January 2010

Well, with the holidays over we had hoped for life to slow down a little bit but instead got a run for our money with another busy month. We enjoyed having a quiet Christmas just the three of us. Moose got more toys than he knows what to do with and often seems overwhelmed with his options. He is well loved by our families and friends for sure! We enjoyed spending New Years in Fort Collins with Kevin’s side of the family, we celebrated both Christmas and 2010 and enjoyed lots of fun and laughter with family.

January started with work slow for both of us. Kevin is still doing computer work with Colorado Concept Lighting and Heidi still working as a preschool teacher at Cradle to Crayons. We both love and appreciate our jobs and are anticipating God’s faithfulness to provide for our lives and for work to pick up.

Mid January Heidi started her own business with Tastefully Simple (www.tastefullysimple.com). She is excited about the new opportunity and freedom of the company and is slowly working on growing her business with parties and host opportunities with friends and family.

Other events of January included:

• attending the National Western Stock Show with good friends Noah and Sarah
• celebrating with newly engaged friends (we are now up to nine couples who are getting married between april and august 2010!
  
• spending time in Breckenridge for the National Championship of Ice Sculpture

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Thanksgiving with the Bullers

Wanted to post this and forgot to a couple months ago. This is from the week of Thanksgiving when Heidi's parents came to visit us for a week. We went on a carriage ride downtown Golden.

New Email Address

We have changed our family email account to:

gunnfamily07@gmail.com

Please delete all other family emails for us (kh_gunn@hotmail.com).

If you would like our personal email address feel free to contact us for that information.

Thanks

*** jan update coming soon! ***

Happy Holidays!!!

Hello!

Well we are wrapping up sending Christmas cards out via email, hand delivery, and snail mail. We put a note with all of them to visit our blog for monthly updates so we thought we better get on this since we hadn't posted for a couple months. We promise to be better at it this year and if you feel out of the loop tell us to update more ! :)

So on to the actual update: We enjoyed a visit with Heidi's parents for the week of Thanksgiving. It was so much fun to have them here in Denver and take them around to different parts of our lives. We also toured downtown Golden, the Celestial Seasonings Factory, Hammonds Candy Cane Factory and many other fun things. We were sad to see them leave but are looking forward to a trip to the midwest sometime in 2010.

We plan to have a quiet Christmas here at home just the three of us (yes that includes Moose our dog) and then spend New Years with Kevin's family in Fort Collins. Towards the end of January we will travel to Breckenridge, CO for our yearly tradition of seeing the Ice Sculptures. http://www.gobreck.com/events/townevents/budsnowsculpture/ (check them out for yourself!)

We have lots to be Thankful for this year. Both of us still have full time jobs that we enjoy. Everyone is healthy including our larger than life puppy who is always excited about life! Also for our friends and families and the many blessings we receive from their constant love and friendship.

Our current contact info is:
email - kh_gunn@hotmail.com
address - PO Box 151066 Lakewood, CO 80215

If you would like to have cell numbers or individual email addresses or our home address. Please contact us and we will get them to you. Thanks !

*** If you did not receive a Christmas Card from us please let us know. It still could be coming in the mail but lets double check it! :)

Garden Update

Our garden is coming along nicely. The up side to having such a rainy spring/summer is that we really haven't needed to water it much on our own. The downside though... some damage has taken toil on the plants. We thought it would be last after this weeks storm but luckly it is still going pretty strong.

You can see in the pictures all the pine cones and needles that the storm blew down. We have a huge pine tree outside our living room window that produces a lot of debris. Also small piles of hail that collected on the outside edge.

Kevin and I have actually enjoyed spending time in the little front yard patch weeding and checking the progress. Good thing, because the weekly storms seem to leave it a little trashed sometimes. Moose and the neighbor cats have enjoyed a lot of the cilantro that I was trying to grow. We have been able to make a couple things with it as well. The zinnas and wildflowers are now producing some flowers too! Still waiting on the carrots, broccoli, and tomatoes however.

Random Life Events

I feel so behind in this blog thing... lots has been going on here and we are enjoying our Colorado Summer.

We have had a lot of rain storms and tornado warnings lately. Has been an unusual spring and summer. Here are some pictures:

flooded sidewalk outside our house

trying to show just how deep the water was

hail storm

Last weekend we enjoyed a family camping trip (Kevin's family). We traveled three hours south of Denver to La Vista Campground. It was Moose's first trip and he had so much fun

So much more to say and so little time. Hopefully I can post some garden pictures soon, it is coming along quite nicely!

Fathers Day

To a man in my life who never had to prove anything but who accomplished so much by just being himself.

To a man who simply loves people and loves God; and who teaches those around him that is all that matters.

To a man who I proudly respect and can't imagine life without.

Happy Fathers Day Dad!

i love you