HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Sitting on Dad - the greatest couch ever created.

Dill & Mom

Kenz & Mom

Andy & Mom

 Dad, the jungle gym.  He loves to grab your hands and try to climb up. 

This year is going to be great!  I resolve to post more often... well, not that often...  Brandon's office is still our bedroom at this very computer that holds all the pictures - and I can't get pictures onto the laptop because the little thingy is broken...  Anyway.  I will blog more.  Another resolution.  I want to have pictures of myself with my children.  Moms are always the photographer.  That bugs me, there are almost no pictures of my mom, only of us kids.  Someday my kids might want them.

NYE was great.  Brandon told the kids (D&K) they could stay up as late as they wanted.  I was sure Kenzie would crash by 9:30 but both of them were awake to count down and watch the ball drop.  Andy lasted until 8:30.  We got teriyaki (there's a place here that does gf!!!)  and Bug Man made Italian soda's and all the left over Christmas junk food and candy.  We went to bed at 12:05 and the kids were still wide awake.  I have no idea what time they went to bed!  Scary.  The fun part was church time changed to 9am - that was fun :)

This year is going to bring major change to our little family.  We're buying a HOUSE!!!!!!!!!  WAHOOOOOOO!  We put in an offer on my birthday and are still waiting to hear back.  As far as short sales go it is actually moving along quickly.  We still need to have an inspection done so it's not for sure yet but oh man we are going to be so crushed if it doesn't pass!  I don't like thinking like that.  5 bedrooms!  Can you imagine!  We'll be going from 1200 sq ft to 2900 square feet!  3 floors. We're going to get lost in our house!  Our house.  Ohhhhhh.  I'm so excited.  Sad too, it's bittersweet.  We've been in our current ward (church) for the last 4 years and we love everyone in it!  It's been such a good ward to us.  We've grown so much here.  When we moved here Kenzie was 18 months - when we move from here Andy will be 18 months :)  Also Dillon will have to go to a new school and he'll be riding the bus.  Kenzie will probably have to drop out of preschool - it's just too far to drive her four days a week.

Everyone come visit us!  We'll have plenty of room for you!!!  :)

Our First Born

He just turned 7.  I'm a little late on the post, but the birthday came and went regardless of the blog or my desire that time could freeze for just a little while.  He's 7, my little baby - who is neither little, nor a baby.  2nd grade here we come.  School starts on Thursday.  Some days it can't come soon enough.  Then moments, like right now, I want to keep him home with me forever, safe, where I can always see him.

Kenzie turns 5!!!

Birthday month is in full swing here at our house.  Kenzie turned 5 today.  Oh boy!  She's so delightful to be around, I'm going to miss her so much once school starts.  I'm not sure how I'll survive without her, she's my little shopper, my right hand girl.  It was just her and I for such a long time -  now I guess it's me and Andy.  Preschool starts the week after Dillon starts and it's only half day, so I'll still have a little time with her :)

WOW! My Baby is ONE!

I've been so reminiscent lately.  I feel like the last year has been an absolute blurr - a beautiful blurr :)  Andy is ONE today (okay, so I started this post on his birthday and then he turned off the computer and now I'm back - a few weeks later :)  ).  Crazy to think he's already been on this Earth for a whole year.  He fits so well into our family.  We are all completely nuts over him.  He is doted over CONSTANTLY.  He has got to be the most adored baby I've ever met.  What did we used to do before he came along?  Well - here's one year of Anderson...

I've Been Missing Y'all

The highlights.  Bug Man hired employee #2 - YIPEEEEEE!  This enables him to work from home.  Home - a l l t h e t i m e, in case you've noticed the change from computer addiction to complete disappearance - this is the reason.  He sits at the computer -previously MY computer working...  It is really great having him home - but the novelty is wearing off.  I spaz out if the kids are being too loud by our bedroom door, in case he's on the phone with a customer.  We keep thinking about an office but we just aren't there yet.  All in good time, I suppose.

On the other hand... it's been extra helpful lately as we have moved.  With him home we were able to move in a few days and be totally done with it!  Then during Andy's naps I would go to the old place (around the corner) and clean, it hasn't been that clean in 3 1/2 years :)  How peaceful to clean all by yourself. 

