The Hefford-Andersons

At the end of September we went to the zoo with Jen’s family. It was a lot of fun. The highlight of the trip was when Finley got to feed the Giraffe. I think that it was really Tyler’s favorite part too. We had a great time looking at the animals and headed to Red Mill Burgers afterwards for a yummy burger.

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Tyler and I took Finley to the Puyallup Fair one evening in September (just took me forever to upload the pictures). He really seemed to like it, especially the animals and “hot fries”. Here are some pictures of him enjoying the fair. I can’t get the ones of the animals to upload. Don’t know why, but I’ll keep trying as that and the chocolate milk samples were his favorites.

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Finley went to the dentist for the first time on Wednesday. He went to see our good friend Jessica who let him play in the chair. Good news - no cavaties! Now we just have to get him to brush his teeth instead of playing with his toothbrush.

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We are a little behind in our blogging. At the end of September Samantha turned 12. We celebrated with our traditional trip to the Spaghetti Factory in Seattle. Here are some pictures.

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We have enrolled Finley in a local cooperative preschool for toddlers. The program is designed for parents and their children to play, sing, dance and just have fun together. Basically it is an organized playgroup. We had our first class tonight.

Finley had a blast. There are 13 other toddlers in his class and he had a great time playing with them sometimes, but mostly playing with mommy. We played with shaving cream, water, sand, cars, climbing toys and most importantly we had a snack.

Here are some pictures of his first day. He was so tired when we got home he went to bed about an hour early. Hope he doesn’t get up in the middle of the night.

Sorry this one is sideways, I can’t figure out how to rotate it.

Here is a video of his shaving cream fun.
http://www.treemo.com/users/jheffordanderson/channel/item/471940/

I can’t get the video to embed so here is a direct link.

Enjoy!

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We were at IKEA this weekend and Finley went into the bathroom and was very excited to find a “Finley sized” sink. Here are a few pictures.

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We were without a camera for most of the summer. Our old one broke, I bought a couple I didn’t like and I think we have found one, but now have to wait for it to come in the mail. Long story short, we only had Tyler’s iphone to take pictures with. He downloaded them onto the computer for me tonight. Here are some pictures of our summer adventures.

My friend Jessica introduced me to a GREAT blog for cupcakes. The blog is Bakerella and she made this really cute beach scene with cupcakes. We decided to make it for Samantha’s banquet. Here is our (Tyler decorated and I baked) attempt at it.

We enjoyed our summer so far. Jen starts back to work tomorrow and school starts for Samantha and Jen on Wednesday, September 3rd. Wish us luck!

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Samantha received the Most Improved Award tonight for swim team at their banquet. We are so proud of her. She has done a great job with this being her first year on the team. Below are her stats for the year. We’ll post pictures of her trophy and certificate soon.

50 Yard Free Style:
Started: 46.18 Seconds
Best Time: 41.91 Seconds

50 Yard Back Stroke:
Started: 1:02:45 Minutes
Best Time: 55.56 Seconds

50 Yard Breast Stroke:
Started: 1:04:56 Minutes
Best Time: 56:49 Seconds

50 Yard Butterfly:
Started: 1:05:04
Best Time: 55:06

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Samantha had her summer orchestra concert this evening. She played the violin during the school year and joined the Normandy Park Youth Orchestra this summer and will continue into the fall. Here are some pictures of her performance tonight. We took a video, but it is too big to upload so we’ll figure out how to shrink it or put audio only and then get it up.

She is becoming a fine musician.

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Here is a video of Finley trying to talk to his Auntie Kim (Jennifer’s sister) who is currently spending 82 days in SE Asia.

He has seen people put their cell phones in their pockets so he has been putting them down his shirt for safe keeping and recently went to bed with one in his jammies.

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