The glory of singing

So we made friends with this guy in apartment 33 named mike, who apparently has the hardest time waking up in the morning. His freshman year he had a roommate who would always try to wake him up and the only song that would do it was Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On. So my roommate Sydney and I made this video for him. We also in the process kept my roommates awake until past midnight and they still had this song stuck in their head the next morning. I say we did our job well!!!

http://www.facebook.com/video/?id=879925572#!/video/video.php?v=10150370763920573

Yes it's 80's night and the feelin's right!!!!!!

So my roommates are awesome and I love them!!!! Who else would carry out these crazy ideas with me?? So it is a Saturday night and we are all sitting around. What do we do?? We get dressed up in the 80's fashion and make a music video. SO MUCH FUN!!!! Anyways here is the video and hopefully you will get a kick out of it too....................


http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150370760840573

Get Up and Go

Every year my parents get one big gift for the entire family to enjoy. This year they boughta kinect for our X box 360. If you are unware of what exactly this is don't worry so was I. It is bsically the Wii for x box except you use your whole body as your controller. I wasn't sure how accurate this would be but it urns out that the sensor is extremely smart and can tell whenthere are too few or too many players in the picture, it can tel whenyou move too far to the right or left. Then it will follow you. It also happens to be a lot more fun than regular video games I think because you get to use your whole body and yor avatar does exactly everything you do (like dance crazily :). When we got this we also got the kinect sports game. I happen to relly like this one. In the game you can play against other poeple and have tournaments and stuff. The entire family had a blast playing it and these are a few of the pictures and videos we took playing. Sorry if some of the videos are sideways. I could not figure out how to turn them.

Beach Volley Ball

My parents playing beach volleyball.

My brothers Josh and Ben playing beach volleyball.

Christina and Johnny playing beach volleyball.

My parents playing each other in beach volley ball.

Christina and Johnny playing beach volley ball.

Tina and Johnnyplaying Beach Volley ball.

Soccer

This is josh and Johnny playig Soccer. All you had to do was stick your foot out to block and the other person had to pass it to their other players to shoot a goal.

Me and Ben playing Soccer. Ben kept standing in front of me so the sensor couldn't pick up when i was blocking the ball. There fore he won.

This is my brother Josh and Johnny playing soccer.

Boxing

In boxing you just had to block and hit the other person. Pretty self explainitory. This is my Dad and my brother Johnny boxing.

This is Christina and Josh boxing. Christina was coonvinced that it did better if you karate chopped instead of punching so that is what she did. Need less to say she lost....

Bowling Game

My Brother Joshua bowling. This game was harder than it looked because the lane had a slope to it so the ball was constantly going to the right if it did not have enough speed to it.

This is my brother Ben.

My Brother Nickalaus bowling.

Track and Field Game

This is the long jump. All you had to do was run in place lifting your knees up as far as you could and then jump in place with both feet off the floor. Christina thouht you actually had to stick your leg out though. It was amusing to say the least.

This is me doing the long jump.

This is me hrowing a javelin during the track meet. The fathest I got was 94.6 but that was just once. Most of the time I got around 55 meters.

So in the track game of kinect, you ave to run a 210 of hurdles. Although the higher you get your knees the faster you run. We found this out after this round. Sorry that the video is side ways but I can't figure out how to turn the picture.

After all that hard work what do you do?............DANCE!!!!

It's beginning to look a lot like christmas

One of the worst things about moving out of my huse has been missng all the decorations. Iknow that shrismas is realy about the birth of christ but one of the best parts of my childhood has always been the decorations and traditions that my mom has instilled in me. So when i first got home on the 19th, it started to feel lik christmas. Here are some of the things that make it christmas for my family:

Christmas clothes, although these socks were a new additio this year.

The Christms tree. Without it Christms would just never be the same.

Stockings and the fireplace. Although it is no buring in this picture, that always happens at christmas time.

My mom's village set. Se has been collecting for years and now has such a large collection that she can not find a place to put everything and often has to leave some stuff in the box.

Christmas cookies. This year Ben had the privlege of baing them with my assisstance. This was always my favorite memory of Christmas. Rolling out the cookie dough and cutting out the different shapes. These cookies take so much time to make that it only happens once a year usually.

That is a little taste of the Anderson christmas and of course it would not be christmas without a lot of laughter. There is always something to smile about and some thing to do wich makes the season ten times happier.

Reggie Puppy

I hve a dognamed Reggie. He is now 10 years old and we have had him since he was 8 months old. He never likes to be alone and is claustrophobic. He whines incessantly when he thinks no one is home and he never eats unless some one is in the house with him. But this christms my sister found a new tick of his. He likes to have his back patted. Here is a video of it...

My mom and I have a lot in common but one of those things is not being very good at video games. Although this never deters us from trying. So this christmas break we have been trying to beat my brothers at mario kart (one of the easier games we own). So one night we took pictures and a video of my mom. She gets way into the games and it is pretty hilarious. Although we still are not really any better than when we started but it was fun while it lasted :)

This was right after my mom won the first time

This was the score right after my mom won the first time. (yes player 1 was me)

When we finally quit that night this was the final score. Again I was player 1 and my mom was player 3.

Here is a video of her playing. HeHe :0