Our new place - we've moved into our friends house.  They've been temporarily reassigned to work in Australia and heck yes! we'll leave our nasty mold infested, neighborhood children infested apartment to live in your happy, clean, little house!!!  It's short term, fingers crossed, we'll be buying a house in March!!!!  :)  Maybe I shouldn't be so excited about that - it means we won't be moving home anytime soon... oh ya, that and our company wouldn't survive back home... dang it.

Lets see, for the record we need some children updates.  Andy is still little Mr. Charming.  Absolutely the most adorable, happy, perfect baby any of us have ever seen.  We all just sit around watching him be cute :)  He stands pretty well.  He's taken 2 steps.  I keep pretending he's still my little tiny baby, but he's almost 1.  Man, he's almost ONE!  Weird.  He's got a mouthful of teeth but still loves nursing and hasn't bitten me since he's had them so I guess we'll keep going!  Oh, Andy LOVES food.  It doesn't really matter what food, he's not very picky, just food.  He won't turn anything down - the only way to tell if he's full is he spits it out after he eats it :)  Usually when he's hungry he say mum mum mum mum mum until the food cometh.  He also says uh-oh, bye bye, Dad and I'm pretty sure he said truck the other day.  He really likes trucks.  There was a firetruck at church today and he was mesmerized. 

I couldn't help myself, this picture was just too cute.  I love baby bums!

Little Miss Mack.  My little dancing song bird.  A few weeks back she was hanging out with a 9 year old girl who was rather mouthy, her favorite thing to say was Really?!?!?  (insert majorly sarcastic tone) she said it about every other word.  Kenzie has added it - among other things (clarify - not naughty things, just slightly ruder than I would prefer her to speak) - to her vocabulary.  At first it was kind of funny and cute.  Not any more...  She is girly to the core of her soul, the girliest girl I know.  However, not opposed in the least to dirt, mud, and playing transformers with her brother:)  She's headed to preschool in the fall and I don't know what I'm going to do without her.  Sometimes I wonder if us deciding to hold her back was 100% for her.  I'm going to go with 98% for her :)  I'm just not ready for her to grow up so fast.  Dillon hit school and all of a sudden he was a big kid, learning things that I hadn't taught him and being all smart.  Can we just go back to them being babies?  Can't there be a temporary button we push to snuggle a sweet little 1 year old for just a few minutes, maybe let them fall asleep in my arms?  Nope.  No button, we just convince ourselves it's time for another baby :)

Dillon was taking a nap on Andy during a car ride to G-ma's, Andy woke up and proceeded to stick his fingers in D's eyes, nose & mouth, all the while D slept on :)

Dillon is going to be in SECOND GRADE!!!!  I remember second grade.  What kind of mom will he remember?  Oh boy.  He's so big.  He's huge.  That's what we want for our kids, right?  That they grow up?  Please make time freeze!  Back to Dillon.  He's an excellent reader, and a ... creative speller :).  He's a fabulous babysitter, now that he's home, I don't have to wait to shower until Andy's asleep and Kenzie's stuck in front to the tv.  This move has been pretty hard on the kids, him especially.  He had tons of friends - granted, they were NOT good friends, but they were boys to goof off with and have fun.  The kids have started swimming lessons and have been doing really well.  Dillon's goal is to stop plugging his nose :)  He loves 4-square, I think he wants to go back to school just because of it!  His favorite summer time activity so far has got to be driving his sister nuts.  They used to get a long so well.  I thought I got lucky with the awesome kids that rarely ever fight - then school got out :)  I can't complain though, I still have the awesome kids, just added the uh-uh, nuh-uh - repeat a zillion times.

Overall, pretty sure life couldn't get any better - oh wait, it's going to, this week :) 

MY DAD & MOM ARE COMING TO SEE US!!!!!

This Momma's girl stoked, beyond stoked.  They are nuts though, almost certifiable but I love 'em so gosh darn much and they don't mind so I don't mind :)  They live in southern Texas.  They are driving to Provo UT, then to Saskatoon Saskatchewan (Canada), then Spokane WA, then to me & mine, then Boise ID, then Provo UT, then back home.  All in all 6,051 miles, because they love us (us being their posterity and progenitors.)  Oh, allow me to mention another fun tidbit.  They are bringing their dog, Bowser.  And in Provo they picked up my twin 10 year old nephews.  They love me :) (and a few others but we don't need to focus on them:)