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

wow......

-K-, so its been a bit..:).. my good news from my last post is still good news, baby is doing fine (if the morning sickness is any indicator)....the due date is estimated between the 19 and 21st of October!! YAY! which means it'll be perfect timing as far as birthdays go, Cory's birthday is in may, Caydens is in June, Kaylee's is July, i am august, Nikoy is September and #4 is October!!! perfect!!
any who.. so we managed to get some family pictures done, and thanks to my little tiny remote for my camera we managed to take about 180 pictures, and thanks to my kids only 5 were worth keeping.....OK ALL of them were worth keeping some were hilarious and will make GREAT blackmail pics for when the kids start dating....(evil chuckle) fingers in noses, itchy bums, mid yawns.. that sort of stuff... any who, we decided to take the pics at the temple grounds so we drove up to stone oaks and did family pictures at the San Antonio temple, much to the amusement of the temple workers, and temple goers, who got a fairly good chuckle at our attempt at making cayden look at the camera, without anything to draw his attention to it...nikoys getting distracted by EVERYTHING, and Kaylee refusing to smile......what we ended up with was a semi focused picture, with nikoys and Caydens faces photo shopped from other pictures......love photo shop... i learned a very important lesson... i LOVE taking pictures, but I'm much better at landscapes, and animals, and what not then my own kids.....any who. here's the results!! enjoy them!! I'm going to bed...its midnight.....I'm tired...g'night y'all!



Moroni, right where he should be.....:D



this boy is the CUTEST most HANDSOMEST in all creation... seriously can you resist that smile??


isnt my kaylee jaynn gorgeous? love my little lolli-pop head...


i swear everytime i blink this little girl has grown a foot, my beautiful Nikoy..



and the lot of us.... aint we pretty?

good news!!!!!!!

:D its self explanatory..:D

LETS PLAY CATCH UP!!!

WOW long time no see! so things have been going great lately! first I'd like to announce two new nephews, Cory's baby brother Scott, is the proud new father of cute and cuddly Casey Anderson!
born 1-1-11!! :) he was a fun way for Scott and his wifey to start the new year..:D


and on November 23rd, 2010, Cory's older sister Erin had teeny tiny Tommy!

he's not so teeny tiny any more, but he's still dang cute!! And guess who gets to be baby sitter while Erin is working her salon?? ME!!! YES!! i LOVE babies. anywho. so to bring you up to par I'll tell you all about our past few months, we spent Christmas in Utah with my family!! it was SSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun!! and i Miss them so much! i cant wait till my little brother and his wife go through the temple! we are hoping to spend Halloween with Grammy and papa rocks this year and hopefully we'll get to see my little brother his wife and their new baby go through the temple!! yes Lorin and Janel were married on Oct. 29Th 2010, and Janel is pregnant due in august! more babies!! so lots of fun, but back to Christmas! my mom has a beautiful fire place in her living room i couldn't say no too.

me and my girls, Gorgeous!^^^

my boys! yes Odin is part of the family too. Love his ears..

and all of us! yay!


we were lucky enough in Utah to get snowed on! the kids LOVED it! Nikoy and Kaylee would have spent the night in it if it hadn't gotten too cold!

Cayden loved it too, but he enjoyed the snow plowing the best i think, he yelled "WEEEE" the whole time!!

my roasty toasty man! i love him so...

my two favie mens! my Cory, and my "good yoo!"


my little siblings Rachel, Sam and Sierra, and Nikoy and Kaylee building "oatmeal the snowman"

we were also lucky enough on that journey to go to Idaho to visit my grandparent and aunts and uncles that i haven't seen in almost 5 years!! we went to this mini golf course (indoor of course) and my mom fell in love with the pirate captain, here they are planning their voyage!

sorry my camera doesn't work well with black-lights and no flash..:D


my gwirlys and my boy!


so now were playing in the snow after church. great stuff!

it was so deep! you like deep snow? go to Idaho, seriously Kaylee almost got lost...
so now I'm sad because I've realized in all the visiting and fun and merriment, i didn't get any pictures with my grandparents, or my aunts and uncles or cousins! not even Kaydee who was amazingly sweet enough to allow me and my messy babies to stay at her house! wah.. so I'll have to plan another Idaho trip to make up for lost opportunities...:D

after Idaho we were back in Utah and a little bored, so we went to a place called "jump on it" in Lindon, and it was SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun! it was basically a huge warehouse fill wall to wall with trampolines!! and the kids had a blast!!




