End of January Update

There was not too much happening the last part of January for us. My friend Korie and my Mom came up for a crafting weekend that kind of went bust as I got sick and spent Saturday morning puking up dinner (NO ANNOUNCEMENT, I WAS JUST SICK)

Anyway, Kira and have spent the rest of the month going to the Library on Mondays, running errands during the week and for the past week pretty much staying inside because of the rain. Kira has decided that she doesn't like the rain and won't go out if she has a choice.

Kira is keeping busy and surprises me every day with the stuff she comes up with. Like stepping on a stool and saying, "Look Mom Mom, I'm taller!"... I mean who taught her that?

She still loves to count and loves Maisy books right now. We can't leave the library without one.

Next month, Tennille is finishing up and actually putting on her first Blue & Gold Banquet, and a trip down to Cali maybe in the works for us.... no promises though.

Flashback Friday

So I had a hard time with today's Flashback Friday until I was going through some pictures yesterday... check this out....


This is my grandma and grandpa with my uncle in the 50s sometime... Aren't they just the epitome of cool?! I certainly think so! I LOVE his glasses and my grandma's shorts! So cute!

Have a great weekend!

This and That

There is not too much going on over here in the Anderson house. Just hanging out. My mom and friend Korie are coming up for the weekend so we can craft our little hearts out... or our fingers off, which ever comes first.

We do however have some pretty great pictures to share of Kira. She is growing like a weed and is too funny most days. She is DEFINITELY 2 and shows it often! She is very demanding and opinionated. She often tells Mom Mom and Daddy NOT to sing in the car and is always pointing out trucks(she calls them all Macs from Cars),

motorcyles, and airplanes to us. She will often tell me that she has been on a plane before (we went to Cali in October) and when I ask her who we went to see she remembers right away that it was Auntie "M" and GG and Maggie!

She has learned a new word, though she's not quite sure how to use it. We were driving home from the Library Monday and she asked me to reach for something in the back seat. She said, MOM MOM HELP! I CAN'T REACH IT!" And I said, "But Kira, I can't reach it either" and she said "You can't reach it eve-r?" And I said "Nope". About an hour later once we were home she came running to me and said, "Mom Mom, I can't find my blankie eve-r!" And she has said it a couple times since. It's pretty funny!

Couple of other things, she loves nursery at church and is now the 2nd oldest in there (a little scary ... she will be in sunbeams next January... where does the time go?) She is my greatest challege and greatest joy, it's like that saying; "Gotta take the good with the bad"... well there is a whole lot of good that comes with the tantrums and her general contrary-ness.

Enjoy the pictures and I'll try to do another update soon!

Kira trying on Mom Moms make-up

She a super ninja-summoning the powers of Elmo

Her "CHEESE" smile. At Shelly and Ryan's house this past weekend

At the park New Years Eve!

Flashback Friday

The first Flashback Friday of the New Year.... so I better make it a good one huh?
How about some inspiration for my weight loss goals this year. It's time to get healthy... I have things to do this year!!!

I'm pretty sure I'll never be this skinny again but one can dream right?

1997

BUT I could stand to be all these skinnys ......

Around 2002. In Ohio. When I took Jacob to meet my family

At Jesse's wedding, April 2004

In London, (obviously) whatever year Ad'z and Jo got married. 2002?

So.... here is my inspiration for my weight loss journey. Wish me luck!

Christmas in Vegas

We decided back in November that we were going to stay here for Christmas. It was a combination of reasons really... some of which include:

a) Not wanting to drive in potentially bad weather

b) Wanting to get more sleep than what we usually end up with when we travel (didn't quite happen)

c) Not having to feel rushed or feeling like we need to see more people than we already have
So instead, we invited Gram Jan and Papa Mike (Tennille's parents) up to spend the weekend with us. And while I was a little sad not to see more family, I think we had an enjoyable time.

(Our haul... we were blessed to get so many nice things from so many nice people)

Early Christmas Eve we opened Kira's "God-father" Henry's gifts. He spoils her! She got a magna doodle, some food for her kitchen and a Curious George Light-up doll. She loves it!

Gram Jan and Papa Mike came up late Christmas Eve. We hung out and did some minor preparations for the next day and headed off to bed. Christmas morning, Kira was ready to go, not because she knew it was Christmas (she's 2) but because GRAM JAN was here!

Do we ran out to the living room, changed a diaper and Kira jumped on to her new bike/motorcycle (depends on the day and if she feels like making noises)

After Kira saw what Santa left her we moved onto stockings and Kira got some great stuff...

A Maisy book and some sippys and some match-box cards!

After stockings, we went straight to gifts!

Wearing her new jacket, and tiara

Opening Curious George from Dallin, Kyla, Garrett and Corinne. It has been on since we opened it.

An Elmo book!

Her Christmas morning outfit! All the great girlie things she got!

Her microwave from Granjan and Papa Mike... she loves it!

Her ornament from Uncle Bruce and Aunt Cheryl.

A happy girl!

Her haul.... Thanks everyone! She loved everything!

Christmas overload!


Kira's Christmas outfit!

After gifts and naps we started on dinner. I made my first Ham and it was wonderful! We used Alton Brown's city ham recipe and it was fantastic! We also had salad, veggies, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, stuffing and.... Duck. Yep, Jacob made a duck. It was better than the duck I have ever had before but I'm still not going to go out of my way to make/eat it.

Kira pushing her baby in her new stroller! She's a good mommy!

We had a great Christmas! We hope you all did too! We thank you all for your love and support and wish you all the best for 2010! Happy New Year!

Pictures of Kira

Jacob has been taking some fun pictures of Kira lately. No reason behind them except that Kira is super cute so along with the pictures I'll share some funny Kira moments.

Today-

Tennille: "Oh Kira, you are so funny!"

Kira: "Yeah, Boppa is a goofball!"

(For those of you who don't know... Boppa is a nickname she gave herself)

Yesterday - I woke up to her pounding her bedroom wall singing... "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way... HAY!"

Beginning of the month:

Tennille: "Kira, what are you doing?"

Kira: "Eating Elmo's boogers!"

When she picks up Daddy's phone:

Kira: "Hi Mater/Cars/Ariel/Elmo/Ernie! What you doing Mater/Cars/Ariel/Elmo? Bye!

I don't know how well you can tell, but she put the camera on the guitar stand and said "Ok, stand still....... cheese!"

I'm not sure why Jacob put her on the fridge but she had a great time up there!

"Mom Mom!!!!.... look... Kira on fridge!"

I'm guessing she's a martial arts monkey fighter?

This is like my best picture ever.... 3 of my favorite things combined.... Jacob taking the picture, Kira in the picture and Mountain Dew..... to bad I'm not having any after 1/1/10

Oh the sweet nectar of the gods... what will I ever do without you?

only 5 days until Gramjan and Papa Mike get here... Kira is SO excited!

Kira meet Santa........

She was excited when he came to visit us at our ward party and even excited to get a candy cane but not so excited when it came to sitting on his lap....But she told Auntie M on the phone that she meet Santa and even her "god-father" Henry that she saw Santa yesterday. So I guess she's was excited to see him but not so excited to actually meet him!

On the other hand she stood up with all the primary children and "sang" their Christmas song with them.......