Thanksgiving Afterthoughts

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! I find myself being extremely grateful for the time I have to spend with my husband when he is off of work. The boys love having their Daddy around and so do I.

We had our first Thanksgiving dinner at our new home, and it really helped make it feel more like home. We enjoyed ourselves, but wish we could have had some family around to share it with. Maybe someday.

Anderson Afterthoughts

Thanks Garrett for putting some pictures up on the blog for me. Our Dial-up internet just isn't quite up to the task of working with pictures. We do miss high speed, but we had to cut it out of the budget.

I guess the names of our boys are no longer anonymous. I forgot to fill Garrett in on using Alias names before he went to add to the blog.

In case you are wondering about the tye-dye shirts in the picture below... Garrett's friend Thom and his wife made those shirts as their "amusement park" shirts so they would never get lost from each other. They had a couple extras, so they offered them to Garrett and Solomon so they could feel like part of the family. I think they are really cool shirts, well done Lisa!

I hope to be back in the swing of things of blogging at tleast once a month now, perhaps even more often than that. If you are interested in seeing more pics of the extended Anderson family, check out the family website at www.grandmasusie.com. We are looking forward to being with the whole Anderson Clan at Christmastime in Arizona. We are ready to take a break from cold Christmas in Illinios.

Lots of Love, Jeanie and Family

By the way, the past three entries were written by Garrett. I hope he will contintue the blogging habit and we can use this as a family journal.

Roller Coaster Fun

In late September, Solomon and I were invited to join Thomi and the boys (Noah & Kaleb) at Kings Island in Cincinnati. Thomi had one extra ticket because he had miscounted his kids. He counted Jessica, when kids under 4 are free. So Solomon (free) and joined the Reeds for the weekend.
Solmon and Noah took a little convincing to get on a few of the rides, but Kaleb was up for anything. However, after experiencig "The Beast", which is the big old wooden coaster, Noah declared "Im never doing that again!" and Kaleb exclaimed "Me neither!".
You can see Thomi and Jessica right behind us in the coaster. This was a pretty tame one, the Little Bill's Giggle Coaster.

Solomon's Superhero Rumble

Solomon had a superhero birthday party this year. It's one of the perks of being born on Halloween that you get to pick a theme for your party. Of course, not all the kids have super costumes - so we had Superbee, SuperClown and Super Bob (the Builder). It was a big hit. We had a pinata and an ice cream cake (which we just barely finished yesterday (over 3 weeks later). In the photo - Bolomon is the only one truly protecting his secret identity. We got "Hello my name is" nametags for all of them. I (Garrett) rented a wheelchair and went as Professor X. It's a perfect costume for a bald guy like me. It was either Charles Xavier or Lex Luthor, and besides, one of the other Dads was coming as Magneto.

Jerry in the Leaves

What a cute little boy - every time Jeanie brings a camera around he starts posing like this - including the laying down in the leaves thing.

Our New House

This is what our yard looked like in September - now all the leaves are on the ground, and Garrett spends several hours each weekend trying to move them around.