Turkey Day

 Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!  We did a simple just us Thanksgiving dinner this year.  The kids helped make little Turkey crafts to go on our glasses that were filled with Cranberry Sparkling Cider.  We had Turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potato casserole, stuffing, green beans, stuffing, rolls, fruit salad, and pumpkin pie. Yum, Yum!  I even made a real Turkey this year all by myself.  Thanks for showing me what to do, mom.  We went around the table and found that Ty is thankful for Lightning Mcqueen, Brooke is thankful for her body, family, and Jesus, Jace is thankful for good food, family, and legos, mommy is thankful for the new baby growing in her and daddy is thankful for his new job.  We have lots to be thankful for this year!  We spent the rest of the afternoon watching movies together and taking naps.  Then Craig went out and did the Black Friday shopping! lol.  He had to go observe for his work so he did ours while he was out.  Yeah!!  He called me about 20 times and was completely overwhelmed by it all.  I just laughed.  He didn't think it was nearly as fun as I do.

24 Weeks

 Craig and I are happy to announce that we are expecting baby #4 in March.  Since this may be our last, I let Craig talk me into not finding out the gender at the ultrasound so delivery day will be extra exciting.  I am now 24 weeks and feeling good.  I was sick from about 10 - 16 weeks even with taking Phenergen and Unisom/B6 and around 20 weeks I weaned off the Unisom/B6 combo and have been feeling good as long as I take my phenergen every night before bed along with my prenatal and DHA.  I started feeling fetal movement around 15 weeks and now I feel the baby all the time.  It's so fun.  I enjoyed watching my baby wiggle around during my ultrasound but as soon as they were ready to take pictures he/she decided to take a nap with their hand covering their face.  Little stinker.  lol.  The kids are all exciting to add another brother or sister except maybe Ty.  We will have to make sure and be extra loving to him when it happens so he doesn't feel like he's been replaced.  I don't know if I'm ready for him to not be my baby anymore.We do need help with baby names so If you have any ideas send them our way.  Craig and I have a hard time agreeing ... especially on girl names.  He just doesn't see the beauty in all the feminine names that I love and his ideas are Jimmer or Fredette.  Yikes... that is NOT happening.  Help!

Our little sweet pea @ 22 weeks.

Sick Boy

We have all been sick last few weeks but Ty has been the worst.  It made it extra hard that Craig was gone for a whole week to Washington D.C. for work right as Ty and I were coming down with something.  Ty screamed for 3 nights in a row, refused naps, refused to eat and was just a grouch.  I also didn't feel well, nobody was getting any sleep and we still had to get up early every morning to get the big kids to the school bus stop by 6:50am with packed lunches in hand.  It was a terrible week.  We also volunteered to care for one of our friends 4 chickens while they were on vacation for 2 weeks.  Normally we love this but it just ended up being bad timing with Craig being gone and being sick and sleep deprived.  I finally took Ty to the doctor and both of his ears were infected so he's now on Amoxicillin and feeling a little bit better.  I set up a little tent with the humidifier for him to sleep in.  Mostly he just wanted to snuggle and watch Disney's Cars dvd over and over again.  I think I can quote that whole movie by now.  Most kids want to snuggle a blanket when they aren't feeling well.  Not Ty, he snuggled his little black Mack Truck.

Living Room Redo & Fall Art

 I like rearranging things.  Sometimes when your stuck home all the time you just need something new to look at.  I took down my photo collage and put up different decorations in it's place with some of the recent photos I took of our family in October.  I also made a new fall wreath with my friend, Michele.  She invited me over and we made these while the kids played.  She is so sweet.  We just used a wire hanger that we reshaped and tied cut up strips of old material.  It was fun and so easy to do.  I hung some wire and a bulletin board up in the kids play area to hang their crafts and school projects they want to save. We even made a thankful tree this year for family home evening and have been adding leaves with messages saying what we are thankful for.  It was a hit with the kids.  We are enjoying fall.

I love Ty's abstract Turkey on the left.  He painted it all by himself.  I had it turned the other way but we ran out of room so I switched it horizontal.  Craig asked who did the Turkey and I didn't know what he was talking about so he showed me.  Nice painting, Ty!!  

Brooke and her school Turkey projects.

Jace made this one for me.  :)

We collected leaves and pressed them.  The kids had fun using them in art pictures at home.

Our Thankful Tree!

Grandma Sundberg

On November 10, 2013 the world lost an amazing woman, my grandmother, Gwendolyn Sundberg.  It took us all quite by surprise since she was only 87yrs old, still working full time at the Water CO., and healthy as could be.  She teased that she was waiting to be twinkled and I think we all believed she might outlive us all.  She died peacefully in her sleep.  That's about the closest you can get to being twinkled.  I'm happy for her that she is able to rejoin her husband, Kenneth Sundberg, who died 30+ years ago, before I was even born.  I also think she was very blessed in the way she died, because of the way she lived her life and kept her mind and body healthy. She didn't suffer physically or lose her mind in the end.  We only have good memories of her.

  She was a wonderful example to me of hard work, healthy living, self reliance, generosity, and love.  She continued to keep and care for an enormous garden in her backyard, she canned and stored her produce so she had vegetables and fruits year round, she walked every morning, she continued to work full time, and she hosted the best parties every year.  Even though I didn't ever live close, I always knew grandma loved me.  She never forgot to mail a Christmas present or a birthday card.  She will be remembered with fondness and I will cherish forever my copy of her personal history and her cookbook.

