Snow Day! Or what we thought was going to be a snow day!!!

This last Saturday night it snowed a little bit up in Orem, but it Dumped a Ton on every town but ours. Bryan said that Jack Frost just sneazed on us and cried on everyone else. Anyways, by the time we got home from church on Sunday, the boys were dying to get their snow clothes on and play in the snow. It was not good, because this was all that was left of the snow.

They got out the sled and tried to sled down the slide in the sandbox. Taylor did ok, but when it got to Hayden's turn, I was a little nervous about that one. He almost went off the side of the slide. So we ended that really quick.

The REAL SNOW DAY!!!

Today, Tuesday, it finally snowed. Hayden wanted his snow clothes on first thing this morning, and I told him he had to eat breakfast first. I don't think I have ever seen him eat so fast. He ran into his bedroom, got his clothes, and wanted them on quick.

When Bryan got home from UPS this morning, it was even more of a reason to get them on and go out with him to help him with all the walks. The first thing he did was fall in the snow and do a snow angel! It was sooooo cute. Taylor is dying to get out of school and come home to play too! Bryan got a new snow blower as part of his Christmas gift. I think it was actually for me and him. This way, it doesn't take us more than 10 minutes to remove the snow instead of 1-2 hours! WE LOVE IT!!!!

Fall 2009-

Right after Halloween, the leaves down at Foxwood started to fall a ton! Taylor kept telling me how he remembered how we used to rake the leaves and play in them. So we took the boys down to play in the leaves. NOT THE RAKING! We don't do landscaping anymore, so we just played for a little while. The boys decided to climb into one of the package mail boxes and become a SPECIAL delivery. It was so fun to fit them both in there. A little tight, but funny!

A little unsure of the leaves and how they felt as they went down their shirts, in their hats and everywhere else you could think of!

We had a really great time.

It has been a while since I posted my last blog! OK! It has bee a LONG while. Our laptop had to be retired and since then, it is hard for me to actually go down stairs and spend a while on the desk top computer vs. sitting in my bed at night and doing all of this! Anyways, here it goes...


Here are the boys when the weather started getting really bad, and it was starting to really feel cold out side. They love to go up to Glen Canyon park and climb the rock walls that they have. What can we say, "we have a bunch of monkeys!"





In mid October we had an apartment activity with all of our complexes and we decided to take Taylor ice skating that night. He had been telling us for a long time that he needed to go and learn how so that he could teach Hayden. He started out ice skating with a bar that is in front of him, and that only lasted about 15 minutes. After that, he was on his own!!! I think that now he know how, he will not only have to learn to teach Hayden, but the new baby too!
Here are some pictures of Halloween. I made sugar cookies with the boys on FHE night. They love to make them, but sometimes I have to really get the courage up to attempt them with all the mess and all. They did really great, and Grandma & Grandpa Anderson came over to try them with us. All was enjoyed!!!
Bryan was so lucky to have worked the early shift on Halloween day, he got to get off by 4:30 and come trick or treating with us. The boys loved it and we had a great time. Taylor this Halloween was Dark Knight for school & church, a cowboy at home and wanted to be a Vampire for trick or treating. It was definitely eventful. Hayden was Buzz Lightyear for the church activity and Batman the night of trick or treating. Bryan was his usual Hippy salesman and went to work dressed like that! It was great. And me, I didn't fit in much so I got a new T-shirt that had decor on it for an angel and wore my wings. I about put on the back of my shirt "knocked up angel" but we figured that was not appropriate.

Labor Day Holiday Weekend

Hello everyone! It has been at least a month since I updated our blog this last time. I think that I am getting a little better and faster at what I can do with it. The time before this I beleive it was a couple of months, so improvement is always better. Anyways, this past month has flown by so fast with everything that has happened. We started the month with preping for Check Outs again! It is never ending, so I will leave it at that. On the first weekend in August, the boys (Anderson Men) rode to Sturgis, South Dakota. It was almost a 13 hour ride. They saw all the stores, bars, events and even got a chance to go to Mount Rushmore! While they were there, they had a hailstorm that literally distroyed Brad's truck and Alan's trailer. Anyways they made it home all safe and sound.



