Extravaganza 2010

This last week has been an eventful one in the Lundberg Family. First and foremost, Michael finished the Bar Exam!!!!! (Celebrate good times, c'mon!) He also had a birthday on the 26th(the day before he took the exam) and he spent the entire day at the law school studying for the test. The exam was on the 27th and the 28th. My parents had their wedding anniversary on the 27th and Michelle had her birthday on the 28th. I knew this called for a celebration.
I invited the family over to have a party and to admire this beautiful Martha Stewart-esque cake, complete with spelling errors and all. Cake decorating is not my forte. We started the night off with a BBQ at our house. Nate cooked burgers and hot dogs on the grill. I was so busy getting everything ready for the meal that I never got a picture. But trust me, it was fun. We definately missed Angela, Kesse and their kids. After dinner, we walked over to the high school for what I think should be an annual tradition...an exciting game of kickball. We played guys against girls. To make it fair to the guys, we had 4 adults and one 6 year old, while they had 5 adults. I'm sure you can only imagine the outcome of the game.

Megan had a ton of fun and was a little disappointed by the fact that while we were up to bat, she actually had to stand around. I'll admit it, I might have enjoyed that part.

Here is the guys team line up. L to R- Travis, Dad, Steve, Nate and Michael

And here are the real champs. If you know me well, my slogan is 'The winner is the one that has the most fun'. That was definately us. L to R- Megan, me, Michelle, Mom and Melissa.

The post game party consisted of softball using tennis balls that Nate and Steve collected from the tennis courts next to the baseball field. Megan was very excited when my dad helped hit some balls. It was cute. I thought this was a cool picture of Nate with the sky in the background Oh Steve, you're such a star.

Thanks to everyone for coming and for the great time!

Guatemala bound!

That's right, folks. Nate's brother, Caleb left for his mission. He entered the MTC on July 28 and is going to the Guatemala Quetzaltenango mission. Try that one for a tongue twister. It took me a while to figure it out.We were lucky enough to go to the MTC. Before he went inside, we were able to get some pictures. It's been a while since I've been to the MTC and things sure have changed. As most of you probably know, they no longer have the meeting where everyone watches the video. We literally dropped him off at the curb and said our goodbyes. It might be a good thing because it doesn't give anyone a chance to be sad. Before you know it, they're gone into a sea of missionaires who have that same deer in the headlights look. If they only knew what was ahaed of them!

We're very excited for Caleb and know he will be a great missionary. He has an amazing 2 years ahead of him.

Wedding Celebrations

Before the wedding post, I'd like to post some of the wedding prep stuff. About a month ago, I went to Logan for a couple of showers for Melissa. A few of the women in our ward growing up threw her a ward shower. That evening, our cousins and aunts threw a family shower. I love getting together with our extended family and this was a great reason to do it. As you can see, it was a fabulous time.

This is my mom and sisters after the shower. We spent a few hours tying a quilt for Melissa and Travis, which is a family tradition. Unfortunately, we didn't get a picture of the quilt but it turned out really cute.

The night before the wedding, the Dansereau's (Travis' family) had a family dinner. We got the chance to get to know his family and eat some great food. Here's Michael (brother), Steve (bro in law) and Nate shootin' the breeze.

The kids loved the Koi pond.

Nate and I enjoyed the festivities. We had a delicious dutch oven dinner made by Travis' brother in law and sister.

This is my mom and Grandma Gutke out on the patio getting stuff ready.

After dinner, we sat in a circle and gave them some marriage advice. Some of it was funny, some was serious and some was little...how can I say this? Inappropriate. My favorite part of the night was the look on my grandma's face when it was given. She looked horrified! Hilarious.
After that, things got a little crazy. I love how great Melissa and Travis are together.

We got a sibling picture at the end of the night. I love them! They are all so great.

Melissa's wedding day

We felt like this day would never come! I'm so happy to say that my little sister Melissa married Travis Dansereau on July 1, 2010. They got engaged in Decemeber , which by Utah standards is a long engagement. It was such a fun day! I know that there are a lot of pictures, so bear with me on this. It was really hard for me to decide on the pictures, and I wanted to share all the fun we had. I started the day off early by Melissa's hair. I was feeling extremely anxious about it cause I wanted her hair to look amazing. I'm glad it turned out the way I wanted it to.

