Welcome, Sunshine!

Jill arrived and brought us some golden sunshine! Now can I get on with my life, Mrs. Mom-to-be tagger?

Stomach Contents

Just thought I would share the contents of my stomach as well!
(OK, this is actually a test post more-or-less to make sure the blog still works.)

P.S.

I've started to get into my personal blog a little more too so I'm just letting you all know that I've posted a few new things on Anderson Adventures as well and will do that more for all those of you interested in knowing and who can't get enough of me on the family blog :)>

IT's a .......

baby :). It's a healthy baby boy as far as anyone can tell, pretty sure on the boy part it was obvious. He kept moving around a lot though so it was hard to get good pictures and these are more from a skeletel view but all looked good and the blood test for problems came back all negative and good too, so I'm very happy to know that. Happy to report that you all will have another nephew or Grandson. I honestly was happy either way not feeling too strong one way or another and was I guess leaning very slightly towards girl since I knew Thain wanted that a little more but we are both happy and I think it will be great having a boy for a lot of reasons as would have been for a girl for a lot of reasons. :). I'm feeling like I want to meet him and hold him more and more as I watch these baby stories on TLC...Anyhow wanted to give you all the happy news. Hope all is well. Love you. Jill and Thain

Great Family Times in February!

Ooooops! This belongs at the bottom with the baptism pictures, but I have no clue as to how to get it there~~~
When Cynthia visited with me while Dad was in Reno, she and I trained the ants to march in a line on the wall! They loved the reward so much they took it back to their nest and we never saw them again. It was really quite entertaining! (No, I have not "lost it"! ) Dad lost $100. bucks, though, when we bet on a word spoken by one of the Bachelor Jason's remaining four girls. We had tivoed the episode and were going to depend on your hearing it and determining the winner. However my hairdresser suggested we read the close captioned version! Yea!!!!!
Colby, Brianna, and Aiden looking for clues in a scavenger hunt inspired by Jill's blog. They were a great team! We all had fun while they stayed with us when John and Cris celebrated their anniversary at the B & B where they spent their wedding night!
Need I say it was mighty cold outside in Mantua?
Nate, Thain, and kids had quite a nerf war, which Jill, Jen, and I joined in before the evening was over!
Jill was our leader with Jen stepping in her footsteps and me in theirs. We all got wet feet and pant legs!
Jill, Jennifer, and I drove to Snowbasin to see Chateau Renaissance which we have reserved for this summer's family vacation. We walked around the house and peeked in the windows. Thain is excited about sharing with us all the possibilities for activities around there!
A very grown-up Emily with her proud parents in her beautiful dress made by her Mom for her baptism. Jill gave a touching and inspiring talk about the Holy Ghost.
Nate baptized and confirmed her with special and moving words, and Jen - at the last minute - stepped in to play the piano through out because a friend didn't show up!

What's your vote?

Check out the Blainefam blog to see a happy Valentine message, and to meet Soap.



Do you recognize these budding actors? We went to a children's museum and both Ben and Emily were chosen for parts during their story play. It was very cute of course.

Nate and I have decided on an anniversary trip to Cancun. We are excited about the beautiful beaches to snorkel in, the warm weather, seeing the ruins, and having some R&R thanks to Mom and Dad! We have finally narrowed down our search to three all inclusive resorts. Help us decide by voting for your favorite... I already emailed Mom about it, but it would be fun to hear your responses as well dear fam.

1. Palace

2. Dreams Tulum

3. Riviera Maya

Expedia had the best prices for two of the resorts, bookit.com had the best deal for the other one. We looked up lots of reviews from other sites as well, and that's how we narrowed our search. Thanks for your input!

Anderson's latests..

WEll it has been a while so I thought I would post something though I have nothing too new or exciting to post. :). I'm still no better at these blog formatings then before. I need Justin or Jeremy to give me some lessons :). there's a picture of Amber, Heath and their friends doing a valentines scavenger hunt I put on for them Wednesday and then some pictures from Mexico of Thain and I. We didn't take too many and I didn't like most of the ones we have of me but it was a nice trip we went snorkeling here at this spot the pictures are taken, and we also 4 wheeled here and a bunch of places which was pretty fun. The last 3 pictures are of me, Jen and her good friend Heidi, tubing down their tube hill after we cross country skiid last week. It was fun and I thought the pictures funny..........what the grownups do when the kids are at school :)..........much probably what kids think they might do but usually don't :).

All is really good here for the Anderson's, we are bieng really lazy mostly. Last monday we had a drs appointment the 16 week one and everything looked normal and good so that's good....the baby was moving around a lot and moving it's arms a bit. We get to find out March 4th if it's a boy or girl and have the big ultrasound where they check everything closely. The pregnancy is going good too, still some bleck moments and days and I get fatter and fatter and miss bieng able to do more adventurous things but am very happy to have this experience of bieng pregnant and look forward to meeting our little one down the road :). Well that's all that's new or not new here....just wanted to check in as it's been a while. Hope everyone is doing great and Get Posting more :). Love ya all!