Sick Day

Eva and I had a sick day today! We both have colds, and Brian convinced me that it was okay to use my sick leave for one day. So, I called in sick and called Megan to let her know Eva would be staying home. Eva and I had a fun and relaxing day at home. Eva even had a four hour nap! Brian had to go to work. Here are some pictures from our day, and a few from our weekend in Oregon.

Little Cowgirl

Riding her pony...

Snoozing away..

This is the result of...

...spending a whole day wedding dress shopping!!

Brian's sister, Melanie, is getting married in May. She invited Eva and I to go wedding dress shopping in Idaho Falls on Saturday with her, her mom, and Patty (her future mom-in-law). It was a fun day. We got to spend the whole day with Grandma Grimm and Aunt Mel, got to see lots of pretty dresses, and ate some yummy food at Chili's. Eva was very good for having to go in and out of the car so much and not being allowed to touch much when we were in the stores!! They didn't buy a dress that day, but definitely narrowed it down. Thanks for inviting us along!

This reminds me of the day when I bought my wedding dress! Wanna hear the story?Well, Brian proposed to me on Sunday, October 9, 2005. Three days later, while I was working for the City of Pocatello IT Department, my boss came back from a meeting and told me that he had seen a sign outside the Paris that their wedding dresses were half off. He told me I should go on my lunch break and look for a dress. So, my friend Taunalee met me for my lunch break and went with me. We looked around the store, picked out some dresses to try on, and then headed to the fitting rooms. I liked Dress #1. Dress #2 was okay. I loved Dress #3 and bought it right then!!! That wasn't so hard. The hardest part was finding the veil. That took me about a month and a half (and we only had a two month engagement)!!

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Eva's 2nd Christmas

We had a very fun Christmas. There was lots of snow!! Eva had fun sledding. Here she is with Grandpa behind the Jeep.
We had our Anderson Family Christmas Eve Party at Aunt Debbie's house. It wouldn't have been complete without the traditional pyramid!!Christmas morning was fun!! Aunt Marcy really liked her presents!!

I don't think Eva really understood why we were all laughing when we took this picture!! All she wanted was another orange to eat.

Can you read Eva's onesie!! She enjoyed ripping the paper off of the presents.

Eva helped Daddy put together the rocking chair she got for Christmas. She loves it and will sit in it and rock her baby. So cute!!We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!!

Help...I've fallen and I can't get up!!

I was trying some hand-me-down snow clothes on Eva so we could take her out in the snow this week. I thought it was pretty funny!

What have we been doing?

Well, I haven't posted anything since before Thanksgiving, so I thought I should catch up. Here's what's been going on...

The Saturday before Thanksgiving Brian and his friends went on a pig hunt. Hopefully this thing tastes better than it looks!

Brian worked the night before Thanksgiving until about 8. Then we went to my parent's house. Thanksgiving morning, Brian, my brother Jeff, and my Dad headed to Twin Falls to play some football with my brother Zach and some of his friends. All of us girls (Mom, Marcy, Megan, Kierra, Paisley, McKnz, Eva, and me) headed to Twin shortly after.

Brian and I made a quick trip to the hospital in Twin to see his Uncle Kyle (he had a heart attack and is home now). Brian and his dad were able to give Kyle a blessing.

Brian and I then hurried to meet up for the 5K that my sister-in-law Holly's friend planned. Zach, Holly, Marcy, Jeff, Brian, me and about ten other people ran in the 5K. That was way fun, and a great thing to do before we went to stuff ourselves with turkey!!

Right after the 5K we picked up Eva at Zach & Holly's house and then headed to Rupert to have Thanksgiving dinner with the Bingham Family (Brian's mom's parents and brothers and sisters).There was lots of yummy food. We played volleyball and card games and Eva had fun with her cousins (Brian's first cousins).

This is Eva with her Aunt Charmaine.

This is Eva and her cousin Hyrum. He is three and was helping me keep her from going up the stairs.
Cousins Jakara, Eva, Akayla, Sydney, and Kelsey.

After we played around in Rupert, we stopped by my Great Aunt Barbara's house to see all of her family. Then we went to my parent's house and picked up McKnz. We had to come back to Pocatello that night because Brian had to be at work really early the next (Black Friday) and McKnz had to work the next day too. I had the day off. McKnz and I went shopping that morning and I spent the rest of the day just hanging out with Eva.

On Saturday after Brian and McKnz got off work we went back to my parent's house for the Ugly Christmas Sweater Party!! Don't we look great? We had lots of fun.

McKnz's ugly sweater won her a prize. I think she looks so cute!!! So does Sophie!

We went to church that Sunday at my parent's ward. It is always fun to see everyone there. We went to Brian's parents house for dinner after that. Then, back to Pocatello. We had to get ready for the next little trip.

Sunday night we took Eva to Jeff and Megan's for her first sleepover. I was sad, but I knew she would be just fine. She loves it there. Megan said she slept all night, so I was happy. After we dropped off Eva, Brian and I drove to the area where we were going hunting the next day. We spent the night in the back of Brian's Rodeo in the church parking lot in Bennington, Idaho. The next day Brian's was "guiding" me on my first elk hunt.

We drove around Monday morning until we found some land that wasn't private property. Then we hiked for two or three hours. It was beautiful out there and the weather was so nice.

We didn't see any elk :( but there were tons of deer!

I had so much fun just being out there with Brian doing something that he loves, and I love too. Maybe next year I can get us some meat!

Since we didn't see any elk, we decided we might as well leave. We drove back to Pocatello and got ready for another drive. We picked up Eva and then went to my parent's house. (Oh, by the way, Brian and I took the whole week off of work so we were just doing whatever we wanted to.)

This is a picture of Brian helping my dad move the pumphouse.

On Tuesday night, Brian and I went to the Twin Falls Temple and Eva stayed with Gma and Gpa. It is a beautiful place to be. On Wednesday we went with Mom and Dad to my brother Josh's house in Oregon. Josh wanted some help building a pole barn at his house, so we decided we might as well go.

Eva got to play with her cousins and had lots of fun! She jumped on the trampoline with Kaci and Kayletta. (Her name is actually McKay Verletta, but she let me know that she changed it.)

Eva was tickling Oakley's toes. I don't think Oakley was laughing, though!

Eva really likes animals. Here she is with Latah. She also played with her cousin Colton, but I didn't get a picture.

Here is a picture of the barn shortly before we left Oregon on Saturday. When we got there, there were only a few poles in the ground, so they got a lot done. Of course, it's hard to not get a lot done when Josh is in charge!

Thanks Josh and Kari for letting us come and stay. It was so much fun.

We dropped Josh off at the airport in Boise on our way through, dropped my parent's off at their house, and got back to Pocatello at 10 o'clock Saturday night. Since then it has just been the same old routine.

Brian and I did have our 3rd Anniversary on Wednesday! I love you, Brian! Thank you for all you do for me.

All in all, we've done a lot of driving, had tons of fun, and made loads of great memories!!

This is a super long post!! Sorry!!