TADA!!!!

We are so excited to be back in the picture business!! We have just gone kinda crazy today!!! so here are some highlights of our day which include but were definitely not limited to buying fish for the kids Evie's fish is named Lily and Lucas's is Lightning (big surprise there) Evie dressed herself this morning, Lucas has fallen in love with cheesing for the camera, the ginourmous spider that was on our neighbors air conditioner (turns out it wasn't even real but till  you got like 5 inches away it sure looked real) Lucas kickin it in the stroller while Evie got to swim with friends, he had to sit out cause he has a lovely massive double ear infection, Evie enjoying her Buffalo Wild Wings (if ya haven't tried the place find one and try it AMAZING!!!) and finally sleepy time, i don't know who was more ready for them to be in bed them or me :) also we are 99.9% sure we are staying in this part of the country at least till the end of November (i am pushing for Thankgiving at Sea World San Antonio on the way home :)) we will see i guess. 

At Last.....

Hoorah hooray and yippity skippity doo dah day!!!! i got a kodak easyshare m863 digital camera (in red wink wink) last night!!! thanks to my wonderful hubby who loves me so much! so COMING SOON dun dun dun pictures of the Anderson children in all their glory!! (and no that does not mean they will be naked, although there may be some tub pics :)) so stay tuned!!!! we love you!

Camera Help

So i have been bouncing around a few different digital cameras and these are the ones i have been most interested in #1-Fujifilm Finepix z20fd, #2-Kodak Easyshare m863 and #3-Nikon Coolpix s210. i have read up on a bunch of reviews and we are looking for a good little camera that is no more than like $170-180 ish and we would love input from anyone who happens to own any of these cameras or from anyone who has a different one that they absolutely love and would like to recommend! i need a camera people!!!! :) it seems like at least once a day i roll my eyes and think man i would give anything for a camera right now!!! ya'll know my kids and know that in all actuality this probably occurs to me more like 6 or 7 times a day. so any and all comments, recommendations, just input in general would be fantastic!!!

Fountain Fun

So wow it has been a while or at least it really feels like it! we are no longer in virginia we just moved to grand prairie texas. our office was small so we decided to combine with another office and now between the two our office is the #1 office in the entire company!!!! yay! so we have been here for almost 2 weeks and i have been internet-less aaaargh, people in texas are way smarter than anywhere else as far as wireless internet goes, we get like 50 wireless signals and all of them are password protected!!! Curse you aqua scum!!!!! anywho so now we have our very own internet connection and i have pics!!!! even though they are from Va they are still fun! there was an outdoor mall with the funnest fountain and the kids had such a blast every time we went! enjoy!!!!

lucas's silly grumpy face that he thinks is hilarious 

evie playing at the fountain at the great fashion place mall in richmond va!!

Lucas was so brave!! he loved to stick his face right in!!

so as you can see i have issues with finding swim trunks that fit my poor little scrawny munchkin. he still doesn't even fit in 12 month pants and he will be 2 in a month!!! :)
 

Lucas and our good buddy Kayson

Evie is obsessed with self inflicted wetness :) 

Pictures

YAY!! I finally got some pictures!!! Here is just a little montage of our trip and some of our stay here so far, unfortunately not necessarily in that order :)

Lucas kickin it watchin a movie at one of the many hotels we camped at along the way.

Evie by a tree at one of the half million gas stations we stopped at along the way. Her classic thing was 5 minutes after we'd stopped and then got going again she would have to go potty.

Lucas stretching his legs after many long hours in the car.

Our favorite place here at our new home. Where we spend about 80% of our time :)

Evie loves to just lounge in the pool in her floatie.

Our first Sunday going to our new ward, the Manchester Ward in the Chesterfield Stake. Great ward!

Evie in her swim suit on the patio.

Evie in her swim suit showing off her purple tongue in the bathroom.

Just in case you couldn't tell Evie wears her swim suit all day every day :)

Lucas kickin it with his Cars, don't ya just love that goofy little grin :)

Evie loves beets and gets the leftovers when we make her favorite pink soup (Russian borsch)

Another goofy grin, more Cars and he loves being outside!!

Lucas headed out to the patio with his cars (can you see the big fun forest right behind our complex? it is everywhere and never ends!!!

The kids doing what they do best on long roadtrips! Lucas even saves his fries for later, he had quite a grip on that thing even while sleeping.

Cool dude!

Evie loves her atlas and is a big help in finding the way, she has already informed her grandparents how to get here turn by turn :)

Rain rain go away.....

Well we are still in Virginia, it is still raining and yesterday we spent and hour and a half lost in Richmond. Actually it is a lot better than I am making it sound. Our office is off and running and everyone seems to be doing very well. It should be a productive summer. We took a trip into old Richmond which is beautiful, we did get lost and luckily found ourselves again but it was actually fun to just drive around, there are all sorts of cool buildings and tons of random monuments for this or that and it was cool to look at them all. We were looking for a park to play at and never actually made it that far. So Evie said a funny thing the other day, she was watching a guy mow the big grassy area behind our apartment. He had the cool kind of riding lawn mower where you stand on a platform on the back and drive rather than sitting and Evie turned to me and said, "Mom that is so so cool! i want a moron like that someday!!" i think she was actually saying a mower-on or something to that effect i laughed so hard!!!!! So we knew we might have issues with Lucas when we bought him Lightning McQueen slippers for Christmas and he wouldn't take them off for like a month (not even for bed) but that is nothing compared to what we have gone through since we bought him Disney Cars matchbox cars. He freaks out if we try to go or do anything without Lightning, Chick and the King. 1 or 2 is not good enough its all or screaming bloody murder!! Bed, baths, walks, the kid is obsessed! Plus he asks to watch the movie everytime I walk close to the computer! Any helpful tips on obsession would be most welcome!