Cute Andersons

ANNOUNCING . . . BABY AUSTIN

2010-02-24T13:45:00.000-08:00

Born: Dec. 8, 2009
Time: 5:18 p.m.
Weight: 7 lbs. 12 ounces
Length: 20 1/2 inches

KAITLYN TURNS 5!

2010-02-24T13:28:00.000-08:00

Heppy Birthday precious girl! Three days before I gave birth to baby Austin (wow-look at that belly), we had Kaitlyn's 5th birthday party at the Carousell. She invited all of her friends-girls and boys-and they had a wonderful time.
5 Things I love about Kaityn:
1. Smarter than her mom
2. Loves to help me around the house: cooking, cleaning, changing diapers . . .
3. Is very into fashion and loves wearing jewelery to match her outfits
4. Loves to look at books and is figuring out how to read some of the words!
5. She is the best to say "I love you mom!" and it brightens up my day.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

2009-11-14T21:49:00.001-08:00

Halloween was so much fun this year! I think my kids have enough candy to rot out their teeth for the next year. Just in case you can't tell what our costumes are, I am a witch, Kaitlyn and Breanna are black kitty cats, and Christopher is dressed as...himself!

NESTING

2009-11-14T21:45:00.001-08:00

4 more weeks to go! Yay. I'm counting down the days, seeing as with each day I get more and more uncomfortable. My nursery is decorated all in blue, the baby clothes are washed and ready to go, my Christmas shopping is done and wrapped (I know-I'm way organized this year!), and I've made freezer meals so that I won't need to cook the first week after I have the baby. I'm tired! Baby can come anytime now.

DISNEYLAND

2009-11-14T21:24:00.000-08:00

We spent a week in Disneyland in October and had a wonderful time. The girls still talk about their favorite rides every day. I was suprised by how brave our little girls were. Kaitlyn's favorites were: Tower of Terror, Splash Mountain, and Thunder Mountain Railroad. Whatever happened to Dumbo? Breanna's favorites: Pirates and Small World. Since I was prego, I spent quite a bit of time with Breanna riding all the kiddie rides. It was great to spend the time together as a family.

FIRST DAY OF PRESCHOOL

2009-11-14T21:05:00.001-08:00

Yes, my baby girl is now in Preschool. She loves her teacher and all of the little friends she has made there. Her favorite part about Preschool? . . . recess and show and tell!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BREANNA!!!

2009-08-15T09:14:00.000-07:00

Yes, my baby is now 2 years old! I can't believe it. She had an excellent day filled with balloons, cake, and presents. She would only open one present, however, and it was a FurReal Kitty. She fell instantly in love and wanted nothing to do with the other presents. All the better for me! I'm now saving them for Christmas.

My two favorite things about Breanna (or "Nanna" as she calls herself):

#1: Soooooo happy all the time! She so often has a precious smile on her face and can somehow make everyone around her laugh. She loves to be the center of attention and performs for us daily.

#2: Soooooo smart. She has quite a vocabulary for one so small and talks up a storm all day long. She loves to repeat everything we say. The other day Christopher said, "She is a little copycat." Breanna replied, "I'm a little copycat!"

IT'S A BOY!

2009-08-03T14:12:00.000-07:00

For those of you who are wondering, we are going to have a baby boy! Yay! I'm excited-Christopher's excited-Kaitlyn's excited-Breanna said, "I don't want a baby boy to come live at our house." It was funny. She'll love him when she sees him!

8th Wedding Anniversary

2009-06-24T13:33:00.001-07:00

We were married on May 24, 2001 and 8 blissful years later, we have 2 kids, a house, 2 car payments . . . and life couldn't get any better! We spent our wedding anniversary in Hawaii while my mom and dad watched the kids. It was nice to get some R&R. (Except for the fact that I was throwing up the whole time. Yup, I'm pregnant! Yay! So excited, but oh so sick.) Anyway, I decided to make a list of 8 things I love about my sweetie pie:
1. He's incredibly handsome
2. Sooo hard working-a good provider for our family
3. Loves to travel
4. Is an incredible father and loves to spend time with his children
5. Very decisive
6. Loves to snuggle
7. Takes time to help others
8. Keeps me grounded. He never freaks out about anything!

Love you honey after all these years!

Happy 30th Birthday!

2009-06-24T13:25:00.001-07:00

On April 12th, Christopher turned the big Three Oh! We had a big party with lots of friends, family, and food.

