Grandpa Blunck

After church yesterday, we went as a family to visit my Grandpa Blunck who is in the hospital. He is 93 years old. He was asleep when we got there, but the nurse who was sitting with him said he would want us to wake him. He has someone sitting with him 24/7. Once he got over the surprise of being woken up by our crazy family, we had a really good visit. He and I talked about how he met Grandma, where they've lived, his college days, his work, but he was most excited to talk about my Mom and Dad coming home from their mission in a few weeks. He can't wait to see them, but he said, "Oh, they probably won't even remember me!" I assured him that you would, Mom and Dad, and I told him that I would bring you guys to visit when you were in Salt Lake. He acted as much like his old self as he could by saying "Boo" to the boys and tickling them, and they shared their race cars with him. He even said, "I'm Rulon, and I aint foolin!" I held his hand most of the time while we were there. He was pretty excited that we were going to have a baby around his birthday. The guy sitting with him said that he had had a pretty bad morning, but after someone had come to visit him, he had totally brightened right up. I think it was Aunt Karen, but I know "those three girls and a boy from Salt Lake" had visited him yesterday as well. I'm guessing those were Jerry's kids. He mentioned to me that his neck and back were hurting, so a nurse brought him some pain meds. His arms looked pretty bruised up and he had a bit of trouble with his temporary hearing aid, but we really did have a good visit. I'm glad we live close enough that we were able to go be with him!

Disneyland

As part of our Christmas festivities, we took the boys down to Disneyland for the first time! We planned on going with my sister Diane and her family from Colorado, but with a broken leg and some travel issues, they ended up going a few days after us. Unexpectedly, my sister MaryAnn and her family ended up coming down with us at the very last minute! She has boys Chad and Kyle's ages so we all had a blast! It was a pretty crowded day, so we didn't do a ton of rides, but we are so glad we went! We did enough to keep them talking about it for a while! I hope by the next time we go, they will forget how scared they were to do some of the rides! We actually got Chad and his cousin Griffin to go on Thunder Mountain. Chad's thoughts after were that it was fun, but he didn't like it! If I weren't pregnant, I probably would've dragged him on a few more of the big rides! Kyle was asleep as we started Pirates of the Carribean, but quickly woke up as we went down the first hill! He says "I'm Jackin Sparrow" almost daily! He and I had such a good time driving the cars. I let him steer the whole time which meant we were laughing the entire time. After waiting in line FOREVER, I saw a sign that pregnant women shouldn't ride it, but it was so worth it! Chad was "a little" afraid to ride the Buzz Light Year Astro Blaster ride, but once he was on it, he cheered up. The Haunted Mansion brought on a few complaints as well! They loved the Star Wars show, the Circus Train, Finding Nemo, the Tea Cups, and waiting in line after line after line! Oh, the memories we will have!

Christmas Catch Up

Wow, what a month we have had! Sorry for the long break from blogging, but you know what this means, right? A really long slide show of pictures!!! Yeah! If I wasn't pregnant and didn't have a cold right now, I may have written a cute twelve day of Christmas poem to catch you up on all of our happenings, but I AM pregnant and I DO have a cold, so here is a plain old list of some of the highlights of our month shown in the slideshow: decorating our tree and house in time for an Elder's Quorum dinner on the 2nd, building a snowman with Kyle while Chad was at preschool, hot chocolate all month long, building a gingerbread tree, going to see the lights at temple square with our friends the Brough's, visiting with Santa at our church party, decorating cookies and playing Christmas Twister with our preschool friends, decorating more cookies with Ashton-the boy we babysit, Preschool Christmas party at McDonald's, building a snow cave with Dad, opening P.J.'s from Grandpa and Grandma Hughes, reading so many Christmas stories, and of course all of the joys of Christmas morning especially talking to Grandma and Poopah on the phone! Chad and Kyle's baby sister even got a pink Mountain Top Tile shirt from Daddy! We had such a wonderful Christmas and absolutely loved hearing from so many of you, our family and friends!