99 Interesting (or not) Things about the Anderson's

1. Damon has an under bite
2. Joe and Kirstin both had under bites when they had their baby teeth
3. Halle has what looks like a birthmark on her right thigh, but it is really a scar from getting her two month shots
4. Joe is amazing at doing math in his head
5. Kirstin is a stellar speller
6. Damon cannot say his K sounds, so replaces that in his speech with T sounds
7. Halle learned to say Dada last week
8. Joe works for a company named PDM Steel and will return there when he gets home from Iraq
9. Kirstin LOVES shoes and has too many pairs to prove it
10. Damon’s middle name is Jack (After his grandpa Jack)
11. Halle’s middle name is Patricia (After her grandma Pat)
12. Joe’s middle name is Orrin
13. Kirstin’s middle name is Lee
14. Damon was born on his grandpa Jack’s birthday
15. Halle was born at the exact same moment Joe’s chopper was flying to Iraq from Kuwait
16. Joe and Gordon B. Hinckley have the same birthday
17. Kirstin is legally blind
18. Joe has better than perfect vision
19. Damon knows all of his colors, numbers and letters (and knew them by age 2)
20. Halle has acid reflux…(who knew babies could get that)
21. Kirstin loves old dried out peeps (you know…the Easter candy)
22. Joe has his Bachelor’s degree in Business Management/Marketing
23. Kirstin has her Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice
24. Instead of doing something CJ related, Kirstin is opening a Pre-School next year
25. Joe has broken both of his ankles at the same time (kind of made walking hard)
26. Damon loves pizza and chocolate milk (known as chotolate milt)
27. Halle just hit 15 pounds! (way to go my Minnie Minnie)
28. Joe is the 7th of 8 kids
29. Kirstin is the 2nd of 5 kids
30. Joe’s baseball team of choice are the New York Mets (Meet a Mets…huh babe)
31. Kirstin’s baseball team of choice are the Boston Red Sox
32. Damon, Halle, Kirstin, and Joe all love the Utah Jazz
33. Okur is Joe’s favorite player (I think…at least he was before Joe left)
34. Damon was born two weeks early
35. Halle was also born two weeks early
36. Joe, Kirstin, Damon and Halle all have big blue eyes
37. Joe worked painting stripes in parking lots at Snow College as a young man
38. Kirstin worked packing bags of sprouts for Mountain Sprouts as a young woman
39. Damon loves Dora the Explorer (I know…I know….but what can you do?)
40. Halle is 8 months old on the 15th
41. Joe likes country music
42. Kirstin likes rap and hip hop
43. Damon likes the ABC’s, itsy bitsy spider, and slippery fish…
44. Halle LOVES jarred baby food
45. Damon wouldn’t touch the stuff as a baby
46. Joe served his mission in Florida and the Bahamas (I know, rough life huh)
47. Since joining the National Guard just before turning 18, Joe has now served two active duty tours (One homeland defense in Dugway/Tooele, and one in Iraq)
48. The first time Joe got activated, he was living in Baltimore, selling security systems
49. Kirstin has never lived anywhere other than Utah, but did go to Maine for almost a month if that counts
50. Damon has a double cal lick in the back of his hair, looking like owl eyes
51. Halle will be going to Disneyland for the first time at age 9 months
52. Damon will have been to Disneyland twice before the age of 3
53. Halle is awesome when it comes to going for car rides…(no crying for her, give her the binki and she is out cold)
54. Damon got tubes put in his ears this past December
55. Kirstin is Italian
56. She is a duchess…her great great (don’t know how many greats) grandpa was a Duke of a castle in Italy
57. Joe was raised on a farm
58. Joe loves sandwiches, and will load them with “sauces”
59. Kirstin is not the hugest fan of sandwiches and hates “sauces”
60. Damon will eat any and everything
61. So far, so will Halle
62. Kirstin craves milk while pregnant (both pregnancies, couldn’t get enough of the stuff)
63. Halle can’t live without her binki
64. Damon at the moment can’t live without his cars and animals
65. Joe loves to fish, camp, and play outdoors
66. Kirstin is addicted to Grey’s Anatomy
67. Joe should be home for good in less than three weeks.
68. Joe had ridden on a camal
69. Damon has ridden on a llama
70. Damon loves his sister Halle and is constantly trying to help mom care for his baby
71. Halle can still wear her 3-6 month clothing
72. Halle is only the 4th girl of 22 grandchildren on her dad’s side
73. Damon and Halle are the only grandchildren on their mom’s side
74. Kirstin, Damon, and Halle’s nicknames are ‘The Tiny’s’
75. Joe’s nickname is ‘The Redwoods’
76. Joe could be a stand up comic….he is a hilarious story and joke teller (just ask him about the sweatpants at 7-peaks)
77. Halle has her dad’s smile
78. Damon loves his grandpa’s (both of them) so much
79. Damon and Halle still have one set of living great grandparents (who we all love so much)
80. Kirstin would love to someday get into social work
81. Joe would love to do marketing for a sports company
82. Kirstin is addicted to Heather Averett’s Caramel Corn
83. Halle met her dad for the first time when she was 5 months old, when Joe got to come home for leave for two weeks
84. Not a day goes by that Damon doesn’t tell someone his daddy is on a plane
85. Joe lost 50 pounds since being in Iraq. I nominated him for What Not To Wear to try to get him a new wardrobe….let’s see if they call
86. Kirstin is an amazing hula hooper…I challenge anyone out there to a competition
87. Joe and Kirstin love polish dogs. I can’t wait to have him home so we can eat those and Nacho’s together again
88. Damon loves playing outdoors, but can’t get a tan for the life of him (he is our pasty little guy)
89. Halle is starting to pick up on crawling, and tries to grab everything in her way
90. Halle still has zero teeth (so we are not sure if she will inherit the under bite or not)
91. Joe is serving this tour in Iraq with his brother Rob, and brother-in-law, Brian
92. Kirstin is from Midway, Utah
93. Joe is from Ephraim, Utah
94. Joe loves to read
95. So does Damon…(or to be read to)
96. Halle is the happiest girl in the world
97. Damon loves squashing bugs with his shoes outside
98. Kirstin and Joe love their kids more than anything in the world
99. Damon and Halle are both so excited to have their dad home again!