Keeping Busy!

Since Corey has been so busy with Anesthesia school, I have been trying to keep busy with the kids so that I don't go crazy from the boredom of dishes and laundry. We go to the park almost daily, we have also gone to the library storytime several times. Some of our other favorite things to do are go to the State Farmer's Market, shop at the Mall (within walking distance), go to play group, or drive downtown to the museums.

 The Farmer's Market is stocked with fruits and veggies from local growers daily!

 Who knew that there was ORANGE watermelon?

 Yeah for Farmers (you should hear the people at the local farmer's market, they have TRUE southern accents)!

At the Farmer's Market with the kiddos and our friend Sheri (she's behind the camera)! 

Love this sign, but I can't buy any NEW decor, so I had to settle for a picture! 

 We love the rides at the Mall!

 We love this free museum that has the skeleton of a huge whale that washed up on a beach in N.C. 

 More rides at the Mall.

 Adelynn thought she was in heaven on her pony ride outside the museums!

 A huge shark fossil!

Playing at the park!  

Feeding the ducks, and then running from them! 

 Playground, she learned how to climb across the monkey bars on her own!

 Bubba and Momma!

 Trying to stand up!

A beautiful sunrise this morning (Oct 3rd),

but it seems like there are too many trees in the the way sometimes to enjoy the sunrise.

That's just part of living in North Carolina, trees everywhere!

Surviving Anesthesia School

Corey has officially been in anesthesia school for about seven weeks! First, I should say that we are grateful for this opportunity and so lucky to be in Raleigh where we have lots to do and many great friends. But, the other day he told one of his friends that it feels like he has been in school for SOOO long already. Corey is either at school, studying for his next test, writing a paper, or spacing out about school. I have never seen Corey like this before; he is usually the kind of guy who LOVES to chill, and he always takes time out of his day to watch a few hours of TV. Well, he is so disconnected from the world he hasn't had time to pick up the remote, just books! I will look at him sometimes, and he looks like he is so spaced out. I have learned NOT to ask what he is thinking about, because it is usually this BIG explanation about an anesthesia drug, and receptors, and neurons...BLAH! Heck, we only have two more years of this. : ) But, overall Corey has been doing well, and I know that he can do it!


Basically, my days consist of entertaining our two beautiful children. I love being a stay at home Mom! I feel very blessed to be able to spend so much time with my kiddos! I keep thinking about when Adelynn was Jack's age, and how I was teaching school. I just keep thinking about all the little things I missed out on when Addie was this age. But, she loved going to the babysitter's house, because it was more fun! Jack is a completely different child. He is clingy, and won’t let his Mother out of his sight. It is amazing how siblings can be so different. Adelynn is getting so stinkin' smart, and I can't sneak anything past her these days. She catches on to everything! She was watching TBN, Trinity Broadcasting Network, (yes, we are in the South now), and they have cartoons on about Jesus. She kept asking me why Jesus could heal people, and HOW he could walk on water. I told her it was because he had priesthood power from God. She looked right at me and said, "Do boats have priesthood power?" I am trying to do preschool with her at home and she is self motivated and learning things so quickly. She is at that age where she asks a million questions within one day, she's so curious about the world. I'm starting to realize that children learn so much from their parents, and wishing that I were smarter.


As for Jack, he just turned ten months! He army crawls as fast as any kid can normally crawl! He is starting to pull up on things and wants to stand on his own. He plays well with his Sissy! But, he is still very emotional and cries a lot. He is teething and always wants to eat or chew on something. He eats solids really well, and as long as he has food in his mouth he is happy.

I have been working with the Young Women at church, and I'm loving them all, and grateful for the distraction! This Friday I will be taking Jack and going on a campout with the young women. I'm excited to see the Appalachian Mountains!

He still looks like he is surviving, right?!? He uses his headphones to study, to drown out all our noise.

                    Jack, spilled out all his snacks!                     

 We go grocery shopping too much, but the kids like it!

 He takes after his Dad!

 I love that the apple juice is right there and he isn't grabbing for it.

Everytime I open the fridge he goes right for the diet coke. But, if I have anything to do with it he wont have any for a LONG time.

 Adelynn, all smiles!

 When I unload the dishwasher he climbs up on it!

 Feeding Jack, AGAIN! Addie took this picture, she told me I HAD to tilt my head to look cute for the picture. HA HA!

Life is peaceful when this little one is napping.

Nice day at the park



Hello North Carolina!

I have been wanting to blog, and go through a bunch of my pictures for about two weeks now. Instead, I have been unpacking boxes and juggling kids. Most of the boxes are unpacked now, but I haven't gotten to any of the fun decorating yet, I will have plenty of time for that later. Anyway, I have a TON of pictures from the past two months. I REALLY want to blog about saying goodbye to our families and friends in Utah, and how everyone was so good to us. We had a bunch of help and so many people stopped by in the last few days to say bye and give us goodies for our ride across the country. We have been so blessed with great friends and family.

