The Anderson Family

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I don't really know how you all keep blogging. I barely have time to blog. I move every year and I'm usually trying to do school with Sammy, JJ will be going next year then I crochet, draw, take pictures (I barely get those printed off), and go outside with my kids. Then there's also the normal chores like laundry, dishes, keeping the house clean which according to my friends husband could use some work but I don't take the advice of husbands like that because they don't help out worth jack with their own families, thank goodness I am married to the man I love because he could care less what my house looks like (to a point of course no one wants to live in filth) but he helps me when I need it. That was a just a little vent for the moment. We look forward to living with our family in Missouri, I just hope my little family doesn't drive my parents crazy.
Don't count on this blog changing anytime soon at least until we get a job somewhere. If any of you have heard of a management job or even a job with hopes of becoming manager let us know.

Family photos 2011

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Family photos 2011

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This isn't in any particular order but here are our photos for Halloween from 2011.

snowman

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We went sledding up on Robby's campus and it was a blast although Christiaan hated it and that's why I don't really have any pictues of him sledding. Before that we built a snowman and used crabapples for the eyes and mouth from the crabapple tree out back.

Sam's birthday

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Sammy's Birthday was a blast I can't believe she's already 6. In a year and a half she gets baptized.

Crocheted Hat

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I've been getting really addicted to Crochet. I started in December of 2010 and love it. This hat is actually for my sister's baby Jacob, hopefully it fits cause he's older than Anneke by 3 months, but it was big on her so we'll see.

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My friend took some pictures to practice photography of babies. The one in the lace dress is Anneke in her blessing dress.

anneke's birth and pics with her

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another year

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I"m horrible at posting, obviously but here are some of the pictures that are important that have happened this past year. Anneke was born Jan. 13th 2011 and she weighed 8.12 pounds. Robby graduated Friday May 6th, 2011 YEAH!!!! Then we're moving at the end of May this month so I wouldn't expect any updates until we get somewhere settled. I'll be staying with the kids at my parents while Robby does some military stuff.
Hope you enjoy the photos.

Midway through 2010

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I know it's been forever, a year to be closer to the truth but man time flies and I don't know how someone gets this all done. To recap the events that unfold below. We are now pregnant with number 4, yes it was planned. We're not going to find out if it's a girl or a boy we figure it will be more fun this way. I have some much to keep me busy that it doesn't bother me not to know, I'm just excited. We own a rooster and 5 hens, we used to have 2 roosters but we just recently butchered him, an experience I don't think I'll ever forget nor do I want to ever relive such a thing. Let me back up a little, the pictures in the beginning are of Robby's family. We were saying farewell to Robert and Nikki, Rob's parents, who are serving a mission in Sweden right now. I have some pictures of our first family camping trip, it was great. I also have some pictures of my garden. I cut off my first watermelon today, only to find out that even though it was huge it wasn't even close to being ready. It was still white inside with really big white seeds. We have green beans, and cantaloupe growing, plus we've been eating fresh beets and zucchini. I've already made two double batches of zucchini bread. We've had red onions and I was able to save a cabbage, the caterpillars have been getting into stuff. Then the last part of the blog is the Junction, Cougar Ranch family reunion. We had sooooo much fun. We got down there on Friday and camped out until Sunday. Oh I also forgot to tell those who don't know, we're in Logan, UT now. Well I hope you enjoy the pictures and we miss everyone.

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The family farewell for Robert and Nikki Anderson. It was nice to have everybody there to wish mom and dad farewell. They are enjoying Sweden and love their mission which is great.

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Christiaan pooped out at the family farewell for Rob's
mom and dad. He's so cute when he sleeps. He's also cute when he's awake but I love when all the kids are sleeping cause then they look truly peaceful.

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These are our chickens. So far 3 of the 5 hens are laying eggs, the other 2 should join in soon. The black rooster is the one we butchered, his name was Oslo and he was a really good rooster. Cardinal is our Rhode Island Red and he's gorgeous. We wanted to enter him in the county fair but we just recently clipped his feathers to keep him out of other people's yards when we let them free range. The country fair won't even judge him with clipped feathers so I'm bummed cause he's beautiful. After butchering a chicken I don't know if I could do it again it was awful and especially since Robby and I didn't know what we were doing, but the kids aren't traumatized. Sammy personally wanted us to cut his head off so she could watch him run around I don't think she knew what she was saying cause I think that's pretty gross but more humane than what we went through. Sammy also wanted it to be Cardinal that was killed cause he's more aggressive.

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Our kids favorite past time right now is getting wet. We now have a slip and slide but before that it was the sprinkler on the hose which serves its purpose. Chris and Jon are generally good buds, Sammy sometimes is the third wheel they all take turns being groups of two.

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JJ learned to ride his bike without training wheels and without my help. I took of the training wheels he hopped on and took off before I could even stand up. The kids a natural athlete. The pictures of the trees were so my mom could see how pretty they became. She left before she could see them in bloom.

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So this is my gardening for this year. The watermelon I'm holding, thought it was perfect, not even close to being ripe. Apparently these watermelons get even bigger. It's probably hard to see but I have a roma tomato plant that came up with the weeds right in between my melon plants. I don't even have roma tomato seeds, how crazy is that.

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The kids had plenty of suckers at Jon's birthday. Robby bought the tootsie pack of candy so when the piniata broke it seemed like all the kids grabbed the suckers first.

