Birthday Week

This last week was my birthday week! I was so excited and was counting down the days for my birthday. I remember reading on Teri's blog about how they do a whole birthday week event, after reading it I passed on the idea for Tyler, trying to hint that I wanted that for my birthday this year. So I had my first week long birthday celebration!! It was fabulous!!!

 One night we had a "Psych" night, Tyler gave me the 2nd season of Psych early, so we started watching it, trying to catch up before Nov. 10th when it comes back.

 Another night we had a "Friends" night and I schooled Tyler in Friends trivia.

Yet another night we watched "Did you hear about the Morgans?" super cute and funny movie. 

 On my actual birthday, Tyler gave me a jewerly box that he actually made. It is super cute and I was way excited!

 The carving tyler put on the bottom  of the jewerly box.

 Tyler decorated my car while I was teaching my 1st grade class.

At work, Ann and Megan put together a fun little birthday lunch for me. A couple weeks ago I played a prank on them by telling them I was expecting and due in June. They weren't to happy to find out it was a prank, so for my birthday lunch they made it a baby shower theme. It was pretty funny and none of us could stop laughing.

 I'm not a big cake fan so Ann made me my favorite dessert, Banana Creme Pie!!!

 The table decorations.

Megan made me that hat. I had to wear it all through lunch. As you can see Ann couldn't stop laughing. 

 That night Tyler and I had sundaes!

Friday and Saturday we stayed at a resort in Midway called Zermatt, it was all had a swedish theme. Actually all of downtown Midway does.

 Zermatt Resort

In front of a little Swedish house.

In front of the biggest crossroads sign we have ever seen.

p.s. Midaway has some of the biggest houses we have ever seen. This one by far wins! That is the closest we could get to the house, a little bit down the road there is a private entrance/road to the house.

On Saturday we went over to Park City. We checked out the Olympic Park and Museum, which was cool, and then hit the outlets...my fav!!

In front of the olympic torch

Carrying the Olympic Torch.

Tyler wanting to be part of the bobsled team.

(Wanna kiss my lucky egg?!)

In front of the bobsled track, Tyler was so happy to be able to touch the ice on the track. 



One eventful week!

These last few days have been the busiest we have has in a long time. Since last Wednesday we have had one or more things planned a day and have been running all over the place. To start off we are not true halloween fans, we are slowly but surely trying to get into the Halloween Spirit...more the fun and friendly spirit, not the gross and gory spirit. (more for the sake of future children) So Wednesday we decided to paint pumkins, that way it can stay in the house and be a decorative thing. It ended up being really fun.

 Tyler put much thought into his pumpkin.

 The final product

I told Tyler just in case people don't think my pumpkin in very

Halloweeny, I made a ghost on the back of my pumpkin.

Thursday my sister had her baby! It was a huge surprise since she was 28 weeks and 2 days along in her pregnency. She was admitted into the hospital on Monday for Preeclampsia. They gave her some medication to help with that and steroid shots to help James grow a little faster. He was born Thursday morning weighing in at 2 lbs 3 oz, and 14 inches long. He is doing a lot better than doctors thought. He is breathing on his own and today he is starting to digest some milk. He just needs to get bigger and stronger. For right now he will be staying in the NICU until his orignal due date which was mid January. Friday we got to go see my sister and Saturday I went to see her again and got to see, touch, and talk with James. All we can do now is hold James' hand, which my sister calls a James hug. He is super precious.

James Prescott Lund sporting his sunglasses.

 The picture is kind of blue because of the lights they had on him for the jaudice. But you can see how small he is with my hand in the picture. From one shoulder to other is a little bit bigger than the width of my hand.

James' diaper is the size of my palm, it's the smallest one the hospital

has and in the picture above you can see how it is still big on him.

Also on Friday, Tyler had a Conference for a class at BYU. Since I don't have school on Fridays now, I took the day off work and went with him so I can see some friends and hang out in Provo while he was at his day long conference. I got to see the fabulous girl that I trained on my mission, Sarah Ray! I haven't seen her since I've been home, which is a year and a half. Then I met up with my best friend Naomi and we shopped our bodies and legs right out. It was super fun to be able to hang out for a good amount of time since all we do now-a-days is just talk on the phone and text since we live an hour and a half away.

 Sarah and I

 Sarah and I...2 years ago!

Later that night after we saw my sister we went out to eat at Tepanyaki for my birthday since Tyler and I will be out of town this next weekend for my birthday. I love the food there! Once I become filthy rich I will have my own Japanese chef to entertain me each meal.



Our new baby

Now before you all go and start freaking out we are talking about a car...NOT a child!
With our schedules slowly but surely started to get further and further unrelated to each other, Tyler and I decided that we needed to buy a new car. We wanted something that we can use to move things around -- basically so that we didn't have to keep calling up my sister and borrowing her van. We shopped around and took our time, we wanted something that wouldn't need to be fixed up, and that could last us for a while at least, and something on the cheaper side so we could pay cash with it. Last Saturday we  went and got the jeep looked at by a friend of Tyler that is a mechanic. He passed off the car with flying colors, we went to the bank and withdrew the money. It was the most that any of us had ever held!! We were freaking out, I felt like we needed a security guard with us to make sure it made it into the right hands.

 Our 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee

A little of everything...

This Sunday Tyler and I went with my family to the Conference Center to watch the Sunday Morning session of Conference. I hadn't been their since before my mission, and Tyler hadn't been in it since it was built. It was nice to be able to go again. Once we got there we saw a lot of missionaries, some were wearing little country flags like they do on Temple Square, some weren't and there were a lot of Elders. In all the busyness of having thousands of people there, and trying to go to the bathroom before sitting down we ended up running into an Elder that is from Tyler's home ward in Clinton, WA. Small world! When we went to sit in our seats, one the Ushers was an older lady serving a full-time mission with he husband on Temple Square, they too are from Clinton, WA. Crazy!

 Tyler and I with Elder Asay

I love this pic!
No one is looking at the camera except Tatti...why?
Beacause her dearest Chris is taking the picture!
Imagine that--the sun a factor in October!!!!

Also, this semester is our last semester of classes. In January we both start student teaching and graduate in April. Each semester, in the Education Program, we do something called "field work" where we go out to the schools and work along side a teacher for a couple weeks. We got our assignments and for the next month to 5 weeks. Tyler will be working in an English Class at Ben Lomond High School with Juniors and Seniors. I will be at Horace Mann Elementary, a block away, I will be working with a 1st grade class. Pray for me!!! Actually, pray for the kids!!!

 

 Ben Lomond High School

Horace Mann