My Sweet Girl

My sweet little girl is growing up so much. The other day Cory and I took Elizabeth out to the temple to take some picture for her Baptism. She got all dressed up in her Baptism outfit and she loved having everyone focus solely on her for awhile! The pictures turned out so good and Cory made them that much better with her awesome editing skills! Her are a few of them...I have a bunch more that I will post soon...

Recap of January

Dinner With the Family:
We had a nice dinner with my whole family one night and Celeste decided that she wanted Bryce to cut his hair...notice I didn't say Bryce decided! So after dinner that night we got Josh's clippers out and set out to cut Bryce's hair. To his surprise it was way shorter then he asked it to be...directions given by Celeste of course (Oh did I mention that I was the one cutting his hair!) But Bryce is SO nice that he just laughed about it, I don't know how much he really liked it though. Then Cory jumped in on the cutting and wanted the boys to get their hair cut so I taught Celeste how to cut every ones hair off...I only know how to cut one style, that's Josh's style, so everyone got Josh haircuts!!! The last picture of Deacon...we left his side burns for a joke, my mom didn't like the joke and told us to cut them off, so we did.
New Years Eve:
In the almost 9 years of our marriage I don't think Josh or I have EVER made it to midnight on New Years Eve before. Yes it is sad that we may be the oldest young couple ever, but what can I say we like our sleep! Some friends of ours invited us over for a New Years Eve party. Honestly I didn't have hopes of us staying for the whole thing. I thought we would be so tired and leave about 10:30pm maybe, but those Andersen's they know how to throw a New Years Eve Party! We had so much fun. We played minute to win it games and built rockets to shoot up at midnight. So there you have it Josh and my first New Years Eve party as a married couple, it only took us 9 years but I did always know that we were a little slow on things!
Celeste's Birthday:
January 9th is my big sister's birthday! We had a party for her at the office. I got her girly pirate themed decorations to decorate her office and I got an ice cream cake that was just so good everyone ate it up! Later that week Cory and I took Celeste out to dinner and a movie. I love our sister outings for our birthday's we have so much fun!

Finally Some Snow:
It finally snowed some and the snow stayed for a little while so the girls were dying to make snowmen. I myself have never made a snowman so this was my first. I know sad, but what can I say I grew up in California and got to say never really got the appeal of going out in the Cold and playing in ice! But we went out and Elizabeth had to teach me how to make the big snow balls by rolling them on the ground and the snow picks up more snow the make even bigger snow balls...who knew this kid was so smart! She told me she learned it from a cartoon!!! So my snowman is the one in the middle then Elizabeth and Abby are behind the one's they made all by themselves! Abby thought ahead and brought out two hats and two scarves, one for her and one for her snowman...Now that's planning, Elizabeth and I had to take off what we were wearing to put on our snowmen!

The Day After Christmas

The day after Christmas we decided to go bowling. The girls had never been and were so excited. Elizabeth was so competitive and really wanted to win. She wasn't too happy when she didn't win! It was a good day after bowling we went over to the mall the girls wanted to go to Clair's...aka: little girl heaven! Josh was feeling a little out of place, but the girls had money in their wallets and a desire to spend it! We ended the day with going to visit the Skinners and then go to Leatherbys for some ice cream. All and All it was a good day!

Christmas 2011

Our 2011 Christmas season started on the 14th of Dec. this year. I decided to do the 12 days of Christmas. Each night we set out a new piece to our manger and talked about that piece and the meaning behind it. Of course ending on Christmas with baby Jesus. Also after we did that the girls got to open one gift to the both of them...it was a book each night, some Christmas books some not. They seemed to like it, but of course they are kids and like getting gifts! We would read the book that night as a family.
A few days before Christmas we put together our gingerbread house. This year I got one that was already put together you just had to decorate it, yes I'm getting smarter! The girls LOVED doing this and I know they look like orphans or that their mother doesn't comb their hair, but it's break.
Josh decorated the gingerbread tree and by the end that tree had more frosting on it then the whole house!
On Christmas Eve we got together with my whole family. I gathered all the kids together to take pictures. I had to let them do silly ones if they were going to sit for a nice one!

The adults were worse then the kids when I wanted to document them for this occasion!
After dinner we all came and sat down this is a tradition in the Cole family. The kids are all sat down in a row in front of us and we start with the sharing of testimonies. The kids usually start and then it goes around the room. My dad and mom started this with just us girls and it has continued as our family has grown. This is my favorite part of Christmas to get to hear my sweet girls share their testimonies with out any help from us is so special.
After our testimony meeting comes the over spoiling of the grandchildren aka: gifts from Nana! We open presents from each other first then my mom gives out hers.
Christmas morning after going to church we opened the gifts from Santa and us. The girls got American Girl dolls from Nana the night before and has dragged them everywhere. Each gift they opened up the next day they would show their dolls!
It was a good Christmas, Elizabeth said that it was the best day of her life, Of course she says that every Christmas and come to think of it every birthday...I think she likes gifts! That day the girls played all day with their new toys and Josh and I took a much needed nap!

End Of The Year Catch Up!

So it's been a while since I last posted...I know, stating the obvious is my specialty! I finally down loaded some of our pictures from my camera so that I can share what we have been up to. For Halloween Elizabeth was Dorthy and Abby was a witch, we went trick or treating and the girls had school parties...that's about all I really remember about Halloween! This is the problem of waiting so long to post. This picture of Elizabeth is for winning the Say no to Drugs poster contest. She made it her self and won for her class. She was so excited! It went on to the next level, but didn't win. She was happy enough with her first win and was just happy to get the poster back so she could show Josh. The shirt and the candy is what she won.
From Halloween to now we have had a wedding which I don't currently have any pictures of, Elizabeth and My piano recital which I lost the pictures and video to that...thank goodness..., Thanksgiving which we kind of skipped over by just going to The Chuck A Rama and nobody even thought to document! So until I post for Christmas that is all we have done!

Fall Is Here!

Fall has come with all the changing of the colors. I looked outside today and saw all the leaves on the ground and had to get the girls out there to take some pictures. Here are some of them...

Witches Night Out!

Another October means another Witches Night Out! Celeste, Cory and I got dressed up went out to dinner and went out to Gardeners Village to hang out with the hundreds of witches there! I love hanging out with my sisters and love this tradition of going to Witches Night Out!