Apache Family day 10-2-09

Friday was Apache family day at Hanchey Heliport, we kept Ashtyn out of school for the day so she could join us to visit daddy at his work and sit in and look at an Apache Attack helicopter up front, we took a family shot in the helicopter and the girls both got their turns in the cockpit...
they look so small in that big cockpit....



Here is a picture of Jared and his "stick buddy" Chris:

And Jared, Chris and their Instructor Pilot Mr. Mclendon:

And Jared's Apache class picture....

(if you click on the photo it should enlarge it)..

So its official, unless he totally screws up he is now an apache pilot, graduation is set for thurs november 12th (even though he should be done flying and with all school within 3 weeks from now) and we are driving home due to arrive tuesday Nov. 17th to utah!

YAY! we made it through our long journey and are within 5 weeks from home sweet home (and the cold cold snow) :(

Witten Lee Lundberg

We are very pleased to announce the arrival of our little caboose... .


Witten Lee Lundberg
Born 9-8-09
10:42 am
7.8 lbs
20 inches

labor went fast, just a quick 3 hours total Mommy felt it all due to the epidural never took (and they ended up sticking me over 6 times) not to mention i ended up with a post dural spinal headache for about a week that completely bed rested me!

Daddy couldn't be happier to finally get his boy!!!!

We did name him Witten (like Jason Witten) but not "After" jason witten, its the only name we both found different and we could agree on!

The girls LOVE him they were so very excited to meet him!


So far Witten has definitely been my Easiest baby, from his very first feeding (nursing) he goes 3 hours in between feedings and from the get-go he will go 4.5 hours at night TWICE!! So mommy actually gets 9 hours of sleep (with a quick feeding in between)! He is a very relaxed baby, just likes to hang out and look around, he is pretty alert for only a week old so we feel very blessed!!

We owe a special thank you to both Katie and Jennifer for helping out with the girls the days i was in the hospital and also all the extra's you did when i was bed ridden with a massive headache for a week!

Mr. Mom was amazing also, for 7 days straight he had to do it ALL... from laundry, cooking, housework, getting girls ready for school (yes they had messy hair for a week) and on the bus stop to helping mommy as much as possible with lil Witt since I could barely lift my head off the pillow the first 5 days (thank goodness for lortab and ibprofin 800)

We look forward to bringing him back to Utah for you all to meet!

1st Day of Kindergarten

Today was Ashtyn's first day of Kindergarten, in Fort Rucker Kindergarten is full-day here and mommy couldnt have been more excited (a much needed break and looking forward to alone time with Attley before Witten comes)!



Just like last year Attley also put books in her backpack and packed a snack to walk with ashtyn to the bus stop, she was also very excited to get to the bus stop!




Ashtyn was ecstatic! I set an alarm for 6:30 and wasnt going to wake ash up until 7am however she bounced into my room around 6:05am telling me to get up she had school today and the next hour and a half was spent telling her to calm down she had plenty of time (she was so afraid she was going to miss the bus!)


Upon getting to the bus stop ashtyn had several friends already waiting, they all looked so very cute and were all equally excited, THEN THE BUS CAME....


Attley was devastated she couldnt get on, when we told her to hug sissy goodbye she ran and cried refused to hug her thinking if she didnt hug her ashtyn wouldnt go it was so sad, then she cried for about 30 minutes afterwards......


trying to distract her beautiful mind i asked attley what she wanted to do today (thinking she would want to go to the park or the pool) she responded with such confidence "I want to go to store" I said to buy what? (thinking candy or a treat and again with confidence "to buy new tinkerbell shoes for me!" I thought it was adoreable apparently when the going gets rough the rough goes shopping!

SHE IS DEFINETELY a female in the Percival bloodline (shoe and shopping obsessions)!!!!!

4th Of July, Alabama Style

So for the 4th of July celebrations we began our "party" Friday night at Fort Rucker's Freedom Fest, it was alot of fun, for those in Utah its a big carnival this year was huge, they have all sorts of vendors (Yes, I was pissed i didnt set up an efusjon stand) and a kid zone with lots of jumpy's as attley calls them, helicopter rides, train rides, live bands, static displays (EVERY helicopter they fly here was on display and this year you could get up in all of them including the Apache) and of course... FIREWORKS!!!
There was a Huge mishap at the firework show, we saw it clearly (as we watched from the roof of the durango) not Quite sure what went wrong but 4-5 fireworks blew up on the ground, one shot into a crowded parking lot where some folks were sitting apparently 7 people were injured but they were all minor injuries!! Thank goodness!
On Saturday, we went down to Grayton Beach, FL which is a tiny secluded community the Bown's showed us a month or so again and we spent our Independence day lying on the gulf of Mexico, picnic on the beach, body surfing and relaxing!!!


