What's new!

What has happened in the life of the Anderson's/Cosby's this past few weeks:

* We now live in Redmond. Weird to think, but SO nice and exciting for us all :)
* Dax graduated preschool!!! - Pics to come!!!
* Our cat Elvis had babies. 3 new kittens! (we knew she was prego) - Pics to come!!!
* Our dog Bella had babies. 6 new puppies! (we had NO CLUE she was prego) - Pics to come!!!
* We went camping for Memorial and had a very good time!
* Larry had a birthday! The big 31 and still so very handsome ;)

I think that is it! We are just a happy, busy little family and I LOVE EVERY SECOND OF IT!!!

L.O.V.E.

I am still adjusting to our new life style and it will probably take me a while to get used to being so much more busy! It is a good, fun busy though :)

So with that being said, I am just a little late on finishing our Mother's Day gifts. But they are done and I will get them to their deserving recipients this evening.

This was my goal:

Thank you Pinterest ;)

And these are the pics I came up with:

 They look SO cute in the frames I got for them. Pretty proud of these cute kids and how cute the gifts turned out :)

And isn't this one just adorable?!?! LOVE THEM!

{Mother's Day}

I am not sure how I became so lucky and/or so deserving to be the Mother of my little man, but there is not a second that goes by that I am not thankful for him in my life. He is the greatest blessing to me and has forever changed my life for the best.

Now if that is not enough blessings for one momma, I now get to have 2 more amazing kids in my life that I get to help be a Mommy to - Bronsen and Brylee. AND I have an amazing guy who loves all 4 of us unconditionally, does all he can to take care of us, is truly an awesome Daddy to all 3 of our kiddo's, who has a great personality and is very handsome. WOW! Lucky me :)

Bronsen and Brylee were with their Mom this weekend and my parents were out of town, so we spent Sunday with his mom and his sister and her little fam. It was a very nice day and we enjoyed the time spent together.

 Our little fam, minus Brons and Bry :(

Dax, Kaydence and Erica - Cute Cousins :)

 I hope you all had a great Mother's Day as well. Loves!

HOSPITALS!!!

This week I am very thankful for our good health and the great hospitals around us.

Wednesday, Larry had an accident at work and was hit in the face with a metal grinder. It turned out a heck of a lot better than first expected and could have been so very much worse. Luckily, he only ended up with some stitches in the end of his nose, lots of swelling that makes his nose look very crooked and he is one sore boy. The grinder pretty much cut the one side of his nose off.

This picture does not do the injury any justice. He is still handsome though :) And claims he looks like Owen Wilson now that his nose is crooked ;)

Thursday, Brylee had a surgery up at Primary Children's Hospital. She is a cancer survivor (Whoot Whoot!!!) and because of the feeding tubes and all the medications she had, her throut muscles shrink and it causes her problems. The AMAZING Doctors put her to sleep and put little baloons in her throat to stretch it out. Not to major, but very necessary. Because her daddy had his accident the day before, I was sent along to be with her during the surgery. Along with her mommy. Bry did GREAT and is so tough after all she has been through in her little life. And did I mention that Primary Children's is WONDERFUL?!?! The entire staff there is SO good to their patients and the nervous parents.

Such a tough girl :) And she was so cute and funny when she came out of surgery. Such a pretty, strong girl!



Just some randoms :)

Bronsen took 2nd in his Pinewood Derby on Friday night!!!

We celebrated Brylee's 6th birthday at the Gunnison pool and park. There was lots going on and so this is the only picture we got... The Aftermath :)

And this was Larry swinging at the park with our Niece Kaydence. CUTEST PICTURE EVER!

Lovin' life!!!

Susie Homemaker?!?!

I am trying to be a cute little house wife that can whip up a meal or, in this case, a school treat and have it be delicious and nice.

I came up with 3 analogies last night:

1. Pinterest makes everything look a LOT easier than it is in reality.
2. Cooking, cleaning and being a Mother (not to mention adding 2 adorable kiddos to the mix) is not a simple task.
3. Sometimes, it is easier, faster and cheaper to just buy it from the store to begin with. And here is my example of why...

Dax's birthday is in June, so they just pick a random day at preschool to celebrate, since they will be out of school in June. And today was his day. The kid has an obsession with infomercials and one of our most recent purchases was a few Bake Pop Pans. They are pretty awesome actually, that is why I ordered them. I mean, if I ordered everything he asked for from informecials, you would have to put us on Hoarders. Anyway, so we decided to make him some cute Bake Pops. The cakes turned out perfect, they are really easy. But I wanted to dip them in white chocolate for the coating instead of frosting. To make a long story short, when you melt Almond Bark and add food coloring, it does not work out and ends up in the garbage can. Like this....

And if you attempt to make your own frosting from butter and powedered sugar, it doesn't mix well for some unknown reason and turns out like this:

And CLEARLY nobody wants to eat that.

So I went to the store and bought frosting and in the end, it turned out okay and Dax took his bake pops to school, looking like this...

So, it turned out to be a cute, fun and YUMMY snack for him to take. I am getting there.... I think... slowly....

~Sand Sand Sand~

We had an awesome Easter at The Little Sahara Sand Dunes. Lots of good food, great company, egg coloring, sand buggy rides, soaking up the sun, egg hunts, side-by-side cruizes and SAND SAND SAND!!!

 Dax and Larry

 Bronsen

 Brylee

 Larry and Dax - This pic melts my heart!

 And THIS ^ is why we had sand EVERYWHERE!!!

 And this ^^^

And this ^^^

SO HAPPY :)