They were married in the Logan Temple. Nate took this shot that morning. It was a beautiful day. When they came out of the temple, they were happier than I've ever seen them. Melissa looked so good. Check out her amazing dress.

We took a lot of pictures outside of the temple. Here is the couple with my parents.

As you might notice from the picture below, it was an extremely windy day! I felt like we had a built in fan, which is great for when we want the wind blown model look. However, for the most part it made me obsessed with fixing Melissa's hair. I told her it was part of the wedding hair-do package.
These are the sisters. Love them!

Just a little memorial of our own wedding day.

I ended up not taking many pictures of the luncheon that afternoon. We had it at the Coppermill in Logan. They gave us the chance to share some stuff about the couple with everyone there. Big surprise, I cried. I get a little emotional when it comes to stuff with Melissa.

The reception went well. It was so fun to see old Logan friends and hang out with the family. My mom, sister Angela and I are the pic below.

This is my niece Gabby. She's wacky. Enough said.

Cutting the cake and kissing. My brother, Michael caught the garter. What a champ. He was obviously the most athletic person there, so of course he caught it.

In my opinion, the most fun of the day was the dance party at the end of the reception. Michael brought his ipod with Chris Brown's 'Forever'. We hooked it up to the sound system and had a little dance party as one last surprise for Melissa and Travis. Of course, they loved it and we had a ton of fun dancing while a lot of people stood there and watched us. Party poopers. Even my parents joined in and were loving it. My mom is in the green and my dad in the suit.I'm so happy for Melissa and Travis and look forward to many fun times with them in the future.

Happenings in the Fawcett Family

We have had the opportunity this spring to spend a good amount of time with Nate's family in the last little while. They came up for Easter and Conference weekend(unfortunately I was feeling lazy that weekend and didn't take a single picture). At the end of April, Josh, Nate's brother, graduated from BYU in Geography. Nate's parents were able to come up and spend the weekend to celebrate the graduation. Here he is in the processional. He's behind the tall guy. I'm always impressed when someone receives their degree. A lot of work goes into that. Congrats, Josh!

On May 8th, we went down to St George and did a session at the St George temple. Nate's youngest brother Caleb went through in preparation for his mission. He will be serving in Guatemala and he is leaving in July. Aimee, Nate's sister, decided it was time to go through for herself as well. It was a very special day to have all of the Fawcetts in the temple.

A post for Michael

I know these next couple of posts are a bit braggy, so bare with me. I just really wanted to share the good things going on. I wanted to dedicate this post to my brother, Michael. On May 14th, he graduated from Law School at the University of Utah and I was definately a proud older sister. Michael worked hard and went through a lot of stress to get here, so her deserves a round of applause. Here he is just about to receive his diploma. The proud parents with the graduate. I think they were just as happy as he was.

This is where he spent the last three years of his life. We had a little tour of the building after graduation. He showed us the Moot Court room, the law library and his office. Congratulations Michael! You did it!

What other cool thing has Michael done lately? He sang the National Anthem at the Salt Lake Bees game. They held auditions and he decided to go. It was so fun to see him do it. I was so blown away by his amazing voice! I knew he was a good singer, but he really surprised me!

Forget about the fact the stadium was next to empty that game. Even though there was a small turn out, we were very excited to see the momentus occasion.

Even Bumble thought he did a great job!

In other news, Megan(my niece) spent the entire game following Bumble around the stadium. Here they are dancing. I think this might have been the highlight of her night. It was pretty funny.

Nice work Michael! Thanks for finally giving me something to blog about!

The Distinguished Service Award

Back in February(I know it's been about 3 months, SORRY!), my dad recieved the distinguished Service Award for the Utah Dental Association. Over the years... for about as long as I can remember, my dad has been heavily involved with the UDA. He is currently on the the Utah Board for Dentists and Hygentists. He also travles around the country to give final exams to dental students who are about to graduate. As you can tell, I'm pretty proud of him. He received the award at the UDA Convention in Salt Lake. Here he is giving an acceptance speech at the luncheon. Here's the family after the luncheon. Luckily, we were all able to come to the awards ceremony to cheer him on.

Just wanted to say, way to go Dad!!! We love you!