Christmas 2008

Maecee and Daddy. With her "BERRY SPECIAL MAKEUP!"
A BIG hit was the Wii!

I love the excitement on his face

Maecee on the Coaster Cars. These have also been a huge hit. We have races around the island in the kitchen :)

The kids waiting to go downstairs. McKenna woke us up at 7:00. Not bad---as a kid we'd be more in the 4 or 5 am hour. It drives my dad crazy that my kids don't wake us up early. Actually they probably know that their daddy would tell them to go back to sleep!

Christmas Eve-Tawnee and Maecee being cheerleaders

Cousins Lainey and McKenna doing tricks together

Eth getting ready to fire at me

MORE TO COME....

Cutie Boy

This is the same picture that I posted awhile ago but I tried to "edit" it. I don't really get editing and photography but I love it and love learning and playing around with it. I really should take a photography class, I would love that. So don't laugh at my attempt to "edit".

I just had to write down what Big E said to me last night. It was time for bed and he had reminded us to read scriptures (which is his favorite thing to do, and he reads the scriptures so well with little help), and say family prayer, then he wanted me to snuggle him before he got into bed. Well the night before I had actually laid down by him and kept falling asleep. Well I guess I was twitching and snoring and talking in my sleep and so Eth actually said "um mom can you please go to your bed... :)" So last night I was asking him to show me what I was doing in my sleep. He kept telling me no. Well I finally got out of him the reason why. He said in his cute little voice "I don't want to tell you because you'll probably just put it on your blog or something". OH MAN, I laughed so hard! Isn't that funny! He is a sweet boy.

Hope everyone's Christmas preparations are going good. Mine sure aren't....hum maybe if I got off the computer that would be a start in the right direction. Have a great Holiday season!

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I HAVE A HUGE FAVOR TO ASK.....


My dearest brother Jason has a birthday today. I hope you heard it on the radio :) He's 31. I tried to get them to give out his phone number so anyone and everyone could call him but they couldn't legally do it...darn it! You see, Jason got me on my b-day last year soooooo bad! I mean BAD! So how can you help? Well maybe you could call him at &&&&&, or email him at jason@lundahlbuilding.com or leave him a message on his blog at http://the5lundahls.blogspot.com/ that would be very helpful. I so appreciate this!

If you have any other ideas of a way to embarrass him, let me know! A huge thanks to all!

Winter time highlights

Playing in the first "real" snow storm on Saturday morning. There was a lot of dressing and undressing involved.

You take your tramp down during the winter? Why? ;)
Eth trying to catch some air

SNOWBALL FIGHT!

McKenna says "Dear Santa-I want a motor scooter, a cell phone, and to go to spring creek next year." Good luck Santa!

At our Ward Christmas Party. McKenna's finally feeling better after missing school for 3 1/2 days last week. She had an ear infection which lead to an infection in her lymph nodes. Her cheek (under her ear) was HUGE! I took a picture but she would die if I put it on here. She's been dealing with this weird lymph node thing since she was about 4. It usually comes about 1-2 times per year. It used to be about 6+ times, so were grateful for the improvement. The 1st time I took her to the dr for it, he told me she had lymphoma w/o doing tests or anything. I was a wreck. Went for a second opinion and found out it wasn't that at all. Way to give a mom a heart attack!

Ethan-"Can you please bring me a Wii and a new backpack. My mom says I can't have a dog or a baby brother"

And the fearless Maecee was too scared to sit on Santa's lap. "He 'cary MOM!" I had to take a picture of this because Maecee was playing with this little nativity and she had all the little people in a circle so they could see baby Jesus. Isn't that cute. They know so much at such a young age.

Being Santa in the tub

All in a days work for Maecee. She heard me coming and she locked me out of the bathroom so she could have some private time to smear mascara all over her eyes! Beautimus! Notice she doesn't have any clothes on in this pic. Well she wants to run around naked all day long. She's not potty trained yet either if that gives you any indication of what I do all day :) She'll run around saying "naked noogy, naked noogy". She's hilarious!

For my hubby

I tried to get my hubby involved in this blogging business (since he's always teasing me about it) by picking the background out. Well he didn't like any of them. So I was clicking on different themes saying what about this one, what about this one. Well I've been teasing him about taking me on a vacation like let's say somewhere tropical....so he said this one with one palm tree was ok. So this one's for you hon! Love you and hint, hint on that vacation!

P.S. He never reads this blog so this really isn't going to help plea my case at all!

P.P.S. or is it P.S.S Today I got to hang out with my cute hubby and we talked alot and teased each other alot. Like I asked him if he would marry me again knowing what he knows now :) (now that's a loaded question) and he said he would make sure to have me evaluated by a psychiatrist before committing to anything! And then later he said marrying me was the best decision he ever made. OHHHH! We talked about alot of interesting stuff, but mostly we just laughed at each other.

P.P.P.S or whatever He also taught me this trick. If you text a question to CHACHA on your cell phone it will send you back an answer. So we were thinking of questions to ask. I said to type in the best place to go on vacation.....it said Hawaii....that's one of the places I want to go. It was pretty entertaining. Oh and if you want to know CHACHA's favorite color is orange because of pumpkins, fall leaves and autumn.

Oh my CRAZY Maecee!!

Wow! This cutie is keeping me on my toes! Again WOW! This morning McKenna was looking for her black shoes. Well being the mom and knowing where everything is :) I remembered that I saw a little 2 year old so carefully placing those shoes in where else? THE OVEN!!! I made a mental note to get them out and to tell everyone NOT to turn on the oven unless you first check and see if there are any stinky shoes or whatever else she might stuff in there. So I had just got done telling Brett and McKenna to check the oven before turning it on. Fast forward about 4 hours and minus Heathers brain cell power a few notches. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Yep I turned on the oven to flippin' 425 degrees. Next thing I know, I'm smelling some smoke....my brain is slugging along.....did I spill something while baking....oh wait I don't really bake....ummmmm....OH CRAP!!! I run to the oven and it is JAM PACKED!!!! There was 2 dishtowels, today's mail, a wedding invitation, A sub for santa GIFT CARD (hope that still works!), shoes, McKenna's homework, newspaper, clementine oranges, 2 hot pads, more newspaper, more mail, and I think that about covers it! HOLY COW! I was yelling BRETT come here (now picture everyone but Brett running into the kitchen). I was throwing things out of the oven as fast as I could! Then much to my dismay McKenna said "mom didn't you just tell us to check the oven before we turn it on" Why yes I did! Then Brett enters "you didn't check the oven before you turned it on? Didn't you just....." YES I DID! Luckily nothing caught on fire but McKenna's study page is a little brownish. How do you explain that to your teacher! "My mom caught my homework on fire!"

The other OH MY events were her saying to me while standing on the kitchen chair "mom watch (full glass of chocolate milk in hand)" and deliberately waits until I look and dumps the whole dang thing! Same type of situation while eating the day before. Glass ornament in hand, mom looks, and it hits the floor-NICE!

Playing ring around the rosies with Tawnee and Rhett at Grandpa Horsey's
Just being cute---and not looking at the camera

Climbing the railing! Everything is "mommy I hang on that"

Her "GO AGGIES" outfit. She'll sing this forever and do little cheer moves. She also loves to sing Twinkle, Twinkle, little star. But today was singing especially loud to annoy her brother because he was trying to concentrate on his homework. The more he told her to stop, the louder she got. I have no idea where she learned these tricks from! :) If you hear any loud screaming or otherwise offensive things coming from our house, please rescue me!