A Grandma unlike any other

James and Grandma last Christmas
Emma and Grandma coloring last Christmas

Mothers Day 2007

Grandma, Mom, Mandy, Emma at about 1 month old.

These are just a few pictures of my wonderful Grandma Lund. Grandma passed away this last Friday. We all loved her very much. She was such a wonderful Grandma and Great Grandma. She loved her family, she made family her priority. She was always very supportive and loving. She worried about all of us and always wanted to make sure that we were all happy and taken care of. She loved to cook, and always offered to feed us, even if it was fried spam! We are all going to miss her very much, but we know where she is now, she is with our family that has gone before her, she is with her sweetheart, the love of her life. Knowing that is so comforting.

We will miss you very much Grandma, we love you.

Halloween 2009

I know that these pictures are way late and you've probably been wondering why I haven't posted in so long. I intended to get Halloween up quickly, but I will confess, we did not really take any pictures of Halloween. We had a family party, and we were busy doing games so I didn't really get any pictures, and them Emma was so excited to go trick or treating that I thought I would get pictures afterwards...that's where we had the problem. After about 20 minutes Emma tripped while she was running. We picked her up off the sidewalk and I started looking at her hands for scrapes but there weren't any. She was doing some major crying, and that's when Geoff pointed out her forehead...her pumpkin had gotten in the way and she fell head first on the sidewalk...she already had some major bruising and swelling, so we ran her back home to check her out more thoroughly...we iced her head for awhile, and after much begging we finally were able to take her back out. I forgot all about pictures. Emma's poor head took quite awhile to heal, and I was a little nervous for awhile that she had cracked her skull. She started with just a bruise where she hit the sidewalk, but then it slowly turned into a black eye, and then 2 black eyes. :(

Luckily one of my friends does a Halloween portrait studio every year, and we went to that the night before, I just got those pictures, and I think they turned out very cute. Little Miss Muffett and the spider that sat down beside her had a great Halloween, and Geoff and I enjoyed watching them have fun.

I do have a few pictures of Emma's head that I will post soon.

Happy Birthday James!

James turned 1 on October 24th. We had a great party for him, and I of course made him a cake. He has a toy train that he loves to play with, so I decided to do a train. I had a lot of fun putting it together.

James loved opening his presents, he got some great new toys, and some very cute clothes.

The crown didn't last too long.

He wasn't sure if he could eat his cake at first, but then he figured it out and he really enjoyed it, mostly the frosting.

And now he's had enough.

James is such a great kid, he is so happy all the time, and he loves to play with Emma. He is walking all over the place and loves to get into trouble. He tries to talk to us all the time, we have no idea what his jibber jabber means, but he even uses his hands, and his facial expressions make it seem that he's asking us questions.

Happy Birthday James!

We Love you

the last couple of months

The past couple of months has been very busy, and I have not had a lot of time to post, so this is some major catch up.

Some of you know that we made an unplanned trip out to washington at the beginning of the month. Geoff's grandmother passed away on September 30th, so we packed our bags and made the long drive out to there so we could be with his family. We are so glad that we went. We wish would could have gone under better cirucmstances, but we are still very grateful that we got to go. We ended up staying one extra day so that we could do something fun. We drove to Hood River and stopped at a whole bunch of apple orchards, then we made a stop at Multnomah Falls (my pictures don't do it justice).

It was cold outside when we were walking to the falls, and Emma didn't want to walk so our strong daddy carried both kids to the bridge.

The best orchard we went to was Mt. View orchards, they had these humongous apples...Emma had a great time sampling all the apples, and when we were finished we left with about 40 lbs. Yum!

I was so proud of Emma, I asked her if she wanted to feed the goats and she said yes, but I didn't really think that she would...after watching me do it a few times she stepped right up and did it.

James loves to color...he loves to do just about anything that his sister does.

One day we were there we went out with some of our other cousins...we ended up having lunch at McDonalds.

Here are Emma, Brigham and Gracie eating there happy meals.

This is up American Fork Canyon, we went up one Sunday afternoon and had a BBQ. It was pretty windy, which made it cold, so we just hurried and ate and drove home. While we were there we did get to see 3 deer come through. They stayed for a bit, it was great to watch them.

I absolutely love this picture.

Emma has some wonderful extended family, that love to spoil her. My aunt bought Emma these great boots, and a tutu as well.

Emma has started dance lessons, she loves going. Here are few pictures. Sorry the quality is so bad, I sit behind a glass window, so it's hard to get good pics.

A Band Family is Forever

I know that I am behind on my posts but this needs to be put before anything else.