EASTER

2009-06-24T13:06:00.001-07:00

MARCH

2009-03-25T12:39:00.001-07:00

Happy March! Nothing really exciting going on this month. I just took pictures when the girls were being so incredibly cute! Kaitlyn's holding a baby lamb that's 2 days old. A guy in our ward raises sheep and invited us over for FHE to see the baby lambs. They were all so sweet. One of the other pics is of Breanna helping me mop. She's turning into mommy's little helper and loves to help me clean. Little cutie pie!!!

FEBRUARY

2009-03-25T12:22:00.001-07:00

Happy Valentine's Day! The girls had a great time decorating cookies and opening all the cards from cousins and grandmas. A special thanks goes out to Michaels Crafts Store for their pre-made sugar cookie kits complete with frosting, sprinkles, cookies, and candy. It was so easy! There was a lot more eating going on than decorating, however . . .

JANUARY

2009-03-25T12:10:00.000-07:00

We took Kaitlyn snow skiing for the first time this winter! We put her in ski school in the morning and went skiing with her in the afternoon. Christopher's wonderful parents watched Breanna for us. Kaitlyn is almost as advanced a snow skiier as her mother now!

HAWAII for the HOLIDAYS

2009-01-29T13:36:00.000-08:00

We got to spend the holidays in Hawaii with my family. Kaitlyn had a wonderful time playing with cousins and swimming, Breanna loved the hot tubs and eating sand, and I enjoyed spending time as a family.

MORE HAWAII PICS

2009-01-29T13:31:00.001-08:00

KAITLYN'S 4th BIRTHDAY

2009-01-29T13:22:00.001-08:00

My beautiful Kaitlyn is 4! (going on 14!) She had a friends party at Currents: an indoor water park. We had a fun and fabulous day! She keeps reminding me that she is now a big 4-year old girl - Not a 3-year old baby anymore. The other day she said, "mommy, now that I'm 4, I think I'll eat chicken enchilladas and salad." She did eat the enchilladas! I was shocked. Then she licked the dressing off of the lettuce. It was close enough. I laughed through dinner.

DECEMBER . . . FREEZING!

2009-01-29T13:13:00.001-08:00

It was so cold in the month of December that the kids couldn't go outside to play in the snow. . . so, I carried buckets of snow and put it in the bathtub. The kids had a great day eating snow, making snow balls, and a snowman all in the comforts of our home. Fun cold day!

HELLO Family and Friends!

2008-11-14T14:33:00.000-08:00

I have a LOT of new posts, so to see all of my pictures, you have to click on OLDER POSTS. I have pics from the past 3 months. Also, you'll notice that some of my pictures are sideways. Ummm, ya. I just didn't want to fix them, so you'll have to enjoy them with your head turned sideways. I'm still getting used to the Blogging thing. Also, if you can't tell, Kaitlyn was Wendy for Halloween, Breanna was Tinkerbell, I was Peter Pan, and Christoper was Captain Hook. Lots of Loves and Kisses!!! Natalie

OCTOBER

2008-11-14T14:24:00.001-08:00

Happy Halloween!!! You can tell Kaitlyn was REALLY excited to get her picture taken. We had a great time trick-or-treating this year. We also had a TON of kids come to our house. I was out of candy by 8:00!

More Halloween Pics

2008-11-14T14:19:00.001-08:00

Bryce Canyon

2008-11-14T14:06:00.000-08:00

I spent 3 weeks in Utah during the month of October while Christopher studied for his Engineering Licensing Exam. During my stay, my parents and I visited Bryce Canyon and Lake Powell. The rest of the time, I spent in Richfield hanging out with family and friends. It was wonderful, but a long time to be away from Christopher. I missed you honey!

Lake Powell

2008-11-14T13:40:00.000-08:00

Cute Kids

2008-11-14T13:32:00.000-08:00

Our kids have been sufficiently brainwashed by their parents to be BYU fans.

Kaitlyn started "Letter School" in Sept. (a co-op I'm doing with 3 other moms) She looks forward to it each week. It's just one day a week for a couple of hours, but definitely the high-light of the week for her.

Good Food & Friends

2008-11-14T13:29:00.001-08:00

We met up with some of our friends from college, Chip and Deb Roberts, at the Crab Pot.

