for totally different reasons. Adam loves that he gets to shoot a lazer and help get Zurg the bad guy, and I love that I get to watch him have so much fun. I also love to look around and see all the dads totally ignoring their kids because they are trying to shoot their laser gun and get the most points. I think Adam and I road this ride 4 times because it is so good.

We have had a pet upgrade!

So our hamster Minnie died this month and the kids were very sad about the hole thing so we decided that we better get a new pet. I really didn't want to get another hamster right now and the kids wanted a dog which was not going to happen. Then they asked for baby ducks but I told them we will have to wait for Easter to get eggs and then we can hatch them ourselves. So then we were lead to the idea of a rabbit. And after thinking about it, there are many positives to rabbits. They can live outside, they can be cuddled, you don't have to take them for a walk, and their poop is very small.

After all those positives we went to the pet store and picked out Daisy our new pet. The kids really love her and she is a spoiled rabbit. She has a one of a kind cage that Papa Ron build for her with a little ramp so she can go in and out of it.The girls are really good at playing with her with out torchering her.