Happy Birthday Heather!

Heather,

We all hope you have a fabulous birthday! Love ya tons!

Our Little Pumpkin

Allie was a pumpkin for Halloween. Isn't she adorable? :) Cody's mom made her costume, my mom got her some cute orange pj's to wear underneath, and I made her green clip bow. Cody and I really liked Halloween this year seeing how we got to dress Allie up and eat all her candy :)

Happy Birthday McKell!

Hey McKell,
Hope your birthday was great!!! We all love you!

Anderson Ghouls

Here are my girls. Just for those who can't tell they are Dorthy and the (not so) cowardly lion. Olivia LOVED Halloween this year! She was so excited every time we got to dress her up. It was crazy because we basically celebrated Halloween for a week, going to different parties and such. It was fun and now that it is over I am so looking forward to Christmas! By the way, those that have posted pics of Halloween, thanks they are so cute! Everyone needs to make sure they post Halloween!

Halloween

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a fun Halloween! We had lots of fun too but by the time we had enough time to take pictures, my kids were exhausted! Gracie was thrilled with all the candy and Anna learned how to unwrap candy bars all by herself! Anna wasn't feeling very well on Halloween so she didn't get into all the fun like I'm sure she will next year! I can't wait to see everyone's pictures!

Plans

This is such a great question - I am probably the only one who did what I really planned on doing. Start going to college, meet someone, get married, and start a family. The only thing is that I really didn't think it would happen to me(of course you know I never dated anyone in High School - I only wished!!!)

I had several different ideas of what to do after graduation. Luckily Cindi asked me to move to Salt Lake - which (thanks to her) was where I was suppose to be. I started dating Justin weeks after sending off a missionary (Cindi would always tease me - "you couldn't even last two months!") But it was right for me!

Five years later and I have the most wonderful husband, two of the greatest boys, and (I guess this is a great time to announce - I am pregnant with a third child!!!) I am 12 weeks along and that is why no one has heard from me for a while - but I am hoping the sickness will soon be over! We couldn't be any happier. I know to some people this is not leaving a dream, but to me, it really is.

I do plan on going back to school and graduating in health and nutrition. I would love to be a dietition when all my kids are in school. Of course this is a few years down the road so as we have all said - anything can happen!

This was a fun idea! And I will be sure to keep you posted on the pregnancy and when we find out what we are having in a couple of months!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

TOO CUTE TO SPOOK!

Kayden: Our Monkey

Landen: Our Little Fireman

Xander: Our Race Car Driver

My pumpkin!

Here is my baby boy in our huge pumpkin! Aww! Poor little guy! I tortured him just for a photo.
But seriously I want to see everybody's Halloween pictures!

My family June 2007

Hi Everyone!
I (Cami) sure have had a blast reading about what everyone is doing! I can't believe how much has changed! I still live in Brigham with my husband Tyson and our two daughters- Grace, who is three and a half and Anna who is one and a half. We moved last summer into our "dream" home and have been really busy tearing out walls, painting, refinishing floors, and of course, decorating! Tyson is really handy so we still have quite a long list of projects! I feel really lucky to be able to stay home and be a full-time mommy! My girls are growing up so fast and they are keeping me happy! Grace is going to Mrs. Stolworthy's "little bees" preschool at the high school and loving every minute of it. Seeing those high school girls just reminds me how fast time has gone! Grace loves baby dolls, horses, tea parties, princesses, and dress ups. It's really fun for me because I feel like I never quite grew out of those little girl things myself! Anna loves music, pushing her baby in her sroller, and playing in the dirt! She is usually really easy going and happy, but she definately has a stubborn side too! She is really cuddly and definately a mama's girl-which I love! I have had so much fun with all the girl stuff! Having kids just makes every holiday and season so much more fun! I am so glad to be able to read about everyone and keep in touch-this is going to be so fun!

Family Pictures

Two weeks ago, Rexburg actually had decent weather for taking pictures, so we finally got our family picture taken. I don't know how you guys stay on top of this kind of thing. This is probably the first picture we've had with all three of us since Allie's blessing back in March. ;) Cody's new hobby (photography) is really paying off! :) He took this picture for us. Hope everyone is doing great!

