Thanksgiving 2022
3 years ago
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Boise
Well I guess time has come for me to blog again. I know I have been a major slacker lately and I will try harder to blog more frequently. High School ball just got over and that is what I have been busy with every day since the middle of August. It was stressful as always, but we did end up winning one more game than last year which was an improvement. I don't believe I will be returning next year due to having 3 kids and the time commitment it is. Club is just a whole lot easier for our family as the practices are later at night and thus allows Peter to be home to be with the kids rather than having to hire a babysitter. Club ball tryouts are in 2 weeks so it should be interesting to see who ends up on our team. This year we are getting a new group of girls of which we don't really know any of them so it makes for an exciting time where we don't end up having to deal with politics and such.
Andrew started preschool in September and has been going twice a week since. It is a co-op and so I teach every 4 or so weeks. It is nice to have a break and only have one child to worry about for 4 hours a week. Andrew is loving it and they are going to a Pumpkin Patch on Thursday and he can't wait. This year Andrew has requested to be a ghost for Halloween so I took a white sheet and made a very homemade costume for him. It is not great looking to say the least but he loves it and has to wear it at least once a day. Andrew have their first Halloween date with our babysitters who asked if they could take the boys trick or treating on Halloween for us. Peter jumped at the chance to not have to go. Beck will be Batman btw.
Peter is working hard and getting alot of new opportunities. They sent him a few weeks ago to Salem area to attend a conference all by himself to try to get their name out there in that area. He is also heading up looking into and researching some stuff in the Vancouver area. Very exciting but we never know what will end up happening. He still travels weekly to the Sun Valley area for a project and will probably continue to do so until early December.
The pregnancy is going well. I will be 14 weeks tomorrow and finally in the 2nd trimester. We find out around the first week in December what the sex of the baby is. It is getting closer and closer and I am impatient. I want to know now!
Mom and Dad will be heading over here for Thanksgiving and we are very excited to have them come. It is always fun to have family come to visit(hint hint) and especially at the holidays. We will be heading to Cali for Christmas to hang with Peter's parents in Atwater. They just bought a new bigger house so it will be fun to have more room to run around.
We love you all and miss you. It was so nice to see all the ones that we did back in September. We hope to see some of you soon.
Love,
Anne
Friday, August 28, 2009
Boise
It has been quite a while since we have posted on here. Life has been busy with volleyball beginning and ending of summer. Andrew's birthday went well. He was so excited for his fire truck cake and had such a fun day. Thank you to all who sent gifts. They were very much appreciated. By the way Dave and Adina, Andrew now refers to the Harry and the Terrible Whatzit book as the Whats up book. We try to correct him but he is just so cute when he says it. Andrew has gotten back on his bike now and rides it quite often and he is getting very good at it. He now likes to ride it to the store and back on our walks to the store. He is such a big kid.
Beck is growing up daily and is so much fun to watch. He gets so excited about stuff now and constantly goes "OOO OOO OOO" when he sees something he is excited about. We also are beginning to have fights with him saying I Love you back and forth. It is amazing to see how much he is talking and understanding things.
We are beginning Andrew in a preschool co-op starting in 1 1/2 weeks. He asks me everyday if he can go to preschool. Needless to say, I don't think we will have a problem getting him to go.
We sold Peter's truck to one of Peter's coworker and have now joined the pack with a plasma tv and mini laptop. We are moving up in the world. We are now a one car family and Peter is enjoying riding his bike to work on the days he doesn't have the company truck.
Volleyball has started and we had a rough start yesterday with a loss in 3 games to our rivals. We were getting alot of bad calls from the ref and so in the 3rd game, the girl who is the head coach got herself ejected from the game. Now it is up in the air as to whether she will be able to coach the team on Tuesday. If not, I will be the head coach for the day. Luckily these games don't count towards the record for placement in Districts so hopefully the girls will pick up our play and play like the team we see in practice.
We are continuing our training for the half marathon and are very excited to head home for a few days for Labor day weekend. We will be getting there by Friday afternoon and staying through Monday. It is great that we get to see you all two times this month.
Anyways, there it is finally after a month hiatus. We love you all and can't wait to see you soon!
-Anne
Beck is growing up daily and is so much fun to watch. He gets so excited about stuff now and constantly goes "OOO OOO OOO" when he sees something he is excited about. We also are beginning to have fights with him saying I Love you back and forth. It is amazing to see how much he is talking and understanding things.
We are beginning Andrew in a preschool co-op starting in 1 1/2 weeks. He asks me everyday if he can go to preschool. Needless to say, I don't think we will have a problem getting him to go.
We sold Peter's truck to one of Peter's coworker and have now joined the pack with a plasma tv and mini laptop. We are moving up in the world. We are now a one car family and Peter is enjoying riding his bike to work on the days he doesn't have the company truck.
Volleyball has started and we had a rough start yesterday with a loss in 3 games to our rivals. We were getting alot of bad calls from the ref and so in the 3rd game, the girl who is the head coach got herself ejected from the game. Now it is up in the air as to whether she will be able to coach the team on Tuesday. If not, I will be the head coach for the day. Luckily these games don't count towards the record for placement in Districts so hopefully the girls will pick up our play and play like the team we see in practice.
We are continuing our training for the half marathon and are very excited to head home for a few days for Labor day weekend. We will be getting there by Friday afternoon and staying through Monday. It is great that we get to see you all two times this month.
Anyways, there it is finally after a month hiatus. We love you all and can't wait to see you soon!
