Graduation Dinner

The night before Graduation, Friday, we had an awesome dinner with the 4 graduates, Josh, Andy, Rhett & Daren, and all of the family that was there to support them. It was about 50 people. We had hawaiian haystacks, watched a reminiscing video of pics from the past 3 years, and then took pics, which i have to post later.

Some of our fam that was there

It's hard to tell, but I made little signs for the cupcakes that said Class of 2011, and Congrats Grads. I think they turned out pretty cute

Some of the other decos there. I was in charge of the dinner and so I organized most of it and was a lot of work, but so worth it to get together with all of our friends and family and get to celebrate the boys

Packing Up

It has been a long couple of weeks preparing for the big move to Utah. Packing is one of my least favorite things to do, but good thing I had this wonderful little packing "helper" to get me through it.

She loved getting in and out, and climbing on top of all the boxes. She also thought that I was putting everything IN the box, just for her pleasure of taking it OUT.

Mother's Day

I woke up to breakfast in bed, lucky me! It was strawberry-cheesecake pancakes and delicious bacon

Went to church, spoke on Charity, it went pretty good, then that afternoon we headed off to Manito, my favorite park, for one last look at the beautiful flowers before we move and Lyla got to check out the ducks which she loved

I am so lucky to be a mother of this sweet little girl. I love her so much and can't imagine life without her. She is getting a stronger personality every day and does the cutest and sometimes most sassy little things.

Mischief

I love it when Lyla gets really quiet and I go to check on her and she's doing this......

Instead of this....

Easter

We had a super busy Easter weekend, but was a lot of fun too!

Dyed eggs on Friday evening

Saturday morning was the ward party, and had an easter egg hunt at the end.

Then a nap squeezed in and then another hunt at the park with just our friends

Lyla loved getting the eggs, and once she saw stuff was inside, she only wanted them opened asap of course

Easter Sunday we gave out our baskets. Lyla got Play-Doh and some crayons since she is really loving to draw right now. Josh got me ladderball which i'm excited to try out this summer!

Easter Dinner

The yummy food, with our dyed eggs from Friday in a "bouquet" as a decoration

Made my first carrot cake, turned out pretty good, and was fun to use my new decorating skills to make the carrots on top

Our place cards for dinner, inspired by Jenn Hoff! :)

Photo shoot with Lyla's easter dress. I just couldn't resist, she looked too cute

Spring

We went downtown last Saturday and enjoyed watching Lyla run around Riverfront Park

She got to go on the carousel for the first time, it was a little scary but not too bad

Checkin out the big red wagon

Got out the window markers to try out some drawing, she loved it. I think the easter bunny might bring some crayons this year

First time drawing blood from playing outside. She was a trooper and only cried until we got in the house and then was over it and wanted to play again.

I think I was upset about it longer than she was, look at that poor little head

Girls Weekend

ast weekend Heather, Jenn, and Brittney and I ditched the kids and escaped to Seattle for a few days. It was so much fun to just enjoying being away and getting to spend time together before everyone goes their separate ways next month.

Girls Weekend (2011)

Saturday morning we went to the tulip festival just north of seattle, which brings in people from all over the country

We felt it necessary to take some beauty shots in those amazing flowers

After the tulip festival we went to lunch at Olive Garden and got some shopping down at the outlets right across the way.

Then we went back to the hotel to primp, and went downtown to eat at Cheesecake Factory

Days Inn comfort baby!

Sunday we drove home and stopped at Snoqualmie Falls on the way

It was a really great trip and we all had an awesome time together. We have helped each other out a lot since we have been in Spokane and I feel so blessed to have had them here as my fill-in family. It is going to be really hard to leave these girls after we have become so close over the past 3 years.

Conference Comparsions

I forgot to post this with the last post, so I just decided to do a new one. Here is a comparison of last years April conference and this year.

Dad looking a little sleep deprived and Lyla is so sweet and little

This year, Dad looking a lot more chipper and excited about this whole dad stuff. Lyla getting so big and chewing on toys/running around the whole time. Last year she couldn't even hold her head up :)

Anderson's/Conference Weekend

Once again we had a great weekend down in Walla Walla. We snuck down for the weekend for conference. It was april fools day on friday, so of course we couldn't go without pulling a prank. See video below

If you couldn't hear, the first thing Eli says "but hey, we just cleaned the house!"

Saturday we watched conference and in between had to go outside and enjoy the sunshine. Lydia and Lyla were best buds and had lots of fun together

We checked out the park that's around the corner from their house

She got much love from everyone. Although she doesn't look that excited about it in this picture she really did eat up all the attention

Elijah is helping Lyla smile, haha

Bonding with Todd, she LOVES great uncle todd, he's cool

Not so sure about the Beiber Fever hair though

Saturday night we played games, check out how much fun Todd had. Its super shaky because I couldn't stop laughing

Sunday morning was a yummy breakfast and Lyla wanted to sit by Todd during conference and kept going over and sitting real close and then laying on him. If you only knew how rare this is for our little non-snuggler you would be surprised too! It was so cute

That afternoon we went to check out the progress on "THE SHOP" and the
new addition of the boat

It's shiny, and big, and we were just a teeny bit jealous :)

Last but not least, some cute videos for gma

Hard to hear because of the wind, but that little giggle is so precious