Lindon Elementary Walk-A-Thon

Last week was Lindon Elementary first Walk-A-Thon! The girls were so excited to do their walking. Each grade was assigned a different hour to walk around the track. At the end of their hour they got a Popsicle. Abby was up first in the day when I got to the school however I couldn't find her anywhere on the track. Knowing that I did drop her off for school I started to ask around what happened to her. She had fallen in the first lap and cut her knee and was sent to the office. By the time she came back out her grade was done walking\running around the track, and Abby was crying because she missed the whole thing. With a Popsicle and a promise to come back for sister's walking she got over it. We came back in the afternoon for Elizabeth's and walked with her. She complained the whole time that she was tired and didn't want to walk anymore. So I made her run around a few of the laps! We cheered her on and at the end they got Popsicles again and I watched my girls play on the playground. It was a really fun fundraiser.

Monday Night At the Skating Rink!

Monday night Lindon Elementary had it's Skating Night. The girls were so excited to go and use roller skates for the first time ever! It started out a bit rocky with more time spent on the floor then rolling on two feet. But after a lot of time practicing on the carpet the girls finally started to pick the skill up. By the end of the night they didn't need Josh or I quit as much and didn't spent as much time on the ground. We had a fun night so fun when it was time to take the skates off and go home Abby started to cry because she said she intended to go around the rink just one more time. With a promise that we will go back so the girls can get better, we could leave the rink without too many tears.Here are some pictures I took with my phone some of Elizabeth's friends jumped into the last picture. I'm still trying to figure out my phone camera so the pictures aren't that good!

Elizabeth's Never Ending Birthday!

Elizabeth's birthday lasted for I think a whole week. I guess that's how it goes when you are turning 8! February 28 was Elizabeth's birthday. She woke up at 2:30am that morning with a fever and a cough! Yes Elizabeth was sick! And not to be topped by her sister, Abby at about 5:30am that morning also woke up with a fever and cough! Elizabeth was so sad not to be going to school that day. I was going to go into her classroom and bring cupcakes and tell great things about Elizabeth to her classmates. Instead I was taking care of two sick kids also preparing a house for guests! The girls were doing pretty good throughout the day so I though great they just caught a 24 hour thing and will be good by tomorrow...nope Abby decided to lay down for a nap and woke up 30 minutes into her nap screaming and crying that her throat was going to kill her! So at that point I thought it was time to go to the doctors. Luckily I got right in at 4:30pm, I gathered up both sick girls and drove over to the doctors office. Sitting in the office the girls had to wear masks because they both had fevers and were coughing, they didn't like that. While sitting there Elizabeth gets a bloody nose EVERYWHERE, And if any of you have ever experienced one of Elizabeth's bloody noses you know they will take up a LOT of tissues. So I'm frantically trying to stop her bloody nose, Abby starts to cry and wants me to hold her. And yes not a single person in that office stops to help a mother out! We finally get called back to see the doctor and found out why Abby was crying so much she had a fever of 104! And they both had strep throat! We opted to do the one time shot in the butt to just get it over with...big mistake with 2 kids and 1 mother...yeah they were both screaming and crying and the nurses just hand them to me. So I'm trying to comfort my crying kids in an office alone and at the same time get them to put their shoes on so that we can get going! At that point I just sat in that room and started to cry with them, I figured if you can't beat them join them! We finally got home and that night when Josh got home we had a small birthday party with Elizabeth. She had a cupcake, Abby couldn't bring herself to eat one, and we opened gifts. Abby just laid on me while watching Elizabeth opened her birthday gifts.
The girls got better each day and by Thursday they were ready to go back to school, yeah! On Friday I went into Elizabeth's class and at least brought the cupcakes that she wanted me to bring. Didn't get to tell any great stories about her though, but she was OK with that. By Friday night we were waiting for family to come into town for the Baptism on Saturday! Elizabeth was so excited that ALL of her cousins were going to be there for her day.
We talked with Elizabeth, extensively about how to act on the day of her Baptism. Not to be picking her nose, or lifting up her dress to pull up her tights, but to thank everyone personally for coming to her day...Ya that didn't go over so well. Even though she did do pretty good she kept yawning during everyone talks like we were keeping her up or something! All that aside she was beautiful and the whole day was wonderful. I already knew I was a crier at Baptisms but found out that when its my own kid I just don't stop crying! It was just perfect. Josh baptized her and confirmed her. She wore the baptism jumper that my mom made for Cory and I to wear when we were baptized. And Isabelle wore it last year when she got baptized, Abby is so excited for her turn to wear it!
We had so many friends and family come that it was just wonderful. Here are just a couple of the pictures that were taken that day. I feel bad because by the time we decided to take a family picture my family side of the family wasn't there anymore except for Bryce and my mom, but here they are....We just wanted to thank everyone that came to support Elizabeth on this day. We really appreciate it and love you so much!

More Of My Sweet Girl

Here are a few more pictures we took of Elizabeth that day at the temple...

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!