December Happenings...

Bling is back in full force and the kids love looking for him every morning!  One morning while Travis and I were in Cancun, Bling hid on the fan and Ella happened to turn it on, well bling went flying and knowing that we aren't supposed to touch bling my sweet mom put on her little gloves and picked him up and placed him safely somewhere else. The kids can't stop talking about when bling flew off the fan!

 Our Annual Anderson Christmas service at the Bishop's storehouse was another success. The kids loved it!

 so many helping hands..

 taking a break to go for a ride...

 After the service we headed to the brown's for a dinner and fun, This is where Doug and Katie announced that they are having a Girl!! after 4 boys this is such exciting news. Now all 3 of us pregos in the anderson family are having girls! Yea!

 The excitement is in the air at the Shupe home!!

 Bling hiding in the tree!

 The Shupe's all came over for dinner and the nativity, we had some awesome actors this year!

 Ella as the Angel!

 Jessie as Joseph and Tobie as Mary...

 Charlie and Claire as Shepards...

 The angel with attitude...

 Parley, Brigham and Alex as the 3 wiseman...

 all of them taking their bow..

 We have seen santa a couple of times this one is at our ward breakfast, Ella wanted nothing to do with him!



Kindergarten Basketball...

We decided to sign Parley up for Bball this year since he had just quit Taekwando and I am so glad we did. he loved it! The first game I was a little worried, I thought I had failed, as a mother who played basketball all her young life and here was my son who wasn't quite sure what was going on. But just like everything else Parley caught on so quick and ended up doing so awesome, he had incredible defense and averaged 2-3 baskets a game! Way to go Parley, and to top it all off, they gave him Jazz tickets, him and his Best buddy can't wait to go!

 His biggest Fan!



Thanksgiving 2011...

We hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving this year! We sure did (besides fighting a few sicknesses), We enjoyed spending time with family and remember all we have to be thankful for. Here is a list of our Thankful Turkey 2011:

Joseph Smith, Temples, The american Flag, friends, Christmas, Jesus, Mom and Dad, Bathtub, Priesthood, Parley, Dad, Wife, Grandmas, Brigham, Jesus, Mom, Dad, U.S.A, Dad, Mom, Parley and Ella, Gospel, Gma's and Gpa's, Heavenly Father, Babies, friends, Holy Ghost, Prophet, Dad& Mom, Flashlight, Hot Chocolate, Blue Baby, House, DS, November, Family, our House, Grandchildren (gma and gpa came for family night one night and added their feather), house, Jesus, family, Good Health, blanket, Parley, Brigham, Ella and Baby girl, church, book of mormon, My testimony, cars, and prayer!

We had a few repeats, but for the most part the kids really thought about each feather this year, they looked forward to doing it everynight and it helped us stay a little more focused on Gratitude!

We headed up to Brown's cabin wednesday night and spent the night with family, the next day we enjoyed a yummy thanksgiving dinner and being with family. Thanks browns for a fun trip.

 just hanging out!

 the kids even got in the hot tub and loved it! thanks for supervising ted!

 On thanksgiving night we came home from the cabin and the kids were dying to put up the tree and honestly so was I, so that is what we did!

Tis the season!