-Anne
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Happy Birthday Andrew
We are so glad we have you in our family. We love you dude!
Love, Mom, Dad, and Beck
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Boise
Our month of July has been a crazy busy one with so much going on. We had a blast at Lake Shasta and I think you all can say that it was so much fun. Andrew still asks daily if we are going house boating and throws many fits when we tell him we are not going. He also goes around asking where Parker, Taylor and Papa are. That week will be a week to remember in our house and we can’t believe it will be a while until we will see you all again.
Our month has also been filled with many throwing up episodes. The week after we got back from Lake Shasta, Beck got a fever and threw up a couple times. The next week it was Andrew’s turn. He threw up once in his makeshift bed next to our bed and then he threw up the next day in the car as I was pulling out of the garage to go to a volleyball tournament. This last week was a combined effort from Beck and Andrew, starting with Beck throwing up the first night we were in Utah. Andrew then proceeded to throw up later in the week, randomly, while playing with his cousins. On our drive home Saturday, He decided to throw up in the car after both lunch and dinner and has thrown up a couple times since we have been home. Peter does not handle throw up well, so needless to say I was in charge of cleaning up with some effort from Peter but definitely not much. I think I have come to the conclusion that Heavenly Father gave me a nose and sense of smell that does not allow me to really smell the throw up while cleaning it up so it does not bother me. That is enough of the throw up talk.
I played in a grass volleyball tourney the weekend after we got back from Shasta and ended up coming in 2nd. We were running it as a fundraiser for our school team and we had a pretty good turnout. We are hoping next year and the years to come will be more successful so we can get some good competition out there.
We headed to Utah last week to have a reunion with Peter’s family. It was the first time in a while that everyone was there for the reunion so it was fun. Peter was able to go mountain biking at Sundance and hike Mt. Timpanogos while I was able to go see Harry Potter and go wakeboarding. I successfully changed my feet a couple times and was pretty proud of myself. We all hiked to a waterfall one of the days and that was fun. There was lots of hanging out with the in laws and Andrew and Beck playing with cousins. Peter was able to run the “Toughest 10K in Utah” up at Soldier Hollow on the Saturday we left. He placed 5th in his age group and 32nd overall out of like 100 plus people. I was proud of him especially since he hadn’t really been running other than a couple times in the weeks preceding the race.
Now we are finally home and we are winding down from a busy month. We have Andrew’s birthday on Thursday and he is definitely excited for his cake. He asks every day for his fire truck cake which we ordered for his birthday. We got him a bike early as Peter wanted to take it on the trip with us. The second day we had it; Andrew took too sharp of a turn and fell face first into the concrete. He cut up his lip and scratched up his face. It has all healed now but he would not get on the bike without force while we were in Utah. He has ridden it twice on his own since we have been home and he is warming up to the bike again. He just refuses to go down the driveway since that is pretty much how it happened.
Volleyball starts back up on the 14th of August so summer is winding down for us. We had so much fun this summer and so glad we were able to do all that we did. We love you all and thank you for making the Shasta trip such a great one.
Our month has also been filled with many throwing up episodes. The week after we got back from Lake Shasta, Beck got a fever and threw up a couple times. The next week it was Andrew’s turn. He threw up once in his makeshift bed next to our bed and then he threw up the next day in the car as I was pulling out of the garage to go to a volleyball tournament. This last week was a combined effort from Beck and Andrew, starting with Beck throwing up the first night we were in Utah. Andrew then proceeded to throw up later in the week, randomly, while playing with his cousins. On our drive home Saturday, He decided to throw up in the car after both lunch and dinner and has thrown up a couple times since we have been home. Peter does not handle throw up well, so needless to say I was in charge of cleaning up with some effort from Peter but definitely not much. I think I have come to the conclusion that Heavenly Father gave me a nose and sense of smell that does not allow me to really smell the throw up while cleaning it up so it does not bother me. That is enough of the throw up talk.
I played in a grass volleyball tourney the weekend after we got back from Shasta and ended up coming in 2nd. We were running it as a fundraiser for our school team and we had a pretty good turnout. We are hoping next year and the years to come will be more successful so we can get some good competition out there.
We headed to Utah last week to have a reunion with Peter’s family. It was the first time in a while that everyone was there for the reunion so it was fun. Peter was able to go mountain biking at Sundance and hike Mt. Timpanogos while I was able to go see Harry Potter and go wakeboarding. I successfully changed my feet a couple times and was pretty proud of myself. We all hiked to a waterfall one of the days and that was fun. There was lots of hanging out with the in laws and Andrew and Beck playing with cousins. Peter was able to run the “Toughest 10K in Utah” up at Soldier Hollow on the Saturday we left. He placed 5th in his age group and 32nd overall out of like 100 plus people. I was proud of him especially since he hadn’t really been running other than a couple times in the weeks preceding the race.
Now we are finally home and we are winding down from a busy month. We have Andrew’s birthday on Thursday and he is definitely excited for his cake. He asks every day for his fire truck cake which we ordered for his birthday. We got him a bike early as Peter wanted to take it on the trip with us. The second day we had it; Andrew took too sharp of a turn and fell face first into the concrete. He cut up his lip and scratched up his face. It has all healed now but he would not get on the bike without force while we were in Utah. He has ridden it twice on his own since we have been home and he is warming up to the bike again. He just refuses to go down the driveway since that is pretty much how it happened.
Volleyball starts back up on the 14th of August so summer is winding down for us. We had so much fun this summer and so glad we were able to do all that we did. We love you all and thank you for making the Shasta trip such a great one.
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