Thursday, February 14, 2008

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY


Lest you have any question who wants you to be their valentine


Braden's 1st Valentine
Doesn't he have a way of melting your heart?
He does mine!

Today there was a loud knock on the door (I have to put a sign on the door letting people to knock loudly or I won't hear it if I'm in the back), and I found a very large box waiting for me. We drug it inside, got Braden down for his nap, & here is what happened. (just incase anyone thought that this stroller was only something that I wanted)


1. for a bit of size comparison I had to sit Sasha on the box,
ok so she was trying to climb on it as well
2. "Mommy put that camera away and help me"
(she never says that, she LOVES the camera)
3. taking out the burp rags, first aid kit, and card that the company included
(ok I don't know how many companies send you a nice card when you by something, but I have to take a moment to rave about buggiesunlimited.com they have been amazing to work with, if you are needing anything baby I must strongly recomend that you check them out)
4. getting everything out of the box
5. "HELP MOM this is too heavy for me"
6. I fit just perfectly here, please hurry Mom
7. I have MY tools and am helping Mommy
I can't wait to get it done
8. My seat, my seat, my seat! I love it!
9. my other seat, I can't get enough of this!
10. I LOVE THIS STROLLER!!!
(aren't mommy and daddy happy about that)
and after Daddy got home...


Ok, so I have been driving it around all day.
It has a handle just my size!
We're bundling up and going out for a walk tomorrow!




Thank you so much for throwing a great party Kim & Amy, I'm sure all of the kids loved it, at least I know that mine did!

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Friday, February 08, 2008

The Hinckley Challenge

Beloved Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley
I will greatly miss this man, he has always been there as "my" Prophet for as long as I have a vivid recolection of the Prophets during my lifetime. I am so thankful for his example and many words of encouragement to the youth and church members. I am so thankful for the inspiration that he received to start building small temples. Because of this we are blessed to have the Spokane Temple nearby. We love having the opportunity to attend on a regular basis. Thank you to all of my leaders, teachers, friends, and family that have shared their testimonies of Pres. Hinckley and the church with me through the years. Each and everyone of you have helped strengthen mine. Though I will miss him terribly I am so happy to know that he is back with his sweet Marjorie and other family. I am also happy to know that we are now so blessed to have Pres. Monson as our Prophet, Seer and Revelator.
I am blessed to be a ward missionary in our ward currently, because of that I was invited to attend a young women's activity on Wednesday night. It was a great experience. I can hardly believe that it has been almost 10 years since I graduated from Laurels, I loved that time in my life, it was a great reminder to see the excitment and love in those girls eyes of how important the gospel really is and what an example that we each can be. One of the girls mentioned a challange that has been started to honor Pres. Hinckley, and challenged each of us to check it out and do it as well. So, for any of you who haven't heard about it ,the challange is to read the Book of Mormon in 97 days (that is 5 pages a day for those who started on Feb. 4). Here is the link to join/check out the challange for any that are interested. http://www.hinckleychallenge.com/ good luck to any of you who challange yourselves to this. It will tell you how many pages a day you need to read to meet the challange and allows you to track you progress. I struggled with the challange that Pres. Hinckley gave us a couple of years ago. So I'm going to be posting my progress on our blog to be accountable - so that I might complete the challange.

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Looking Back

Kathryn thank you for this tag. It has been a lot of fun to think back to those times of "young love" thanks for the trip down memory lane.


How long have you been together? We met in high school, you looked great in that grass skirt Brit! We ran into each other again October 2002 at a friend's farewell. Our first date was November 23, 2002. July 22 will be...5 years, it's hard to believe it, it has gone so fast. 5 wonderful years! How long did you date? We dated for 4 months and were engaged for 4. So much for both of us thinking that we had wanted to date someone for at least a year before we got married. Oh well, it has worked out for us!

How old is he? 28, He's got me by three months and 6 days. Who eats more? He definatly did when we first got married, but now, especially while I'm breastfeeding I can keep up (sometimes). A little embaressing huh? Who said "I love you" first? I did! He said it back, he'd been trying to decide how he felt and apparently that nugged him over the edge.
Who is taller? Brit, by 11 1/4 inches he is 5' 11" I'm 4' 11 3/4" Who sings better? In my opinion Brit, though we both love singing, and love participating in our ward choir. I prefer choir's, Brit doesn't mind smaller groups.




