Gundersen Girls

On the way home from church today I was thinking I have the most beautiful daughters. I love my girls!

Happy Mothers' Day

I love my kids. I love that my almost 4-year-old wears a red bow tie with an orange sweater because he thinks it looks handsome. I love that Truman is almost always holding Sitota because he loves being her big brother. I love that Eve is happy when I wake her up at 6am to babysit one of the little girls so I can sleep in. I love that Dexter, my 5-year-old, is the one who taught me how to use a power drill. I love that my two little girls love to sit on my lap at the same time and snuggle. I feel so fortunate to have everything I could ever want living in my house with me (especially the guy taking this picture).

Friends

My sister-in-law threw me a baby shower a couple of weeks ago. It was great to get together with friends.

Christine flew out from WA for the shower. We've been friends since elmentary school. She made this baby blanket--it's amazing!

6 Months Old

At six months of age, Sitota can roll and sit up, and is eating solids as well as the bottle. She loves to play and laugh with her siblings. She is not (yes, you read it right) sleeping through the night but hopefully will be by her 6 1/2 month birthday (yeah right).

Super Dad, Super EVERYTHING

On Saturdays we do our deep cleaning. Everyone has about an hour's worth of chores. We all work as fast as we can to complete our assignments so we can play the rest of the day. I hate to be interrupted and so I try to drone out the distractions and work, work, work. Well, I came downstairs after cleaning the upstairs bathrooms to find this.... The man of my dreams with one kiddo on his back, holding the baby--trying to do his chores. Talk about multi-tasking. Bret really is THE BEST dad and husband!

We love our families!!!

Bret's grandmother passed away this week and all of his siblings came out for the funeral. We love having so many siblings.

Easter Sunday we had an Easter egg hunt in our back yard. Most of our Utah family came.

Love Notes & Little Boys

A few days ago while I was taking a nap (more like passed out face down on the bed hoping to get a good 15 minutes of shut eye before someone needed something) my almost four-year-old "surprised" me with my favorite child bestowed love note ever. It was a handwritten note accompanied by a picture. I know you can not see the image very well but the picture is of a dung beetle eating well, dung of course. Just what every mother wants.

Here he is, my favorite almost four-year-old in the whole world!