The Anderson Way of Life: June 2010

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

When Daddy Comes Home

My McCoy is 3 months old today! Sometimes time goes by way too fast. We sure do love this little man, and already can't imagine our family without him.

McCoy is always so happy when Daddy comes home.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

C'mon McCoy...

let me see you...

SMILE!

Jacque's Wedding

JACQUELINE AND DAVID ROBLES!

On May 21, we were so happy that my little sister, Jacque, was sealed for time and eternity and we welcomed David into our family.

The original seven Clouses...

We are a happy family...all the siblings

The newly weds nieces and nephews. Man thats a lot of kids, and there are more on the way!

It was incredibly hot so we tried to find some shade, but I had to have a family picture. I finally got to put my children in pink bows!

We were all very very excited that some Aunts and cousins flew out to Arizona from Michigan for Jacque's specail day! (Aunt Pat, Laura, Collette, and Katie)

(Aunt Barb with McCoy and Robbie)

The real fun was at the reception! The kids danced all night..

Mom and Dad even got into their groove

The boys...real men wear pink!

We love you Jacque and David! Can't wait to make many more memories with you apart of the family!

End of School

This school year went by way to fast! Boyd had a wonderful time going to Ms. Bonnie's Preschool this year and he's very excited to be done with preschool forever. The last day of preschool was spent at the park...

Boyd went to preschool with one of his best buds, Sammy. They are quite the pair together!

The last few weeks of school for Riley was filled with one project after the other.

Riley was so excited that I let him use the glue gun by himself to do his Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory diorama.

He wanted to keep his poster on Neil Armstrong, but we settled for a picture instead. His other projects his teacher asked to keep to use as examples and I forgot to get pics of them.

I am so thankful to Riley's teacher, Mrs.Culbertson, she has taught Riley so much this year and not just educationally. He is really growing up fast and is ready for the 3rd grade.

I love Raising my Boys:

"You are home to him. When he learns to walk, he will wobble a few feet away from you and then come back, then wobble away a little farther and then come back. When he tries something new, he will look for your proud smile. When he learns to read, he will repeat the same book to you twenty times in a row, because you're the only one who will listen that many times. When he plays his sport, he will search for your face in the stands. When he is sick, he will call you. When he really messes up, he will call you. When he is grown and strong and tough and big and he feels like crying, he will come to you; because a man can cry in front of his mother without feeling self-conscious. Even when he grows up and has a new woman in his life and gets a new home, you are still his mother; home base, the ever constant, like the sun. Know that in your heart and everything else will fall into place."

-Anonymous

"Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero." Marc Brown

here's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother." Astrid Alauda
"Boys are God's way of telling you that your house is too neat!" Anonymous

"A boy is the only thing God can use to make a man."
Anonymous

"What are little boys made of?
Baseballs, bats and little league teams
Faith and Hope and Missionary dreams."
Anonymous

"Example is an important characteristic of a boy’s life." President Spencer W. Kimball

"Mothers of little boys work from son up til son down"

"If you are still in the process of raising children, be aware. The tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered around the house, the piles of laundry lying around to be tackled, will disappear all too soon. And, you will to your surprise, miss them profoundly." President Thomas S. Monson

"No other success can compensate for failure in the home."

"The greatest work you will ever do will be within the walls of your home."

"Motherhood is about raising & celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be, and that if you're lucky he just might be the teacher that turns you into the person you're supposed to be." - Joan Ryan

"You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read...You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with." -Dickens