The following Wednesday, on Bryan's day off, we took the boys and went to the Hogle Zoo. What a blast we had. Grandpa Anderson got the chance to come with us too. Not too many people were there, so it made the day a whole lot better.



On the 15th we celebrated Bryan's birthday. He turned the big 31 this year. He took the day off, but it rained the first half of the day. I had to work and go clean an apartment, but later that day we went to Ikea to walk around, picked up dinner at PF Changs and ate it on the way to the Demolition Derby held at the Utah County Fair grounds. I accidently forgot the tickets, so they ended up putting us right in the middle of the stadium on row 2! It was so much fun!!!!



Taylor started 1st grade this year! He is still going to be attending Noah Webster Academy, and his teachers name is Mrs. Rayes-Ciaro. Try getting a first grader to pronounce that name! I just told him to call her Mrs. Rayes. Anyways, she is new, just graduated from BYU and finished her internship as a teacher. Hopefully she does a good job. I haven't heard from her, but we have parent teacher conferences coming up at the end of September. Taylors favorite part of school is lunch time. He loves the fact that he can take his lunch and eat it at school. His second favorite thing is that they have lots of recess time! That was really funny. Anyways, getting back in the routine of waking up and getting breakfast and getting him out the door for carpool by 8:10 am has really been an adjustment from the summer routines. Even for me, at times, I just want to stay in bed and sleep. Lack of sleep has been really common lately!



Then last but not least, we had a fabulous Labor Day weekend. It was a HUGE weekend for Michelle and Leslie. It was their big Swiss Days weekend up at Midway. They always do such a great job, and sold a ton. Afterwards we took the boys swimming and stayed a the condo. They always really love to take a break from being at home all the time. Sidney had a really fun time swimming and checking out what the boys were doing in the pool. I think by watching them, it helped her relax a little bit in a bigger pool. What cute grandkids The Andersons have. Another really extiting thing that is happening this Labor Day weekend is that we have officially changed or moved our Labor Day to March 8, 2010. On that day we will be adding a new little one to our home. We are so excited and surprised about the BIG news. After so many miscarriges, this was really, really big. I have not been on any drugs or anything to keep this little one. We are officially 14 almost 15 weeks along. At the same time, we are really disappointed, the Anderson family was planning on going to Cancun at the same time. We had been looking forward to this trip for almost 2 years, being it would be our 10 year anniversary. We'll see! Anyways, it will definitely surprise you if you are reading this one. REMINDER: those that are reading this, should not tell those around them, if they have not read our update to the blog! Encourgae them to read it!!!
We love everyone and hope your life is as exciting as ours. Love, Bryan, Jerilyn, Taylor, Hayden and Baby #3.

T-Ball/ Lake of the Woods

T-Ball Season!

At the end of May, Taylor started the long awaited T-Ball that he was dying to play. His Grandma and Dad spoiled him by buying him the whole getup to be able to be play the game. He was one of the best hitters and throwers on the team! What an arm he has!! His team name was called the Tornadoes. He had a really quick season and went to most of the games until.... one morning he woke up and had really bad leg and hip pain in his left leg. It has come and gone within the past couple of months, and we have taken him to the Dr and done several test. All the test come out negative that nothing is wrong. We finally took him to Primary Childrens Orthopedic Sergeon, and they didn't find anything either. What a relief! (History of Perthies Disease runs in my side of the family). Anyways, the pain lasted about

a week and a half and has not come back since. In the mean time, after T-Ball I took the boys and went to Oregon with my parents and Jeff & Colin and their family... We went for almost 2 weeks and had a blast. Taylor loved to fish with Grandpa Metler, Hayden loved to ride on the wave runners and the two of them had their usual run to the lodge for ice cream or popcycles. When we got to the cabin, we found out that the long lasting banana tube had a HUGE hole in it from wear and tear. The grandkids had sooooo much fun with that, and it was well worth every cent we spent for it years ago. In its place, we got this nifty looking tube. It was the coolest tube to ride in, and you hardly ever fell off of it. Only if you weren't holding on and hit a big bump. That happened to Taylor, he was showing off and decided that he didn't need to hold on. The two girls held on tight, and he got popped right off the tube! He was like spider man crawling through the air before he hit the water! What a trooper he was. It made him a little nervous to be in the water by himself. Taylor also tried waterskiing, and was unsuccesful, maybe next year. Little Squirt, Hayden, was attached to the wave runner the whole time. That was all he wanted to do. Well, he loved to get in and swim with mom too.

