We are so blessed to have William John in our family, and we want to wish him a happy 5th birthday! We love you Tuggers! You are the funniest guy around! We are proud of you...your reading, and your bike riding, your love for your Jesus and the way you take care of your new little brother Jebediah! You are so wonderful!!! Love you buddy! 
Will loves his little brother Jeb!
Kaila is one of the neatest girls I know. What a heart, what a love for Christ and what a yearning she has to follow after purity! She is always amazing me with her knowledge and yet her humbleness too. I am so blessed that my kids have her as their cousin, she sets a great example for all the 30 grandkids! Wow, now she has a drivers license and is ready to hit the road....not! (at least not too far from home). I know she wants to bless her family and follow the wishes of her daddy in the years to come! She plays guitar wonderfully, and in our family that is a major smart thing and a total plus in life! HA She is wonderful all the way around!!!
Jeb was happy to see his cousin Esther, he thinks she is as great as I do. She helped me get him dressed and held him almost the whole time she was here. Well, she had to let Liisa hold him a minute...what a sweetie. He liked seeing all the other Anderson's too. Liisa brought over a delicious dinner.... meatballs and they were great! She sure knows how to cook! Of course Anna did her wonderful part and got them all ready for me! What wonderful people to have around. :)
Jebediah's doing great and life has never been better!!
Grandpa Ken and Anna, a little while after Jeb was born.
Anna, she caught Jeb, she wants to be a midwife and I am sure she will do awesome as one!
Cassie holding Jeb, she did great in helping out at the birth and after. 
Daddy and his confederate soilder Jebediah Victor! Jeb was named after 'Jeb Stuart' in the Confederate army. Victor is of course after three amazing men I know and love! Grandpa Taco/Grandpa Great, Uncle Kenny, and OK Cousin Kolten at least he thinks that :)
Mailee and Murren, loving on little brother!
Karissa my photographer for the birth, so glad she took the pictures.
Oldest Cousin Kaila holds youngest Jeb (well youngest born cousin)
David and Jeb...Anna watching to make sure he does good, and yep he was like a pro!
Destiny and JebMy oldest and my youngest share the same birthday! April 27th...........that's 7 in our household of 10 people to be born on the 27th day of a month. Pretty funny.
Jebediah Victor was born on Alex's 15th birthday. God is so fun sometimes, Jeb was born at 12:00 a.m. just perfect to make his oldest brothers birthday. I think he will want to be like his big brother in many ways. At least I pray that he will. Alex is a blessing in so many ways. He is so kind and gentle to his little brothers and sisters. He is so patient when he teaches them fiddle, or plays with them. He is so willing to go outside and push Will on the swing or create some fun, new thing for the kids to do. God has been working huge in his life too. His love and knowledge of Jesus Christ is growing each day. Many times I am asking him what things mean or some big word. I know the Omnibus class that his Uncle Kenny is teaching has been life changing for him. We are so excited to see what God is doing and will do in Alex the older he gets. He is of course still getting better and better at his love, the fiddle! What a gift of music he has, and that I know he wants to use to glorify God Almighty.
Alex 15yrs. old
Jeb 1 day old.
What a blessing to have a mother-in-law make our girls such beautiful dresses. The girls were very pleased with them. Granny is amazing at sewing and we are all the happy recipients of her talents!!
The line up.....getting ready to go fast......
Jonathan, happy as can be.
William....he really got into the racing and was determined not to let anyone pass him...it was pretty funny.
Levi and Mailee
Jared, Jonathan, Abigail, Drew, Murren, Will and Mailee
Will and Levi
Time for Levi's presents!
Bumper boats........Kaila and Will, Ellie and Kolten
Karissa and Murren
Cassie
The birthday boy!!! The greatest husband, father, friend and 4o year old in the World!!! It was not easy trying to pull off a surprise with this guy, but we did pretty good! It was soooo much fun! Everyone was awesome to come, thanks for making it special. We had some entertainment by the audience (karaoke) , yummy food (thanks to mom, Liisa and her girls), great fellowship and yep Steve got some great gifts! Steve felt very loved thanks so much.
One of Steve's favorite fun things is Karaoke...so Kenny set it up for the party! And along with that Kenny has some AGE appropriate jokes ready to fire off! What a surprise! He never stops!
Steve sang wonderful of course, it did not matter that he turned 40 years, old he can still make me smile big and proud when he sings....ahhhhh I love him! (This is Tami typing ya know!) :)
Aaron and Alexa Sleadd did great, must have learned some tricks on singing from their daddy!!
Twins Mailee and Murren had fun at the karaoke too!
The girls sang together....I guess less stress with more friends singing along :) Emma, Tessa, Mercy Anna, and Ellie.
Mr. Sleadd was a true hit! Wow what a great voice! I think he has had a little practice singing...it was great fun!
Of course when they are together and their is an instrument or two these friends love playing music! Dylan, Tait and Alex.
Wonderful friends Dan and Sheryl, we met them at the Growers Market a couple years ago. We love them like family!
Steve and little sister Jackie with her sweetie Helen
Sisters with baby on the way! Jackie, Kelli (both Steve's sisters) and Tami (his wifie). What a blessing God gives in the gift of life and babies, but how great it will be to be done and holding the little one in our arms!! Jackie 8 weeks #2, Kellie 35 weeks #2 and Tami 37 weeks pregnant #8.
Goldman's (except for Alex) and cousin Helen
Day after the 40th birthday party Daddy still makes an AMAZING breakfast! And this time he was looking really fancy in his new Over the Hill hat! And apron made by Anna.
Here was a project the kids did. It's so great, I give them the book say do this experiment and boom they do! Smarty pants! We were studying rocks and Rome (don't they go together? ) Well it was a great unit study! We still are needing to have the Rome party, keep posted to see some pictures of that! :)
Collin reads the book and tell what is to be done! What a man!
Cassie does the pouring of the Epsom salt!
Anna will stir the ingredients!
As you can see in Cassie's face the smell was not that good! They did super....though the outcome a few days later was not as perfect as the book pictures, they still learned and had fun too.
Next we have another project! 
Anna and Cassie did some really great volcanos for school the other day. Since it was Granny's birthday we set them off in honor of her! The girls did great! I love to homeschool! OK most of the time!! HA The fun stuff is awesome!
And lastly on my thoughts is AMO! 
Today Amo (our cockatiel) has flown the coop and left the family. Really I sold her on craigslist. She chirped one to many times right in the middle of us recording our CD. She was a good bird....WELL, Steve hated her, and she really only liked me :) but it's quite around here tonight without her. Amo means 'love' in Latin, although there was little of that love in her....I know maybe she did not speak Latin! HA
Goodbye Amo. By the way this is Murren with Amo on her head. She did love to be on peoples heads should I tell you the ones she pooped on? Only a few. :)
What a great guy this Kolten is...."Everybody loves him, nobody hates him, guess he's really cool"!!! :) It's true-- he is fun, sweet, always willing to give a great hug, and funny as can be (reminds me of a mix between Kenny and Jason, really a bit more like Jason). Now that's gotta be a really cool person!
May the Lord bless you Kolten and continue to lead you down the straight and narrow way. Your sisters are lucky to have you around to keep them safe and happy. You are sooo awesome at playing your hammered dulcimer....I can't wait to see your new one that you are getting, how exciting! We had fun at your party tonight.
Kolten we all love you tons and are soooo glad you are our nephew/cousin! Happy Birthday
Do you all love the 'bright light antlers' above Kolten? HA I guess he had a bright idea.?!
