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The Anderson family began in July 2003. Our family of two, soon became a family of three when we welcomed our first baby girl in December 2004. Alexis was joined by a brother and sister in March 2007. Twinners Dane and Hailey graduated our family of 3 to a family of 5. In March 2012 our family was completed by the arrival of our beautiful baby Kate. We are a busy family to say the least, but the happiest family in the world! We couldn't be a happier stronger family!

Jun 19, 2012

Mother's Day/ Father's Day

Drew surprised me with this necklace for Mother's Day. He did GOOD! lol. I haven't been wearing it too much because I feel like when I wear it, baby Kate rubs her face against it, and I worry she will hurt herself...  Mother's Day has always meant a lot to me with my kids and my family, but there was something more special about this last Mother's Day. Perhaps because we know our family is complete? I don't know what it is, but it was much more of an impact for me this year, and I am so happy with my babies and my husband! As cliche as it sounds...... They complete me!


For Father's Day, I gave my 'ok' to Drew going and preordering a new Verizon cell phone. He has been so excited (even though he wasn't going to get it until Aug) that he was always checking out it's capabilities and new features online and sharing them with me :) We are on a family plan with my parents, and Drew's upgrade wasn't available until Aug... however my mom's phone had an available upgrade, so she gave her current one to drew and she will use his upgrade in Aug (he is so lucky). 

This picture is fun,,,, about a month ago, we had our nephew Noah (Stephen and Sheyanne's little boy) over for a few hours. My kids LOVE playing with Noah. (He will turn 2 in Oct). While Noah was walking around, Drew called his name and showed him a movie on his Ipad... so Noah walked over, looked at it, and sat down right in front of Drew. It didn't take long for the rest of the kids to hear the movie, and when I came downstairs from feeding Kate this is what I found. It was adorable!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What a pretty necklace! I am so behind on checking blogs, it takes everything in me to keep mine updated that I never get to read others. Kate is so sweet! What a blessing that she is such a good baby.

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Story of the twins arrival!

Alright, here's the scoop. On March 31st, I was starting to retain a bunch of water in my abdomin and the previous day I was spilling protein, so the doctor wanted me to go up to the hospital to have a lab taken to make sure I wasn't developing high blood pressure ( preeclampisa). So I went to the hospital at 8pm. The moment they hooked me up to the monitors I started contracting! Every 5 mins getting progressively worse in that hour. The doctor came back in and said, well you are in labor, what do you want to do?? I looked at him and told him he either had 3 hours to get these babies out of me, or we were waiting another 24 hrs because I was not going to have these babies on April 1st! So the doctor said, how soon can your husband be here? We then started preparing for Dane and Hailey's arrivals.
I arrived at the hospital to have some labs done at 8pm, by 9pm we decided we were delivering, and Dane arrived at 10:09pm and Hailey at 10:10pm. Both babies were in the NIC-U for 2 days since they were so early (35 1/2 weeks) and then were released to pediatrics with me and Drew. We were all able to head home on their week birthday:) Both Dane and Hailey are doing extremely well, and big sister Alexis couldn't be happier! I'm just glad they are out of my stomach!

Valarie Drew Alexis Dane and Hailey :)

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