2009 in a Nutshell!

Well it's been quite a while since I have even thought about this blog! And most of you can see that by my last post being in November! Needless to say, Christmas is a busy time of year for everyone so this took a back burner!
Anyway, this is a different kind of post than normal for me. I got this from a high school friend Michelle. She has a great blog and keeps up with it way better than I do. She did a post of her Top 10 for 2009. I thought what a great way to look back and reflect. So here it goes, in no particular order:

10. My girls trip to Vegas with my wonderful cousins, mother and aunt! My cousins continued success at beating brain cancer! She's going strong world, look out!
9. Brad's Hockey trip with the boys. It's so nice that we each get our mini vacations.
8. Grant completing his first full year of Pre-K. He loved every minute and was so fun to watch him grow into a little boy!
7. Dylan being out of diapers by age 2 1/2 and not having to buy diapers anymore!!! That's a gift in itself!
6. Dylan starting a tott's program at school for 3 year olds. He is getting to be such a big boy, I can't believe how fast time goes!
5. Grant starting another year of School Readiness. We held him back with a summer birthday, he just wasn't quite ready to start Kindergarten this year. But If I ever had any doubts before, I sure don't now. He is such a different kid already. Broken out of his shell completely!
4. Me completing my first ever 5K in the Fargo Marathon, and it was on my 32nd Birthday! what a way to celebrate! hahah
3. Family vacation to Chicago and Wisconsin Dells. What a wonderful trip we had, great weather the entire time! Also have to throw in that I got to see Dave Matthews this summer as well, which if you know me is a huge highlight for me!
2. Brad and I both still having our wonderful jobs!!!
1. HEALTH! We have been very blessed to have our health!

So there it is in a nutshell! I know there were more highlights but I only have 10 to list! Hope everyone else had as good of a 2009 as we did and hope to have an even better 2010!!!

Tables Du Jour

Well Stef and I decided to try something new this year. Each year the Shrine puts on a fundraising event to raise money for the Shriners Hospital in Minneapolis. We attended the event last year at my mom's table and had a blast. So we thought, we could do this...We had so much fun designing our table, coming up with a theme and then the dinner we had with great friends and family.

This picture above is my mom's table that she did with Caludia. It's an Apple Orchard theme, doesn't it look great! She had apple plates and apples all around! The picture below is my Aunt Sharie's and Diane's table. It's a chocolate lovers table with a chocolate fountain in the middle!! I think I could have sat at this table all day and ate the fondue!

This brings us to our table! As you can see it's a baseball themed table. Go figure right, with my household having entirely too much baseball stuff in it, was pretty easy!!! Stef had all the plates and accessories for the table, I had the bats, balls, jerserys and such of course!!! haha.

Stef made the best popcorn cupcakes ever that were placed on top of the popcorn boxes for our dessert! They were so yummy, she is so creative! I wish I had 1/2 of what she does!!! It was so fun to spend the time with her doing this and to show off her creative side! We are signed up for next year already, so look out! haha

We got to wear jerseys ourself! Funny thing, I am an Anderson now, and she was prior to being Married! Love it! These were Brad's high school jerseys!

Pray For Gray

This was the first annual Pray for Gray event that my cousin Julie Fletcher put on. It's to raise money and awarness for the American Brain Tumor Association. Julie was diagnosed on 2007 with Stage 4 Brain Cancer. She has fought hard to win this battle and has done so in a great way, she is giving back! I am so beyond proud of her for being strong, courageous and giving during her battle. Which she is winning succesfully by the way!!! This event was an absolute gift to everyone that attended! Can't wait for the 2nd annual the others to follow! I love you Julie!!!

Julie and my very supportive and loving Aunt Sharie and Uncle Gary. They have done so much for Julie and the family.

My beautiful grandma and mother!

Me and the guest of honor. What an honor to be apart of such a wonderful event! Thank you Julie!

Me and Jami Jo!!! I have never had sister, but these 4 girls are it for me!! Love you ladies!



The entire Hegle clan! Aren't they beautiful people! Love you all and can't wait for next year!!!

First Days of School!

