13 lucky years!

How did I get so lucky?  Seriously!  I ask myself that often.  I remember walking out of the temple after getting sealed (married) and I was so darn happy!  I knew that I had just made to best choice in my whole life!  Nathan Karl Anderson I love you!

Boating with Papa

I am trying to post this from the boat. Papa is this very nice to take us all out today.  The weather is perfect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4th of July–Independence Day

We feel so blessed to live in this country.  We are thankful to those who helped establish a country where we are free.  We are thankful to those who have fought and are fighting to defend freedom.  We truly are blessed! Happy Independence Day!

We love to spend time with family on the 4th.  Usually the weather doesn’t cooperate on the 4th in Oregon, but this year was an exception.  The weather was perfect.  So, it was time to play in the water.

Lauren is our little dare devil.  You can see her giving the the thumbs up sign which means speed up! 

It wouldn’t be an outing with Papa if something didn’t go wrong.  Here we are being towed in because we ran out of gas.

Ava fell asleep on the boat.  This is a tradition for all of our kids.  They all slept on the boat when they were little.

Celebrating the 4th involves good food.  Here we have homemade root beer brewing.

Can’t go wrong with Mere manning the grill.

Linda always prepares a spread to rival any other celebration.

I think Mere is asking me if anything is in her teeth!?!

Steph is the family photographer.  Her great pics are found on her Town Hall Blog.

Alice is pretending to hold a “boom box”.  Not sure where she learned that, but that is what we love about Alice…..she is funny!

Spencer’s Baptism

We wanted to congratulate Spencer on his decision to be baptized.  This post is a little late as he was baptized on July 2, 2011. 

He is a great young man and we just love having him in our family.

More details on his baptism here.

Ava keeps us laughing

We have put up a gate to keep Ava from climbing up the stairs.  Leave it to her to try and climb over the gate.  You can see that Tyler is the one that probably trained her. 

We have since removed the gate as she is a pro and getting up and down the stairs now.