Who is smarter? Which subject are you talking about. I can do math faster in my head because Brit needs a calculator, but I can't even attempt to do some of the higher level math that he can do. If it is medical, or household it might be me, if it is most anything else it's Brit! Sasha seems to have his engineering mind as well. Who does the laundry? That would be me, Brit is a white (or almost white) and everything else kind of guy. He is great to help with the folding when I ask, and even puts some of it away.



Who does the dishes? Supposedly whoever didn't cook, but we both work on them. Though neither of us likes doing dishes, I guess that is part of growing up? Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? It changes, I sleep on the side that makes it easier for me to get up frequently through the night. Braden will sleep more than 2 hour stretches some day, we are hoping.



Who pays the bills? Brit takes care of any that get paid online, I get anything that comes in the mail. Who mows the lawn? Oh how grateful Brit is that we don't have a lawn right now. He will have that fabulous job when we are lucky enough to have a yard. (His dream is to do it with a riding mower)

Who cooks dinner? If it is Mac n' Cheese, cereal... it's Brit (he is actually doing much better with his cooking skills), and he is great on the grill; he can hardly wait for a "nice" grill. 99% of the time I'm the one cooking, and I am actually enjoying it a little now. It has been quite the learning experience...a Glad appetite vs. an Andersen appetite, anything goes vs. "What can we feed Sasha?" Who is more stubborn? We both have our stubborn streaks, but seem to compramise fairly well (if it's my way - j/k)

Who kissed who first? I waited for him to make the move, but it was definatly a mutual thing. Who asked who out? Brit asked me out through an e-mail, "I have two questions for you: 1. What is your number 2. Do you want to go out this Saturday?" Oh how I was regreting accepting that blind date. Oh well. So I had to turn him down, luckly for me there was a big dance coming up that I needed a date for, so with a bit of a fib I told him that there was a group of us that were going and I was wondering if he would like to come (I found a group later). It turned out to be a good thing that I had an alternate date to suggest, he told me later that he just really wasn't ready to be dating (he had just ended a long relationship), but needed a date for a PHI date night and thought that it might be fun to go together. Our first date was one of the best dates that I have ever been on. The rest is history.

Who proposed? Brit!!! There isn't enought space to tell the whole story here, so here is the very condenced version...He took me to Moab, his car got totalled, we hiked to Delicate Arch, we were talking, I answered "YES!!!!" before he could finish "popping the question", he gave me the one-of-a-kind ring that he had designed. It was a complete surprise, I had always wanted that. Thanks sweetheart. Who is more sensitive? Me, I cry over the most rediculous things, thanks for letting me soak your shirts Brit.

Who has more friends? Brit probably, but we are fairly close on that one. Who has more siblings? Brit has one sister and one brother, I was raised with two sisters and... if pets count as siblings I win hands down. Actually if memory serves us correctly I have him by 3 (pets that we had at least 2 weeks, and I didn't get to count my fish (there were two that he let me count...a hand fed one and one that liked to be petted) : ) we loved strays. Mom & Dad, apparently I brought home bigger "strays" - Brit liked the snakes, lizards, horney toads. Oh the joys of childhood and parenthood. Sorry about the yard and gardening supplies...

Who wears the pants in the relationship? The kids, j/k-only sometimes, our life has definately changed, we do things around their nap and bedtime schedules, so much for nights out for a while, oh well. Between Brit and I we both have a leg in the pants. Who are you tagging? Amy, Ashley, Jamie, Jen, Jess, Kim, Leslie, Lisa, Shaunell, Paige & anyone else that would like to think back to times of "young love"

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Here are a couple of videos that we took of Sasha. First and foremost: Sasha saying her own name (which, I might add, is one of the cutest things in the world!!!). I just can't get enough of it!




And last week we talked about going sledding out in the backyard. Here is a video of the little trail we made for Sasha to go sledding down our little hill/slope in the back of our apartment. We found a cookie sheet for her to use because we really didn't have anything else. But it was just the right size for Sasha. I apologize for the video being sideways. I can't figure out how to rotate it.