British Virgin Islands

Okay, so I know that it has been forever since I have last updated our blog....what can I say when I am chasing Hailey all over the place it is very hard to sit and update. Plus, she loves to try and help me type and do things on the computer that she usually deletes whatever it is that I am working on....so forgive us.

We wanted to post a couple pictures from our trip that we took to the British Virgin Islands with John's family. We had a wonderful time together despite all of us getting the stomache flu. The picture of the water is actually the view we had all week long outside our window. It was so beautiful there and we just loved the time we had to reflect and get alone time with God. How can you not be see Him in something as beautiful as that? All in all we had a wonderful time snorkeling, laying on the beach, playing in our own pool, driving the golf cart to different places, and of course having nice dinners out. It was such a beautiful place to visit, but one that was a hard trip with Hailey. She did great, don't get me wrong, but it was a full day of travel along with a lot of different custom checks and things.....so all in all a long day.

I was lucky enough to get the flu on our longest flight from San Juan to Dallas and it was so bad that I ended up having to get IV fluids before they would let me fly on our next flight. Needless to say I did not make the connecting flight to Indy and John and I had to stay in Dallas for the night. It was so bad though because I was still trying to nurse Hailey, but was unable to really do that much since we all had been sick. Since she does not take formula we talked to our doctor and ended up just going straight to whole milk. All in all she has done great with the transition and is doing well.

Well, lots going on in our life and we hope that we can stay in touch with all of you. We are trying to figure out if we are going to do a new website or keep this one, so if you get on and read our blog please post something so we know who all is getting on and if it is worth keeping up. Thanks!

Love,
The Andersons<><

Christmas with the Brown Family

Well, we wanted to post some of our most recent pictures of Hailey's first Christmas. It is going to take multiple postings since we were blessed to have so many different Christmas parties with all of our families. So here is the first one with my side of the family. This is my mom's parents and siblings that we were at. We had a wonderful time as Hailey got some wonderful gifts from her Favorite Aunt and her great Grandparents. In the pictures she is being held by her Favorite Aunt Nancy and then she is riding on her lion that was a gift. She is also sitting with my mom as she was playing with the bow.

This season allows me to sit and watch how wonderful our family really is and how we continue to do and serve each other. We are so blessed to have so many wonderful people in our lives and one that openly accepts our daughter and loves her as one of their own. We are so thankful to be able to share in this wonderful holiday season and the birth of our Lord and Savior.

We hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas with your family and many more posts to come.

Love,
The Andersons

Christmas with the Williamsons

Just call me a slacker as I am a little behind in posting these pictures from our Christmas with the Williamsons. We were able to take Hailey to Anderson and be with her other family members and spend time with Greg, Rhonda, Lauren, Tyler and Connor. We had such a wonderful time as we were able to just sit around, open presents, share memories and allow Hailey some time with everyone. She loved sitting at the table and eating Aunt Rhonda's corn casserole, potatoes, and green beans....she told me Aunt Rhonda's cooking was better than mommies! It was such a wonderful day to see the kids play with Hailey and the way they are going to be such a wonderful sister and brother to her. We have such a special bond with the Williamsons' and we are so blessed that we can keep up with each other and are so thankful they are in our lives. We truly had a blessed day and we love them so much! We hope you enjoy the pictures, and are all doing well.

Love,
The Andersons

Fire Up For Christmas!

We wanted to post some pictures of Hailey's first Fire Up for Christmas....this is a tradition that has been started on John's side of the family and one that we have an opportunity to share with his grandparents each year. What we do is his grandparents and parents hunt for small gifts that get us all fired up for the Christmas season. I have to say that Hailey loved all the gifts that were given to her, even though she is just now playing with everything that was given to her. She was so fascinated with the wrapping paper, tissue paper and also the bows...oh she loves the bows. It was so neat to watch her play with everything and enjoy such a wonderful tradition.

Hailey's First IU Game!

Hailey is truly an IU fan now, she has not only been to a football game, but she has now made it to her first of many IU basketball games. I have to say she did much better outside the womb at the game, than she did when she was in the womb. We had a wonderful night of watching the Hoosiers play and she did such a wonderful job at the game. She loved watching the cheerleaders run around the court with the IU flags, but she still does not like clapping. We are so blessed that she is such a great baby and very flexible when it comes to traveling and doing fun things that her parents enjoy. This has truly been the year of firsts for her and we are so thankful we can take her with us when we go places. What a blessing from God!

Visiting the Holsopples

Well, we had a wonderful visit with Eric, Liz and Chloe Holsopple. For those of you who do not know, these are our good friends that we meet while John was in PT school. We had just a wonderful time in Plymouth Indiana and girls had a great time playing. Even though Chloe didn't always enjoy the fact that she had to share her toys with Hailey, they both got along really well. We truly had a wonderful time getting to talk, I mean whatever conversation you can have when there are two little kids around, and we loved getting to see them again. Liz and I had a great time shopping while the guys were playing play station. Hailey had some long days of playing and one night she was so tired that she feel asleep in Chloe's highchair eating dinner. She was exhausted! Well, all in all we had a wonderful time and are so thankful to have such wonderful friends that we get to spend time with. We love them so much and were grateful for their wonderful hospitality.

6 Months Old!

Hailey is now six months old and she is growing so much. We took her for her check up and she is weighting 14 lbs 2 ounces, which puts her in the 10th percentile for her age. She is 26 1/4th inches long though and that puts her in the 70-80th percentile for her age....so as you can see she is still going to be pretty long and hopefully slender! Everything looks great and she is really doing well. She loves to sit up by herself now, but does still fall down sometimes when she is reaching for things. She also loves to try to feed herself, but doesn't get to do that very much because mom doesn't enjoy cleaning up the mess. She is such a great baby and we love her so much! What a blessing from God!