Homemakin' Mama

The last few weeks I have been playing around with the idea of starting to make homemade bread instead of buying bread in the store. After all this was what we always had growing up. I have lots of memories of coming home and Mom just pulling out the bread from the oven and us kids getting a slice of warm bread with butter and honey on it for a afternoon snack. And every so often when we would get home mom wouldnt be only pulling out bread from the oven but also homemade cinnamon rolls. I have lots of good memories of not only eating these delicous foods but also of being in the kitchen helping mom make them. I just wish that I would have paid a little more attention when I was helping Mom. There are alot of things I am now wanting to do now that I am a wife and mother. But slowly I have started picking Moms brain and learning how to do these things. I know it would have been easier to have her teach me when we lived close to each other. But when I lived at home there was other things on my mind.....like finding a husband, having fun with friends etc. I had no idea that when I finally did find myself a good husband he would move me all over the United States. Making it hard for me to spend the day with my mom having her teach me how to do all of these things. So this is what i do.... I attempt what ever it is I am wanting to learn how to do......and call Mom many many many times asking questions like.....Why is it like this? I dont remember it looking like this? Is it supppose to do this? But I tell you I must be the luckest girl in the world cause no matter what when I call Mom to ask her a question she will always take a few minutes to answer questions or tell me what to do next. No its not like having her in the kitchen teaching me how to do it....but it is second best. And I know that there is no way that I would have ever made it as a pioneer going across the plains and not being able to pick up the phone and call Mom.

So anyways here is proof that yes I finally gave it a try.

My boys (all 3 of them) loved it. Thomas came down stairs with his nose in the air saying " Mom something smells so good...what is that good smell". And when I pulled the bread out of the oven I had 2 little boys there wanting some hot bread. Just like when I was a little girl watching mom take the bread out of the oven. Then when I pulled the cinnamon rolls out of the oven i had two little tasters by my side agian. Adam got home from work and as soon as he walked in the door headed straight for the kitchen tasted the homemade goodies and said "so no more store bought bread right." I guess you could say the homemade bread and cinnamon rolls were a hit and we can say goodbye to the store bought stuff.


I am so lucky that I had a Mom that made this for me when I was growing up. Im so lucky that I have such a great Mom that doesnt mind me calling her a thousand times during the day asking her questions or just to talk when I am a little homesick. Im so lucky that I have a Mom that has inspired me to be a better wife and mom. Wanting to be more like her when I grow up. Im so lucky to have such a great relationship with my Mom. Im so lucky that I have a Mom that showed me how much fun it could be spending the day in the kitchen making such good food. It was really neat today when the bread was baking all of the memories that came rushing back by the smell of the bread baking. And im so greatful that my Heavenly Father knew just what kind of Mom I needed when he sent me to my family. I hope that my own kids look back some day and feel these same feelings for me. I love you Mom and thank you for everything that you have taught me and still teach me. I dont know what I would do with out you in my life showing me how to do even the littlest things in life. I Love you Mom!!!

Interview with Noah

This morning I thought it would be fun to take a few minutes and do a short interview with the boys. Ok so yes I had to bribe them in order to get some of the questions. But it was fun. And it is fun to hear there responses. And im sure someday I will look back and wonder where all the time went. So I thought that this was fun and there responses were great. And yes Noah really did say Ummm....for almost every question.



What is your name? ummm...No....ummmm Me

How old are you? ummmm...3....me am 3

Are you sure you are 3? Yea

Are you sure you are not 2? Nope

What is my name? ummm...Mommy

Do you have any brothers or sisters? Yep

How many brothers do you have? Ummm 2

How many sisters do you have? Ummm 4

Do you want any more brothers or sisters? Yea

How many? Umm 4

What is your brothers name? Ummmmm.... Noah Ummmm....Thomas

What is your sisters name? Ummmm... Sisters

Do you love mommy? Yea

Do you love daddy? Yep and me love me do love our family

What is your favotire book? ummm about cars

What makes you happy? Ummm...Nothing makes me happy

Are you happy right now? Yea

How come? ummm. Fweets make me happy.

What makes you sad? Nothing makes me sad

If you could be any animal what would you want to be? Ummm...a hippo Umm a giraffe

Why?Ummmm

Do you have a favorite place? At the circle

What is the circle? Its far away

Do you have freckles? No

Does Thomas have Freckles? No he is a dog

What is your favorite food? Ummm... cereal

What do you want to do today? ummm...make dinner for daddy

What is your favorite Cartoon? ummm...The Tigger movie

Where do you like to go? Ummm.. to the Farmers Market

Why do you like to go to the Farmers Market? Ummm.. to see some ants at the farmers market

Do you miss anyone right now? Uh Huh

Who do you miss? Umm...Daddy me miss daddy

Where is daddy right now? Umm... at work

What is your favorite thing to play? ummmm......toys

Should i keep asking you questions? Me just tell you questions. Me want a fweet now.

Interview with Thomas

What is your name? Um....Thomas....Thomas Anderson

How old are you? ummmm....I dont know. Ummm 4 haha

What is my name? Noah...no....Mommy...your Mommy

Do you have any brothers or sisters? I just have no sisters and I dont have any more brudders just one brudder.

Do you want any more brothers or sisters? I dont have any sisters and yea I want more.

