Happy Birthday Tessa!

Ok I know this is a few days late, but I guess I still need to post about Tessa's 1st Birthday! I can't believe that she is already 1. Time really does fly by. She is so sweet and brings such a sweet spirit into our home. I really do long for her to stay little forever. I keep telling myself that she will be the baby forever. Ok I promise to at least have her potty trained by the time she hits school age :0) She had a pretty normal day on her birthday. Although I think she couldn't figure out why all the kids were singing to her all day! She just smiled and laughed at them. We had cake and ice cream and she got to open her one present! She got two puppets (a duck and a frog!). After we sang Happy Birthday to her I sat the cake on her tray and she went to town! I finally had to stop the fun when she was throwing cake across the room! I took a few pictures and tried to take a video of her. I will post them for Grandma and Grandpa Andersen to see and anyone else that is interested! Tessa sure is a sweet spirit and we enjoy her sooooo much! She brings lots of smiles and laughter to our home! Oh, and also the plumber who was fishing out a jumbo hair clip out of the toilet. I love to spend $55.00 for a plumber to come and fix what my 1 year old did! I am not liking to combination of Tessa and toilets right now! This too shall pass!

Happy Birthday Grandma Debbie

Today is my Mom's birthday! I wish she was here so that I could take her to get a pedicure :0) Not really, she hates people to touch her feet! But we could go to a movie! Well, maybe next year. I love you mom and I hope you have a great day! Have Randall make you a big birthday cake (or at least take you to the Mill for soup:0) Love ya lots.
Becky

Happy Thanksgiving!!

As many of you know I am not a big Halloween person. I love to decorate my house with cute pumpkins but I just really don't like taking the kids trick or treating. We were invited over by the Biglers to go to our old stomping grounds for Halloween. We did have fun seeing old neighbors. I was really sad though to see that our old street was dark and quiet. Nobody was out doing a block party like we had in the past. We were truly blessed to live on that street and oh, the fun times we had. Well, now that Halloween is over, we can move onto Thanksgiving. I love the season of fall & winter. Christmas is right around the corner!! That is my favorite holiday ever!! I have really been thinking about my Grandma Elda lately. We went to visit her on Thursday and again on Saturday. She still has her humor. We laughed with her and had a good time. She is just so weak and fragile. I told Jonna the other day that I am not sure that I am ready for my last grandparent to pass away. I can't quite grasp my mind around the fact that at some point my mom will become the great-grandma and then that will make our generation the grandparents. Oh, my that is so scary! I do know one thing: I was born of goodly parents who raised me in the Gospel. They too were born of goodly parents. I am so grateful for my heritage and the ancestors that I have. I am thankful for their sacrifice so that I can raise my children in a free country. I love my family and I am thankful for what the Lord has blessed me with. I love my Savior. May we all try and remember those things we are Thankful for this Thanksgiving Season :0)

Fall Break has ended!

Well, our fall break was just alot of hanging out with Grandma Debbie and our cousins. We had days of movies, crafts, and eating sugar cookies. On Friday, we planned a "P" day. Everyone came over for pumpkin pancakes at 8! Then the kids went off to play and we adults sat and watched all about "Balloon Boy" on TV. What a waist of time! Anyways, for lunch we had Pizza. All the kids made their own pizza with pillsbury biscuit dough. They liked that. It was so much fun! We are so glad that we had this time to play with cousins and have Grandma Debbie here. I am glad that she came and was able to see all of us. We wished that papa could have come too, but we will be able to see them both at Christmas! We are excited :0)

Well, I guess I just need to say one last thing. "THANK YOU Randall for supporting Mom and being alone for 2 weeks so we could enjoy her. And thanks mom for spending time with us and having some special times with the grand kids. We all love you both and miss you terribly. I can't wait to have you closer to us :0) We love you lots.

Family Pictures

Shane's sister Erica was married this weekend and we had the opportunity to go to the Temple and take some family pictures. I just wanted to post a few. Enjoy :0)

Grease 2009

She had the opportunity to be in the school play, GREASE! She has worked to hard and did such a wonderful job. Through this time she has made some great friends in the cast. She played the part of Rizzo. And yes, she has a great attitude to play this part. She also had a solo and she rocked :0) We are so proud of her. She is growing up to become such a great girl. We love ya Shelb!!

More Pictures!