HE'S HERE!!!

good news!! :) on October the 13th at 12:58 PM Connor Rylan decided to enter the world!!

luckily it was a fairly quick delivery, sherry and baby both did great, and have recovered quickly! as usual we had all our cameras and were able to take A LOT of pictures of the baby, so we'll spare you any gruesome details and let you enjoy the cuteness of our latest addition!



Cory got to feed Connor his very first bottle! its been a tradition with all of our kids. he gave them the first bottle.


here is sherry and her AWESOME doctor, Dr. Ora Schwope.


Sherry and nurse Diana, an awesome lady who did everything she could to make our stay in the labor and delivery unit as comfortable as possible.


after Connor got his first bath. he was a much happier baby after his bath, all swaddled and warm. such a tiny little human!


sleeping peacefully.


family pictures just before we left the hospital, daddy and his kids!


heres momma's boys!!


Cory and Connor.


mommy and her babies!



sherry and the boys.


Sherry snuggling sweet baby Connor.


Biggest sister Nikoy holding her baby brother. (yes the pink hair is just a clip-on..:D)


cowgirl Kaylee holding her baby brother. :)


BIG brother holding Baby brother!! Cayden has been doing great as a big brother! he wasn't to sure at first but he's gotten really good at telling us when "baby Connor is sad." :)


these last few pictures are sherry being creative. :) we have been so blessed these last few days. with the quick and easy(ish) delivery, a happy healthy beautiful baby boy, sherry being able to go home after only one night stay at the hospital. very little drama. we are so grateful for all the thoughts and prayers everyone has had for us these past few months! thank you all for your loving support! enjoy these last few pics! love you all!



Sherry LOVES baby feet...





glowing angel.. :D




Sherry LOVES the fox outfits..:) he has quite a few..

:) way behind...

wow..OK. so heres a not so quick update!!..:) after Cayden turned 2 in June, Kaylee turned 5 in July..
her cake was my little ponies, to go along with her new cowgirl obsession, unfortunatly my little ponies was the only "horse" related cake we could find.. mainly because i didnt have time to make one.. :)

Kaylees favorite gifts was all her cowgirl gear, she was in heaven!

Kaylee, her cousin Kylie, Nikoy and Cousin Tara

she LOVED her new horse from aunt Erin too..

it was a great day for kaylee!! anywho, not long after Kaylees birthday i woke one morning to the girls screaming bloody murder from the living room. so i went RACING down the stairs half expecting to see Freddy Kruger standing in my living room and instead i find this....

this is a brown recluse spider. a little bigger then a quarter and very poisonous. it has a necrotising poison that eats away at your flesh. mmmmmm tasty... lets just say, it met a watery grave... after the drama of the icky spider passed, not much later mind you, a wonderful thing happens.... school started.. :)

nikoys first dat, of first grade! she was sooo excited, you cant tell in the picture because its about 6:30 in the morning, and lets just say, we are NOT morning people.

Kaylees first day of kindergarten! again super excited, just too tired to show it... so week one of school flew by, and suddenly it was that time of year again... yup you guessed it...

my birthday!... one year older and older too..... it didnt help that my hubby decided that he wanted to put all twenty..........three.. (liar) candles on my cake and make me blow them all out.. :) about set off the smoke alarms.. funny stuff.. :)

my cake, a tasty yellow cake with milk chocolate frosting, and yellow sprinkles!! MMMMMmmmmmm yummy... so my birthday came and went, and about 3 weeks later it was Nikoys turn!

happy birthday to my sweet Nikoy, she turned 7 on the 16th of September, and we had a pizza party with corys family! she had so much fun!!

she LOVED her cake!!

blowing out the candles,

her favorite part of the party i think.. :) a pink graffiti razor scooter!

with a matching helmet!!(thank you grammy.. )

another significant event that took place recently was me reaching 35 weeks!! and boy am i feeling it! baby Connor is doing great (by the way his name is going to be Connor Rylan Anderson... cute right?? :D) and we are trying to get ready for his arrival, im kind of wishing i had saved SOME of Caydens things, he had so many cute clothes. :) oh well. the random shopping sprees are fun..:) bottles, diapers, wipes, clothes, car seats, oh the joys... :)

so yeah.... that's been my last 3 months in a nutshell.... a very big nutshell, but a nutshell none-the-less...

