Sweet, Sweet Baby Girl

Here she is: Baby Olivia! What a honey!

Practice, practice, practice...

Brad and Steph were home a couple of weeks before Olivia was born. Brad practiced by reading to Izzy and Steph practiced by painting Maddie's nails. ~We're still waiting for pictures of the little honey!~ I'll share as soon as we get them.

























Maddie did some belly watching.









Olivia gave us a show.











Izzy practiced being "nice." We're still working on that one.

Miss Maddie

Miss Maddie was so excited to go to Shover this year for preschool. She was able to check it out this summer and loved to go see Miss Jessica. She will go there Tu-Th afternoons this year. She went to Kinderstart with Miss Deb last year, and will go there this year M-W afternoons, starting tomorrow.




All decked out, including her camo backpack, three bracelets (they're actually hair binders) two necklaces and pink tye-dye crocs. She's a girly girl.












Posing with the flowers. Once again, girly girl.

























Maddie and her friend Sophie, all ready for school!












Maddie and Miss Jessica

First Day of School

Apparently we are raising some tough boys, because no matter how many pictures I took, I couldn't get the boys to give me a nice big smile. I guess when you're 8 & 6 you're too cool to smile for your mom for "first day of school" pictures. They were excited to go back and had a great first week.

Football Mania

Zach has been talking about being in football for over a year and now he finally is able to put his gear on and make some tackles. He's played 2 games and even though they haven't won either of them, he's having a blast. His first game, on Labor Day, was super hot and now this last Saturday it was super cold and raining. That's football in MN for you.






Half time at the first game.

































These pictures are from practice.

Baby, Oh Baby

God is so good! We have a new baby in the family! My brother Brad and his wife Steph welcomed their first baby, a little girl, at about 10:20 last night.

Olivia Hyacinth Anderson~~She was 7lbs. 14 oz. (exactly what Zach was!) She had a little fever so was taken for blood work. I'll post more when we hear more...and pics too!