After 2 years of not going to the cabin, I finally decided that I couldn't miss out again. That is when Jeff and Colin were so thoughtful and let us go with them. We had a great time and it was good for Hayden and Taylor to get to know their other cousins better. It was so

hard to go down to the lake and be on the dock all day and do really not

hing! I really needed that vacation in order to get through these next couple of months. Thanks to Mom and Dad Metler, they rode over and back with us to Oregon and shared the cost of many, many things. We love them for that!!! How gracious they always are to our little fam

ily that is still growing!

Don't worry, we had a lot of time jumping off the dock and "Jumping on a fish!" The water was great, and the weather couldn't have been any better. We lucked out for the year. Thanks to all, we had a GREAT time! Jerilyn

9 Year Anniversary!

9 Year Anniversary (May)!

Can you belive that?

Bryan surprised me and loaded the motorcycle full of camping gear and we took off on a Friday afternoon and drove down to Arches/ Moab. We got there about 5pm and found a camping spot and set up for the night. We were both hungry and tired so we went to dinner at a Mexican place. It was great food. The town was still bright with lights so we walked around and then decided to go to the movies. That was fun!

The next morning, we woke up bright and early (thanks to the little kids and their family next to us!) and went to Arches Park. I really didn't realize how many arches there were. I thought there was just one! Boy was I wrong. That day we hiked over 16 miles of ground, mountains, boulders, etc. By the end of the day, the two of us were exhausted. That night we went to a different place to eat. By the time we were finished, we went back to the tent and crashed. Although, another night of rude people camping next to us, but this time, we think it was a bunch of women that had never been before. ( we think the family was way more polite). It was so frusterating, we got up at 7:30 the next morning, packed our stuff and headed home.

But WOW! What an awesome trip. In the picture above, you can barely see us under the arch. What a hike!!! The next picture was taken while we were driving on the bike in the park. DANGEROUS.

The next picture is of Bryan standing under a tree that is way up in the mountains under one of the random arches that we hiked too. It was amazing.

LONG TIME!

Wow! It has been a really long time since I updated our blog! Sorry to all those that check every once in a while. Anyways, here are a couple of pictures from the past.

Lately both Bryan and I have been working like crazy and we barely have time to spend with the boys! So Wednesdays are our only day to play as a family. This is a picture of us up at the park above South Fork. We had a really great time.

You know that it is that time of year when the goggles come out of storage and the swimsuits are on, and the kids are ready to go in the car. We had a really great weather spell in late May, but suddenly, in June it has been nothing but rain!!! The swimming pool will have to wait!

We have spent just a few days at the pool.

Hayden has had so much fun with Taylor being out of school that he only takes about an hour nap and then has to get going again. By 7pm, he is usually ready for bed. The only problem with that is that he is up by 7am. What a killer!!!

Even though it is not Halloween, my boys can never get enough of the super hero costumes. Their friends are always over and love putting them on too!

Birthday Boy!

That's right, TAYLOR just turned 6 years old!

Ok, it was a little over a month ago, but at least it made it to the Blog...

We had such a great time. We started out by making capes with the batman symbol sewn on the back by Leslie. She did an amazing job and whipped those out so fast. All the kids were surprised when they got to take their own capes home after the party. There were two things Taylor wanted to do for the party, play pin the tail on Batman, which he made the bat himself, and a pinata! That was all the money we had, so that is all we did! But the kids loved it. We are so grateful that he has kids his age in the neighborhood and also some amazing ones in his school class.

It was mighty cold outside to do a pinata, so we did it in the garage. It worked out great!

I think the kidos had a really great time. At least we had fun.