Home again, home again, jiggady, jig!

Home again, home again, jiggady, jig! My mom said that everytime we came back from a trip, now so do I! Tommy and I are back from our cruise, however, I won't have all of our pictures until Wednesday. Until then, you can enjoy our porthole view of the Mississippi!

A Pitcher Christmas!

I hope everyone's holidays were as fun and eventful as ours. I think this is my longest blog to date.

Jeeps and Biz got their picture taken by the tree. It's hard to get a good photo of the two of them together. Jeeps doesn't show up without a flash and Bizi's eyes can't handle a flash, so this is the best one of the bunch.

Mary took us all on the polar express! It is a real train that takes you to the north pole to pick up Santa! We had hot chocolate and Mrs. Clause fed us magical cookies that had elf giggles in them. We sang carols the whole way up and it was snowing like crazy. I can say that this was nothing less than magical and I'm 29, I can't imagine what Makayla was thinking!






It was snowing so much, they closed down the canyon and we all had a sleep over in Park City!

We have had so much snow so far this year! Snowboarding has been a blast! This is a short video Tommy took following me through the trees at Snowbird the day before Christmas Eve. You hear Mike and see David stuck in a tree well. This is the usual Sunday group less Tami and Chris W.

On Christmas eve we Fondued! Is that really a verb?!?!?!? Ant LeAnn and Uncle Norman came over to join us.

They gave the kids toothbrushes and toothpaste, which they were all soooo excited over!

Makayla and the boys opened their Christmas pj's and this was the best picture I could get of the three of them. I wish someone would have taken a video of Mary, Ashley and I trying to get them all to look at the camera! We must have looked pretty rediculous.

Justin helped Makaya track Santa on the puter, she had a hard time saying Bolivia.

This is what we walked out of our house to on Christmas morning!

Christmas morning was spent at the Justin Pitcher house, where the kids got to show off all their new goods!

Tommy and & gave this little outfit to Makayla for Christmas.

Mary made a delicious ham for dinner and this was the clean up party!

We received so many great gifts for Christmas, but these are the highlights! My mom has been giving me the willow nativity set piece by piece and my dad made the "creol" that it sets on. They also gave us a hefty home depot card which will come in handy for our never ending house projects! Last, but certainly not least, Brent and Mary gave us this beautiful chair. This is where I live now!

Happy Holidays!

Tommy had a B-day!

I have fallen a little behind on my blogging, so I will try to catch up this week. Thomas had a Birthday on December 17th, he turned 33! Mary and Brent had a nice dinner for him.

We had king crab as an appetizer, and halibut for our entree. Tommy asked for a funfetti cake with pink icing and received just that, adorned with some sesame street characters.

Tommy and I had asked for a manure fork for Christmas, so Shane and Ashley gave Tommy one for his birthday. If you're wondering what the heck we want with a manure fork, I'll tell ya. We have two compost bins in our backyard and they have become impossible to turn without "the fork"!

The following Friday, Tommy took the youngest boy Pitcher to the top of the mountain and made him ride a snowboard down. This is something Shane has done only twice and that was a while ago. He did great and they had a fun time together!

Next blog will be all the Christmas fun, but for now it's Tommy's b-day!

PS My grades are final and it is official.......I am a college grad! Love you all, hope your holidays were as great as ours! More later..................

Thanksgiving...Guitar Hero...FESTIVAL OF TREES.....SNOW!!!!!

Thanksgiving was wonderful! Our Thanksgiving companions were the Shane Pitchers, Mom & Dad Pitcher and Roy. Mary cooked an amazing dinner! It was a really nice quiet day and then...

....and then the Justin Pitchers came over for pie! After a day of eating, Kaiden and Keagan were still ready for more! They are soooooo much fun! Mak sang us her abc's and some Christmas tunes and the boys, well...watch this video. It's short and sweet, Kaiden can whistle!


On Thanksgiving Roy let us take home his "Guitar Hero" for XBox 360. It is the most fun I have ever had playing a video game! Tommy says it's all about your stance. Chris is the best out of all of us at this game, so you tell me if stance matters.

I put up the Christmas inside and Tommy put up the Christmas outside....just in time! Woohoo snow!

Sara twisted my arm and talked me in to going tothe Festival of Trees. HA! Imagine me in a place covered in Christmas wall to wall. Needless to say it is the coolest place going right now! Tommy, Chris and the girls came and everyone was such a good sport! They let Sara and I walk as slow as we wanted to! It was awesome! Sara and I might try to enter a tree next year. For those who are unfamiliar with the Festival of Trees: People donate decorated trees and gifts, people bid on them and all the money goes to charity. It is sooooo great!

I know I am so lame, but really I don't care.

Tommy found lots of the good stuff. He kept us all nourished with the assortment of goodies they had to offer.

Here are some of the highlights.....

This is us on the last row of trees. We were crying inside, but didn't want to let it show.

PS Let the countdown begin...I have 4 classes left! Then I'm free!!!!!

If anyone needs me...I'll be right here.

So for the next three weeks I really will be right here. Maybe not in this book exclusively, but in some book or another. So, don't feel bad if I don't get back to you for a while.

Hope everyone had a happy Halloween! It was pretty quiet around here, we still have a ton of candy left. Tommy was....he uhh....well....ummm...he was entertaining. Sara and I got super creative and put on witches hats, I know I know so original! Love those Fundersons!

David's big party was last weekend, there are no pictures. Apparantly they don't allow cameras where they went. Not sure what kind of place doesn't allow cameras, must have been pretty ritzy! The next morning we all went to breakfast, around 11:00 and then for a "hike" around Silverfork Lake up Big Cottonwood canyon. This is the Sunday snowboarding crew.

Tommy and Lauren had a great time trying to get under the sheet of ice covering the lake. Ellie is too smart for that. She just sat in her comfy little stroller tisk tisking the shenanigans of Tommy & Lauren. Was such a great day! FYI-Lauren & Ellie belong to Mike D & his wife Emily.