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Hello all!

We have a ton to update on this post since it has been a while from our last post.

Things have been well in the Anderson household. Samson is a year and a half old and has been part of our family for a year now! He continues to be well behaved and no longer chews on any furniture. He doesn’t even need a leash when we let him out into our unfenced yard (most of the time). He tries to make as many friends as possible with the neighbor kids, but sometimes he can be intimidating because of his size.  Over 80 lbs!

The house is really coming together. It has been over a year since we moved in and time has really flown by. We got a dining room table for our front room and all of our rooms are furnished and functional… all except 1 that we have been using as storage. With summer approaching we’ve even done a little bit of flower planting and mulching. Ah the joys of home ownership.

We’ve been very blessed to have found a church that we very much enjoy. It is less than 5 minutes away from where we live and fits our personalities and worship style very well. We’ve been checking out a few different Sunday school groups and bible study classes, and in general just enjoying getting to meet new people.

Speaking of new people, we’ve enjoyed getting to build new friendships with some of our neighbors. Tim’s softball team has started back up and we’ve found a new board game that we enjoy playing whenever we get together with friends or family. It’s called ‘Ticket to Ride’ and if you are ever looking for a new game to purchase, we highly recommend it. It’s our new favorite.

We have some fun trips planned this year and had a couple of them already. We went to Washington DC to visit Tim’s sister and our brother-in-law, Kim and Luke. It was great because we were able to plan the trip when Tim’s brother, Ryan could come out too. The five of us explored the capitol city. We went on walking tours of  the national mall and Arlington National Cemetary.  We went to the Newseum and went to the Earth Day celebration on the National Lawn. One day we spent a day going around to different places and did a photo shoot with our brother-in-law, Luke, who is a wedding photographer and did some of the pictures from our wedding. (check out his stuff here )

We also took a brief trip down to Daytona and Cape Canaveral Florida with our Anderson parents to see the final launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was a very cool experience and the weather couldn’t have been nicer. We spent 3 days and had a BLAST :)

When we got back from DC we discovered a wonderful surprise…. WE’RE PREGNANT! We are 13 weeks, just out of the first trimester, and due December 30th. We have had two doctors appointments and everything is looking good.  We could not be more excited. Our room we have been using for storage is getting emptied and will soon be the baby’s room.

We hope this post finds everyone well and enjoying the summer. We are looking forward to spending the summer with family and friends and preparing for the arrival of the new member to our family.  Hopefully we will be better at posting this summer as we update on how things are going with the baby.

DC Trip Quickpost29 pictures

Tim & Kate Portraits69 pictures

October proved to be busy for us. Samson is now a year old and finally starting to growing out of his puppy tendencies (although we still make him wear the ‘cone of shame’ if we go out for more than a few hours). Both of us were honored to be in our friends’ Gabe and Jenny’s wedding as they joined together in marriage. Kate turned 25 and we celebrated by having dinner with both our parents.

We had a wonderful holiday season. Kate was very excited about decorating the house for Christmas and it made the house feel very homey. We did a lot of traveling to see family and really enjoyed getting to spend time with everyone. For New Years we had friends over and played games all night and followed that up by watching Ohio State win the Rose Bowl on New Years day!

After all the Christmas decorations went away the house felt a little empty so we have been hard at work at decorating. Our family room now has end tables, lamps, curtains, and decor. While we were at it, we got bedroom furniture! So we have been busy fixing up our bedroom and in the process helping the guest room look like a guest room.

We’ve finally gotten around to posting the majority of our wedding pictures online for your viewing pleasure. You can go check them out at our picasa site here or go to our wedding page here where we were also able to post a preview version of our wedding album. Sorry for the delay. Hopefully by our next post we’ll have pictures up from our summer trip to California.

July went so fast! We were keeping busy with Kate starting her new job which has been a little slow to start but picking up speed. We also got some new living room furniture (real, big people matching furniture!).  After shopping around at every furniture store imaginable, we found just what we wanted as we were wandering through Costco… we love that place.

Kate got her wisdom teeth removed during July, which hindered her enjoying all the wonderful July 4th foods, but she recovered quickly with no complications.

We were able to enjoy a lot of summer festivities such as: the Dayton Air Show that Tim went to with his Dad and brother, the Jazz and Ribs Festival  that we went to with Jenny and Gabe, and we started playing in a weekly sand volleyball league with our friends Mark and Michelle.

August  has already been an eventful month as we enjoyed our first Dublin Irish Festival this past weekend and Kate assisted in throwing a bridal shower for Jenny.  After celebrating another friend’s wedding this weekend, we will be heading out to spend our one year anniversary in beautiful San Francisco.  We’ll spend the rest of that week enjoying some relaxing time with family at Discovery Bay and Yosemite National Park.  The rest of August should fly by with a few more birthday celebrations, a bachelor party to throw, Tim taking high school football officiating classes, and just enjoying what’s left of the long summer nights.  We’re very much looking forward to the beginning of football season while being back in ol’ Columbus town and getting to spend time with visiting friends.