Gunderson Adventures.... where all 6 of Us live life to the fullest!

As 2012 comes to a close....  We are thankful for each moment...  We are in awe of Gods goodness... We are blessed by His love... We rejoice in His faithfulness... We embrace His grace on us this year... Our Top Ten Highlights for 2012 are: 1. Kyle and I celebrated our 10 year Anniversary in January! 2. Micah's golden birthday on March 5th 3. Wisconsin Dells Waterpark Adventure with grandma and grandpa(spring) 4. Hot Summer for lots of WATER fun!!! We loved going to the Wakanda water park, tubing and skiing with friends and family!! (June-August) 5. Camping at Cascade Falls in Duluth and Lake Beauty Family Camp (July) 6. Andrew's baptism (August) 7. Going to Spicer for lots of swimming with cousins and water fun with Nana and GG! (August) 8. Jacob's first birthday and dedication. (October) 9. The Joy of Reading! Andrew and Micah are learning and LOVING to read!!! (Fall) 10. Settling into life here in Menomonie! (current)- God, you amaze us as we

Wisconsin Dells!  What a great get away we took the first week of December as a family! Thank you Kyle for taking us away so we could just enjoy playing and laughing together!  Caleb and I hanging out while the other boys were having fun!  Snack Time!  My sweet water boy!  Really Daddy? Boys were having a contest on who could make the bigger splash at the bottom!  Jake loved the water and many splashes.  Only pic I have of Drew sitting still!  Micah man you are so brave...took on the Hurricane and the Black Hole.  Silly boy  Caleb coming down! Took a little break from all the big boy water slides... Micah loving every minute of family time! So fun to sneak away, skip a little school, and have fun together! Wisconsin Dells, we will be back next year!

 We had a great Thanksgiving weekend with our family! The weather was unbelievable so we were able to play football, play outside and walk down to the lake and park. It was so nice to have the whole day to be together.  A yearly tradition for our family is to do a craft in the afternoon while football is on.... and eat pie! Aunt Kara makes the best pumpkin pie!!!  The next day we took grandma and grandpa with us to find our Christmas tree and when we got there we ran right into Mr. and Mrs. Clause!! The boys seemed a little surprise to see them walking around, so we decided we needed a picture!  Grandpa and the boys on our hayride out to get our tree!  We found it!! Had to get a family shot of all of us together!  It was really cold getting our tree so we hurried inside to color and have hot cocoa! We love taking grandma in this store because there is lots of fun Christmas stuff to look at!  Grandma and her boys:)  On Saturday we took off to the Children's Mu

We took a mini get-a-way to see our Nana and GGs townhouse in the cities. We had a great time having a pizza and pj party together!!!   Micah and GG played a game of Sorry together!  Boys had fun shooting hoops in the basement. Nice slam Micah!  Daddy and Micah snuggled while we watched a movie!  PJs and popcorn at Nanas!!! Life is good:)  Andrew and Micah are enjoying their quarter collection they are doing with nana. Looks like their collection is almost complete!  In the morning we ate donuts, drank coffee, went for a run, watched cartoons and then headed out to the Mall Of America!!!! Caleb took on the bumper cars!  Micah and Andrew enjoyed going on the roller coaster with mom and dad and Micah liked this car ride that made sharp corners!  After lunch in the food court we headed to the Under Water World. So much fun watching our boys explore ocean life! Micah and Caleb are peaking in at some sharks!! Here is Andrew's new buddy he met under the Se

Our busy moving, loud talking, full of energy and spunk Jacob Kyle Gunderson has officially turned 1 years old on October 12th. Now that all his birthday celebrations are complete I am forced to sit down and write a blog about what it feels like to be a mommy with no more little ones under 1!!! Let me tell you this is no easy task!!! I love babies and could have seriously kept having children for the sake of loving those first 12 months of life. As we all know, that isn't practical nor healthy for a family or marriage. I suppose I could have held the, "But I need a girl" phrase for Kyle,family members, and close friends, but when I sit in the mornings with my bible open, God whispers "I have called you to be a mom of 4 boys." Day by day I am learning this is a very special calling God has given to me....  While I was pregnant with Jacob I had a time where I questioned whether God really had the best plan in mind in giving me a fourth boy...I spent lots of t

I love going on a field trip each year with the boys and I was so excited when I was able to go on Micah's first field trip in Kindergarten to the Apple Orchard! Micah and I packed a special lunch together and headed out in the rain on the filed trip. Little boys are so funny because he never mentioned once that it was cold or rainy.... we just held hands the entire time!  A few of Micah's Kindergarten buddies Ainsley and Riley. Micah's Kindergarten class!!! What great kids they were today and so fun to get to meet Micah's classmates this year! We love Mrs. Fedderson, Micah's teacher too. What a fabulous start to the school year. Thanks Micah for inviting me to experience a fun morning with you!!!

 Caleb loves playing outside in the leaves! He likes when we make huge piles to jump and roll around in. Our many trees in our yard make for lots of fun during this time of year!  Jake still loves his red car and enjoys his daily loop each day with mommy.  Just hanging out at home is our very favorite thing to do.... Jake loves playing catch, and discovering sticks and leaves to touch and taste.  Micah comes along most days on our daily walk by scooter making laps around mom... Andrew continues to love Legos and playing football in the yard with his brothers or neighbors. Our days look much the same as we focus our time and energy doing life at home. But the ordinary days are the moments when our boys grow in love for each other and see the importance of our time together as a family. Thankful for the ordinary...

Andrew's 7th birthday party was an obstacle course theme this year! What a blast we had setting up this crazy event for Drew and his friends. Kyle did a fabulous job pulling this off for Drew!!! So Fun! I took a few shots of the different obstacles: Obstacle 1- rope swing and drop into pile of leaves! You look sweet Drew!  Obstacle 5- Rope Climb and slap the bell! Go Drew!!! Obstacle 7-army crawl under ropes. You are looking great Andrew!!! Amazing Finish and Cookie Medal Reward!!! Here are all his buddies cheering for him and celebrating his special day! What great friends Drew has made at school and in the neighborhood! I love this picture of Caleb coming in for the big finish! Yay Bubba!!! Andrew loving all his Legos that he got from his friends! He is our Lego boy! Andrew and Caleb working on Legos together. Those jets look great boys! Our little bros Elliot and Owen stopped over to practice out our obstacle course before Drew's buddies came