Thursday, December 27, 2007

Holiday Summary!

Just thought I would give a summary of what has been going on with the Bundy family lately! Hmmm, most of the month of December has now passed us by. The kids and I were pretty busy keeping up with all the hustle and bustle. We had the normal stuff to do, like preschool, and church, and lots of trips to the post office to send Tyson stuff to help his time away from home pass more quickly. Then there were the extra things to do, like the kids got sick, and I started some physical therapy for my lower back which has been bothering me a bit for this pregnancy. And we decided to do the 12 days of Christmas for 4 families, so we had to get that stuff made and delivered each day. Then finally, on December 21, Tyson came home after being gone for 7 weeks! Yeah! It made my Christmas! That was all that I wanted! A few days before he came home, his computer decided to quit working for me. So I didn't have a computer. But that wasn't so bad, because I had lots to keep me busy. Just ask my dad! He likes to "comment" on my desire to make Christmas presents. And how years ago, I didn't do a very good job with finishing them all. But I have done pretty well on finishing them since I got married (except for a quilt for Carolyn and Curtis- sorry guys!) So I got those all done and mailed off.
Then we just had family time and some sleep time. Because ater 7 weeks of Tyson being gone, neither one of us had gotten much sleep lately. We are still recovering.
Then I had choir practice (I am the ward choir director) on Saturday for the Sunday program, then we had our Sunday Sacarment program that I was kind of in charge of, and Monday was Christmas Eve. I had to stand in line at the post office for almost an hour to pick up packages, after a PT appointment, and then Tyson and I took the kids to Walmart, so we could take turns swapping kids so they could get Christmas presents for each other and us. I was pretty wiped out by the end of that. Then that night we delivered our last days of the 12 days of Christmas, and some other things before heading up to my parents for the traditional Christmas Eve party/program. We didn't have a lot of people there like we have had in years past, but we were able to focus on Christ's birth which is the whole point. Then we went home and kids went to bed, and after getting the last of the presents wrapped and under the tree, we were able to finaly relax and calm down. Santa came sometime in the night, and finally at 9 AM on Christmas the kids woke up. You can tell they were tired! We were all really spoiled and got lots of nice and wonderful presents. My wonderful honey got me a new printer that I didn't fully appreciate until I opened a companion present for it, that was paper but was 13"x19"! It will print great big papers! And it will do a great job on pictures. For those of you that don't know, I have had a lot of heartache with pictures this past year. We had lost all of our pictures. So some of the best presents I got, were pictures in the time frame that I had lost. Curtis had gone through and printed off all the pictures they had that related to our family. And my dad, after lots of frustrating hours, was finally able to recover my hard drive that had pictures from April to about September of this year. And Bethany has sent me pictures that they had too. So if you have any you want to share, we would be greatful. And now with my new printer, (and all the hours Tyson is putting in to get my comptuer back up and running) I will be spending some more time on learning digital scrapping. But don't worry, I won't give up traditional because I like being able to do the hands on method too!

Okay, so this was supposed to be a summary, and there is way more info here than most of you want to know, so I'll wrap it up. We are vegging, trying to destress some. Tyson is going to be working on homework lots over the next week. I need to get the house cleaned and laundry done. In other words, we need to get life back to normal. But my parents left to head down to AZ and then they will be going to Mexcio after that. They must feel they need some sun! I know that feeling! But we are going to be getting ready for the baby to get here in February. So lots to do!

I think that is as much summary as anyone needs, and hopefully I will be able to get some pictures on here soon. I did get a new camera from my parents as well, which will help in my picture endeavors. So one of these days, plan on seeing some more here! But in the meantime, have a great week, and enjoy the New Year as it comes!

Sunday, December 2, 2007

The Holidays are Here!






As you can see, we have been doing some of the Christmas things! Becca and I took Keith, Rachel, Cassidy, and Cayden to the season opening event at down town Eagle River and the kids all got to sit on Santa's lap. I did miss out on one picture because it was so cold, my camera had fogged up and didn't get it warmed up until after she had already gone. Rachel asked for a bike (which she has no need for and will more than likely not be getting), and Keith, being into instant gratification asked for a candy cane. He had seen the bucket of them, and thought he would ask for what he knew he could get. Smart kid! Then they all got to pet the reindeer. There were quite a few there, Prancer, Comet, Donner, Blitzen.... you know, the whole crew. The kids did notice that Rudolph wasn't around though. He must have been sick and trying to get better for Christmas! You can kind of see the tops of all the kids heads in the reindeer picture, if you look very carefully! Then on Saturday, we went tree chopping. Becca helped Keith and Rachel cut down their own trees (a branch). But Dad got a HUGE tree, we got one (of which I had all 4 of the kids- same as saw Santa- help me saw it down and Becca got pics on her camera), Becca got one (she calls it her Charlie Brown tree, but it doesn't look that bad), and Curtis and Cassidy even cut one down. So for $5, to get 4 trees, a pretty good deal! And not even too traumatic to go and do it. I only got high centered on the ice once! Good thing there was a good samaritain there to help pull me out. Dad had gone around to help, but we were free by the time he got there. Anyway, we will be trying to get our tree up tomorrow for Family Home Evening. Maybe we'll have a picture of it then for you all to see!

Saturday, December 1, 2007


This is a picture of me and my wonderful hubby on a family vacation to Mexico last year. We had tons of fun, and the kids keep asking when are we going to go again! Boy do I love the sun, the sand, the beach, the ocean....Remind me why I live in the cold, frozen north? Oh yeah, Tyson loves it up here! And I want him to be happy. He just has to get me out and away from here at least once a winter. And he has done a very good job at that so far!

Initial Post

Well, here i go, to try and get started here. I have an account on Multiply, but wanted to see if I would like using this better. I am hoping to be a bit better in keeping up to date on things. This could be a very random blog, with stuff from family happenings, to opinions, to craft projects, and who knows what else. For now, I just want to see if this is pretty easy to set up!