Christmas with the Andersons

This year we spent Christmas in Rupert with TJ's family! We all had a blast, TJ went goose hunting and actually shot his first one! We also went four wheeling in the snow, that was an adventure. We ended up getting stuck in the BIG snow drifts a couple of times and mostly just giving our selves brain freezes because it was so cold. We ate lots of Christmas goodies and just enjoyed being home all together. Hayden loved all the attention he was getting from his grandma, grandpa, and his aunts and uncle, what a spoiled little boy he is!

This is his little car that Grandma and Grandpa Anderson got him. He loves to play with this car all day long! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Anderson!

I had to put this one up! ITs TJ's first goose that he has actually shot and been able to take home. So proud of him, its only been a couple years of this and now he has something to show for all the money spent on his hunting things! Yeah babe way to go!

So Tj's parents have had this thing for years (i think) but Hayden loved it! It has the Disney characters that pop out of the houses and sing songs, he was just lay there and try to push them back in there houses, it was so much fun to watch him with this fun little toy!

This is my little SANTA BABY!

I made this snowman between thanksgiving and Christmas. It was given to me last year from Tj's mom and I just hadn't had time to paint it, as you can see he still has no eyes and mouth, but Hayden loved to play with him, I'm thinking he liked it because the snowman was just his size! Whatever his fancy was for it, it sure did make us laugh at times.

I don't know if you can tell what movie this is that Hayden is watching but he absolutely loved the "Polar Express". I cant tell you how many times he watched it this Christmas but I am so ready for a different movie. Don't get me wrong I love this movie but not three times a day for a month.

For some odd reason he had a fascination with looking into the glass balls and looking at his reflection, why is that?=)

Hayden wanted so badly to help his dad with putting the lights on the tree, so we settled for a picture instead.

Thanksgiving Fun

Trick or Treat

Hayden's first door

He was funny, he was more interested in the pumpkins then getting candy

No one answered the door

On to the next house

He loved knocking on all the doors.....

If no one answered right away he was off exploring the porch

Knocking again

It was so fun to take Hayden trick or treating this year, I dont know who had more fun him or TJ, my-self, Aunt Britni, or Katy. The first couple doors we went to no one was there, as TJ said, "Hayden was batting a thousand." It was a good thing before we left I filled his little pumpkin with a bucnh of our halloween candy. We did manage to hit a few houses, and found people that were actually home. Hayden loved to knock on all the doors and after that he would start walking away exploring there pourch looking at all the fun things that were on the pourches. When house the woman opened the door and tried to give him a piece of candy but Hayden is all about being independent and was trying to take it form her, and then he just decides to left himslef in to there house. Cant wait for next!

Family Picture

The horse is here

We got Duke in Provo Utah from a friend when he was 2 mo old. look how cute he was, I couldn't turn him down. TJ always wanted a dog and so I called him, later that night he came over to see if he was worth it, and as you can see he was. We lived in an apt. at the time and the owner would not let us keep him inside, now what were we to do? Well, TJ worked for Carter construction where they said we could build him a place to live there and kinda be a guard dog! SO for the first year of his life he lived at the shop.

We would take walks down by the river, Duke did not like the water at first but he eventually learned to love it!

He was so fun to have around and go on walks and play with. The time came when I finished school, we moved back to Rexburg, bought a house with no fence, and Duke had been living in Rupert for a couple years. While he was there his baby brother Hayden was born!

Now that Hayden has grown up to be a big boy, Duke has become his horse. Although, hes not always so sure of the large "Puppy"

He LOVES when TJ will Play with him

He likes the go to the river while TJ and his Dad try to fish, but really he likes to scare the fish away.

He is such a beautiful Pup

It is nice to have him back with us now that we have a fenced yard!

Hayden is still warming up to him, but all in all he loves having his PUPPY.

Now he just needs a "BUDDY"

No Shame!

My little boy is not so little any more. We took him to the doctors today and he was a whopping 27 lbs 11oz and 30 1/2 inch tall. So i have got a shot stout little boy, whom I love to pieces! All day long I am constantly laughing with the silly things he does. The other day his aunt came over and as she was walking out the door to leave Hayden runs over to the door and yells bye stinky...I couldn't help but laugh! He learned that one from his Dad i might add. And just tonight he got into some trouble so I spanked his little bum, knowing he was in trouble, and he just laughed at me. He's going to be a piece of work one he gets a little older, that's for sure. He has a mind of his own, always getting into something and causing trouble wherever he goes.








Look at that cute little face.......just wait for it he has a little surprise for us all















He shows no shame.....all boy for ya! But if I had a cute little bum like he does I would show it off to. At night we let him run around in his diaper for a bit and he has discovered how to pull his diaper off, i guess its more comfortable that way.