even my sweet baby man! so yeah, since we got home, we've been keeping busy, Cory is working on his schooling, he nearly has his associates then its off to nursing school! me? well.......I'm me...the girls are doing so well in school! their teachers LOVE them, and they are learning soooo much! i have little geniuses i do... Caydens vocabulary has shot so much, he loves running through the house yelling "No!!" occassionaly he walks up to me gives me a sweet smile and says "cookie?" how can i say no? when we are ready to leave the house he runs to the door yelling "lets go! lets go!" and when Kaylee runs out to her bus he says "nuh-you bye!" which is Cayden for "love you" and anytime you ask him a question any question he answers with "why?"
he lets me know its time for bed or a nap when he hugs me and says "nigh-nigh". and he says so much more and is learning more everyday! I'm so proud of all my babies. so smart.
well on the 13 of February we got to attend the blessing of baby Casey and got some more recent family pics so enjoy these and i am out! its after midnight and I'm tired so.. enjoy!!

us!!

the whole Anderson family!!!

long time no see....

so as usual its been too long.. lots has been going on, birthdays (yes im OLDer now), Nikoy will be celebrating her 6th birthday on the 16th, so im getting ready for that, and besides all that, school has started...YES!!!! the girls love school, nikoys only complaint is that she has to get up sooo early, 6:30 in the morning! it munches! her bus stops out front at 7, so she gets to be up bright and early, kaylee has PM preschool, so she meets her bus at 11, then they get home around 3ish. yep..nikoys kindergarten is ALLLLL day! which is weird, because in utah kindergarten is half day too, and it doesnt start till like, 8:45, so, texas is all backwards..anywho, heres some pics of day 1 of school, yes im one of THOSE moms.. "bye sweetie! be good!!" *click click click* "love you!! " *click click* those clicks are from my camera, so you know...



Here is kaylee after school, and her teacher.

my silly goose, so dang cute!

Nikoy loves school, but i hear it daily "why cant i sleep in?" then saturday gets here a day that she can sleep in and what does she do? wakes up at 7 am.....dweeb.

shes so pretty, and yes she is getting freckles across her nose.. hopefully she wont have as many as i do, a little sprinkling across the nose is cute....
so along with the girls cory has started his fall semester as well, and though the girls have yet to bring home homework, cory has had enough for everyone in the state of texas.....so much that yes i admit, i've even had to help him with some typing, and stuff, i dont mind, i enjoy it (yes im weird leave me alone..) so despite corys homework haul at school he's doing well. i applied for a job at the hospital as the gift shop manager but they forgot to look at my availability before the interview and we discovered that there are days that i cant work (corys at school, i need to be home with cayden) that i would HAVE to work, so i bagged them, and decided i wont take a job unless they can work with my schedule, im not going to have cory rearrange his stuff, just so i can work, so until i find something along those lines, i'll just be a "lazy" (and by lazy i mean over worked and underpaid) house mom...
so onto my other good news, my puppy dog oden has grown so much its amazing! his fur is completely grown in, the only problem i have with him now is his digging, all three of my neighbors, (both sides and backyard neighbors) have dogs, and they all dig trying to get to each other, and its not a good idea because 2 of the 4 dogs (the people to the left of my house has 2 dogs) are like chihuahuas, or smaller (yes theres smaller dogs) and im afraid baby oden will eat them.. so we are trying to discourage the digging... its not working.. anywho, a few more pics, enjoy them!

me-n-oden. so cute..



i LOVE this pics, its so Oden..


he says "sup?"


so i few nights ago i let oden out and i see this little fluff ball by the side of the house and my first thought was "eek rat!" well i went and poked it and it flapped, so i decided since rats don't have wings it must be a bird, and i was right.. :)
so i took the little feller in to make sure he wasn't damaged, and he wasn't.. so i took him back outside and sat him in my little bird feeder and watched and sure enough within about 20 minutes he was surrounded by a bucket load of other birds, and he kinda fluttered up to a low hanging branch then fluttered his way up the tree, and disappeared...hopefully he found his nest and didn't get eating by raccoons...


so yeah, busy busy busy.. well i hope you've enjoyed my latest craziness, LOVE YOU ALL!!!