Grant was super excited about starting another year of school. Although we had to tell him he wasn't going to kindergarten this year like the rest of his classmates from last year. We made the decision being he just turned 5 in July that we were going to hold him back. It's something we know is going to help him in the end. They are in school long enough, and now that it's full day kindergarten, we wanted to give him 1 more year to be just a kid! He is fully enjoying it and we have extra work that the teacher gave us to keep challenging him which is working great!

The boys were both ready to go with their backpacks and as you can see Dylan was not too happy. He was upset cause he didn't go the same days as Grant. Grant goes Monday's and Wednesday's in the afternoon and Dylan goes the opposite days in the mornings.

I just love this picture! Dylan and Nora have known each other since birth and have gone to the same daycare up until this past April. Every time they see each other they give each other big hugs!!! Thankfully, Nora's mom Amanda is a stay at home mom now and picks Dylan up from daycare to bring him to school and brings him back after! We have been very lucky that she is willing to do this for us!!! Plus, the kids get to spend that much more time together! Maybe they could be future mates! haha!!

So, 1 month in and both of them love going to school and are doing very well! We hope this continues all the way to May!!! Grant will start K next year and Dylan will move to the 4 year old class as well! This mom sure doesn't like her babies growing up this fast though!

90 Years Young!

My beautiful, young grandma celebrated her 90th birthday on August 28th. We had a family party for all her friends and family. She was overwhlemed at the amount of people that came. She had over 250 guests come to help her celebrate! It was a beautiful day and all of the family was there, which is a good thing as seeing how 45 min into the party we ran out of food!~haha I hope we have many more birthday's to celebrate with you grandma! We love you!

2 of grandma's grandsons plant a kiss! Matt and Eric thought they were pretty funny!

Cousin Birthday Party

Sara's cousin Jami and her have been close cousins since they were little. So now that they each have kids of their own, of course we hope the same for our kids to have that same relationship. We try to get them together when we can for playdates and of course birthday's! Logan and Grant are just over a month apart and boy can you tell! We headed down to my Aunt Sharie's lake place for the birthday party!

I love this picture of the 3 of them sitting at their very own table eating their lunch!



Here is the group of cousins waiting for Logan to blow out his candles! Love this cake! It's a cowboy boot and it turned out fantastic! Tasted very good too!



Then the fun began! Uncle Gary put in a trampoline in the lake by the docks! The kids have never been on one before so I wasn't sure what they would do, but looking at the pictures, you never would have guessed it! They loved it and I had to drag them away when it was time to leave!!! This one it looks like they were all having a tough time standing back up!








Dylan and Olivia got their turn without the big kids to have some fun too!!! These 2 are so cute together!









Best of buds!!! Happy 5th Birthday Logan!!!!! Can't wait for the next party!!!

WeFest 2009

Well this year we decided to take some old jobs back and work Wefest. It had been a few years since we last worked and so we thought, why not see what it's like now. Well I must say, the music, people and volunteers were great, but the managers in our booth were not so great! But all in all we still had a fantastic time!!! Myself, my mom, my aunt Sharie and cousin Jami all signed up to work Thurs- Sat from 11-6. Perfect hours as we can see all the good shows at the end of the night!

Here is a group shot of cousins that came in on Saturday night to join us for the concerts. The beer is a little over $7 for 1 so we brought a cooler in and sat out by the car in between shows and drank much cheaper beer!

Jami, Matt, me and brad at the Taylor Swift concert! I had won 2 reserved seats the day before wefest so we took turns sitting in the chairs during her concert! She was so good too and the seats were only 8 rows back!!! We had so much fun!

Here is Taylor up on stage, I could only really get a good picture to turn out from the big screen. The stage was still a bit too far even with our camera to really see.

Brad, Jessica and Rien enjoying Saturday nights concerts! They came in about 6 to join us when we got off work to see Big N Rich and then Tim McGraw close out Wefest.

Tim McGraw....what more can I say!! hahah.

Well we are all looking forward to WeFest 2010 already and we have decided we will only work in our old booth where the managers are way more fun!!! Also we are hoping some other family members join us in working! We have a blast!