Seattle Boat Tour & Baseball game

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Seattle Science Museum

SEPTEMBER

2008-11-14T13:10:00.000-08:00

Seattle, WA Trip - The Space Needle

More Glacier Pics

2008-11-14T13:05:00.001-08:00

*Also, in the month of August, Natalie turned 28! (on 08/08/08 - Pretty cool - And yes, I know I'm getting old!) I was tempted to make myself a cake since that's one of my new fav. things to do, but decided to just let my husband take me out instead.

AUGUST

2008-11-14T12:57:00.000-08:00

Glacier Park Trip

BREANNA'S BIRTHDAY

2008-08-01T12:30:00.001-07:00

BREANNA is now 1! I can't believe it. She now has 8 teeth - says "da-da, ma-ma, na-na, and la-la" - blows bubbles - loves to push the buttons on the DVD player - loves to read books - and most of all loves to walk around while holding onto my hand.

I took a cake decorating class in March, so I got to test out my skills on Breanna's cake. Cake decorating is one of my new favorite things to do. I stayed up until midnight to get it done, but it turned out pretty cute, so totally worth it.

DEEP SEA FISHING

2008-08-01T12:21:00.001-07:00

In Alaska we got to go deep sea fishing. Very fun. The first pic. of me is when I didn't know the camera was on and the captain had just told me to put my fingers in the fish's gills. Very slimy and bloody. Fun to catch and eat, not fun to touch.

ALASKA

2008-08-01T12:12:00.001-07:00

So, my parents took us on an Alaskan cruise in July. It was amazing! Yummy food and very relaxing. The Pacific Moon was our favorite restaurant on the cruise to eat at. There was a waiter there who was from the Phillippines and spoke Sabuano with Christopher. (that's where Christopher went on his mission) So this waiter would give us extra steak, lobster, desserts, . . . whatever we wanted. It was great! Alaska was a little cold but absolutely beautiful.

4TH OF JULY

2008-08-01T12:03:00.001-07:00

The 4th was fabulous! We went to Fort Missoula, Splash Montana (kind-of like 7-Peaks), had a BBQ, and lit off fire works. I also did laundry and a lot of packing since Christopher and I were leaving for Alaska the next day. I can't believe how big my Breanna looks in her picture. More like a little girl than a baby.

LAZY DAYS OF SUMMER

2008-08-01T11:52:00.000-07:00

Kaitlyn has had such a fun time playing with the neighbor kids this summer. I've been letting them get in the hot tub (much to Christopher's dismay) and Kaitlyn is now convinced that she can swim.

DISNEYWORLD

2008-06-07T17:10:00.000-07:00

MORE Disneyworld

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BREANNA'S CRAWLING!!!

2008-06-07T16:46:00.000-07:00

Breanna learned how to crawl on May 6th. Yay!

MAY FUN

2008-06-07T16:12:00.000-07:00

The girls and I spent the first two weeks in May at Richfield with my family. We had a great time riding horses, swimming, shopping, and playing with all the toys at Grandma's house.

Kaitlyn's Friends

2008-04-18T08:50:00.000-07:00

When Kaitlyn was born, there were 6 babies born within a 4 month period in our ward. Now, the babies are all 3 years old! We got together for lunch and pictures a couple weeks ago. Now they are all little friends!

Easter

2008-04-04T14:03:00.000-07:00

My Favorite Things:

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Christopher
The color Pink
Disneyland
Hawaii
PB & J
Getting Mail
Summertime
Waterskiing
Wakeboarding
Rocking my girls
Sitting in a Hot Tub
Everybody Loves Raymond
Shopping
Purses
The number 8
Hot Chocolate
Reading the paper in the morning
Reading a good book
Aerobics
My little girl's kisses

Little Frosty

2008-04-04T13:33:00.001-07:00

Frosty

2008-04-04T13:24:00.001-07:00

Grandma & Grandpa Time

2008-04-04T13:12:00.001-07:00

Grandma Carla and Grandpa Mark came to visit in February. We had such a great time!

Bathing Beauties

2008-04-03T13:11:00.001-07:00

Kaitlyn's First Haircut

2008-04-03T12:35:00.000-07:00

Kaitlyn was such a brave girl while getting her hair cut. No crying at all! Now Mom and Kaitlyn get to be twins!!!
We're still waiting for Breanna to get hair.

Kaitlyn's at the Piano

2008-04-03T12:07:00.001-07:00

Wow! look at her go!