I'm blogging...shocking I know!

Please don't die out of shock, but yes, I'm actually posting on my blog! Can you believe it? Hopefully I can make it more of a habit. I honestly just felt a little depressed at that fact that I didn't have new things to say and I wasn't sure if anyone even cared. Anyway, here's a recap (beware it might be long) of what's been happening at the Andersen household in the last few months.

One of the most important news items happened in February. We had actually just decided (in January) that this year (2013) would be the year we would do whatever it took to become pregnant, even if it meant spending thousands of dollars on invitro. Well as it turns out, Heavenly Father had a different plan for us. After more than 6 years of trying and doing all sorts of tests we had a miracle. I was late with my period (which never happened) and so finally after day 40 I took a pregnancy test. The result was positive. I honestly didn't know what to do, that had never happened before and I didn't dare get my hopes up. I was debating about whether or not to tell Devin because Valentine's day was coming up and that would have made a great present. But after trying for so long, I couldn't keep it to myself very long. I surprised him by just randomly holding up a pregnancy test. Here's how the conversation panned out:
Devin: after staring at the test for about 30 seconds (that seemed like minutes) "Does this mean what I think it means?"
Sarah: with a sheepish grin "I think so, but it is an expired test..."
Devin: "Get out!"
Sarah: "What? Why?"
Devin: "We're leaving right now to go buy another test!!"

So about 3 tests later he finally started believing it. I am going to have a baby!!

In the beginning of April I went with my sister Ruth to Georgia to visit our sister Rebecca and her family. It was her kids spring break as well so we had a blast hanging out with the kiddos. Here are just a few pictures from that trip. We did a ton of fun stuff, but I need to keep this recap as quick as possible.

After our Easter egg hunt

With Eliza (I couldn't see if the camera was taking the picture or not - hence the weird face)

With Bryson

Hiking to Anna Ruby Falls (with Allison and Sydney)

At the Georgia Aquarium

In May we had a dessert party to reveal the gender of our baby. We had desserts in pink and blue and had family over to our clubhouse. It was so fun and exciting. We had people vote on whether they thought our little one was a boy or girl and then let the Grandma's cut into a cake where the inside revealed the gender. Here are a few pics:

It's a boy!!

Timothy Paul Andersen will be joining our family in early October!

In the beginning of June I ended my 5th (and probably hardest) year of teaching. I plan on going back again to 4th grade in the fall; especially since our insurance is through me :) I really love my school and the administration is so willing to work with me if our situation changes. With summer things have been pretty low key and relaxing. We just got back from a trip to Cedar City & St. George. Devin was part of an ultimate team that played in the Utah Summer Games tournament. This was in Cedar City and my compromise was that he could play if we would go to Tuacahn in St. George and see Mary Poppins. It ended up being a quick, but fun trip. 

Devin's team: Black Betty

His team played AWESOME and won all their games...getting the Gold medal

It was super hot so if it wasn't too windy I tried to stay under my giant beach umbrella. 

I still got pretty tan and my feet got really swollen. 

We went to one of Devin's favorite places: Nielson's Frozen Custard

Before watching Mary Poppins - which was amazing. 

 Poor Devin was a little sick before playing and honestly shouldn't have played as much as he did. He kept having so much mucus and congestion it was really hard for him, but he had a ton of fun playing and really contributed to his team's wins. Much to our dismay his playing probably made his health worse and now he has acute bronchitis. Things are gradually getting better for him and although he still has a bunch of mucus he's hacking up, he is feeling much better.

Oh, one more thing: we cleaned out and painted baby Timothy's room. I really like the end result and can't wait to get baby stuff.

Before any painting

Marking and preparations

The seemingly never ending job of taping 

First coat finally done

Ta Da! The finished product!!

So there you go. That's what we've been up to the last few months. Life is good and we are so excited for our future and our little one.

We're still alive

For those of you who follow our blog and are wondering if I'm ever going to update it - this post is for you.

Let's be honest, I just don't have the time or anything new to say. It seems like life for us is just "stuck" and things are just repeating over and over.

I'm teaching 4th grade for my 5th year. I've taken on a more mentoring roll and am in charge of the student-body officers. It's so fun to still be involved with the 5th graders. I loved my class last year and it was really hard to say goodbye. The transition to this year has been one of the hardest yet. My class last year was just really well behaved and so much fun. This year's group is fun, but I definitely have more "handful" kids. I had a student ask today if they were my worst class; I honestly didn't know how to answer because in some respects - Yes, they are. Usually I can count on one hand the kids who frequently misbehave and I have to remind to listen. This year I can count on one hand the kids who are always on task and I don't need to remind to behave. Don't get me wrong, I do still enjoy teaching. This year has just been more challenging - which in one respect is good; it's just really exhausting.

