Around the Andersons

Monday, January 25, 2016

Christmas 2015

The month of December came and went very quickly. We celebrated the Christmas season throughout the month with different activities. The older the boys are getting the more fun it is. They think everything is so magical and it makes it such a fun celebration. Santa Sunday at CCB is a fun tradition. I like it bc it gets our Santa visit in before Christmas! This year Whit never changed or added to his list. All he wanted was a remote control helicopter. Charlie just repeated whatever Whit said. I guess it was an easy year for Santa! Whit had his Christmas program and was a wiseman. I was sooooo proud of him bc he had a speaking part and he did it so well! He walked to the mic with confidence and spoke clearly and loudly. My momma heart was so proud!! Another tradition the boys love is the North Pole Express. I am kinda over it at this point but I have learned to always book the first train of the night and you usually are ok. The boys love it so I guess we will keep doing it for a little while! Christmas was a little different this year. The Pardue family was supposed to spend Christmas in Bham but Hk pulled a stunt and wanted to be in the hospital up until Christmas. It was MM's year to be wit JD's family so it was just Katherine and I in Bham. We continued our tradition of spending Christmas Eve with the Clinton's. It was a little quieter this year but still fun! We were the only ones who spent the night with mom and dad.... honestly its just easier to stay since we are already there for dinner. Christmas morning the boys were ready to go about 6:45 which was late for us! Kat and Alex came over about 7:15 so they didn't miss too much!! We enjoyed our big Christmas breakfast as usual. Later in the day we headed home and then realized we had nothing to do the rest of the day and nothing to eat so our Christmas Day ended with tornadoes and frozen pizza. The next time it is just our family in Bham we will just hang at mom and dad's all day :) Thankfully on the 28th we all headed to the beach for a week to celebrate mom's 60th birthday. We had a great week and i didn't take barely any pictures bc we just had fun riding bikes, running, and hanging out! It was a great way to end the year!

Getting the tree

My little wiseman

Excited about the train

Cant resist Christmas pjs

Dear Santa

Christmas Eve

Clinton/Johnson tradition

helicopter on Christmas morning

Cookie and Doc gave them a Disney trip!!!!

Cheers to 2016!!

Monday, January 11, 2016

November

I love the beginning of the holiday season. November to me marks the beginning of a great 2 months. We enjoyed a fun weekend to the farm and the boys got to go with Nate to sit in the deer stand. They were in heaven. I cannot wait until they are old enough to enjoy this time with him. I know it will not be long and I will be left all alone on the weekends.

Whit turned 5 on November 22nd. He is so big and I cannot even stand it. This boy is kind and fun and sweet and silly. He celebrating with his friends at school the week before his birthday. Getting his birthday ribbon in chapel was a big deal!! Then Saturday we took the boys to Auburn to watch the football game. They loved seeing the band before the game during tiger walk! We were so fortunate to have club tickets given to us so this was a treat for them! Little do they know that you do not always just get any food you want whenever you want it :) We left at the end of the 3rd quarter which was perfect for them. It was a fun outing for our family!

Sunday we just celebrated Whit! He loved his birthday this year and I love that he felt special. At his check up he is in the 90th% for height and 75%for weight. Love my big boy!!!!

We had a birthday party at Let's play with our sweet friend Trevor

As usual Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday! We are so fortunate to have gotten in a routine for our holidays and this is my favorite. We enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner with my family on Wednesday night and then we head to the farm Thursday morning. It is so nice to be down there for 4 days just relaxing with family. This year my parents and MM and JD came down for Thursday and Friday! The boys loved having them there. Thanksgiving at the farm is an experience and we had about 55 people this year for lunch. It is so funny bc there are so many family members that are so far removed. I would not change it!

Thursday, November 5, 2015

September and October 2015

I keep telling myself I am going to get better about updating bc I love to go back and read posts. Maybe one day....
We have had a good couple of months. I feel like we got to do a lot of family activities but I did not feel like our weekends were too full. It is nice to have time when nothing is on the calendar.
The boys are just growing up too fast!!!
We went to the farm at the beginning of the September. We have watched plenty of terrible Auburn games with friends this season, grandparents day at school, field trips, pumpkin patch, celebrating birthdays, and Halloween.
At some point in September Charlie fell at school and busted his lip up REALLY bad. I cannot even put a picture up bc it makes me too sad :)
I enjoyed a weekend at the beach with friends and like every year, it is wonderful. Here are some pictures I just want to remember from this season of life.....