oh also wanted to let everyone know that my domain name or URL or whatever its called is no longer www.euroanserson.blogspot.com. we are no longer in Europe so there is no reason to continue with the charade.. it has been changed to www.andersonawareness.blogspot.com :) just so your aware.. :) hopefully this doesn't make things difficult for anybody, i apologize if it does.. ummmi dont forsee anything in the next near future to blog about, so chances are the next post will be mid October.. possibly sooner, possibly later, depends on when little Baby Connor chooses to make his appearance.... as of the 21st i will be 36 weeks and then its only time so we'll see!! loves to you all!

HE'S 2!!!!!!!

so Friday the 24th of June was my sweet mans birthday! he turned 2!! and it wasn't so terrible..:) he had a cars themed day because of his latest obsession :). so we decorated the kitchen.. er...the table at least..:)


love the super high tech table cloth? you cant tell by looking at it, but apparently if you were wearing 3D glasses it would be totally high tech and stuff....:)


and his cake..also cars..:) he hasn't set these toys down since they came off the cake.. and heaven forbid he drop them and someone else touches them...:D FYI...don't touch the cars...:)

so his first gift was his lightning McQueen car..and he wouldn't get out of it! it was a bad idea, it should have been saved for last..after the cake even...:) he LOVED IT so much!! he even blew his candles out while he was sitting in it....unfortunately for him there's no backseat so we did have to pull him out of it for bedtime....oh the drama...

yes.. he even opened his other presents while sitting in his car...I'm telling you the house could be falling down around him and he wouldn't notice as long as he was in his car...

the other gifts all got equal (ish) attention... but they got the attention while he was sitting in the car......:) he can drive and play at the same time.. he's just that good...


he got a new wibbie from Nana too, so when he gets his new cars bed (yes he's getting a cars bed...:D) all we need to do is buy a sheet set...:) yay!



this was Saturday morning, just before we went to see the Cars 2 movie (which was way funny! it definitely had its moments, it got kinda corny in spots but hey its Disney..:)..)

and here i am at 24 weeks pregnant! baby's doing fine we do have an appointment on the 28th so, we'll get to hear his heartbeat again, and hopefully do an ultrasound to check his brain cyst. hopefully its gone down, or even better, has vanished..:) I'll let y'all know,..:) any-who, loves you all!

oops sorry....

:) he he, so it has been brought to my attention that i left some information out of my last blog..:) i got all excited about him showing of his...."gender" that i forgot about the whole reason for my appointment... that black spot on his brain..:) well as it turns out there are 2 things it could be, #1 and most dangerous is trisomy 16. which is ALWAYS FATAL....(yeah don't stress out right??) but according to my blood work i have a 1 in 54,000 chance of having a trisomy 16 baby... and i guess one of the signs of trisomy 16 is the baby's hands are always fisted, for some reason the baby doesn't ever open its fists, and well, the ultra sound technician got pictures of his little hand wide open and waving at us, so... that only leaves possibility #2, which is a choroid plexus cyst. basically the part of the brain (in the choroid plexus go figure..) that makes cerebrospinal fluid, basically his brain is making more fluid then his little tubes can handle, and as he grows bigger (usually by week 26) the cyst has resolved itself. they said there are very rare cases where they do autopsy's on 80 and 90 year old people who have led a very healthy long happy normal life who have been found to have choroid plexus cysts, the cyst does not affect brain development, or motor functions or anything. even if it doesn't disappear, he'll never know its there. so yeah, after much prayer and thought Cory and i both feel that he is strong and he is healthy, and that there is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary with this tiny we man, except that he may be the next dragon warrior, I'm telling you this kids a kung-fu master!


so yes all is well, baby and i are doing great! he kicks like a champ! and we are so excited to get him here safe and sound. :) i do have a dermatology appointment tomorrow, for those who have seen me lately and know i look like i recently had my wisdom teeth removed from my right side only...(FYI my wisdom teeth were removed in 2001....) it looks worse then it is. its very painful and itches A LOT, but the redness and swelling makes it look worse.. so hopefully tomorrow I'll be getting some cream or anti-something-or-others to make the redness/swelling/itching go away..:) we'll see. wish me luck! love you all!

