Hockey Night in Fargo

Being a hockey fan (and a nattily dressed GOPHER hockey fan at that) since he could understand watching TV, Grant had never been at a live hockey game. Brad decided that streak should end at an SEI (Brad's office) company event at the UP center, home of the USHL's Fargo Force. In short - Grant loved it, even attached himself to a new favorite player, Chase GRANT #21.

No doubts that we'll be back before too long, even though the Force didn't play so well, Grant insisted that we not get up until the very end to leave, just in case they scored. (Talk about your diehard, never give up Minnesota Sports fan........ Granty is in for a long life of dissapointment from our home-state pro teams I'm afraid)

TURKEY DAY!!

Turkey day the entire family was at Grandma and Poppa Anderson's house this turn of the calendar. The boys loved the meal, the playtime with Cousin Brady, the second meal, more playtime and reading books with Poppa Jerry and Great-Gram Doris (If you see this, don't tell her she's on the internet in a picture ANYWHERE, she'll let me hear it for a good long while!)

Grant even picked up a new favorite dice game called farkel - yes, you read that right, we're encouraging a 4 year old to shoot dice for points and profit (chill - we were playing for lefse leftovers)

The picture at the bottom is a good one, the boys were riding their favorite pack animal - Aunt Lisa, and about 2 seconds after this picture is taken, Dylan decided to get off rather abruptly and kissed the hardwood floor..... with his forehead - talk about unrequited love eh?

We love a Parade..... it means candy

Seriously - who Tailgates for a Parade?!??

Easy - the Anderson's do. Each year, the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, the Fargo-Moorhead Downtown Business Association puts on a Parade of lights which goes on rain, sleet, snow, or hail to a pretty good crowd through it's 20 block run. And, nothing goes with a parade in November like lawn chairs, long johns, and hot chocolate (with some cookies thrown in. Great times!

Halloween Fun!

Well this Halloween was super fun because Grant really got into the trick or treating and dressing up and the fun Halloween stuff. Dylan is also figuring out that you get dressed up and walk around and say trick or treat and people give you candy which he thought was great! He also wanted to sleep with his costume on! Here the kids are with their pumpkins, they both wanted bats with a moon, but we only got 1 out of the 2 done that way as you can see. The 2nd child never gets much say in things that's for sure!

Dylan was Elmo this year as you can see and picked out his own costume, as soon as he saw this in the store he wouldn't let go yelling mo,mo the whole time!!! Here he is being goofy, like usual, by pulling the head piece down over this face so you can't see his face. He knew we were taking pictures and decided he was done with pictures.

Here he finally pulled it up so we could see his sweet innocent little face! hahah.

Here is both of them dressed up. Grant was a Twins baseball play, Justin Morneau to be exact! He wouldn't put his glove down all night, even with his bucket full of candy that glove never came off his hand! It was absolutely beautiful outside as you can see which made for a great night outdoors!

The 3 cousins after trick or treating!!! Brady was Jeff Gordon as you can see and the 3 of them had so much fun!!! We can't wait for next year already and Grant thinks he already knows what he wants to be next year!! That will change a hundred times between now and then that's for sure!

Dylan loves playing Hide and Seek!

Hide and Seek, Dylan's favorite game to play! Here he is deciding that this looks like a great place to try!

One of themost obvious spots for Dylan to hide but realizes he can't quite get the door completely shut!!! But, sure won't be so funny when one day we can't find him!!!

He hides in stores, , places we go or at home, doesn't matter where, just loves to see who can find him!
We keep a pretty close on this one!!!!

Goofing off!

So it's been a while since I have been here to update anything so will try and do a few here to get some updated pictures of the boys for everyone! Here are just a few of these 2 goofballs that everyday just keep feeding off each other!!!

Here are a few of when they thought it was a good idea to try out some hair gel! Brad was apparently downstairs at the time and came up to see big globs of stuff in their hair. So he figured why not style their hair a bit to go along with all that gel!

FIRST DAY OF PRE-K!

Well, the day has come. The first born starts his 13 + years of higher learning. While mom and dad are starting their first day of more worries, stress and homework! Grant was so excited to say the least for his first of many days of school! I on the other hand wasn't taking it so well!! To send him into a unknown place with strangers was a bit nerve racking. His teachers though, are wonderful people and he adores them! Since we are new to this whole school thing, we forgot about the school shopping for clothes, new shoes and school supplies!! Who would of thunk we needed all these things for a 4 year old! But we ventured out, got him some clothes and shoes and he was the most excited to pick out his Spiderman backpack!! We are 3 weeks into it and he is still enjoying every day, although he did miss 1 day due to lack of a lot of sleep, but so far he is doing well! Loving every day and making new things that he can't wait to come home and show us!! So hopefully by the time Dylan is ready to start this adventure, I will be much more prepared!! Here are 2 pictures of him before heading into the big school!! haha