Red Velvet Sundays...

I cannot even begin to describe my love for cupcakes

.ESPECIALLY.

 Red Velvet cupcakes

They are the greatness to my day and the bane to my love handles!

A good friend of mine lives in Texas and she's been taking some photoshop classes from me so as a thank you she sent me a box of cupcakes...
she knows me all too well.

I saved the Red Velvet cupcake for 4 days for the PERFECT moment

sunday afternoon

E is down for a nap

Brandon is watching the game out on the sofa

so I sneak away to my bedroom with a chick flick, a glass of milk

and this fabulous piece of pastry...

.bliss.

Europe 2012!

One of the things I am most grateful for in my life is what we (The Andersons) do "as a family" 

We don't boat

 We don't jeep

We don't camp much

We TRAVEL!

I have had so many amazing experiences in my life thanks to my parents and I could probably never do anything or thank them enough to make up for what they've given me with the trips we go on.

They have made it a priority to get our family out of our comfort zones and to as many foreign countries as we can see before we get too old and our knees give out on us ;)

In my fine art classes in college, I had been to MOST of the architectural landmarks we discussed and have stood in front of the rarest art pieces in the world!

I will be forever grateful to my parents who have spent the time and money to make sure all of us see the world with them. 

I know someday my kids will get tired of me telling them about all of my adventures over and over! 

about getting lost in Venice for an entire day

seeing Rome at 2 a.m cause my mom didn't want to go to sleep yet!

Almost getting kicked out of the Endinburgh Scotland Castle with Natalie

Riding Donkeys up the side of a volcano is Mykonos Greece

Going to EVERY Pride & Prejudice site we could find!

About my mom passing kidney stones in Russia and my dad and I having to navigate a russian subway system all alone!

I have so many memories of my siblings on these trips as well.

We got along (ish) when we were little but we REALLY grew close on these trips.

Most of my favorite memories of my siblings are in foreign countries now that I think about it!

Natalie going INSANE in the car while driving from Whales to Scottland and back to London.

Ryan barking out the car window at unsuspecting Vespa riding Italians while stuck in traffic in Florence

ha ha ha ha ha

.Good times.

 My parents decided since this would probably be the last time ALL of us could go on a big family vacation ALL together we'd go out with a bang!

Now announcing the agenda for the 

ANDERSON FAMILY 2012 FAMIY VACATION!!!

We leave July 9th and I'm DYING!
Egypt is a bucket list item for me and Brandon!
Thats probably mostly what i'm excited about...
I've been to a few of these places before and I can't WAIT to take Brandon to them!
He's never been to Europe and London is like home away from home for me!

July seriously can't come fast enough!!