I just downloaded all my pictures to my computer and there were 577 of them! Since that is so overwhelming to me, I am just going to blog about our time here in North Carolina. In the near future I hope to have time to blog about our trip across the country and saying goodbye to Utah, but for now I am going to give you all a little update on North Carolina!

We have been warmly welcomed here! We are lucky that within our apartment complex we have a good "mormon connection" to a bunch of good families. We have also been in contact with several student's at Raleigh School of Nurse Anesthesia who have been in the program. So, we have been blessed to make some great friends already.

 The kids hanging out in our new apartment!

Adelynn standing outside our apartment (lots of trees, and no mountains)

 BIG tree that I thought would fall into our aparment during the hurricane, but we got lucky!

A beautiful sunset in Raleigh

 We spent a day at the Kid's Museum

 Since our stuff hadn't arrived yet we hit the beach! We all saw the Atlantic Ocean for the first time together!

Addie was scared of the waves, but Jack just sat in them and loved them!

(Thanks to our new friends, The Browns, we had some beach gear) :)

 Building a sandcastle with her Daddy!

 Buried together

 Goofy Jack

 We went to Topsail Island, and this is the other side of the island at sunset. BEAUTIFUL!

Robin and Corey

 LOVE it!

 My favorite picture of me with my little guy!

On Monday, August 15th our vacation officially ended; Corey started CRNA school!

That was also the day that ALL our stuff arrived:

Since then, we have been busy with school (studying), church, and putting our apartment together.

We made a trip to Garner, NC to pick up a free TV from a nice lady! And, I got very excited because it is the home of American Idol winner: Scotty McCreery.

Oh, and we had an earthquake and experienced our first hurricane! Since many of you have been wondering what the storm was like here in Raleigh I took some video footage for you all to enjoy!

 (If I sound lame in the video, it's because the storm was a huge disappointment)

Corey's first day of school video!

We made it!

We made it to Raleigh, North Carolina! So far...everyone is really nice and we like it here. But, it is soooo HOT! I have lots of plans for blogging about our trip across the country, because I want to be able to blog and then print it out. But, I don't have the time right now. We are going to go jump in the swimming pool to cool off and enjoy this last week of Corey being FREE! We have had several people inform us of the struggles of CRNA school, we are just going to try not to think about the stresses of it all and have fun this week. We have a trip to the beach planned sometime this week. We are still in vacation mode. :)

 One of my favorite pictures of our trip at the Pioneer Exodus in Nauvoo, Illinois

Our family in front of the Nauvoo Temple 

Wasatch Back!

On June 17th and 18th Corey participated in the Ragnar Relay for the Wasatch Back! He had so much fun, and is trying to figure out which race he will do next. So, I thought I would share a few pictures from his 200 mile adventure from Logan, Ut to Park City, Ut. For those of you who are thinking, What is a Ragnar Relay? Please watch the video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL1hLU_LBvs

Adelynn was Daddy's cheerleader! (I don't know why she is holding an avocado). But, she got so excited when we "stalked" Corey on his first run and found him running the streets in Hyrum, Ut. We honked and screamed out the window once we found him running! He is wearing his Ragnar shirt, his hat, and medal here.

This is his whole team, mostly made up of people he works with, and their friends. Their team name was The Gene Pool Lifeguards, and the back of their shirts said, "Got Chlorine?".

 

Aren't they a sexy bunch?!?

This is his team running into the finish line together!

I can't tell you how proud I am of my man! This was his first leg that he ran, it was 6.7 miles and he ran it in 53 minutes. Not to mention it was mostly up hill. On one of his runs he passed 81 people, he was pretty excited about that too!  

Corey recovering from his big run!

I asked him to take a ton of pictures with my camera, and I got about six pictures out of him, and this was one of them.

We have no idea who she is.

So, the worst part is that it takes about two days to run this crazy race and he had a lack of sleep, but he is use to that with working nights and two kids around. But, that night he was talking in his sleep about running a marathon.

 It made me laugh that he has really got the running bug! He talks about it so much that I finally gave in and bought running shoes and started trying to run. Basically, I will not be reporting how long it takes me to run a mile anytime soon. BLAH!

 But, I'm grateful for Corey and his example of being motivated enough to improve his life in so many ways. Love you Babe!

Family Pictures 2011

Jack Corbin Anderson is 6 months old!

 He's such a sweet boy.

 Adelynn is 3 and a half years old!

 She's a handful!

 He's adorable!

 She's our princess

 They totally love each other!

 The Corey Anderson Family!

"We don't have it all together, but together we have it all"