KenaDee Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel Solo

This year for the holiday's, KenaDee performed in the School Choir.  Here is a snippet of her singing away during Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel.

Christin and Ryan Ride and Strumming in Style

Christmas 2008 brought a new toy to the Anderson household.  

Ryan's job offered up a grand nugget if he hit a big stretch goal with his account in 2008.  As promised, they delivered.  Christin was given the choice and she decided to go for fun.  Now taking up residency at the Anderson house is a brand new Mercedes G Wagon.  It is a beautiful car and more than we ever deserved.  

Thanks PC and Bru!!!!

Christin also delivered to Ryan a life long dream....his very own guitar and amp.  Now it is up to Ryan to learn and have fun, probably more of the later.

Christmas Day 2008

As usual, tons of fun this Christmas morning.  As a family tradition, we sit down and split out the presents while we watch each other open them up.  The family is getting bigger, the in between time is getting longer and we enjoy the gift giving longer as well.  Here are a few pictures from this morning.  

Merry Christmas and have a great day.

Halloween was so much fun!  We spent the evening with our good friends the Williams and the Auernigs.

Ryan decided to go as Janet Reno!  Justin and Brian couldn't keep their hands off of him!

Our first snowfall happened the day after Thanksgiving.  Mikael and KenaDee spent hours creating our family in snowmen!

Corbijn has been our greatest blessing this year.  He is changing everyday and always makes us laugh!  He rolls everywhere and the past few days he has gotten up on his knees ready to start crawling at any moment.  He loves to hang out with his Dad!  Ryan always plays with him and tickles him.  He laughs when Ryan just looks at him!  He is spoiled by everyone constantly.  When Ryan is traveling and the kids are at school he gets bored!  I guess I don't entertain like everyone else.

Hawaii October 08

Hammock time in Kauai

The kids loved the hotels

KenaDee loved the black sand beach in Hana
Corb enjoyed Hawaii!


Pearl Harbor

Every year we have made it a family tradition to go on a vacation together.  This year we decided to go to Hawaii and take the kids.  We went to Oahu and visited the Polynesian Culture center and Pearl Harbor.  We then spent 4 days in Maui and 4 days in Kauai.  We had so much fun and hopefully created alot of memories for our children.  I don't think Corbijn will remember it though!

I think we concluded that we would love a second home there someday! (who wouldn't)

Ryan & Mikael's Trip

Ryan and Mikael started the tradition of going to Chicago every year to watch a Cubs game at Wrigley field.  They were able to see them play the first of the last three games in the playoffs against the Dodgers.  Unfortunately, they lost and didn't make it to the World Series like we were hoping.  They had fun anyway!

We finally finished our basement and Mikael wanted his new bedroom to be nothing but the Cub's.  We've had a good time decorating it! 

Mikael's Exciting Month!

Mikael started 6th grade this year,  his last year of elementary school.  He is so smart he almost got 100% on the math section of the statewide end of school year testing.  He plans to be a Dentist when he grows up.  He loves to read and finishes thick books in only a couple of weeks!  Mikael brings alot of joy to our family.  He is always happy and he says that the best thing that has ever happened to him is finally getting a brother! 

Cub scouts has been one of Mikael's favorite things for the past 3 years!  He worked very hard to get every award possible.  He completed the highest award, the Arrow of Light!  That night he crossed over the bridge and became a Boy Scout.  We are so proud of him!  My favorite calling in the church was being the bear leader, which I was able to serve with Mikael for 1 year.  I had a lot of fun being part of the cub scout program with Mikael.  We have lots of great memories that I will always have to share with him.  It makes me sad that he is growing up so fast and is already a part of the boy scout program!  I am excited for him however and he already can't wait to get his Eagle! 

When Mikael was a Bear!

11th Birthday!

Mikael turned eleven in August.  He celebrated his birthday with his best friend Easton!  We went bowling and played laser tag.  He finished off the evening going to the Trail Dust restaurant.

Hanging out

Ryan went to the Wilco concert in Salt Lake while he was out there with work.  I was so jealous because they are my favorite band, so he brought us all wilco shirts.  Corbijn's of course is a cute little onesie!

Parker Tornado

Last weekend we came home from church to a surprise in the back yard.  We were talking with some friends when they informed us of a handful of tornados that were touching down.  After calming the kids down and getting them out of their safe haven in the basement, we realized that a few had touched down a couple of blocks away and that a big one hit several miles away.  The attached images are of the BIG ONE that hit a few miles behind the house.  It was far enough away that we stood out and watched it form, disintegrate, and reform.  Watching it was truly phenomenal.  We watched the news, watched it live and monitored the status on our own.  Very scary, but very fun as well.

Ash & Ashlyn's Wedding

Jared, John, Ash, Rob, Ryan (my brothers and Ryan)

We now have a new sister-law to add to our family! My youngest brother Ash is now officially married! They were married in the Denver Temple on Friday, July 25th! We had a really fun day celebrating with them. Ashlyn is the youngest of 7 girls in her family, so lots of family around on both sides. I'm looking forward to getting to know Ashlyn and hopefully she will adjust to all my crazy and fun brothers!

The Jonas Brothers!

The Concert!

The fun night

My girls are music fans!

Ryan got the girls Jonas Brother tickets, so we had a girls night out! They are becoming concert freaks just like their dad. We had so much fun and it was fun watching all the star struck little girls running around screaming! And yes, my girls were two of the many! Demi Lavato from Camp Rock was the opening band and I must admit she was pretty good.

Speaking of concerts, I have a really funny story! A few days before the Jonas Brothers concert Ryan and I had made plans to go to the foo fighters at Red Rocks. We had the tickets for probably 3 months. Ryan ended up having to go to a mandatory meeting in Utah and couldn't go to the concert. Now those of you that know Ryan can just imagine how upset he was about this. He insisted that I find a friend and still go to the concert, but not tell him about it. So my good friend Courteney really wanted to go so we got babysitters and were excited and ready and headed to Red Rocks. We drive up there and there was no one in site! We drove to all the different parking lots and could not figure out what was going on. We must of looked at the tickets a hundred times to make sure we were there on the right day and time. Courteney called her husband Dave and had him look on their website, come to find out they got sick and had to cancel, but for some reason we never got an email! We were really dissappointed, but to Ryan's advantage they are planning to reschedule in September.

It's Great to be 8!

KenaDee & Corbijn shared their special Day's together! There were 5 baptisms from our ward on July 12th. KenaDee's two best friends, Sadie and Kyndal were baptized with KenaDee as well!
Ryan blessed Corbijn after the baptism's because we had so many family members and friends there that day!

Kyndal, Sadie, KenaDee, Ryan, Lilly

KenaDee & Corbijn are ready for the big events!

Grandpa enjoying Corbijn!

KenaDee celebrated her birthday with many of her good friends and her best friend Sadie!