Much Love,

Andrea

An update from Virginia

I just thought I would add a post to this blog. I am always updating our own blog that I forget to add to this one. (I just posted this same picture on there.) Bree is learning so much lately. We just taught her to say "I love you." Today without us asking she went up to Jared and said, 'love you!"
We just got back from a vacation to out outerbanks so we are just getting into the swing of things again. Jared just has 7 more months of law school! Yeah!!!
Charlottesville is a great place to be during the fall. We just went and picked apples the other day and the once the leaves start changing a little more it is super pretty.
We just got our tickets for Christmas to Utah, so if anyone is around during the holidays, we would love to get together...

Crazy Weather

For those who are outside of Utah I just thought I would show what the weather has been like here !

Day One Snowball Fight Day ~~~~~~~~ Day Three Playing at the Park

I have a sideshow with more pictures on my blog if you are interested!

A few days in Michigian

Hey Everybody!
I hope everyone had a good conference this past weekend. It's weird having to either watch online or go to the stake center for it! Well, dunh, dunh, dunh... it's finals week for Jared(they do two modules per semester in business school)and so to get out of his way and to leave him more time to study I took Miles and went to Michigain to visit my friends, Kim and Josh and their four children. They were in our ward in Murray and Josh decided in spite of having a B.S. and and M.S. in accounting to go to law school to be a tax attorney! Needless to say it helped me realize how lucky I am to only have one child while Jared is in grad-school! Poor Kim has it ten times harder than I do and Josh is going to be in school for 3 years.
But I had so much fun. We went berry picking at a raspberry farm and apple picking at an orchard and did some shopping for Miles for next summer.

*If any of you are interested, Sears was having a major end of summer sales rack! The best deal I got was a pair of shorts for $.29 cents! I got 6 pair of shorts and most of them were under a dollar, plus 8 shirts and 2 pairs of sandels all for $17.00!*

The only down part was that Miles woke up sick yesterday! This is his first time being sick, and I knew it was too good to last but I feel very grateful that he made it to 6 months without getting anything. At least he slept well on the way home. Poor little guy has a slight fever and stuffy nose. I bet he had sneezed 200 times in the last day and a half! I have a nasal spray that I'm giving him, but does anyone have other advice? Ironically, his sixth month well-check visit and shots are tomorrow. Does anyone know if they can be sick when they get shots? I can't call because the doctor's office is closed on Thursdays. Oh, and the weather finally turned cold out here! It was 80 degrees on Tuesday and on Wednesday it suddenly turned 55 degrees overnight! Well, just wanted to share the info about the sale at Sears and ask for any sick baby advice. -Much love, Heather

Hi Everyone, It's been a while so I thought I would update. I started working for Dr. Liebelt (yes Lindsey's dad) about 6 weeks ago and it's been great. It's nice to get out of the house for a few hours each day and interact with adults. I'm really enjoying it and I'm actually going to Floriday next Thursday with Dr. Liebet and his wife for some training on a Spinal Decompression machine. I'm really excited and nervous. I've never been away from Cooper or Chad that long but I'm excited about the opportunity this will be for me and the buiness. Anywho, Cooper is still keeping us busy. He is now saying cookie and cracker and if you ask him a question he says, "Um....sure." it's hilarious. Chad is still busy with school but he is on his third class with University of Phoenix and he's really doing a great job and getting great grades. Well, take care and I'll post again sometime.

Draco and Scoop

I don't know why but my post is automatically dating it as Oct 10, does anyone know how to change it to current date?

Here are my little guys on Halloween! They had a blast once they got in their costumes. Corbin went with his little friend from the ward who was Harry Potter and they looked so adorable. At first Taylor did not want us to put the scoop costume on him, but once we got it on he was thrilled! He barrelled his way through all the other trick-or-treaters to get to the candy - it was hilarious!

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Sorry about that, Corbin added those L's up above because his brother loves L's!

I don't know if my boys are sick or if they had too much candy, but they have both thrown up in the last 24 hours. I don't think it is candy because I wouldn't let them have that much.

I hope all of you had a great Halloween and I want to see pictures. Christina and Heather, your boys look adorable!

Pictures

The other day I coulnt' get pictures to go on, so I am trying again for those of you who want to see my boys! We are getting family pictures soon, so I will put those up when we get them!

