Henry at Christmas

Hi all -
I emailed some Christmas pictures of Henry to everyone earlier today, but I thought I'd put a few more on the blog.
Love, Amy

John Brundage

I know you are all so very busy these days...BUT will you please post some pictures of baby John? I'm sure he's changed a lot since he was born and I would love to see him.
Thanks!
Love you all!

Our first snow

Hi Everyone,
I thought I'd learn how to put pictures on our bloggs. They are from our November snow storm, the following days stayed in the 20's so the snow stuck around for a while. Amy, I know all of you get used to these sorts of things in Utah but since it only happens once in a while in Seattle, it's exciting for us. I added the picure we took at night because it's kind of creepy.. Notice the 2 pairs of eye's in the background, we have looked all over that area in the daytime and can find nothing that would have reflected like that. It must be some critters traveling across our fence, at least we hope!
The greenhouse has been fun this winter, look how warm those little broccolli's look when all around is frozen. I kept them covered with 4 layers of garden cloth during those days and the rest of the greenhouse was totally frozen, all but my brocc's. I let the salad freeze to see if they could handle it and about half of them have died since then.
Kate and I both miss all of you, we love you!

Henry the Leopard

Here is Henry in his Leopard Halloween costume. He didn't much like the hat and so we just put it on for the pictures.
We hope you all had a happy Halloween!

what fun

What a beautiful little baby John is! Good job Brooke! John looks wonderful and healthy and you so do you moments after delivering, how do you do it? Thanks for sending those pictures Dad, I felt like I was right there with everyone.
Kate had a blood test yesterday that confirmed YES, we are having a baby!!! She should only be about 3 weeks behind Amy so they can be together during their pregnancies. What fun that all of us Brundage children and our families are having baby happenings at the same time. This should keep Mom and Dad busy! We Love all of you and wish everyone luck on their peticular baby adventure!

One more of John

By the way, Grandma and Grandpa are coming along just fine!! Delighted as ever,

Here is John

John has arrived, November 1, 2006 around 4:45 PM. He weighed in at 7 lbs, 8 1/2 ounces and 19.5 inches long.

Our cup "runneth" over

Some very exiciting news today...both Adam and Amy and Nathan and Kate called to say that they are expecting in June or July. That is just such a great blessing to our family. Our prayers will be with both Amy and Kate that all will go OK...and that Amy does not get too sick again!!

Also, Brooke has been rescheduled for the delivery of "John"...the hospital had no room today...the new time is for next Thursday. (Nov 2)

Love Dad

missing pictures

Going to try again and posting the four pictures.
Dad

End of October

Well, time for me to start working with our Brundage Family Blog again. Since the wedding up in Seattle, it seems like there was not too much to say...since we were all together and had such a great time. Many thanks to Nathan and Kate for a beautiful wedding (and good weather).

Last night we had the annual "trunk or treat" at the ward building. San Luis Obispo I, II and the Pismo Beach Wards all joined in. There must have been at least 100-150 kids there. We had lots of fun. Since we have been having very warm weather, the night was not too cold (you probably have read of the fires near Palm Spring and the problem of the Santa Ana winds). Tomorrow the temperature is suppose to drop 10-15 degrees so we will be back to normal, somewhat. I have inserted several pictures of the grandchildren. Harry and Larry Boy, Charlie was the tomatoe and Joe IV was a storm trooper. (Joe is with a friend he brought to the party) Maggie was at a birthday party and so was not in the pictures.

Well, if all goes as "planned" Brooke will have her baby on Monday. Everyone is very excited. Mom and I will be on hand to help at their home with the children, etc. They plan to name him John Steven (or Stephen, they are not sure). John is for a very longtime ago Grandfather and Steven is for Brookes Father. Back in 1585 Abner Brundage had a son named John. There followed four other Johns, father-son, etc, and the last John was born in 1753 in New York. ( 5 John's in all) To my knowledge there have not been any other John Brundage's in our direct line family since that time. So with the sixth John joining our family in 2006, it is an exciting time. We will keep everyone posted and try to get some early pictures on line for all of you to see.

Love to all...Dad

PS...tried to add the four pictures...twice, but nothing happened...I must be doing something wrong

countdown

Hey Everyone,
Just wanted to confirm with our family weather man that, yes, the blessings are already showing in the forcast. With these last 10 days of showers everything will be beautiful and green with all this sun. The nights are pretty cold, especially in the mornings before the sun is high up in the sky. Today I am nice and warm with just a t-shirt on but if I stay in the shade for too long I start to want a long sleeve. After the sun goes away it gets chilly pretty quickly. Since we just hit the equinox...sunrise is around 7 am and sunset is around 7 pm. That's kind of fun, we are in perfect balance right now. For the wedding, the ceremony will be at 3:30, dinner at 5:00 and the band will play untill 8:30 (We have to be out of there by 9 pm). So expect the last half of our celebration to be requiring extra clothes. I'm so excited that all of you will be here in 4 days! That's fantastic!
Love you

Just 1 week!

