The Neal Anderson Family

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Family Pictures

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This Christmas season has been a lot of fun. It started with Connor and Jake going to Arizona to swim with the swim team. They both swam really well and made it back to finals at night. It was fun to see them be each others cheer leaders. They are starting to become good friends (when Connor is beating up on Jake). It was like a vacation having them gone for a couple of days.

I had my book club and dinner club Christmas parties that were tons of fun. It has been such a long time since we have had such a big group for book club.

I'm done with my shopping but know have the work of putting together my preztels for neighbor gifts and wrapping everything. I think that takes as long as the shopping does.

Merry Christmas to all of our family and friends!

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Fall 2010

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This fall has been really fun! We started with Nathan's birthday. He turned five. Followed by Neal's the next day, then Connor turned 14 on October 19th and Jake turned 12 on October 28th.

The boys both won their super bowl playoff games. It is a miracle to our family because Connor has been to every single championship football game since he was 8 and has never won until his final year before playing high school. Both boys had great games. Jake was the center and Connor played numerous positions but his favorite was defensive end. There wasn't one game this season that Connor didn't have a quarterback sack. Nathan also played soccer and Kaylee has decided that her passion is dance, gymnastics, and piano. She just got her back bend down and is so excited.

The past year

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WOW! It has only taken me a year to update my blog! Where to start.... We bought a new house about a mile up the road from our new home in April and finally sold our old home in late September. It has been fun getting involved in our new ward and the kids have made lots of new friends.

We have just been finishing up football and have continued our football tradition of going to the championship games and losing. Both Connor and Jake went to their championship games and lost. They had great season's and it was fun to see them play.

The boys our back swimming again and our once again at the bottom of their age groups. Which is always a little bit hard. Connor and Jake both swam at Far Western's in San Jose this spring. Connor was a state champion swimmer at our state meet and won the IMX swimmer of the year award at the state meet. Jake place fourth overall in his age group.

Kaylee is busy with dance, swim team, and gymnastics. Gymnastics is her favorite activity. Her hand our very calloused from her time spent on the bars at school.

Nathan is our little tease and has finally decided that pre-school is fun. If we could just convince him that Church is fun as well. Every Sunday morning when he see's his church clothes we get the tears and comments. I hate that place. Everything with Nathan is either you love or you hate that.

Happy Halloween

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Kaylee with her school friends.

Jake and is buddy Jantsens. There were Eric
Weddle fans.
Nathan and Connor. Connor was and under armor model.

Our Adorable super man.
The Princess of Everything!!

Here are a few of my favorite Halloween Pictures.

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Nathan had his 3rd birthday on September 29th. He was so cute and loved his presents. Since his birthday both Connor and Jake had there parties. When he would see their presents he would say it's my birthday again and begin to unwrap their presents.

Finally!!!

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It has only taken my six months to update our Blog. I will seriously try to do better in the near future. This summer has been such a fun and crazy summer. It started out with our families trip to San Diego to visit Neal's brother and for Kaylee and I to go to Wicked. We had such a great time. The kids loved La Jolla Cove. They could have spent all day just picking up shells and crashing in the very cold waves. I loved Wicked and Kaylee cried when the witch died. We almost didn't make it due to crazy LA traffic. After San Diego Connor came home and went to BYU football camp. He had the time of his life. It was then time for our first big swim meet of the summer at Cottonwood Heights. The boys had an okay meet but had a great time with all of there swim friends. My biggest adventure this summer was my trip to Forks Washington with my book group. It was so amazing. Forks is one of the most beautiful places and I don't think that I have ever laughed so hard in my entire life. We then went onto state swimming. Where both of the boys had a fantastic meet. They both earned Farr Western qualifying times. Which means they get to swim in San Jose next spring. Yeah!!! It was also the time for Breaking Dawn to be released. I had so much fun at King's English getting my books. I even made the channel 2 news. The boys both had football camp this past week and are enjoying a break from swimming for a couple of weeks while they get ready for football season to begin.

Holiday's with the Anderson's

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It's been a little while since I've updated our blog. Here our some of our Christmas picture's. We did about 2 weeks straight of parties. It was fun but a little crazy. We started on Christmas Eve with a party at Cousin Melanie's. We then headed to Neal's Aunt Connie's house for a big white elephant party. On Christmas day we spent the morning at our house and then went to Neal's parent's home. Santa really spoiled the kids this year and grandpa and grandma Anderson did a good follow-up. Connor and Jake got an x-box 360 with games and paddles from Santa, Kaylee got American girls doll cloths, a scooter and Pet Shops, and Nathan got bit equipment from Santa. Connor and Jake got digital camera's from grandpa and grandma Anderson, Kaylee got Molly the American girl doll, and Nathan got a rocking horse. Grandma Jill got the kids a new wardrobe so all in all they did quite well.

We had a big surprise on the 23rd. We were all hanging out celbrating Neal's brothers Eric's birthday when the door bell rang and Bella and her friend Rob had surprised us by coming for Christmas all the way from Phoniex.

It was really great to see so much family and the only bummer ended up that Neal's brother's house flooded while they were visiting us and they returned home to a mess.

Nathan and Jake at grandma and grandpa's.

Alec, Connor, and Jake being silly.

Kaylee hugging grandpa and thanking him of her favorite gifts. Barbie in a wedding dress.

The highlight of Kaylee's Christmas was mothering her cute cousin Renee (who was visiting from San Diego). The first couple of days Renee thought she was great but by the end of the week she would get nervous when she would see Kaylee.