Hello Everyone

Hey, it's me JaNae! This is so much fun, I have loved seeing how everyone is doing! It took me a while to get signed on to this. I guess I am blogger illiterate! I sure have been enjoying my life here in North Salt Lake! We have been in our house for 6 months and I have loved decorating it, that has become something I enjoy very much. We love the neighborhood we are in. It is so nice to feel safe here (the last place we came from wasn't exactly safe - South Salt Lake, but we still loved it) For those of you who may not know, I am married to Justin Morris. We have been married for 4 1/2 years. I still can't believe it. We are thinking of going on an anniversary get away this May, it will be the first time we will have gone anywhere without the kids for more than a day, I am excited, but I'm sure I will miss my boys a ton! Do any of you have a great vacation spot that you have been on?

Justin is working at Fidelity and for the most part, he enjoys it. He is doing such a good job and is going to apply to be a manager in the next year, I think he will like being a manager. The other two boys in my life are Corbin and Taylor. I love being a mom to them so much! Corbin is 3 1/2 and he loves, loves, loves tools and being some kind of a witch! He actually loves being Draco Malfoy (for those of you who read Harry Potter, I promise I am not teaching him to become a bad boy!!) He just likes him because he rides brooms and they both have blond hair!! He is going to be Draco for Halloween and he looks adorable!! We slicked his hair back like Draco and I made him some black robes and he is the cutest Draco I have ever seen! I'll send pictures after Halloween! Taylor is 1 1/2 and his favorite thing is horses or any kind of animals - he knows just about every animal sound. He doesn't talk a lot (Corbin does all the talking) but he knows enough to get by in this tough world! He is one of the happiest kids I know (but with that extreme happiness comes the extreme on the other end! He can get upset pretty fast) My two boys play together so well. Corbin will tell Taylor, "Taylor do you want to come and play" and Taylor will say, "ya" and then Corbin will grab Taylor's hand and lead him to wherever they are playing! It's adorable!

Hopefully you aren't too bored reading this! It is so fun to hear from all of you and keep writing (and I will too)! Take Care!

Honoring Mrs. Holmgren

Recently Mrs. Melanie Holmgren retired from being the choir pianist and they are going to honor her. So On October 23 at the choir concert they are going to recognize her. What they want to do is put a book together with thoughts, memories, thank you's etc. for her. They are asking for you all to e-mail these to Claudia at cbigler111@msn.com. They need to be recieved ASAP so they can bind the book together. So if you could tell all your friends and have them tell their friends it sure would help. :)

I got this e-mail from my mom and I thought I would pass it along to those of you that knew Mrs. Holmgren. She was an awesome pianist! Thanks for your help. FYI: Lori Price is new choir pianist. I know Holly, Alicia, and I had piano lessons from her and she is fabulous, too. :)

In Addition

Hey All!
Just wanted to tell you that I added a section on the left hand side of the page with some links to other blogs. Aaron and Becky just recently made their own family blog and Jared and Jess, and Tyler and Christina have one as well. I also have my own blog(left over from dental hygiene school) and a family blog, on which we post way more pictures of Miles then you people would probably ever want to see, and which I will not burden you with on this friends blog!.....But just in case you do ;) the links are there for you! Or for those of you want to see how huge I was 7 1/2 months preggo! (Speaking of which, Holly we want to see pictures of you and your cute belly - remembering that everyone thinks your belly is cute even if you don't) Becky, I have to say that the video you made of your family on your blog is just adorable!

Evan's Update

Hey Friends! Just a little update on what's going on in Rexburg, Idaho with the Evan's family: We had our first snow fall today. Thank heaven's for hot chocolate! :) Allie is getting bigger everyday. She rolls everywhere and loves to "talk, talk, talk" and read books. She turned 8 months old today. She weighs 15 pounds and is 26" long. Allie is definitely the pride and joy of our lives. :)

Cody is still working one day a week at Melaleuca and then working everyday in Idaho Falls. He enjoys working with the kids, but looks forward to going to grad school so he can be a counselor. We'll start applying to grad schools soon. When asked where he wants to go, he just says "anywhere they'll take me".

As for me, I just love being home with Allie. It is so nice to be a mommy :) I've learned how to make cute headbands and so now that consumes my time, too. Any one looking for a good read? I'm reading "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer. It's the first in a series of books about a girl who falls for a vampire. At first I was skeptical, but it has been on the NY Best Seller's list, and it is fabulous! Give it a try if you've got a second.

The only other new thing is that I got a calling to be the ward choir pianist. I'm just laughing because for the first time in my life I am in a ward where pianists are few and far between. It is so weird. I enjoy playing the piano, but I am no concert pianist, so we'll just see how this goes... Anyway, sorry for the novel. I hope everyone is doing well! Much Love to All :)