It broke my heart that I wasn't able to attend her funeral.  I wanted to be there to honor her but we couldn't work out a flight that could get me there and be back before Craig had to fly out to Washington D.C. for work the next day.  I'm happy it was recorded so I can still have a chance to hear what was said.  Of course in the partying spirit of Grandma she had a limo take the kids to cemetery after the service and had wanted everyone to be happy for her and have a picnic at the park.  Since it was freezing November weather they had a picnic inside instead.  I love my Grandma very much.  I'm happy for her that she went in the best way possible and she is with her husband now.  She lived a wonderful life and has left a legacy behind.  For her 80th birthday she wanted to hike Ensign peak with everyone.  She really was a super grandma!  Look at her go.  I remember that Jace was just a year old and popped one of the balloons on the way up the trail.  He was scared of balloons for a year afterwords. lol.

Showing off her gorgeous nails in red, her favorite color.

4 Generations picture with Grandma Sundberg, Brooke, Me, and Grandma Johnson at her birthday party in 2011.

Above: The Sundberg Family at a Christmas party in 2010.
Becky,Will, Grandma, Sue, Jim, Val, Mark, Lynne, Greg, Meg and Marlin.

Below:  The Sundberg Family all wearing red at her funeral in 2013.
Sue, Greg, Becky, Lynne, Marlin, Will, Jim, Val, Mark, and Meg

Brooke made this for Grandma Johnson because she knew she was sad about Grandma Sundberg.  It's a picture of Grandma Sundberg, Grandma, and Brooke holding hands under a rainbow and it says: Families can be together forever.

Her official Obituary:

1927~2013

Holladay, UT-In loving memory of Gwendolyn Andrus Sundberg. Gwendolyn was born June 6, 1927, in Marion, Utah to Willard Oscar and Gwendolyn Williams Andrus. She died peacefully in her sleep on November 10, 2013, at her home in Holladay, Utah. Married to Kenneth Maurice Sundberg on June 11, 1947 in the Salt Lake temple.

Gwendolyn was first and foremost a wife and a mother. Her life was spent on family, family, family, service, service, service, quilting, piano lessons for her children and grandchildren, sewing lessons, gardening, gardening, gardening, and more family. She attended LDS Business College and worked for Utah Power for a few years. She currently worked as the office manager at Holladay Water where she began over 60 years ago as an unpaid employee to help her husband and father-in-law keep up with the workload.
She is survived by her 10 children: Marlin Kenneth Sundberg (Claudia Coon), Lynne Birkeland (Clifford), James Andrus Sundberg (Kae Sharp), Susan Allen (Mark), Willard Guy Sundberg (Gail Gallant), Gregory Paul Sundberg (Gayle McCullough), Rebecca Johnson (Larry), Mark Quintin Sundberg (Sally Lundstrom), Meg Erekson (Ted), and Val Garth Sundberg (Lori Stewart), 49 grandchildren and 89 great-grandchildren. Also survived by her brother Willard Garth Andrus (Eloise Adamson), and Wanda Mackintosh (Dan).
She was preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth Maurice Sundberg, and infant daughter, Wanda. Also preceded in death by her parents, and siblings, Maxine Wilde, Lucy Erekson, LaVon Andrus, Marlin Andrus, Maurine Adams.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, November 16, 11:00 a.m. at the Holladay 14th Ward chapel at 4917 Viewmont Street. Friends may gather on Friday, November 15, 6:00-8:00pm at Holladay Cottonwood Memorial Mortuary, 4670 South Highland Drive, and one hour prior to the funeral at the Holladay 14th Ward. -

Naked Bum!

Ty got caught playing dress up after bath time.  Hey, those are mommies clothes!

It's Fall!!

The air outside is crisp, the leaves are changing, it smells like pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.

Ty and I have been enjoying crisp fall walks lately.  We have been collecting leaves of every shape and color to create some fun fall crafts for after school fun.  We try to walk up to the elementary school at least once a week so we can have lunch with Jace and Brooke.  They love it.  Mostly because they get to invite a friend to sit with us at the special table by the window.  Usually they just have to sit next to whomever they are standing next to in line.  They do that so there aren't hurt feelings in the lunchroom.

Saturday at the Home Depot & Urgent Care

We started this beautiful Saturday morning off by hitting up the Home Depot Kid's Workshop for the first time since we moved here.  The kids made boats.  It was super fun.  Ty LOVED the Home Depot.  He was amazed at the men cutting wood and the forklift.  After that we stopped to get some lunch at Dickies BBQ for lunch.  As daddy was ordering and we were waiting in line Brooke was playing with the dividers (like the ones you see at amusement parks to separate the lines).  They had big wooden posts and thick rope connecting them taking you around the corner to order.  She slipped and fell and was holding the rope.  As she fell all three big wooden posts fell on top of her.  One of them got her head pretty badly.  She was bleeding.  I ran her into the bathroom thinking she had a nose bleed or cut her mouth.  Finally I saw that their was a deep cut on her head that had soaked her hair in blood.  We got our food to go and I cleaned it up at home.  I could tell then that it was deep enough that it needed stitches.  The boys stayed home and I took her over to urgent care.  They put 2 staples in her head.  She cried pretty hard.  We got some ice cream afterwords.  That helped ease the pain.  We go back in 10 days to have them removed.  She was so brave.