Opps! This happened before spring, but that's ok. We have a wonderful neighbor/old Bishop that had some wonderful big rocks on his property. He thought we might like some in our yard and we were so excited!! They were pretty big and thank heavens we have a wonderful neighbor who has a crane to help us get them off. We are very blessed, and so thankful for all the help.

The kids loved having a front row seat to such a fantastic show.

Having fun picking out which rock would look the best.

Welcome Spring!!

With spring comes the opportunity to plant new things. We wanted to take advantage of this and plant a peach tree. The only problem is we had to jack hammer away the sandstone and we will cross our fingers that it will grow.

Abi had fun getting in on the action. I feel bad I didn't even take a picture of the tree once it was in.

We bought a tomato plant, sadly it didn't not fair so well. We did however get a few tiny tomatoes that tasted really good. Hopefully next year we can have better luck.

Kev built a little flower bed around the tree, he did such a great job.

I took these pictures because I thought the flowers were so pretty. I am not sure why Mac and Maggie were the only two that I got pictures of (I think the other two were in trouble.) But these two sure did turn out and what beautiful children they are.



Fun times in the Anderson home.

Our princess was running one day during preschool and tripped and hit her chin just right, she split it right open and it had to be glued shut. Poor little lady.

Ben insisted I take a picture of him is his mask. What a guy!

I am the MEANEST mom in the world!! I mean really what mom makes their child practice the paino. I guess one who loves to tortue her kids, and try to make them the best they can be. One day he will thank me.

Gotta love when they find the sunscreen and take care of business.

Ummm, yep they went to school like that. Thank heavens it was bad fashion day. They sure did have so much fun being in the same school.

I walk upstairs one morning and found the boys sleeping pretty dang close to the same way. I thought it was cute.

There's our cowgirl!

Baseball! Baseball! Baseball!! The all American sport for all American boys.

Ben loved t-ball and it was even more fun because I was able to be his coach. I'm still kind of wondering how that happened, but we made it and had a great year. I loved being with him for that extra time.

Mac progressed so much this year. He hit the ball every time he was up to bat except once. He had a great time with his team, the Pirates.

What awesome boys!

I walked into Abi's room and this is what I found. My girls be girly!! So Cute!!

HAPPY EASTER!!

What a grand Easter we had!! We were able to spend the weekend in Beaver and Grandpa Williams was so excited to put on his traditional Easter egg hunt. I love that he gets so into it. He loves to watch his adult children run around like fools. There is nothing better than being together as a family and to laugh and be crazy.

We start off with the younger kids having their own egg hunt, so they don't get trampled by the adults.

Miss Maggie was just thrilled to watch everyone run around. She was even more thrilled when she realized that she was able to pick up eggs, and there was a surprise in them!! I like that my mom and dad do this tradition on Saturday. We are able to have fun and then on Sunday we are able to feel the true meaning of the Easter season.

Woohooo the kids ready to head upstairs to see if the Easter Bunny came!

Sure enough he came!!

Bunny love!

Time to search for more eggs!!

When we returned home we did a little egg dying. We had a blast!

We loved that we were able to have Uncle Verle and Kennon come for Easter dinner and help make our eggs look beautiful. What a wonderful Easter!



Our Abi girl and track!

These pictures are killing me! She is growing up so fast! Because I am so behind on blogging, Abi is now a freshman and these pictures were taken in 8th grade. What an amazing young women she is growing into, and before I know it she will be on her way to college. Anyway, enough of the weepy stuff! Abi loved track, mostly she loved that her dad was her coach. She did the high jump (her favorite), long jump, and a sprint medley.

It is always so fun to watch her!

Our silly little lady loves to pull all sorts of funny faces! She loves to keep us laughing!

SPRING BREAK 2012

Salt Lake City Utah

 We love Spring Break!! We started off our trip with spending some time with our Beaver family and then we headed up North to show our kids what Salt Lake City, Utah had to offer.

 Our first stop was the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum. It was AMAZING! The kids loved it!

 Ben wants to climb on top where the "Cool" things are!

 Miss Maggie was just amazed! Sometimes a little scared but overall she loved it!

 Building our own Dinosaur, Ben wanted to try them on first.

 Then it was onto the sand table that any kids, and many adults could spend hours at.

 AHH me and my girl!

 Pretty Great pictures!

 We loved the museum! Maggie (below) had fun with all the hands on activities.

 Our next stop was to the Aquarium. Didn't know Salt Lake had one, but it was amazing!

 Hello Mr. Lobster, I bet my brother, the chef would love to get his hand on you!!!!

 Kev absolutely loves being able to touch marine life. Here we are petting the sting rays. I think they knew he loved them because they kept going over to him.

 Of course one of my favorites was the penquins, highly entertaining!

 I have to say that the river Otters were another one of my favorites. Kev said, "No" I couldn't take one home for our family pet.

 Seriously look at the size of those fish behind Ben!

 And of course we had to go to Chucky Cheese! Ahh how we love Chucky Cheese..... I even got into the fun of it!

 Our last stop was to the Temple and the conference center. It was neat to be able to get a tour of the conference center, and know that in only a few weeks we would be watching conference on T.V. This picture is taken from the top of the conference building and it was AWESOME!!

 This was also at the top of the conference center.

 Right in front of the conference center, the water fall was so beautiful!

 The view of the Temple for the top of the conference center, so beautiful!

 "Stand ye in Holy places"

We had a wonderful Spring break! I can't believe that we didn't get any pictures with our wonderful hosts. My brother Jon and his wife Megan were so willing to take us in and we loved being able to spend time with them, and sweet Elliott!