Brant's Birthday Photo Shoot

Since Brant and I are both home sick, I've decided to try and update this thing.

I forgot to add that on Brant's birthday we did a little photo shoot to document it!

It was cold with LOTS of snow and I even got our car stuck, but it was a great 10 minutes! Since Brant's birthday, we got together with family for Christmas. It was fun. We stayed in a hotel in Edmonton with my family and had dinner at my Grandmother's brother's house. Where.... Brant started walking!! He's not walking all the time but he can walk a lot more than he used to!!

For Christmas we also treated ourselves to a new big tv and a Wii. We got a great deal on both and were really excited to set them up! We didn't own anything like this and Colin was tired of watching movies on my 19 inch. But... if he complains now there will be problems!! 42 inches is HUGE!!!

But now it's on to a New Year and we are writing out our resolutions and plans to help stay on course!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that everyone has a wonderful New Year!

~The Andersons

Merry Christmas and more...

Hello all!!
Merry Christmas!!
Today has been a wonderful day! It started with Colin, Brant and I at home enjoying gift openings by ourselves and then we headed up to Edmonton for dinner with my family!
It's always nice to see everyone and catch up! And who could forget the yearly `Tacky Tourist`gift pool!
It was a nice Christmas! BUT --- the most exciting news is that we have a full fledged walker on our hands! Brant must have decided that he was sick of crawling and just started walkin!
He`s a little shaky, but he`s goin!!! It`s soo cute watching him go! And it brings tears to my eyes to think that this time last year I had a newborn! Awww... I miss him when he was so little!
All in all Santa was good to us this year! Good food, good friends and we`re sad it`s over!
Hope everyone had a great Christmas!
~The Andersons

First Haircut!

This morning I walked in to get Brant out of bed and broke down and went to get his hair cut! We wanted to get it done on his birthday, but he was a cranky kid and we were so busy!

So today it was! He was pretty good but too little to sit in a car by himself to get his hair cut so he sat on my lap!

I think it's pretty amazing how these hair dressers can work so fast! I guess they would have to with how much these kids move!

Brant thought it was pretty fun, and I just about cried through most of it! Watching them cut off his cute blonde-red hair! But he looks so 'stylin' now!

Brant is getting look more like a little boy every day!

Oh oh where has my baby gone!!! :(

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRANT!!!

Today we celebrated Brant's First Birthday! His actual birthday was on the Thursday the 10th, but we decided to throw a little party on Saturday!

On his actual birthday, we didn't really do anything special. Colin worked and studied and Brant was a monster all day. I did, however, manage to get out for a bit and buy 3 cupcakes to have a little family celebration at home. But we then went out to a High School choir and band concert later that evening.

Today we had a breakfast for those who came. There were presents, cupcakes and balloons too!

Needless to say, Brant was more entertained by the balloons than anything else... even his little friends!

It's hard to say how Colin and I feel about our little guy turning 1!! It was a big week for us! I keep saying it's a miracle he survived... (or that we did!!!!) but we are so lucky to have this little fella in our home! He's so happy all the time (well, most of the time) and has taught us a lot!

It's been so interesting to watch him grow and progress over the last year. Just remembering him as a little tiny baby just a year ago, to this huge (almost) walking , talking and learning kid!

We have sure enjoyed having this little boy in our lives and are excited to see what this next year brings!

Sure, Come on in... H1N1

Brant woke up Wednesday morning with the sneezies. I hadn't thought too much about it considering he didn't have a fever and was completely happy!

As the day progressed he got worse and worse, but still no temperature. We was getting cranky and didn't sleep well that night.

When he woke up, he was burning and flushed! We took his temperature and it was around 101. We called HealthLink (even at 630 in the morning had to wait 45 minutes!!) and were told to get him checked out by a doctor.

We had him checked out and were told there was a good chance it was H1N1, although he can't conclusively say it is Swine Flu until a swab is done, but that would take 2 weeks and by then he would probably be over it.

We have been given anti-viral drugs for him and keeping him medicated with Tylenol. He still seems in pretty good spirits, still crawling all over and giggling, but still running a slight fever!

We have been told to monitor his breathing to make sure it doesn't become laboured and if it does to take him to the Emergency room! Which we hope doesn't happen!

Colin and I haven't been affected yet, but I'm not too entirely sure we won't be sick in the near future. I'm quite sure because of our closeness with Brant, chances are we will get it!

As for now, Brant's crawling around like crazy and even enjoyed a little time in his jumper!
Well, time for a bum change and a temperature check!
See you all soon!

Colin, Meghan & Brant!

Family Photo Shoot

This past week, we had the priviledge of having someone come and do some family pictures for us!

We had such a great time and Brant for the most part was a doll!

We are in LOVE with our pictures and the lady who did them did a fantastic job!

We are excited to print them off and share them with everyone!

There is nothing new and exciting happening in our house this week, Colin is getting ready to apply for Pharmacy up in Edmonton and I'm scheduling myself at the hospital once a week. Brant is still crawling and getting pretty good at balancing on his own for a few seconds. We are expecting him to start walking by his birthday in December.

We are starting the de-cluttering around here! We have gotten rid of the big desktop and have gotten ourselves laptops. So we will be able to turn our computer desk into a sewing table! I'm pretty excited about that!

Other than that, there isn't too much going on here. Will most definately keep you guys in the loop should something exciting happen!

Back to work...

Well last night was my first night back to work at the hospital!
It wasn't completely uneventful, but uneventful enough for me! It amazing how much I have forgotten in a year! And everything has changed in regards to processing, but at least one thing hasn't changed... phlebotomy!! So I tried to at much collecting all night as I could! It was pretty nerve racking as I haven't collected anything in a year! I was on the verge of shaking! But I did pretty good, and only missed one! (This is a little maddening, considering I was one of the best!)
Thankfully not too much else has changed with entering specimens in the computer either so I was able to enter PAP's all night!
I hope next week goes better, I was almost completely useless and clueless! But it was nice to have a break for the night!
Colin did well! Brant took a nap from 230 to 500 so he wasn't going to bed at 7! We are trying to get him ready for the time change, so putting him to bed late is great! The only downside is, he doesn't sleep in!
Off for another day here in the Anderson home, hopefully I'll get to the grocery shopping and laundry!! :S!

Thanksgiving...

This Thanksgiving, Colin and I decided to have his brothers, sister and new sister-in-law up for dinner.
We had a great time and I was grateful for the opportunity to actually cook and turkey myself!
We have a wonderful time catching up, chatting about school, work and other things. And at the end had a great dinner! Well all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, and Brant LOVED his first Thanksgiving turkey!
Afterward we went for a walk throughout the trees behind the college, it was cold but everyone had a good time!
Enjoy the pictures!

I think I've finally got it!

This is the first time ever blogging and I'm not quite sure what to write, seeing as this will be public and anyone can read it, I better not put anything embarrassing!
I started this mainly for me to keep track of the new things happening in our family because I HATE handwriting in a journal! So now that I have this down, I need to keep this updated!