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JJ turned 4 July 15th and
it was the best cause Robby was able to be there. JJ, Chris, and I were all throwing up the night before his actual birthday so we moved it up a day. But who could go wrong with cupcakes and a homemade piniata. After seeing
Rick's piniata's at the reunion I have some
better ideas for how to do things next time.

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Not long ago my Brother's family came up and visited. We went
to Huntsville, UT to spend some time with them. There was a cool
waterfall on the way out of the canyon so we stopped and took a
picture. The picture of the lake is Bear Lake, and it is soooo pretty
but polar bear cold. I actually did fully submerge in it but I must
have been crazy at the time cause I don't think I'll do it again.

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Our kids were such good sports on the hike. We probably went a total of 3 miles there and back to our campsite. Christiaan probably only went 2 miles cause he pooped out the last mile, but what a cutie.

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This campsite was wonderful. The water was cold but it felt great. We had hot dogs for dinner and sausage and eggs for breakfast. We also had smores of course.
We love the tent we bought it was a really good investment. We plan to camp for many years.

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I had some movies to add that Robby took but they're taking forever to load so I'll have to figure it out another time. One was a panoramic view of the Cougar Ranch while people were having some fun and the other was a hula hoop thing.

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I started off sleeping next to Robby but by morning you know how it goes everyone ends up in bed with you. Sammy had already woken up. The kids standing in line were waiting to bowl. They had so many prizes they let the kids do it at least five times each which means we took home a lot more than we came with.

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Joan found out that the Anderson Family are related to a lot of really important people. Nikki and Robert probably already knew this though since they do a lot of genealogy.

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I hope you can see how much fun we had from all the pictures. It was a blast. Cindy and Rick did an awesome job, thanks guys.

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2009-09-04T18:44:00.000-07:00

I know there's no excuse for how long it's been since I last blogged but man have things been crazy. I tore my anterior cruciate ligament or better known as the ACL in my right knee 2 weeks ago. I've been rehabing my leg so that I can have surgery, I just had to get it back to full bend and straighten. I have surgery this Friday and Robby is going to come home soon because he wants to take care of the kids, plus he just really misses us. Sammy is going to do another year of preschool before getting to go to kindergarten and JJ is going to try preschool this year too. Not much else is happening, when Robby gets back the plan is to join the Active Ready Reserves and try to get a job. I hope all are well and I will eventually get new pictures up but you know me eventually could be a long time.

lot's of fun

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We did everything well we did lots and at the end of the day after standing in all those lines it felt like we hadn't done anything really. I kept asking myself what did we really do besides walk around ALOT. But hey, it was tons of fun and the kids eyes were as big as saucers the whole time which made it worth it. I'll blog more later it's midnight and I still have to get ready tomorrow for going to Utah on Mon. I'll have plenty of reunion pictures then, and I'll try to blog more tomorrow cause I need to get JJs birthday pics up here.

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Then Sammy was in Fairy heaven, she of course made sure to get all their autographs. I don't have the pictures of Jon and Chris yet I think their on Rob's camera. They went off and did boy things while we waited a FUN (not) 1 and 1/2 to see fairies which only took 2 min. to see cause they were moving people so quickly, and you only got to see 2. The princesses only took 30 min. to wait for and you got to see 3. How fair is that, but Sammy's face and experience is priceless of course.

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Sammy was in princess heaven, and of course I love this photo cause children have no clue where they put their hands, what is even better is that Belle has no clue either, they must really pad that dress.

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My mom and I drove Robby crazy with the beach. Robby likes the beach he doesn't however like salt water so he generally stays on the beach which is no fun when everyone's in the water. Needless to say he had a hard time prying everyone else from the water. He was also frustrated because I love to look for shells and the kids couldn't be where I was most the time looking for shells so Robby was frustrated that I wasn't playing with them I know it's bad but I get really preoccupied when it's a challenge. We all had fun and my mom hooked us up with a killer time share down there, we had a blast.

Florida

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So we took a trip to Florida and here's some of the pictures. Robby was actually able to go which I really appreciated well actually that was the only reason we took the trip was that Robby came home for 2 weeks.

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I just thought Sammy looked really cute in this photo.

Fat lip

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Don't they look so sweet when they're all together. I can't remember what happened exactly cause it was back in the end of April but Sammy started screaming, I think her and JJ had hit heads and he didn't have any problems but Sammy as you can see got a fat lip. I just loved that she looked like a turtle when she smiled.

2009-07-10T17:01:00.000-07:00

Again it has been forever since I last update my post but when you're husbandless it's really hard to do. I'm just trying to make sure I remember to breath every once in awhile. I do have lots of pictures but depending on when you view my blog will determine when you'll see them. I'm currently having my kids watch a movie so I can now get to this but the movie's almost over so I'll probably have to update a little later tonight. Miss you all who are not near. Coolest thing ever Sammy has gone 10 days without sucking her thumb so far that includes night time also which is super hard for a kid and JJ is pretty much potty trained. He wears underwear all day just not at night cause we haven't gotten that undercontrol yet but he really likes wearing underwear. I won't be updating this anytime soon after I've updated this time cause we're taking a trip out to Utah and when I get back it will be chaos again plus I'll probably be constantly surfing the internet to help look for jobs for Robby before he comes back. It would be nice to know where we're going if anywhere before he gets back.
Thanks for all those who look at my blog.