Anderson Family

Monday, November 16, 2009

Such a fun date...

I have such a great husband! I'm sure you already knew that but you'll know why again after I finish this post. He took me on such a fun date last Friday. But first a little background...last month I helped Dallin make an art project at his school. They made ceramic leaf bowls and I thought they were awesome. Dallin brought home his finished product and I liked it so much I asked him if I could put it on our mantle for a while. This is what it looks like:

The other night I commented to James that I wished I could make one for myself. So on Friday he arranged to take me to a ceramic studio where we could make our own ceramic projects. When he emailed me about it Friday afternoon I was so excited. I hurried out to see if I could find any giant leaves to use as templates for my own leaf bowl. I thought it was a long shot with how late in the season it is but I found some! Yeah! Here are some pictures of us at the ceramic studio:

Here's me being cheesy...Can you tell how much fun I was having?

Here is James cutting out the shape of the leaf.

And here we are together with our finished projects. We made one big leaf plate, two small ones and one medium one. It was so much fun. I just think it was so amazing that James took me to do this. Ceramics isn't really his thing so that made it even more special because I knew he was doing it just for me. He's really great!

Then to top it off he gave me an early Christmas present too. He signed me up to take a glass blowing class on December 12th. That is the best present ever! I have wanted to try glass blowing for such a long time! I just can't wait!!! We went to Thanksgiving Point on Saturday and watched one of the classes for a while. It was so fun and I can't wait to try it.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Funny little Cody

I really got a kick out of looking at all the funny faces Cody made when I was trying to get an individual shot of him. I thought it would be fun to put together a slideshow of his different faces. He's such a funny little kid...

Funny Quotes

I was really tired one afternoon so I flopped down on the couch and said, "I'm pooped out!" Cody came over and snuggled up to me on the couch and said, "I'm having poop time too!" July 2009
When I told the kids that James was going to be going to California, Cody sat up straight and excitedly said, "Like Lightening McQueen! He went to California!" October 2009
The other day James said to Cody, "How's my buddy?" Cody got a very serious look on his face and said, "Name's Tody!" (He still can't pronounce C's very well.) The only things he will let us call him, other than his name, is big boy or funny kid.
When we were first potty training Cody he said he needed to go to the bathroom during sacrament meeting at church. So I took him to the bathroom and sure enough he did his business in the toilet. This was one of the first times he ever did poops in the toilet so he was really excited. When we walked back into sacrament meeting (we were sitting near the front of the chapel) he loudly proclamed "Daddy, I did giant poops in the toilet!" December 2008
Cody comes up with cute names for things. Mostly because he has troubles prononcing some of his letters. Some of my favorite names are "Daddy's Toke-Toke" for Coke, "Dr. Seuse" for Dr. Pepper, the "lurnal" for urinal, and "peanutbutter jam" for peanutbutter mixed with honey in a bowl.
Shelby had a hard time saying her G's when she was little. So we were working with her on how to say Grandma. She could make a growling sound pretty well, so we we had her growl then say grandma, so she used her best growling voice to say "GRRRR AMA"
The sun was shining in Cody's eyes the other day and he pointed at it and said, "Mommy, that circle is burnin' my eyes!" January 2009
Heres a list of funny words our kids have come up with for things: Fwaps (Cody's word for patting Darcy's back), bednight snacks, square noodles (ramen noodles), peeps, giant poops, dishwasher (Cody says this is where we wash clothes), low-low (lawn mower), regular grandma (Shelby's way of describing the difference between Great Grandma and her (regular) Grandma, oopadaisy (Shelby)
When we were building our house Shelby and Dallin spent a lot of time here with me working on it. One day when I was putting up the finish trim I couldn't find the hammer. I was looking all over for it and just didn't have any luck finding it. Shelby (2 yrs old) made two fists with her little hands and said, "It's okay Mommy, you can use my bammers!" November 2005
When Dallin was 1 yr old, he used to love making car noises. His favorite noise to make was the sound of tires screeching and then a crash. So EVERY time we would apply the brakes in the car we would hear his little voice from the back seat..."errrr kshhhh"
When Dallin was about 3 years old, he always liked to sit between James and I on the couch. But his way of saying it was cute. He would say "Can I sit in the tween of you?"
When Dallin was about 4 years old, I let him and Shelby skip naps because we needed to go somewhere. As we were driving on the road Dallin said, "Wow, look at all these people who are skipping naps too!" I guess he thought everyone had naps during the afternoon! Summer 2005