Our little boy is here!!!

Brandon Ronald Anderson

July 16th at 12:10 A.M.

8 lbs, 2 oz 20 1/2 inches

Mom & Dad's first seconds with Brandon.

Celebrating the birth of our LAST child!

Less than one minute old...

Proud siblings came to visit Brandon later that morning. They were

so excited to have their brother join the family.

Adam says, "I'm not the baby any more. I'm the Big Boy." He told mom,

"I take my baby home now."

Proud big brother

Emma was constantly taking off the beannie to check Brandon's

hair color. She's excited he is gonna be a toe-head like her.

Addie told mom that now she gets to practice "for reals" to be a mom.

She is constantly saying she will change all diapers, even the dirty ones.
The first time she saw a dirty diaper, she reconsidered and said, "Eww

that's gross" and stepped away.

Ashlyn and Scott came over to our house and watched the kids while

we went to the hospital. When the kids came to visit Brandon for the first

time, they brought these cards for their brother. Thanks Ashlyn & Scott!!

Brandon is a great baby. He sleeps well and eats good. We are so lucky

to be blessed with such a wonderful baby. :)

A couple baldies...

Happy 4th of July

So I know it is July 10th now, but happy late 4th to all of you.

Thanks to family and friends, we had a great 4th of July.

We started the morning off with a great pancake breakfast at church. Then we headed off

to the city's pushem- pullem parade. The kids really love being in the parade and I think it is fun to see all the people and get in the spirit of the 4th.

Adam's favorite part of the parade was at the begining when he and Hannah tried to eat all the candy he had brought that was supposed to be thrown as he walked down the parade.

The day ended with a fireworks show, root beer floats, and three happy kids.

Waitting for Brandon

As you can see there is no baby yet, just an ever growing belly and a more and more tired mommy. I have about 1 1/2 weeks until my due date and like all moms at the end I look forward to have a baby to let others hold too. The kids are very excited to meet there new brother and ask me every day when he will be here. Thanks to my mom I have these great pictures, she took them this morring.

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.