It's been a while.

Okay, I know that it has been awhile since I last posted (Kelly keeps reminding me and Katie I haven't forgotten about the tag). So here goes, hopefully I will feel caught up enough to keep up before the baby is born. I am going to do one big post and try to get everything in.

Dancing with the Utah Stars!!!

My Papa is awesome! He was invited to participate in Utah's dancing with the Stars for recovery. It is a charity event that takes Utah "Celebrities" ( my Dad is a county commisioner) and pairs them with B.Y.U. ballroom dancers. They are assigned a dance and have to compete in front of judges and an audience. My Dad had to do the foxtrot and he ws incredible! The crowd went wild over him!! He took second place out of everyone and I personally think that if were only up to the crowd he would have won the entire thing!! My girls were especially excited because his partner looked exactly like Giselle from "enchanted". So Molly and Leah were telling everyone that "Giselle" flew in from New York to dance with thier Bompa.

Way to go Daddy!

Grandpa, "Gisele", Leah and Molly
"Dance Grandpa Dance"

School's out!

Molly and Leah had thier end of school field day at thier preschool and all I took pictures of was thier facepainting!! It was such a cute day and I am feeling guilty for not taking more pictures. They has a bouncy house, and all of these different stations where the kids could paint, make jewelry, play with play-dough, shaving cream art and a ton of other stuff. They they had a big B-B-Q and passed out yearbooks. I love this preschool!
Face Painting
Leg painting

Gardening

I love having a garden. I really like planting and taking care of it, growing our own vegetables and eating and canning them. There is something about it that is very fufilling to me. This year (sigh) I knew that I would not be able to have a garden llike I wanted, so my cute family stepped up and planted my garden for me as part of my Mother's Day! This is especially wonderful because Nate HATES gardening! He completely took over and did a way better job than I ever have. He put down weed-stop and made special rows and our garden looks fantastic! I am so grateful for my little family, they take the best car of me!
They make a great team!
Leah and her Daddy

The "Man Hike"

Every year Nate and a group of guys all come together from several different states and go on a "Man Hike" (that is the official name). They take off with little gear, sleep in crappy hotels, and go on all of these different hikes. We have a friend who puts all of this together (thanks Tyler) and sends out all of the information. Nate looks forward to it all year. This year I don't know the names of the hikes that they went on, but I do know that they went on the hike where the guy (Aaron Ralston?) got stuck and had to cut his own arm off. I love that Nate does this and has something that is just for him. He is such a great husband and Daddy and he probably deserves eight more of these a year!!!!

Grandpa

Some of you know that my Grandma Anderson is really sick. She only has a few months left and is ready to be reunited with my Grandpa who passed on 20 years ago. They lived in Idaho and that is where he has been buried. They only thing that is bothering my Grandma is that she wants to be buried close to her kids and her sweetheart. She has been living in Springville for several years so that she will be close to my parents. Well, nothing is impossible. My parents had my Grandpa's body transfered to the Mapleton cemetary last month. We had a redeication and a really nice little memorial service for my Grandpa. My Grandma feels so much better about everything and knows that she and my Grandpa will be close to family.

Here are a few pictures.

My Dad, his two sisters and my Grandma
Remembering
"where are they putting great-grandpa?"
Daddy in Grandpa's hat
Abby and Josh