The Lucky Lund Family

Jeff and Kelli are married! Our family spent a wonderful day attending Jeff and Kelli's wedding in the Mt. Timponogas Temple and their reception in the evening. Kelli was a beautiful bride and it was so special to have 6 of the 8 Lund children together again along with some of the grandchildren and even a few great grandchildren. My heart was filled with the reminder of how special family is and I am so grateful for the wonderful family that I am a part of. Tomorrow night we will celebrate the weddings of Golden and Sandy and Jesse and Laura Lund.

Lions and tigers and bears...and SPIDERS

(This is an update of a 2008 post. One of the images wasn't showing up so I added a different one.) Tonight, after Dani Kaye had convinced me she was done nursing, I sat up and noticed something on the pillow I had just had my head on. I keep the room dark except for the light of the very tiny t.v. because, otherwise, Dani Kaye will not lie still to nurse. I looked again and realized I was not imagining that there really was something crawling (I have a VERY good imagination) and decided I'd better turn on the light to get a better look. It was a HUGE (I have witnesses!) red spider. I opened the door and screamed, "Bring me the Raid - NOW!" I somehow managed to get Dani Kaye and get her off the bed without passing out from fear and then I drowned the spider in Raid. My sheets are now in the wash and I will let you know when I have the courage to sleep in my bed again. Rick says he will help me "Deep clean" the room. This picture really does not do this spider justice. I think I should tag it, "It's MR. SPIDER to you!" The second image is from the web and does the spider justice. 

We Have The Best Home Teacher Ever!

RICK AND I AND DANNY AND MARY GUNNEL ON TEMPLE SQUARE

RICK AND I BEFORE OUR DATE WITH DANNY AND MARY GUNNEL

A week ago, we went on a date with Danny and Mary Gunnel (see their blogspot). It all started a few months ago when the ward had a ward auction and one of the things being auctioned was a date with the Gunnel's. Sierra, being the sweet thing that she is, bought the date for us to go out with the Gunnel's. We finally got things together so that all of us could go and Wednesday night was the night. We got all "gussied up" and took pictures before we left. Danny suggested that we go to Salt Lake and go to a restaurant called "Ruth's Chris". He also suggested the New York Steak, and who were we to argue? It was the best steak I have ever eaten in my life! We also had sides of bread, salad, mashed potatoes, asparagus with Hollandaise sauce, creamed spinach, and sweet potatoes. The whole meal was scrumptious. After dinner, we walked around temple square - it was Rick's first time! We took a lot of pictures there too. To top off the evening, we went on a carriage ride! Our horse was named Rex. We were all worn out by the time we got back to Provo but it was the funnest evening that Rick and I have spent in a very, very long time! Thank you again Danny and Mary!!

THE 4 PICTURES ABOVE WERE ALL TAKEN ON TEMPLE SQUARE

BELOW IS BEFORE THE CARRIAGE RIDE AND ABOVE IS AFTER THE CARRIAGE RIDE

I LOVE FACEBOOK

A friend of mine from 1980-1985 sent me a friend request from facebook and since I had set up an account to view Jeff and Kelli's pictures but hadn't done anything with it I decided to go check it out. I have been obsessed with it ever since! It is so fun to see so many family members there and I even reconnected with my best friend from Savannah who I had lost contact with for the past 7-1/2 years! I have been reluctant to use something other than myspace (Ericka told me that facebook was not user friendly) but now that I have I am so happy! Several people I have reconnected with at facebook also have blogspots so I decided to post something here too. I will upload some pics after my computer is done scanning for viruses. (I am using Rick's right now.) It crashed this morning and we had to run system recovery! Luckily, all of my photos are still there and safe. I'll try to either be better about blogging or better about making Ericka blog for me. *grin*

Family Home Evening

Okay, so we stink at blogging. However last night something super cute happened during FHE. I figured we could at least blog SOMETHING!

Last night Dani had the lesson with my mom's help. I, Ericka, gave the lesson that they prepared because my mom was busy holding Dani. It was about us being children of God. The first thing we did was a game where I threw a bean bag to each person and said "I know a child of God named..." and then they would say their name. I did this for Michael and Lexi last figuring that they might have grasped the concept while I did it with everyone else. I tossed Michael the beanbag and said my part and then after a second of silence said quietly "Hey, what's your name?" and he smiled and said "Michael!" We all cheered and said "Very good! That's exactly right." Then I did it with Lexi. After I said my part she was just looking at us all and I said "What's your name?" She said "Um..." and then got a huge grin, pointed to herself and said "ME!" We all laughed and thought that it was adorable. But maybe we're just biased ;-)