Jared had brought a little body board and ashtyn learned how to use it and also how to body surf without the board, she had a blast and we couldnt keep her out of the water. Attley doesnt care much for salt water and the waves but LOVES the sand she usually spends her time playing on the beach with mommy, I am not sure what she was doing but at one point in time she used her head as a kickstand and was playing with the sand while in a half headstand, it was VERY interesting, I took pix to document her unique balance!





All in all it was a great holiday weekend on Saturday night we all snuggled into a bed and watched the HUGE firework display in New York on TV... the girls were too pooped to do much more!!!

sorry its been awhile....

Okay okay, so i'm horrible at blogging, since the last post we have successfully completed a trip to salt lake, in which ashtyn joined her grandma and cousins in disneyland (see below pix)

and have returned to the deep southern heat for ashtyn's bday party...
In utah I made the investment into the Efusjon Energy club, was a little skeptical at first but am amazed how in 2 short weeks I already got a paycheck and now a month into it i have 25 distributors underneath me, 13 which are community overlap in which i had nothing to do with... ITS amazing... by august i should have a check big enough to supplement my income i was making with Advantage in Utah.. THATS AMAZING in just 60 days :)

Also, we have been very busy with the kids, i'm now officially a "flight school widow" because jared has started the advanced airframe course for the Apache longbow... his hours are crazy, he has to be at the flightline by 5am each morning gets about 30 min for lunch (he doesnt make it home) and then gets out of class around 3pm to which he needs to go to the library and study until about 6pm.....
When he walks in the door he says hi to his little girls, eats dinner, then goes to the office to study some more until he goes to bed at 9pm... SO BASICALLY i see jared from 6-7pm... THESE KIDS are enough to drive me nuts!!! Thank goodness for a 3 day weekend coming up this weekend!
Mike graduated from blackhawk course, this is the girls saying congrats!

Belly getting big as heck, 10 weeks and counting... WOW can u believe it, i have started setting up and decorating the nursery i will post pix when that is complete, we have moved attley into the bunk bed in ashtyn room, she thinks this is pretty cool and getting to sleep at night has now become more of a challenge as the girls like to giggle and talk...

This weekend we are going to do a day trip down to Destin or Panama city beach, now that i have invested in a camera i will be sure to stay up on blogs and pictures for you all!!!

We miss you tons everybody and will be back in october for a visit and hopefully back in nov/dec for good :)

Dance Recital 2009

Ashtyn has been taking dance at Enterprise School of dance for the last year and today was her recital, it was sort of cool because it was held at Dothan Civic Center which is a huge center where concerts and stuff is held...
The ballet pix didnt turn out so well since there was no flash photography allowed and it was dark and they used red lighting, however here is the 2 we did get to sort of turn out:


Then her tap dance was next, its spongebob's "Best Day ever" the lighting was slightly better so we were able to get a few more shots, all the girls were so cute, none of them were doing the exact same thing at the same time, but they all tried very hard... Watch ashtyn's face when she concentrates hard her tongue comes out the side of her mouth, Jared and I were rolling in the audience she would smile then bite her tongue then smile again...


After the show we were able to take a couple shots with our "star" using a flash so we did, Jared was thinking this took a long time (rehearsal tues for 5 hours, Dress rehearsal thursday for 5 hours, then actual recital today for 5 hours) I had to laugh at him.... I told him Lil Miss Attley will start dance next year at 3 so that means we will be enduring Rehearsal week every year for the next 15 yrs....



SO in jared's point of view.... 10 months of thursday nights, lots of money spent, and 15 hours of recital this week WE ARE FINALLY DONE............ Until August!!!

Birmingham Zoo/Grayton Beach

A little out dated, Monday we took attley to Birmingham to drop her off for her flight to Utah, while there we made a stop at the zoo, it was a rather huge zoo BUT I still think Hogle Zoo is better:
The Big lizard ashtyn loved
The Petting zoo part, attley not sure about petting them
more from the petting zoo
Attley's favorite part was definitely the monkeys, i think her cute little pointer finger never stopped pointing! The picture of her on the bridge was in a bird room, they have a ton of birds flying everywhere and I think she couldnt get enough, evertime they landed on the bridge she ran to chase them off, was hilarious!









The Saturday before we left we also took the girls to a little town in florida halfway between Destin and Panama city beach called Seaside grove, was beautiful little community more family oriented, and then to Grayton beach... I didnt take alot of pix but here is a few...

The girls all ready to go... Look at Attley trying to be like her big sis!

Attley got soooo tired on the beach she took a nap:

Ashtyn collecting her sea shells:

And Jared and I played in the sun, he went body surfing and after this pic i went and sat my now fat belly in the water...

And our good friends Jay and Angie, their the bestest ever!!!


and more of the girls:

AND MY FAVORIET: