Feels like FOREVER!!!

So we have been in Idaho for almost 2 weeks and will be here another week and it already feels like FOREVER!!! I am very ready to go home but I am watching my brothers and sisters while my parents are in Texas this week. It has been fun but very long. This weekend we get to spend the weekend down in St George as a family which will be fun because Jason has been out of town a lot the past few weeks and it will be good to just be with him!!! EVIE TURNED 4!!!!!! I cannot believe I have a 4 year old! She wanted a Star Wars birthday so I made her a cake. It turned out pretty well and I will try to post some pictures as soon as I can figure out how to get pictures off my sister's camera. arg. She was so much fun! We went in to the bedroom where we stay at my parents, early in the morning before all my siblings and my dad had to be off to school, with a big bowl of Marshmallow Mateys with a candle in them and woke her up to the happy birthday song and breakfast in bed (family tradition). Then we all had breakfast together and gave her a few pillowcase wrapped presents (another family tradition, saves on wrapping paper :)). She was so excited. I cannot believe how she has grown, she is so big and grown up! She has also done a few really cute funny things while we have been here. I.E. she was sitting up to the table with my sister Marianne and they were talking about brothers and sisters. Evie asked if my sister Shari was Marianne's sister and Marianne said no she was an orphan and Evie just said oh yeah she's from orph! i mean what 4 year old thinks of that??!! lucas is just getting into the monster hug stage where he throws his little arms around your neck and just squeezes!!! I love it it is so so cute. He is a totally different breed than Evie but they are still so the same in so many ways! It is so fun to watch them develop their very own little personalities! I love it! Evie has always been a big daddy's girl, he is usually who he wants when she gets hurt etc.. but Lucas is the exact opposite and 99.9 % of the time I absolutely LOVE it!! just the other .1 percent of when I am trying to do something that requires 2 hands or am needing to go somewhere that it makes it hard! He is so incredibly patient with his 2 aunts ages 8 and 10 who think that every 5 seconds they need to pick him up and haul him around, but it has been kind of funny the past few days I think he has decided he has had enough "in your face" time and every time they even walk in the room he runs for me yelling NO!!!! MOMMY!!!! NO!!! even if they are not even headed his direction! He makes me laugh. He also has developed this pouty face that he will make on command where he knits his eyebrows together and lowers his head so his grumpy eyes are looking up at you from under his brows and sticks out his lower lip! it is hilarious! the first time he made it was when Jason was flossing his teeth so he thought he needed to also and when Jason couldn't find his flossers he came slumping into the living room with that face and I just cracked up so now he thinks it is pretty funny! Well it is late and I am sick :p so i need to go to bed!!!!

I AM A BLOGGER!!!!

Well this hasn't worked out as well as i had hoped but i will keep trying to be better at updating this blog so that it is not completely boring. you would think i would have more than enough to write about just having to do with the things that evie says or does!! one such thing is that about 5 times every prayer she blesses us to be nice and strengthful and kind. i dunno, your guess is as good as mine! :)  

Hopefully a regular thing

I am the absolute worst at journal writing so hopefully this will help me to be more regular at keeping up with life in the Anderson home. right now we are living in Provo, if you can call it that :) we actually rent an apartment here but spend about every 2 weeks in Idaho lately. Jason is managing an office for Pinnacle Security this summer in Orange County California and is working hard recruiting anywhere and everywhere to finish filling his office. it seems like as of late all the kids and i are is sick :) lucas just finished getting over rsv and i think he is just determined to get as much out of the way before he is 1 as possible, we have already gotten through rsv, whooping cough, bronchitis, and a few other little maladies so we are well on our way. evie just loves life, she is big into why everything is what it is and how it got that way. she and jason went over to the byu earth-science museum last week and were looking at the cephalopods (shelly crab type squid things) and she asked jason what they turned into, and after jason's lack of explanation her face lit up and she said, " i know, cephalopods turn into ipods!!"
we have loved having brock and jordan live down here and we love to have them come hang out. the other night they were kind enough to come watch our kids while we took a much needed date. evie absolutely loves them to death and asks constantly if we will call them to come over. we feel bad about bugging them to much but love it when they can come "play"
we went up to idaho this last weekend to celebrate hyrum's 4th birthday with our families. we had a get together at jasons grandma's house and momand dad were able to come down with most of the kids. it was really nice, we went out and decorated his grave a little bit, jasons mom got some cute nice things (she is the most thoughtful lady ever!!) and then at grandmas we had cake and ice cream and had the kids take balloons outside to send up to hyrum. it is still so crazy to me that it has been 4 years already, sometimes it seems like yesterday.