It seems like whenever I post something on here it always seems to have something about William. Not that the rest of us haven't done anything noteworthy-he's just the main humor in our lives at the moment...
So he comes home from preschool the other day with a cute book his teacher had made claiming him as the VIP for the day. It had pages all about him in it. Well, as I was looking through it I get to a page where the teacher has written his full name in apparently after asking him what it was. In colorful marker it says William Butch Anderson. No, Butch is not a family name nor a name we felt inclined to give our child.After picking myself off the floor from laughter I realized why she wrote that. For some reason all of my kids one time or another have gotten confused about their middle name with one of their siblings. Heck, Mitchell was Mitchell Diane for a while until we finally got it through his head Diane was his sisters middle name not his! :) Anyway William says when asked his middle name is Birch-which Is Mitchell's middle name (my maiden name). William doesn't say his R's so yes I could totally see after hearing Birch thinking it would be Butch when it is said with no R's. He has been known as Butch around here lately always with peals of laughter as we say it.
By the way, William's real middle name-Fredrik!:)
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
What is Happening
It's what the 12th of January? Ok so as we are not too far into the New Year I thought I would share some things from the past year-especially as I never did Christmas cards-sorry! Never got put on my list so it never got done!
Anyway, as most of you know Kirk has been in school at the University of Phoenix on-line and had his first break in a year when he had his 2 week break during Christmas. He is majoring in Business Management and will have his Associates at the end of this July, take a couple week break and on to his Bachelor's. It's definitely a commitment of time and money but we both have felt very strongly this is what he is supposed to be doing and he is where he is supposed to be. He is still with Lowe's and that again is another one of those things that we seriously didn't think he would be there that long and thought of only as a temporary place but as a year is approaching we feel again that is where is supposed to be right now for all reasons not known to us at the moment. It's sure as heck , most definitely not for the money but we are blessed with the things we need. He is still over the elder's Quorum at church.
I still am working part-time for IRI which I love and works well with our schedules as I can basically work when I want to and I usually don't work over 10 hours a week. I am still the 2nd counselor in the young women's at church over tthe Beehives-which I love-but I actually am just starting with a new Presidency. Then with any other time I have I being a wife, mom etc... Life of course is not perfect but I am at peace and I have joy.
Mackenzie is 9 1/2 and in the 4th grade. She is doing well but we think is already starting to go through the teenage angst trying to figure out why she is feeling this way etc.. We love her and that she is our daughter. She is a lot of fun. Oh and did I mention how tall she is? She is 5'2" and now wears the same show size as me-size 9. yes, she definitely takes after Kirk's side!
Mitchell who is 7, is in 1st grade and enjoying school. He is in between soccer right now but still manages to exert all his energy somehow, somewhere! He turns 8 this October which is a big thing as he will be baptized. I can't believe how fast my son is growing up!( all my kids actually)
William is 4 and in pre-school. He will be 5 in July and will be in Kindergarten this fall. All my kids will be in school-what a different time in life that will be! As you can tell from the other posts, he is our entertainer and keeps us laughing a lot.
Anyway, as most of you know Kirk has been in school at the University of Phoenix on-line and had his first break in a year when he had his 2 week break during Christmas. He is majoring in Business Management and will have his Associates at the end of this July, take a couple week break and on to his Bachelor's. It's definitely a commitment of time and money but we both have felt very strongly this is what he is supposed to be doing and he is where he is supposed to be. He is still with Lowe's and that again is another one of those things that we seriously didn't think he would be there that long and thought of only as a temporary place but as a year is approaching we feel again that is where is supposed to be right now for all reasons not known to us at the moment. It's sure as heck , most definitely not for the money but we are blessed with the things we need. He is still over the elder's Quorum at church.
I still am working part-time for IRI which I love and works well with our schedules as I can basically work when I want to and I usually don't work over 10 hours a week. I am still the 2nd counselor in the young women's at church over tthe Beehives-which I love-but I actually am just starting with a new Presidency. Then with any other time I have I being a wife, mom etc... Life of course is not perfect but I am at peace and I have joy.
Mackenzie is 9 1/2 and in the 4th grade. She is doing well but we think is already starting to go through the teenage angst trying to figure out why she is feeling this way etc.. We love her and that she is our daughter. She is a lot of fun. Oh and did I mention how tall she is? She is 5'2" and now wears the same show size as me-size 9. yes, she definitely takes after Kirk's side!
Mitchell who is 7, is in 1st grade and enjoying school. He is in between soccer right now but still manages to exert all his energy somehow, somewhere! He turns 8 this October which is a big thing as he will be baptized. I can't believe how fast my son is growing up!( all my kids actually)
William is 4 and in pre-school. He will be 5 in July and will be in Kindergarten this fall. All my kids will be in school-what a different time in life that will be! As you can tell from the other posts, he is our entertainer and keeps us laughing a lot.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Season greetings!
Another Christmas has come and gone and we all hope that anyone who sees this had an enjoyable time with friends and family and felt the true spirit of the holiday.
We had a great time spending Christmas Eve with my parents by going to see "Bolt" in the theater and going to McGrath's for dinner and ending up at their house to open presents. Of course if was back home to open PJ's and on to bed, for the kids that is! Wrapping for Santa presents didn't take too long and the long awaited day came. After opening presents here and having an enjoyable relaxing morning, it was back to My parents for dinner. My sister Bettie and her family gave my parents a webcam for Christmas so Kirk got that hooked up on their end and Voila! modern technology at its finest! It was kind of strange seeing each other on the computer talking to each other as in person-although you are 1,000 miles away!
