Surprise Visit

Two weekends ago my Aunt and Uncle surprised my mom and dad all the way from Florida for my dad's birthday! It was so fun to see them. We had everyone over for dinner and dessert one of the evenings that they were around.

My mom and my aunt had been shopping the afternoon before coming over to our house and my mom counldn't resist buying this cute outfit for our little one. We don't know if it's a boy or a girl, but it's great because it will work for both!

Davis's Visit

On Sunday evening Joel, Emily and Cordin Davis came to Fergus Falls for some seminary classes and stayed with us. It was great to see them again! We also had Danny and Mandy Bronson over for dessert on Monday night. 3 pregnant ladies all together!

Offically Married

Dan and I have decided we have offically been bound forever...we alphabetically combined all of our 430 CD's. It was a big job, but felt great to do.

Celebrate Good Times

This week my family got together to celebrate two events, Julie and Jane's 24th birthday and my cousin, Jared's engagement to Brindy, his girlfriend. We had a great time all together!! Birthday Girls, Julie and Jane! Soooooo glad she could come home from Colorado!
Jared, my cousin, and his awesome fiance Brindy

Me and Brindy
Here are the five sister-in-laws together, me, Jane, Julie, Liz, and Jane

Dave's NEW Bike

My brother David showed up out at my parents house today riding this brand new bike he'd just bought. It's a 2004 Honda and it's beautiful....it sounds even better! Here's Dave and his new ride.
Julie, Jane and Dave

Julie's Home!

SOOOOO fun to see my sister Julie home from Colorado Springs. She is here for her and Jane's 24th birthday this week. It's great for the three of us to be all together again!

Visiting Wheaton

This weekend we had a great time visiting our good friends Andrea and Jeremy Knick in Wheaton. Andrea cooked us a great meal and the boys had soooooo much fun showing us all their toys. We were so glad that we were able to get out to their place and hang out. We had such a nice time and enjoyed their boys so much!

Andrea and Christine. We have a picture from six years ago when Andrea was expecting her first, Jaxon, so now we have the opposite....me expecting my first.
Jeremy with Jonah, who was a little camera shy for the moment, but not for long. :)
Jaxon, just a sweet boy, enjoying his homemade cheesecake. Also, you must notice his front tooth is gone...he lost it that day and was thrilled to tell us about it.
Here's Hayden...the little giggly, goodfy one. He is so fun and reminds me a lot of Andrea's personality!!
The three boys....getting all wound up after dinner and flopping to the ground.

We Want Spring BACK!!!!

It's April 7th and we want our spring back. Yesterday it was in the 40's and today we got a snow strom giving us about a foot of snow. What a disappointment!!!! So, Dan and I decided to make spring snowmen/women to beckon spring back. As you can see, I am the pregnant one!!

27 Weeks Pregnant

Fargo Get-a-way

This weekend Dan and I had a chance to get-a-way to Fargo, ND for a night. Our sister-in-law was also working in Fargo that evening, so we all got together, stayed at the Ramada Hotel, shopped and relaxed in the pool area. This is only time that we will have to be "away" before our baby arrrives. We are soooo thankful we could get away Steven and Elizabeth
Steven and Dan going down the slide together! Crazy boys.
Pregnant Christine in her first maternity swimsuit....that was a little hard to buy...

70's Night

On Saturday evening we went to a 70's theme party that the city of Fergus Falls put on. It was really fun, something that we don't usually do, and had a really fun time dressing up. It was great to see some friends that we hadn't connected with since returning to Fergus Falls. Dan really got into character by shaving a fu-man-chu along with huge chops! Don't you love his hair too!!

Dan and my brother Steven really had a blast being dressed up in 70's costumes!
Dan along with some friends, Kip, Steven, and Tyson
Here's a group of people together at the 70's bash

Easter Sunday

This picture turned out blurry, but it's still ok. Here we are! I am in my sixth month of pregnancy.
This year we decided to have my family over to our house for Easter. It's only the second time we have had any holiday celebration NOT at my parents house. It was a nice change and a lot of fun! We had a delicious meal and wonderful desserts!!

Second Stage

Here is the second stage of decorating in the baby's room. We are having so much fun getting
everything ready!!

Baby's room

Today Dan and I got ambitious and painted the baby's nursery. We went out to Home Depot, picked up some paint and began working on the room. Before we could even get started, however we had to remove a border which was SOOOOOOOO annoying. We finally finished that and started laying on the paint. It was a mint green and we darkened it up. This is not the finished product, but I am not going to give you any further details, so stayed tuned for more pictures.

Lunch

In February Dan and I moved over to a new place. We are renting the main floor of a house. It has two bedrooms and an office. It's great! After moving in, we had my parents, Jane and Steve over for lunch (Steve's wife couldn't come). Fun times!

We celebrated our friend Koki Zenniya's birthday out at my parents house a few weeks ago. We also had Joy and Gaylen Mathison with us too!

Last month my aunt Ruth came to Fergus Falls for the weekend. She stayed with my parents for a few nights, so we had some time to make some fun memories. Jared came out a few different times too. My mom and Ruth found their way to the piano and started singing and playing together like old time. They sounded beautiful in harmony!

Those Floridians

I gotta keep all the love in the family...just so no one forgets....WE MISS OUR FLORIDA BUNCH!!!!!! LISA and steve
RICK and Steve
THE FOUR CUTIES!!!!!!!!! Brett, Holly, Eric and Ingrid

Baby Lawson

Introducing our little wee one. We had the ultrasound done on the baby yesterday and didn't find out the sex. We want it to be a surprise. Were also keeping the names a surprise, only because I have 17 people in my family and we don't want to hear all their opinions. The doctor said the baby was looking normal for size, weight and all that good stuff. We were so thrilled to be able to see him/her. The first picture is of the baby with it's feet up over it's body by it's mouth! The second one is of his/her hand waving hello to everyone!! All five fingers were there too!!

Birthday's!

On Sunday, January 27th some of my family got together to celebrate my 26th birthday. I had a hankering for chili, so my mom fixed up some great chili and a nice birthday cake. Then 4 days later on January 31st, we celebrated Dan's 30th birthday!! Since his NY Giants are in the Superbowl this year I made him a football shaped and decorated GIANTS cake. He loved it!

Gundersen Clan

All the Gundersen kids were home for Christmas this year and we were lucky enough to all get one big picture! I thought I had to share it!!! I just love all my siblings and in-laws!