Connor got a BYU football from his cousin which he thought was great. Especially after there close call at the Las Vegas Bowl. Yes, Connor was in tears and didn't see the last play that won it for the Cougars.
Nathan, Aidan, and Chase playing with their toys.

Nathan and his Cousin Aidan.

Nathan discovered toys this Christmas. He is our first boy to love tractor's and big equipment. Which is good because it means that we have new toys that we can get him.
Bart and Dox on Christmas day.

Murray Swim Meet

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Last weekend the boys had a big swim meet in Murray. They both had an incredible meet. Connor posted 9 new best times and is finally back on board after aging up and struggling a little bit. He picked up two new state cuts in the 200 backstroke and the 50 backstroke. He now has 7 state cuts and only needs to pick up one more for a full count at state. He is very close in his 100 IM and 50 Butterfly. He has a meet next weekend so hopeful he will pick it up then. Now if we could just get him to do his reading homework at night without a fight things we be great.

Jake got his first state cut in the 100 backstroke only to find out one of his turns were not legal and his was DQed! He was very upset but we told him he will get it at the next meet. Jake missed his last two events on Saturday to go to one of his best friends birthday parties. He had a blast at the party so that helped out his sadness.

Hope all is well with all of you! Talk again soon.

BYU vs. Utah game

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Connor, Jake and Derrek getting ready for the big game.

Connor, Jake, Mark (he is Neal's 45 year old Uncle with Down's and he loves BYU as much as Connor does), and Neal went to the BYU vs. Utah game. Connor and Mark sat together in Marks seats and Neal and Jake sat in our seats. Jake was very sad that the Utes lost.

Connor was ecstatic that BYU won. He and Mark charged the field at the end of the game and got pictures with Brian Kehl and Max Hall. They also got to touch the Mountain West trophy. They were very happy boys when they came home.

Thanksgiving weekend

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Thanksgiving weekend was so much fun this year. The kids didn't have school on Wednesday and the boys decided that they would help me get our Christmas decoration out. I love Christmas and I am a bit of an addict when it come to decorating. We put a three trees and pretty much redo the whole house. The boys and Kaylee were a ton of help and we surprised Neal by getting two of the trees up and most of the house decorated while he was at work.

It was our job to bring the pies so Wednesday night and Thursday morning Neal and I made pies. On Thursday afternoon we headed to Sandy to the Loomis's (Neal's Aunt and Uncle's house). We had such a fun relaxing Thanksgiving and the kids were really good. We then came back and the kids all took a swim in grandpa and grandma's pool late that night. Neal's parents pool is outdoor but they heat it through most of the winter and the kids love to swim.

Friday morning I got up at 5:30 and went to my favorite store, Rod Works. It was my first early morning black Friday shopping experience and it was fun. I didn't hit any crazy crowds but did get some great deals. I am about 3/4 of the way done with my shopping. YEAH!!!!
Grandma Jill came down on Friday and spent the day. We did a bit more shopping and then went to dinner for my sister-in-law's birthdy at Magleby's in Provo. It was such a crazy dinner (but a lot of fun). They brought all the food out after a very long wait to everyone but my sister-in-law Brenda whose birthday we were celebrating. She had to wait another 15 minutes after we all got our food for hers. My fish ended up being way undercooked so they had to take it back and I waited with her. They did give us a free desert for our wait and my Chocolate cake was to die for. So, I guess it was okay and we did all have a great laugh.

Saturday was game day and I think in our family it deserves it's very own blog space.

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The Boys room

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As you maybe able to tell from the boys Halloween pictures that Connor is a huge BYU fan and Jake is a big Utah fan. For their birthday we have been decorating their room. Above are the pictures of the room. The Utah emblem still needs the white put in it.

Neal has done an amazing job painting. I can't believe the detail that he is able to do. And the boys are very proud of their room.

who are we?

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I thought that I would tell you a little bit about our family.

Neal works for Nestle Food in Human resources. He is also an amazing artist, has a great sense of humor, and love to collect action figures and comic books. Neal also has a passion for anything and everything Disney. He especially loves the DisneyLand.

Connor loves everything BYU. He hopes to either swim or play football for them someday. He is a great athlete. He swims for the UVRAY's is currently one of the best freestyle swimmers his age in the state. He loves football as well. He's team went the super bowl and lost for the second straight year. He was pretty uspet about that. He is very social and always has friends around.
And earned his Arrow of light in cub scouting this past fall.

Jake love everything University of Utah. He is a great student and also loves sports. He started swimming for the UVRAY's this past spring and is very close to getting his state cuts. He is also in Karate and working toward being a black belt someday. He also plays football, basketball, baseball and swimming. Jake works very hard in school and is very diligent about doing well in everything he pursues.

Kaylee is our fun loving artist. She draws on everything. No matter how mad mom gets. She also loves dance and gymnastics. In kindergarten she has been learning to read and has really taken to it. She is always trying to get mom to read with her. She is looking forward to Christmas and asks everyday if she is on Santa's good list. Her hope is that Santa will bring her lots of pet shops, American girls stuff, and Barbies.

Nathan loves to go any where and every where and spends his time bringing keys and shoes to dad and mom. He loves to laugh and is simply a joy for our family. He loves his grandpa Clair and taking bus rides and plane rides with him.

Halloween 2007

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Halloween was a lot of fun this year. Connor and Jake played up their rivalry by dressing up as Utah and BYU fans. Kaylee was a cheerleader and Nathan dressed-up as Winnie the Pooh. The weather was great and with the change of daylight savings time it turned out to be the perfect Halloween. With plenty of treats to go around!!!