the stress is lessening... :)

first off i wanna say:


^^ i LOVE this face...it makes me giggle...^^^ anywho. so school is out for summer time enjoyment, the girls both "graduated" from kindergarten (Nikoy), and preschool (Kaylee) with straight E's....standing for either Excellent, or evil, i haven't decided which... :) my kids can be evil, as you will see in the pics below..... anywho, both are extra excited to be going to first grade, and kindergarten next year, i think I'm more excited then both of them because it will mean both are in full time school from 7 am to 3 pm!! YES!.......i love my kids....really i do...honest.. :)
anywho, so we spent the entire first week of summer cleaning house, doing laundry, and all around mucking things out.. and as a reward we spent 15 bucks on a cheap little pool that Odin will be unable to pop.... :) its not huge and they have to share, but they seem to have fun...


this is the face of fun, Cayden is truly my fish, he will sit in the pool from the moment he wakes up until bedtime if I'd let him he so loves the water. the girls kick and splash and he laughs and splashes them right back!..love it..


what better way to spend a 97 degree summer day then in the pool with popsicles.... :)


this is the evil we were talking about earlier....notice the relaxation on Nikoy's face as she lazily floats about in the water... notice the look of concentration on Kaylee's face as she takes aim with the water ball.........



this picture about sums it up for my kids.....blah!!!!!!!! so anywho, pool fun done, I'm now faced with the joys of trying to figure out how to change the pool water without turning my backyard into a swamp...seriously I'd sell my left pinkie for some grass....

anywho, so as we know i am 21 weeks pregnant now! *hooray for being half done!* and well its definitely been downright stressful.. morning sickness is all but gone, i still have the occasional race to the bathroom to lose the contents of my stomach..but seriously I'm 21 weeks now it should be gone!.. all in due time i hope.. we also learned at my very first ultrasound (at 16 weeks....) that the baby had a big black spot in his brain.. and they would be sending me to a specialist to see what it was and if it was dangerous... well after 5 weeks of stress and worry, i finally got to go see the specialist and after a fun filled ultra sound it was determined that:


he's very proud of himself... we have yet to agree on a name, we thought we had, but the name we chose doesn't seem to be growing on us so we are in the process of finding the perfect name... *yeah right*


here's his skeletal little face, the poor tech tried so hard to get his profile, but every time she got a good shot he'd turn his head and look at her, she thought it was kinda creepy like he knew we were watching him.. :) that's my boy!

kind of a skeewampusie face shot.... they were trying to capture his eye, you could see the details and stuff, it was cool..:)


well we've seen him on the inside here he is on the outside!! :)
my preggerness at 21 weeks and one day.. :D

taa-daa! so anywho, one of my other major stress points and its only because its hurting my vanity ( actually it just plain hurts!!) is my face, i get to "enjoy" the symptoms of "nodular-cystic acne" which is hormonally induced (pregnant!) and best treated when symptoms first appear, UNFORTUNATELY the only way to treat it is with icky medications that will do all sorts of unfix-able damage to the sweet little man who is currently residing inside my belly... and because I've decided that my son is more important then my face, i get to cope with the dry, itchy, burning redness, and quarter sized cysts all over my chin.....fun...the most i can do at this point is possibly use some tretinoin gel that will hopefully be getting prescribed to me next week sometime...that will relieve the itchy burning, but unfortunately wont do anything about the huge cysts, no for those i get to see the dermatologist to have them opened and drained........joy....

so here's my chin at 21 weeks, yes the big red discolored spots are cysts that are either growing or have been taking their dear sweet time shrinking.... left alone it takes 1-2 months for a cyst to finally either shrink and go away or get to the point where it can be less-painfully drained, therefore relieving pressure and letting my face touch my pillow again...*sigh* anywho.. enough feeling sorry for myself... :) as soon as this baby is freed I'll be put on anything from doxycycline to accutane (hopefully NOT accutane...) and it'll be gone and for the scarring i can get laser surgery for that...someday... Theres hope at least, my cloud does have a silver lining... :) and my hubby is definitely super supportive reminding me often how beautiful i am. so yeah. that's everything so far.. joy and joyfulness.. :D