Can you believe it?! A real post!!!

Cute little cousins... Ben and Eliab playing on the family room floor (Ben's trying Eliab's trick -- putting things in his mouth... hmmm... is this fun? It must be.  He does it ALL the time!)  :)

Okay - I'm offically tired of uploading photos one at a time when I can do FIVE at a time on Facebook... soooooo... to see more pics go to my Facebook page, okay? And if you don't have a Facebook page... get one! :)

To see more photos without a Facebook page of your own (even though you really should have one) - copy and paste this link...
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=63808&l=84c47&id=682592472

We got to babysit Eliab last night! :)

Now THIS is a happy picture! <3 Oh, Aliya Grace... I'm so happy you're here!!! :)

I don't know why but this picture just made me laugh... no one is looking, no one looks happy... it's FUNNY!! :)

Obviously not the most flattering picture here but this was SO funny! I'm bracing myself b/c I'd already been flung a few times with flying baby slobber... eww! When the straw would pop of out their mouths... well, you can imagine... like I said - flying baby slobber. Good thing they're both so CUTE!

See those fresh-baked cookies on the table? Julie hates me... she really does...

Getting ready for a game of Shang-hai rummy... FUN!

Another "Kate w/ puppy" picture. She LOVED those puppies!!!

Ahhh, the puppies are safer now (notice I said safER... not necessarily safe)

Yet another instance where my dear Julie cannot be trusted... instead of telling my daughter to get OUT of the dog cage (which is housing a bunch of 8 day old puppies that she could SQUISH!), she gets the camera and takes a few pictures. Oh my word!

We sure love sharing a last name w/ the "other Andersons"... it comes in handy a lot of times... like on "twins day"!! :) Isaac and Josh should have won the "best twins" award for being so serious about this spirit day, don't you think? ;) Twins ALLLLL the way down to the same last name! Can't get much more dedicated than that!
(btw, I can SO hear Josh's little giggle in this pic just by the way he's holding his head... so cute)

Isaac and Josh on "twins day" at MCS. LOVE those shirts, boys!!! :)

Since Kim is a more prepared mother than I am and she brought a camera to the band concert (AND took video of my son)... I have a video of Isaac at his band concert! :) Thanks, Kim.

ENJOY!!

http://s208.photobucket.com/albums/bb304/kimandhersons/?action=view&current=MOV00096.flv

Why fight it, right? Let's just all be silly!!!

A couple of "Farranderson" pictures... Sam is being a typical Junior Higher and Sarah looks like she's thinking of her happy place (get me AWAY from all these crazies!!)

They're saying "YAAYYY! That was FUN!" :)

Seriously, Mom - get him away from me

Aliya looks thrilled

I wasn't in the room so I don't know but I'm wondering if Julie had some mercy on her daughter and took the BIG bucket away from Ben... :)

Heeeeave... let's try it again (her mommy's not stopping me so it must be okay)

Yeah... let's try this...

Hmmm...

Some cute bathtub pictures of Ben and Aliya... and I just want everyone to know that I was NOT in the room when these pictures were being taken. *I* would have stopped the little boy... ;)

FACEBOOK STATUS UPDATE:
Heather Kenoyer Anderson has just finished baking cupcakes (one at a time) in the microwave and icing them (also one at a time!) using Kate's new "Gourmet Girl" set... and now knows why Santa never brought me an Easy Bake Oven when I was little... b/c MY mom was SMART!!! :)

Here's Kate with her proud smile. We made a total of 5 cupcakes (which took over an hour) and she got to do a lot of licking since we had to refill the icing machine for each cupcake. When we were done we put them in her cupcake carrier to take to her brothers at basketball tonight. :)

I hope she always has fond memories of this experience...

... cuz we're never doing it again.

;) (just kidding)

Thank you, Aunt Tracey for the memory-making toy. (what was I thinking sending you that link?)

It WAS really cute to watch her. When we made the first cupcake, we were both surprised that it baked in the microwave and she yelled when she saw it "that is AMAZING!!" :) Then, right after this pic was taken she said "oh, that was so fun! that was awesome! the boys are gonna LOVE this!!" :)

That's my little "gourmet girl." <3

Oh, I forgot that I took some pics during the process... this is before we put the "counter" on top of it but you get the idea. The room in the background will be the new family room but it's serving as the tool room right now. Like how the tree is still up? Todd's parents are coming this weekend to celebrate a late Christmas with us so we couldn't take the tree down! Of course, now it's covered with a lovely white film of drywall dust. We're calling it a fine powdery snow. :) Hmmm... in that case... it snowed all over the entire interior of my house!! :D

Oh, I love it! It's so bright and light. The next day, we worked together and put the black island in place. Maybe I'll post a pic of that later -- but don't hold your breath... I am NOT the blog queen anymore! :) Besides... I'm busy renovating, man!! :)