In just one week Nate and Kate will be getting married! Hooray.
Do you have everything ready? Are there any last minute preparations that have to be made? Have you found your shirt yet Nate?
We're all so excited to come and we can't wait to be there!
Good luck this last week!
We love you!

Rehersal dinner

Hey Everyone,
I should have done this a while ago and just thought about it. Kate and I have been searching for rehersal dinner spots and the one that we like best is the Flounder Bay Cafe in Anacortes. Anacortes is a little marina town where the San Juan Island Ferry's all come into, about 10 min from the wedding site. Check out http://www.flounderbaycafe.com/banquets.html ....as you scroll down you'll find the rooms. We have the quarter deck room held for us and then if you scroll down further you'll find the different menus and prices, we can choose which one's would be best. Let us know what y'all think! It seems really good for our purpose.
Happy Sunday! Love, Nate and Kate

great pictures

So I guess my concern of posting a comment on a blog is that maybe no one will see it because you have to go back and view the blog to see the comment....are we all just making a habit to check our old blogs to see if theres comments posted? is that the way it works? Anyways Dad, I like your typing errors, don't worry about them, it helps me accept all of my typing errors as well. Those pictures are just beautiful.....almost 80 years ago! jeesh! It's interesting to see 4 generations worth of our family now....I wonder if Papa Joe, Grandma Grace, Thelma, and Henry (when those pictures were taken) even thought of the fact that their children were going to have children and then those kids were going to grow up and have children and now, here we are!
Interesting that we are all going through the same weather changes, especially snow on mt Timp....although it is 11,000ft tall!
I hope we are all taking lots of vit c, zinc, garlic, etc. to help our immune systems stay strong during these quick changes. This is when we are the most vulnerable to all the little bugs out there.
Love you all!
Nate

traveling to Seattle in two weeks

Hi to everyone: In two weeks we will all be up in Seattle, having a great time with Kate and Nathan. Since we are all going on the airplane and the rules and regulations keep changing, I am listing the government site which has the latest information on what can be carried on board and what has to be checked...especially when traveling with children and also with our beautiful wives and their need to have "makeup".

The site is:

www.tsa.gov

The center part of the screen has a section with permitted and prohibited items. I would suggest that we each look at it a few days before we leave, since the rules can change at any time.

Love Dad...safe and happy trip to all...

other picture

Here is the "missing" picture of the two Joe's up at Adams graduation in August.

Dad

Odds and ends on a Saturday

Hi to all: I enjoyed Nathan's posting on working with garden and the weather. I also noticed some errors in my typing on the comment, so please forgive. I am an "old" man. I am going to post several pictures...Amy asked for some earlier pictures of Mom and Dad, so I found some taken around 1925. Dad is with his sister Katherine who lived up in Oakland. I also took a picture of Harry picking our first tomatoe. We ate some it yesterday, and it was really sweet and good tasting. Then there is a picture of the two Joe's up at Adams graduation in August. Finally, we found these two pictures of Grandma Thelma, one with her sister in law..Aunt Gladys (remember she lived in Bakersfield..this taken in 1929) and the other of Grandpa Henry, Aunt Jeanne and Uncle George and Grandma Thelma taken in 1929.

I tried to be sure the spelling was all ok...hope is was

Love to All

summer's gone?

Hi everyone,
How fun to have Joe IV on line. So, It seems that when someone posts a blog...we all respond to that blog? what if I decide to respond by typing a new blog? it's easier for my tiny little brain to stay on this main part . Is that ok? Maybe I'll get better as I go.
So, I don't want to be pessimistic but it appears that our summer has been taken away from us. Darn it! I'm still trying to get some winter squash and pumpkins to ripen but I think I've lostmy chance. It's been in the 40's in the morning lately. Brrrr, I'm cold! As I'm typing, my fingers are having a hard time moving yet we refuse to turn on our heater, it's only mid sept!!! And we need to clean the air filter before we do so that is also keeping us from warming our house. Maybe I'm just not accepting that summers over. It started raining again, that northwest rain that settles in for the long haul. I've been checking the extended forecast and it keeps showing many more rainy days than sunny days. We are making arrangements to have our ceremony in a greenhouse if it rains so that will be cozy...loud, but cozy. I spent a few hours harvesting tomatoes in a greenhouse yesterday while it was pouring rain and it was kind of nice...once again, loud, but cozy and dry. So I wanted to let everyone know that the weather is rapidly deteriorating, hopefully we will have some sun on our day but it's also nice that all of the wildfires are being rained on.
I love everyone, 1 1/2 more weeks!!!!
nate

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