I am blessed to have two sisters

I have been thinking of my sister Anjali a lot today. Probably because her birthday is today. I have been thinking about how blessed I have been to be able to call her my sister. Growing up I only had one sister, Lisa, who I love SO MUCH. I never thought I would have another sister. My parents made it clear they were done having children. Me and Lisa were out numbered having three older brothers, which was ok because we had good relationships with them.

When I was in high school our family was blessed by our Heavenly Father to trust our family with one of his precious daughters. Anjali lived with us for 3-4 years and was as much a part of the family as I was. We called her our sister even though by law she wasn't. In 2007 she was offically and legally a member of our family. My parents adopted her after a long but well worth it process. On February 16th 2008 she was sealed to our family in the Manti Temple!!! That was an amazing experience and made our sisterly relationship eternal.

When I got home tonight from visiting my family I just couldn't stop thinking about her and the love I have for her to the point I was getting emotional. I don't know where this was coming from. To have my thoughts so overwhelming and powerful. The spirit was touching me and I know that Heavenly Father loves her and I could feel that love.

I feel very blessed to have Anjali as my sister and that I am able to learn from her and share life with her. She added such wonderful things and qualities to our family that no one else could.

I used to have one sister but now I have two and she makes our family complete.

She is expecting her first baby in February and I am SO EXCITED for her and Garrett. I am happy to be able to share this experience with her.

Well I guess what I am trying to say is that I love Anjali very much and our family wouldn't be complete without her. I just wanted her to know that!!! I know that the rest of my family feels the same way.

I LOVE YOU ANJ!! Happy birthday!

Reflecting........

The past two years have gone by really fast! I can't believe that Andie just had her 2nd birthday!!!! She is growing up way too fast. It goes by faster and faster. I love her so much. I was just looking at some pictures of her when she was born. She doesn't even look the same. She looked so much like Landen and now she looks more like me. She had dark hair and it was straight. Now she had curly blond hair. She was 6 pounds 10 ounces and was 21 inches long. She was born on her due date september 11th. Which I was very happy about. I was not looking forward to going over my due date.

Andie one day old

I thought she looked so much like Landen when she was born







One year birthday

September Birthdays~ Happy Birthday

Andie 11th

Anjali 17th

Jayden 23rd

Andie's Birthday

We had a great weekend celebrating Andie's birthday. On saturday she had a little party with her friends from nursery. She loves nursery so much. I don't think she realized what was going on but she liked having all of her friends over. The girls decorated little foam princess hats and little purses. The boys decorated foam pirate hats and foam pirate swords. Andie decorated for a little bit and then decided that other things were more exciting. They all looked so cute when they were done. I pute butcher paper up on the wall and my Dad drew little animal caracters on it so that they could color.I think Andie had more fun coloring then decorating. I still have the paper up and she has been coloring on it all weekend. It will probably be coming down today so I can get into my laundry room. Here are some pictures from the day.

After they got done decorating their crowns. Not everybody wanted (or would sit still) to be in the picture. They are only two year olds after all.

Ok. So that was a lot of pictures but I just couldn't choose which ones to leave out.

On Sunday night we celebreated Andie's birthday with our family. We had every kind of pie you could think of and ice cream. It was yummy. Here are some pictures from that.

We had such a fun weekend celebrating Andie's birthday. We loved having friends and family spend time with us. Andie got way too much stuff but she has been having so much fun playing with it all. She got enough princess shoes she can wear a different pair for almost two weeks (at least she will leave my shoes alone now!!!!!). We are just so thankful for our families and all that they do for the three of us. We are so blessed to have such a loving family.

A big Thank you to:

Mom for helping me make all of those pies and everything else you helped with!

Melanie for making some pies!

Anjali and Garrett and Amy and Aubrey for helping me so much this past weekend! Thank you

DAD for also helping me with so much! The butcher paper turned out so cute!

Everyone that came and celebrated Andie's birthday!