Northwest Halloween

Will's first Halloween. He was a spider and Kate was his web. They met Will's cousin Devon and Aunt Arrin and went down to the University Village to a big children's trick-or-treat party. All the stores had candy and the kids went trick-or-treating. Kate said it was mostly baby's our age and their parents carrying them around. I guess they little one's have to start somewhere! There's a lot of pictures but they are on my email so I will email them to you. I stayed home and passed out candy, we had a surprising number of kids this year. That made me happy, last year we only had 2 or 3 trick-or-treaters and a whole bunch of candy left over!
We Love all of you!!

ok, I'll blog

I just enjoyed Amy's halloween report, those were some cute pictures! (and you inspired me to get something down here).
I was having issues with how many pictures I can post on one blog so I'm going to do 2. The next one will be our halloween pic's. Here is the final harvest of our summer garden. We enjoyed eating all of it and we still have some winter squash to eat. Will has found out that his hands can bring just about anything to his mouth. He's really taken an intrest to exploring his surroundings now. However, since he can't move yet it's up to one of us to assist him around the room to investigate things. He found his feet the other day and now they help him get through boring times on his back. He's managed to suck on his toes occasionally, but not everytime, and sometimes he falls to his side and tries to keep rolling over but just can't make it yet. A few weeks ago he rolled over from laying on his belly to his back, but he hasn't been able to repeat such a maneuver as of yet. This last picture is our winter garden that has now started grow a little bit as the sun and warm weather keep getting further and further away. We planted carrots, turnips, pac choi, beets, cabbage, mustards, kale, spinach, kholrabi, and cauliflower. So far the slugs have shown quite a battle but I am running defense now and gaining control of the situation once again!
We love all of you!!

Clark Family Halloween

We had a fun halloween and to read about it, please see our blog teamclark.blogspot.com. We just recently started using it again. Check it out!

Nater and Kater

Nate and Kate sent us this picture of their jack-o-lanterns. They grew the pumpkins themselves! Very cool, guys.

Family of Pirates

Dad sent me this picture of Joe and Brooke with their kids. They were a family full of pirates! You all look great.
PS Happy 1st Birthday to John Brundage!

Henry and boxes

Henry loves to get inside boxes, or sometimes to go under them. Here are a few examples.

Ella Bella

Ella is growing, growing, growing. Here are some new pictures of her.

Henry's Birthday

Here are some pictures of Henry's birthday (I know, it's a few weeks later...).

He had so much fun on his birthday. He loved the hats and the balloons and the presents and the cake. He loved it all. He saw my packages that arrived in the mail yesterday and he keeps saying "cake? hat?"

From Grandma!

Hi Family dear,
I thought I would just pop a little note on the blog. Dad is becoming busier and busier each day. I'm sure as they (the Bishop and his counselors) get organized, things will run very smoothly...or at least as smoothly as they possibly can when you are involved and over-seeing some 300-ish people.
Brother Pettit passed away this morning. He has had lung cancer and had been given 6 months tops when he was diagnosed 2 years ago. He has had a fairly comfortable 2 years and has enjoyed his family of 4 sons (grown) and several grandchildren. His wife Mary is a good friend and is handling his passing, at this point, quite well.
Other than that, life is moving on.
We miss you who live in Seattle and Provo, and are really happy that we get to see 7 of you here, sometimes daily!
Love and Hugs,
Mom/Gram

Henry and Ella Pics

Here are a few updated pics of Henry and Ella. Henry loves his scooter and Ella is smiling more and more.
Love to you all -
Amy

Ella's Baby Blessing

Ella was blessed yesterday. It was a beautiful blessing and it was great to have Mom, Dad, Maggie and Joe there.

Nate is 32 today!

Happy Birthday Nater! I hope you know how much we all love you. Have a wonderful birthday/new year!

back at it

Ok everyone, here we are. I finally set up our google account so we can continue on with our blogging.
I wanted to send some pictures of the new truck, Kate, and some garden pics....all the important parts of life for us.
Kate is doing good, her blood pressure is running borderline high and her back is hurting her, but nothing that we can't get through. She has recently cut back her work hours to 5/day to see if her hypertension is work related...she's happy about that.
I also included a picture of our neighbors yard that I installed. It took me 65 hours! Before this, It looked nothing like it does now, no grass, mostly little bushes, roses, and flowers and it was all overgrown with weeds. I transplanted the flowers (about 35 of them) out before I laid the sod and then put the flowers back around the edges.
We Love all of you!

Guilty

Okay Amy, you 've made me feel guilty enough to post something! Just kidding...I'm glad you're trying to keep us all going with this! Here are a couple of pictures from our house. One is Joe at his first Pinewood Derby (he took second place!), and the other is the kids at Easter.

We hope you're all doing well. I love to see the pregnant pictures, because it reminds me that for once, I'm not the one pregnant! :)

We're doing well...keeping busy and having fun. Hopefully we'll be able to see you all soon!

Love,
Broooke

New pictures!

I just had to break the silence on our blog and put some pictures up. One is of me, 31 weeks along with Ella - I know, I look ridiculous! But I had to share the humor with you. The others are Henry on Easter during his egg hunt. We just put them around the middle of the room, but he sure had a good time - especially getting the candy out of the eggs.

Love to you all!

New Grandson!

Nate and Kate,
Congratulations on this special new step in your pregnancy! It is so exciting at last to be able to think of your little baby as "little he, the little guy, little Brundage boy", isn't it? We're thrilled that he will be joining the Brundage grandchildren! Maggie and little Ella will do very well with their 6 brother/cousins. All we can say is that we are so very happy for you and look forward with much anticipation to June 26th. Your family must be delighted also Kate!
Love you,
Mom and Dad

Guys and Dolls

As of very recent, Adam is going to be in the play Guys and Dolls, which will open in March at the Center Street Musical Theater in Provo. He will be a gambler and he will also play the part of "Big Jule" (pronounced Julie). It turns out that he has a lot of lines (which makes me way nervous for him), but he is excited for the challenge.
There are a lot of long practices and so far this week they have been working on a dance scene, where he has been learning the ramba and the samba (which definitely makes me excited).
He says that everyone already thinks he's crazy since he cracks jokes the whole time and last night his dance partner said to him "your poor wife..." That gave me a little chuckle.
We're really excited about this - it should be a lot of fun. Adam will do great!

Mom is 67!

Happy Birthday, Mom!
We hope you have a wonderful day. Thanks for everything you do and all that you are!
We love you,
Adam, Amy and Henry (and little bitty Ella)

Here she is in all her glory

We're so excited for a girl to be coming to our family! After seeing her in the ultrasound today I just can't wait to meet her.