In other news, I am the primary 1st councilor and I love working with our ward primary kids. We just had our program and have had a lot of changes thrown our way. Hopefully we'll get a few weeks of normalcy and not have things be so crazy. I taught a really fun sharing time a few months ago about keeping the sabbath day holy. I made an ice cream sundae and put toppings like catsup, bbq sauce, cheese, mustard, etc.. and each of those had a different label of a good activity to do during the week. Then I made a sundae with all the normal toppings that had labels of good things to do on Sunday. We talked about the other activities weren't necessarily bad, just not good on a "Sunday." The kids really got it and LOVED it. I even had parents tell me how good it was the following Sunday because their kids told them. Even still they will occasionally bring it up. I love teaching lessons like this!!

Our dog (who is the closest thing we have to a child) keeps us happy and active. It's so fun to have him around and see his definite personality. He gets very protective of us and loves to play, but also cuddle. His biggest downfall is that he sheds - something he didn't do the first little bit. He hates the water and therefore the snow. The other day he went out to go to the bathroom and refused to step in the snow, so he just pooped right on the sidewalk. I don't blame him though, I wouldn't really want to sit my bum in the snow either.

Tonight we watched Troy and Liam (our nephews) while Ben and Charlotte went to see Skyfall. The boys are now in bed, but we had a lot of fun playing with them and Jimmer. They'd throw the ball and Jimmer would chase after it. Troy thought it was so funny and would just do it over and over. Jimmer even helped to tuck him into bed and almost got in the bed with him. Troy didn't mind and continued to think Jimmer was hilarious. It made me excited for when we have kids to play with Jimmer.

Life is definitely not what we have expected or planned, but it is still good. We're still in love and Devin still makes me laugh everyday so I can't complain too much :)

Meet the newest member of our family

No the title of this post is not an announcement --not the one you'd expect. The newest member of our family is...
JIMMER

For those of you who haven't heard or met him yet, we recently got a dog. He is a mix of a Rat Terrier and Yorkshire Terrier. He definitely looks more like a Rat Terrier though. Jimmer is very fun and active. He loves to play - especially if you're down on the ground. He also loves to sit on your lap if you're relaxing. We have to be very careful with our socks because he will chew them like crazy. We've taught him to sit, shake, up, down - to get off things, fetch, and go to his crate when told. He's a very smart dog and a quick learner. We really like him and he definitely keeps us active.

Jimmer when we first got him:


Jimmer likes to crawl under the couch and take things with him. We find all sorts of things under our couch now.


We went to a family reunion for Devin's family and his cousin had these huge Great Dane's. Jimmer loved it! He wasn't afraid of these huge monsters at all.


Jimmer loves to be kept warm. If we have a blanket on us - then he's under the blanket too. If it's really cold he'll find any place he can that's warm...even under a shirt. We went camping and it POURED! Jimmer does not like water and he definitely didn't like camping in it.

We sometimes find Jimmer laying in the weirdest positions. This is just one of the many weird positions that he likes. We've even seen him sleep on his back with his legs straight up in the air.




I had some extra fabric and this was the result. Don't worry Devin hated having his male dog wearing a skirt and Jimmer didn't like it either. If you look closely you can see that Jimmer has BYU tags.



We went boating with Devin's sister and some friends. Jimmer loved being on the boat, but didn't like it when he walked off the end into the water. It was really funny to see him just walk right off the end as if he thought the water was solid for him to walk on. Boy was he sure surprised.

We love you all very much and hope everything is going great for all of you!

Picture Catch up

Well, it's been so long and even longer since I posted with pictures that this post is really just a picture catch-up since last November. Enjoy.


Delicious feast for Thanksgiving using our china.
Our first Christmas tree where everything (including the tree) belongs to us.
This little sweetheart stole Devin's heart when we walked in and she immediately goes straight to him with her arms up wanting him to hold her. I was just a little jealous :)
We have a tradition of getting new pj's for Christmas every year. These were the ones I made for Christmas 2010.
My cute nieces and nephews all had matching pj's. It was SO fun to have little kids around at Christmas time.
Mocktail Party with friends.

I barely had to bend...I'm so short.
3 of the 4 fourth grade teachers at my school.


The Ice Castles in Midway. Very cool!



We went to the BYU vs. San Diego St. game and were so excited that we WON! What a great season.

New decor for my red accent wall...now I need to find things to go in these cute shadow boxes.
Bowling with the family over President's Day Weekend
We went to Las Vegas the beginning of March for a Ultimate tournament.

Devin before and after his most recent haircut. I cut his hair to save money.


The thing I'm most excited about coming up is Spring Break! Devin and I are going to be spending over a week in California running from theme park to theme park. I can't wait!!