Here are some more videos from our Utah Trip!!!! ;)

Some videos from our Vacation on July 4th '09

This was taken at my parents house where the kids loved taking rides on grandpa's 4 wheeler.

Ammon winning a duck at the little carnival at Liberty Park on the 4th of july.

Finally a Petty Update....

Do to the recent recession that we are in, we decided to limit our posts to "ZERO" since January. We feel that it is ok now to do some posts that are desperately in need of posting. There has been a lot that happen to our little family in the past 6 months. We will start with Jesse.
Jesse is still working for Timet and working very hard. He has gone through a lot of changes there, he was a leadman (supervisor) but due to the current lay-offs they took away that position and placed him in a lower position in his department. He is still going to the Art Institute of Las Vegas for the 4th year in a row...AHHHHHHHHH! He is going to graduate in march of 2010 crossing our fingers if work doesn't screw us over again. Jesse finished our back patio a few weeks ago with cobblestone. It looks fantastic!! He also finished building a planter for a garden which will be planted very soon as well.
Next is Shannon, Shannon is still a stay-home-hottie mommy. Making the home a safe haven and helping the kids grow in the gospel and in school every day. Currently she still has braces in preparation for a jaw surgery that will happen soon. No luck with the health insurance to help pay for it so we have to see what the doctors and hospital will do for our situation.
Next is Aurianna. Auri is 6 years old and finished Kindergarden..Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! She loves to read fancy nancy books and any other book with words. She loves to read the Book of Mormon at night we it is time to read scriptures. She is learning quickly and all of us are very proud of her in all that she has achieved. Auri and Ani did swimming lessons with a wonderful lady in our ward Sister Michelle Oehler. Auri is still a big help around the house helping out everybody. Losing a lot of teeth her adult teeth are coming in and she still looks beautiful.
Ani would be next in line. Aniston is 4 years old and I think the terrible fours is among us. She is still acting silly and wants a laugh in all that she does. Attention is her middle name and our family wouldn't be complete with out her. Ani is Auri's best friend and they do everything together. Ani loves her new bunkbed and also her barbies. She still loves watching movies and does not like very much meat, not a petty gene nor a mangum gene.
Ammon is 1.5 years old and is very much a cuddly boy who loves to be hugged, kissed, roughed up a little bit, electronics, computers, the wii, video games, getting dirty with daddy, dancing and pulling his sisters hair as much as possible. He is very animated in his facial expressions. He has been the most difficult part of the family, demanding things that we really don't know what he wants, he only says "auhh" or "duah" please let us know what he means by this because we don't.
Well in a nut shell that is about it for our family. We will post a bunch of pictures and videos for your viewing plessure!

Some pictures of the Valley and the Storm in Liberty UT

This is aerial shots of the valley where my parents live. And the stormy pictures is what we had on the 2nd of july. It was seriously very nice to feel REAL rain on your body instead of acid rain in las vegas. What a relaxing enjoyable vacation we had.

At Grandpa and Grandma Petty's house

Here is where my parents live in Liberty UT "ZION". It is very beautiful country up there in the mountains but I need a little bit of city life where I go. Fresh air, moose and elk eating your grass on your lot. This is what las vegas will look like in the 2nd coming "yea, I am crossing my fingers"!

Vacation Picture Super Post

The first three pictures were taken at Hogle Zoo which we went on Wednesday the 1st. We had a blast!!

This is a picture of the Liberty Park and the many events and activities that are going!

Here is another picture of the Liberty Park activities.

This is Grandpa Petty giving wise advise to Auri and Ani. I think the advise was "be like your parents when they were your age!"

This was at Liberty Park where you take a ride in the crazy caterpillar.

Charla wanted to enter the stick horse riding race.

This was the recreational area for Wolf Creek Lodge. We had Mikeal's birthday party here. It was a blast.

This was the park at the Wolf Creek Recreational area.

At Wolf Creek there was a lake where you can canoe and fish and swim. So Auri, Ani and I went on the paddle boat. I scared them to death when I wanted to touch the huge metal balls on the side of the lake. They thought I was going to sink the boat if we touched it.

The Steve thinking process!

Shannon trying to curve her back, not really working very well but still thinking hard!

The many portraits of Steve.

We made a obstacle course in the backyard where all the kids had to go through. They had a fun time doing it. I think they did it only because they wanted to smash water balloons in the middle of the fun.

Here are all of the grandkids on the Petty side. Starting from the back left to right: Charla (Sheldon's) / Aurianna (Jesse's) / and Bryce (Sheldon's) the front row left to right: Chase (Carrie's) / Mikael (Carrie's) / Ammon (Jesse's) and Aniston (Jesse's).

The Trout Farm in North Ogden UT

This was in North Ogden where a good size trout farm is at. Grandpa Petty wanted to take all of us fishing Friday the 3rd so we went and had a little bit of fun.

Jesse's 29th Birthday

I was so excited to get what I wanted. It was like heaven unfolding the celestrial gates to me. Ok I wasn't that excited but I really did want a toaster oven.

Auri was under the weather on my birthday but still celebrated with us.

Thank goodness there was only 2 candles and not 29 of them.

Shannon did a great job surprising me when I came home from working on my birthday. This is what I came home to. I love her and my family.

The Diamond Family

This was a picture taken at Overton NV to see the young man on the right farewell. It is a family very close to Shannons family. So close that Shannon changed the young man on the right diapers. Yea, we are old!

COUPONS 4 LIFE!!!!

This is was the first time that Shannon went grocery shopping with coupons totaling over $100 dollars in savings. Instead of paying $210 dollars at the grocery store she only paid $92 dollars. Recently Shannon started this coupon deal where we get the RJ delivered to us on sunday (5 papers) and we store up the coupons. And we wait until certain items that we want go on sell then we get the store coupons out and manufacture coupons out and we pull a triple savings at the store. And it worked out very nicely. We usually pay around $300 on groceries bi-weekly and here we spent only $92. We are excited!!

The Tramp scene!!!!

We finally bought a trampoline this year for the kids because the dirt in our backyard can only bring so much fun and imagination to the mind that our kids started to go crazy on us. So we decided to put the hundred plastic balls in the trampoline to have a little bit of fun. And ohhh we did.

Our New Pot Rack

I know what you are thinking...what the heck are you thinking making a post on a pot rack?! Well we don't know what we are doing making a post on a pot rack, but isn't it nice just hanging from our ceiling holding our pots. If you spell pots backwards it is "stop".

Swimming Lessons

This is Aurianna jumping into the pool at Michelle Oehler's house. This was the place where both of the girls took swimming lessons. Auri loved it and learned really quick that swimming wasn't that hard and the deep end was not that scary. Aniston on the other hand was scared to let go of Michelle but still was learning a lot and having fun.

Auri and Ani posing for the camera!

Anderson Family Reunion, Cottonwood, AZ back in June 09

Grandma Mangum holding Ammon for comfort and support during his rough trials in life that he is going through.

This is the same horse troff that Shannon and her sisters and cousins played in when they were our kids age.

Auri wanted to pull her loving brother in a red wagon.

Coming home from church on sunday we found cousins playing in the creek so naturally our kids wanted to so here is the result of the decision. Still in her sunday dress remind you! It was still rememberable.

Ammon's happy face in the red wagon.

This is only the beginning of joy in this journey of family life. I just can not wait.