How many of ME?

Well, since everyone else had to go and do it...call me a copy cat...there are:
421,456 people in the US with my first name (I graduated with 7 others of them) and in case you were wondering, 99.9% of them are female!
932,902 people in the US share my last name...the 10th most popular last name in the US (thanks for the originality, Chris) AND

1311 with my exact name

and if I was still LaPierre, there would only be nine of me! only 6,689 people in the US with that last name!

Lunch With Dad at First Dam

The weather on Monday was just perfect for a picnic lunch at first dam! We picked Chris up from work and headed straight there. I know Betsy has been there and maybe Cris too. Chris was able to drive his boat...his favorite summer activity and the kids and I played...they fed the ducks their lunches and played with sticks in the water. I just LOVE this time of year when we can be outside and not being too hot or too cold...it was perfect and we all had a blast!

Best Places to Live

http://realestate.msn.com/Buying/Article2.aspx?cp-documentid=3863709&GT1=9226
According to this website, Logan, Utah is the 3rd best place to live in the United States. Congrats to Carrie and Mark, Idaho Falls is number 2!

Beautiful Kids!

We couldn't helpl but enjoy this wonderful weather that we've been having...and with the sun being out so bright...what better time to take some pictures of the kids. I kept meaning to get this done, but it was right before dinner before I actually got them sat down for a few pictures...unfortunately, that's not a good time for tired hungry kids....we got maybe one or two good pictures...I love this second picture of Jayden...a little too much love?!

Is It Spring?

The weather has been SOOOO beautiful lately we just could not be inside! On Tuesday we went outside and had a picnic lunch and then we played outside until about 6! yesterday we had to run errands, and today is a little bit cooler, but WOW! This weather is so nice...we are enjoying being out of the house...at least I am.
Yesterday was the first day of futsal practice...I had three girls show up! Maybe we'll have a team this year :) Our thursday's are going to get a little crazy. The Young Women play either at 5 or 6 and the adult women play at 7 and 8 (two games every night). We're gonna try and make it work...I really want to play, so hopefully it will work out that way!

Way to GO!

Chris got a promotion at work...really it's just a change in title..he is now an engineer technician. no change in pay, but it means basically that he knows a lot and that the engineers can hand him a project and all they have to do is just add their calculations and he can do the rest.

More of Chris' Masterpieces

Jaxon's Arsenal

Jaxon absolutely loves his weapons. The other day he was wearing ALL

of them. Two guns in holsters and two swords...one in front, one in the back.

How Crafty are WE?!

So here is our big show and tell. Here are a few pictures of some of our latest creations. I know my "talents" seem very lame when compared side by side with some of the stuff he can do, but here's for being lame! I sewed these two bags last night. the Purple and blue one is for Mykenzie...she LOVES it! the yellow one is my "other" diaper bag. Chris made this coffee table and end table to go in the family room. they match the entertaiment center and surround towers that he made. Anyway...enjoy our braggin :)

Human Snowman

The other day the kids thought they'd be pretty funny and dressed each other up in the snowman stuff. Here are some pictures from their great fun!

Curlie Q

So yesterday for church, Mykenzie wanted her hair "like Abby's" (a little neighbor girl who has really long naturally curly hair). So Mykenzie and I spent about half and hour in the bathroom and only one burn and one bribe later, she turned out like this! Is that not SOOO cute! She looked so cute yesterday at church in her pink shirt and skirt (thank you sarah for the help picking that one out for Christmas!). We've also been teaching Mykenzie to learn how to accept a compliment. Every time you tell her that she is pretty she gets mad and says, "I'm not pretty!" After a lot of compliments and even more teaching now she says either, "Sure!" or "Thank you!" Yesterday at church, Bishop Crafts told her she looked pretty in pink and she just hid behind chris! Funny little girlie. Yesterday morning at breakfast Jaxon said, "Mom, I'm trying to do a new trick. Look at me." I watched as he attempted to stick his spoon in his ear. I asked him what he was doing and he said, "I'm trying to stick my spoon in my ear and then take it out of the other side!" Here's to children's entertainment that has my 4 year old thinking you can really stick a spoon through your head!

Boy Time

OK, so we had Jayden laughing really good last night so we had to get the camera out to get it recorded. So of course, we had to have some more fun with it. Jaxon "needed" to have his picture taken, so here we are :)

the Rantings of Nicole

OH, I am so mad I think I just might explode! I have never had my intelligence so insulted in my entire life. I know I'm no genius, but really! This lady had to think I was a child to think I could be as stupid as she was assuming I was! For as long as we've lived in our house, our mortgage company has paid our taxes and insurance. We refinanced not too long ago and now we pay. I have NEVER..in 5 years ever ONCE received a tax statement. I always assumed that it just got sent to whoever paid it. I assumed this fall that my old mortgage company must have paid it, since we didn't receive a statement. Anyway, that obviously wasn't the case. I had to call the Cache County Assessors office to find out why we've never received a bill. This woman told me that (and this really is exactly what she said), "Maybe you threw it away." Ummm, yeah, everthing that says "assessors office" right in the recycle...why would i need that? Then she tells me that maybe the post office messed up...yeah for the last five years, the post office has been able to deliver everything BUT that...they are keeping a collection of them...just for a joke, I'm sure. they have a stash of 15 or so letters from the assessors office just for fun 'cause they get bored up there. they thought they'd make a joke of the anderson family. HELLO?!?! maybe there is just something wrong with your program...maybe for some reason it hasn't been getting sent?! AHHH! I just want to scream. I don't think anyone can be as dumb as this lady was suggesting I am. The government always does everything right and with how many thousands of bills that they send out at least twice every year, yup, the mistake must definitely be on my part!

Camera Crazy

OK, so Chris went a little camera crazy last night while i was getting dinner ready. Here we are having fun! Jayden is now 7 months old and fairly close to cutting that first tooth. He's getting so big! They are ALL getting so big!