As many of you probably already know, American Fork Marching Band had a very tragic accident late Saturday night while driving home from a competition in Pocatello. Heather Christensen tried to save the bus from going off the road, in her efforts she did save everyone else on the bus, but lost her life.

Band is a family, once you're part of the band, you are always family. It breaks my heart to know about this tragic accident. My first year of band we lost a family member to another accident. It was hard to deal with, we had a lot of support from the community. Band was a big part of my life, I made lots of really good friends there. After each competition we would gather around the singing tree outside the band room and sing "friends" when we first started singing this it didn't mean much, but after our loss in 96 it meant a lot, even now reading the lyrics brings tears to my eyes.

On Tuesday night, the 13th, there will be many of us going to there competition at BYU, we will all be wearing red and sitting together. I hope that you all will join us to support the band. They will be dedicating this performance to Heather. I still remember walking out onto that field the night we dedicated our performance to Tanya...it was very emotional. I hope that everyone can be there for the band.

Friends

Packing up the dreams God planted

In the fertile soil of you

I can't believe the hopes He's granted

Means a chapter of your life is through

But we'll keep you close as always

It won't even seem you've gone

'Cause our hearts in big and small ways

Will keep the love that keeps us strong

And friends are friends forever

If the Lord's the Lord of them

And a friend will not say never

'Cause the welcome will not end

Though it's hard to let you go

In the Father's hands we know

That a lifetime's not too long

To live as friends

And with the faith and love God's given

Springing from the hope we know

We will pray the joy you live in

Is the strength that now you show

We'll keep you close as always

It won't even seem you've gone

'Cause our hearts in big and small ways

Will keep the love that keeps us strong

And friends are friends forever

If the Lord's the Lord of them

And a friend will not say never

'Cause the welcome will not end

Though it's hard to let you go

In the Father's hands we know

That a lifetime's not too long

To live as friends

And friends are friends forever

If the Lord's the Lord of them

And a friend will not say never

'Cause the welcome will not end

Though it's hard to let you go

In the Father's hands we know

That a lifetime's not too long

To live as friendsTo live as friends

Though it's hard to let you go

In the Father's hands we know

That a lifetime's not too long

To live as friends

No a lifetime's not too long

To live as friends

a little more summer fun

We took the kids to Thanksgiving point a few weeks ago for some pictures. In August they do $2 tuesdays, for several of their activities, our plan was to go as a family to the dinosaur museum during Geoff's lunch break, and I would take the kids to the gardens after he left. We got to the museum only to find a line wrapping around the entire building, so we decided not to do that. We grabbed some lunch at the deli and took Emma through the atrium first. After lunch Geoff left for work and I took the kids to the Gardens. They are so beautiful, they have like 50 acres of gardens, with different themes. Emma had a blast running around and looking at the flowers. They also have a kids area with lots of fun things for them to do, unfortunately we did not have very much time to spend there, I wish we would have gone there first, but we'll remember it for next time.
Emma and Geoff in the atrium, if you can't tell, she is Daddy's little girl.

This is at the children's part of the Garden's she got soaked, I had to just take her skirt off.

This is Emma and her friend Addy, they love to play together

I decided since we were here we needed to have a little photo shoot of our own, since I haven't been able to get the kids in for photo's recently.

There are a lot of photo's here, but I really narrowed it down, I ended up taking 200 pictures.

These 2 love to play together, Emma takes such good care of James, and James really looks up to Emma. They get into a lot of trouble together, but I love that they play so well.

Emma is attempting to roll down the hill, I think it's kind of cute.

Scera Shell Summer

This is at Lone Star

Geoff and I have had a great time this summer at the Scera Shell. Our office became sponsors of the Shell and in return we have had tickets to everything. Not only do we get to go to the concerts but we get to go to a pre-show dinner which includes meeting the performers. We have been to Jim Brickman (an amazing pianist), Colin Raye, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (Geoff's favorite concert), and Lonestar. Here are a few pictures of the summer. We've really enjoyed doing this, and look forward to the fall season as well.

This is a picture of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

Geoff and I before the Concert

Here are our pictures with Jim Brickman and Colin Raye, I have not gotten the pictures from the other concerts yet, but when I do I will get them posted.

I really enjoyed the Colin Raye concert, he is a great performer, and he treats his fans so great. Before we took the picture he played with James for a minute.

We are going to the Take 6 concert on Monday, they are an acapella group and have won 10 grammy's. It should be a good concert. They end the summer season, and then Scera will start an indoor seaon for the fall, I am looking forward to that.