How many? ummm....alot. But where can they sleep?

What is your brothers name? Ummmm Noah

Do you love mommy? Uh huh

Do you love daddy? Yea

What is your most favorite book? ummmm...Alexander books

What makes your happy? I dont know...ummmm minding

Anything else make you happy? Playing with my toys

Are you happy right now? uh huh

How come? Cause I love you alot, im happy alot

What makes you sad? NOTHING makes me sad

If you could be any animal what would you want to be? umm.. a hippo no i want to be a Giraffe

Why? Cause they have big legs and a long neck. Giraffe's have big legs and 4 legs and a tall neck

Do you have a favorite place? Yes

Where is your favorite place? Um i dont know....wait going at the Liabrary

Do you have freckles? No ( as he laughs uncontrolably)

Does Noah have freckles?Noooooo

What is your favorite food? Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich and waffles

What do you want to do today? ummmm...tell me mom.....ummmm i want to do.....

Would it be fun to go to bed? No thats silly ....picking up would be fun to do

So all you want to do today is pick up toys? No

Well what do you want to do today then? ummm go to the park

What is your favorite cartoon? Caillou

Where do you like to go? um to walmart

Why do you like to go to walmart. A cause I like to look at toys

Do you miss anyone right now? I miss daddy

Where is daddy right now? I dont know

What is your favorite thing to play? Umm my race track ummmm... hotwheels

Should I keep asking you questions? No as he runs away

Nobody has arrived at our house...

In my family growing up there was a frequent visitor to our home i have never met him/her but you always knew when they had came and visited our family. Im sure the reason that no one has ever met them, at least in my family is because they always got the blame for everything. This visitors name was "Nobody". Mom would often ask who did this? Whose shoes are on the livingroom floor? Whose made such a mess in the bathroom? Whose socks are these? The list could go on and the response was always Nobody. So you see we always knew that Nobody had come by to visit because they always left traces of themself around the house. Im sure every family in the world has been visisted by Nobody and im sure he has left his marks at everyone's home.

I knew that the day would come that Nobody would come to visit my home i just didnt know when he would stop by. The other day i was taking the pictures off the camera when i came across all of these images. I then asked the boys if they knew who had been playing with the camera....there response.....NOBODY!!! This took me by surprize because i havent heard from Nobody for so long.....at least since i had moved out of my parents home. I thought maybe they had forgotten about me.

The good thing is since Nobody decided to play with the camera they have been caught on camera..... at least parts of them anyways. The funny thing is Nobody looks an awful lot like two little boys that are full of mischief that i know quite well. But they reassure me that they were not playing with the camera, and they know that they are not suppose to. So next time Nobody decides to come and visit us all i ask is please please please take a good picture i would finally like to put a face with the name. And i am sure we will be getting more visits more frequently now that they have started coming around.

All organized...

So the other night Adam went upstairs to get the boys ready for bed when i hear "Heather have you seen this?" This is usually not a good thing for a mom to hear. So i quickly responded "What". He then told me that i needed to come upstairs. I then told him if there room is torn apart i really dont want to see it just start having them put it back together. He then said No you really should come up and see this. So i headed up stairs and looked into there room and this is what i saw.

Thomas had taken all of his matchbox cars and organized them according to color. He was quite proud of himself and i was quite relieved to not find a room ripped apart.

Useum

Earlier this month Adam was given ticket to the Dallas Museum of Nature and Science. So we decided to take the boys. It was a really fun day, the boys still ask to go back to the really big Useum to go and see the dinosaurs. The boys had lots of fun and there was tons of things for them to look at and do while there. By the way Usuem is what Thomas calls it. Some of the high lights of our trip included:

Uncovering dinasour bones

They had these really cool childrens exhibits that the kids could interact with. One of them that they really liked was the little urban farm we saw gardens, chickens laying eggs in the chicken coop, orchards, grain fields, the dairy barn and farm to market. In each area the kids learned about how that part of the farm works.

They got to ride horses

My favorite part of the day was when Adam went to milk the cow and pulled to hard on the udder and pulled it right off and water gushed every where. I wish i could have got a picture of it but i was laughing way to hard.

Here Thomas is milking the cow, this is right before Adam pulled the udder off and water gushed everywhere.

This is right outside where the iceage exhibit was.

There are tons of museums in Dallas and tons of fun things to do. We look forward to going and checking them all.

Catching up on the past few months

Ok so i am mostly setting this up to start recording our story for our kids some day but i am also doing this for the grandparents. Since chances are we wont be living by family any time soon this is a way for everyone to know what is going on in our lives. So the year 2008 has been a very eventful year for the Anderson family . Our time in Rexburg was very busy and never a dull moment.

So to sum it all up this is what we have been up to so far this year

Moving from Augusta Georgia to Rexburg Idaho

Adam finished up school here

Remodeling this

Adam getting a bachelors degree in Construction Management

Getting a job here

The occasional trip to the tetons

And Yellowstone

Moving from Rexburg Idaho to Irving Texas

All of this while taking care of these

We would be happy to report that this was all the moving that we are going to do for a while. But the truth is we just found out that in the next 3 or 4 months we are going to be doing this

So stay posted cause there is never a dull moment with the Anderson Family