This weekend ends our Christmas celebrations with a big bang. We have Kirk's family party tomorrow from 10-2 and then we are going to stay at a hotel in salt lake thanks to Kirk's brother Kevin as he has ton of points through work. So as he and his family will be staying there also we will go to dinner and see the lights on Temple square. Sunday go to church and back to my parents (hope they won't be too sick of us! :)).
This time right after Christmas always makes me pause and think about the year that is ending and the year to come as with many other people I'm sure. I know I have been very blessed with a wonderful, loving, caring husband and 3 beautiful children and family and friends that are close by that the kids get to know and love also. Most of all I want to express my love and appreciation for my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. What a blessing it is to know I am truly a daughter of God! His hand is in my life every day through it all.
More to come with pictures
We had a great time spending Christmas Eve with my parents by going to see "Bolt" in the theater and going to McGrath's for dinner and ending up at their house to open presents. Of course if was back home to open PJ's and on to bed, for the kids that is! Wrapping for Santa presents didn't take too long and the long awaited day came. After opening presents here and having an enjoyable relaxing morning, it was back to My parents for dinner. My sister Bettie and her family gave my parents a webcam for Christmas so Kirk got that hooked up on their end and Voila! modern technology at its finest! It was kind of strange seeing each other on the computer talking to each other as in person-although you are 1,000 miles away!
This weekend ends our Christmas celebrations with a big bang. We have Kirk's family party tomorrow from 10-2 and then we are going to stay at a hotel in salt lake thanks to Kirk's brother Kevin as he has ton of points through work. So as he and his family will be staying there also we will go to dinner and see the lights on Temple square. Sunday go to church and back to my parents (hope they won't be too sick of us! :)).
This time right after Christmas always makes me pause and think about the year that is ending and the year to come as with many other people I'm sure. I know I have been very blessed with a wonderful, loving, caring husband and 3 beautiful children and family and friends that are close by that the kids get to know and love also. Most of all I want to express my love and appreciation for my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. What a blessing it is to know I am truly a daughter of God! His hand is in my life every day through it all.
More to come with pictures
Friday, December 19, 2008
William
(William insisted I take this picture with his underwear on his head! )
I don't know maybe it's the third and last child thing but our William is definitely the one that entertains us. I was blow drying my hair today and as I am finished I look out into my bedroom and thre is Will with a pair of his spiderman underwear on his head bouncing around my bed. When he realized I saw him he laughed and said he wanted to wear them when we went out to do our errands! The funny thing about this is that there were no other kids to "egg" him on he just did it- because!
So we made it out in to the snowstorm and within half an hour he says things like "what if we drove our car up stairs?", "What if someone put on a Mickey Mouse head?". my favorite "mom what if I was in a movie and you saw me on TV? me-"I don't know-I think I would know if you were in a movie" Will-"Yeah (laughing)dad and I would be in it and we would shake our booties at you! " That's william-just random thoughts!
Our lives would be so boring without him!
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Kirk's"Piggies"
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As you can see by Kirk's foot,it's seen better days but when it was his choice you can't feel too bad for him-just a little! :)
Kirk has what's called hammer toes where his toes don't lie flat (thanks to genetics!)so he heard about a study they were doing where they would operate on your toes so that they can test a different way to administrate a pain medication. It was definitely one of those "window of opportunities" as they pay him to do the surgery and follow up which was done by a podiatrist in Salt Lake.
I suppose Kirk and I were pretty naive as it coems to recovery time for these things though because we were thinking that he would be out of work 1 week-ha! Now he has been instructed to stay home for the 3rd week now! His toes are healing wonderfully but it has some infection due to the nature of the surgery since he has 3 sets of stiches close together going down his 3 middle toes. What's driving him crazy is well, first of all he can't drive so I do everywhere and he can't move as fast or be on his feet for very long.
Was it worth it? Well ask him in a couple of weeks...!
Friday, December 5, 2008
Ella the Escape Artist
This is Ella our hamster that the kids bought this summer. For the most part she is great to have but I have to admit hamsters are waayyy smarter than I ever thought they were! She has escaped about 4 times now and by now we know that when she does she will be back soon looking for food/water so we don't stress too much until this past week. Since she has escaped she is always trying to get out of her cage and she somehow manages to pop one of the plastic covers off.
Well, the beginning of this week she escaped and was gone for a full day until at 1am Kirk and I hear "scritch, scratch" coming from our dresser in our bedroom! Kirk has had foot surgery (more to come on that) so he couldn't investigate so I am carefully opening drawers and I look down and there she is looking up at me like "what are we looking for?". glad that I found her without smooshing her I put her back and all is well. Well she liked that idea a little too much and last night about 12:30 am I wake up to "scritch,scratch" from our dresser-again! After a while of chasing her down I get her and put her back and we shut our bedroom door all the way. Half an hour later what do I wake up to again? scritch,scratch from our dresser AGAIN!!! She had squeezed underneath our door and went back to our dresser! I thought my early morning times had been in the past now that my kids are older! UUGGHHH Back she goes again and Kirk hobbled after me and we finally "secured" her escape hatches. I didn't know hamsters were so much like kids.
And to think the kids want a dog now......
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