Stade Justus Roberts, Our Newest Grandson

Seconds after Stade was born

Stade Justus Roberts entered the world, Saturday, June 6 at 10:56 pm, weighing 7.15.2 oz. and measuring 20" long. He's a handsome little munch with lots of dark hair.  He already has my heart.  Oh, and did I mention I LOVE his name?

I was honored to be asked to be in the delivery room with our daughter, Kori and her hubby, Rick as Kori gave birth. I will never cease to wonder and be in awe of this miracle of life. 

hanging out with Kori in the early stages of labor

Grandpa Dan-the-Man is smitten!

Being a grandparent is one of the BEST things I've ever experienced in life. Stade brings our grandchildren number to 5, and we have another one on the way, set to debut his/her little self in January.

It's a BOY!

When I was a young mom having my family, no one thought to do things like parties to reveal the gender of a baby. I LOVE that they do now!  Our daughter, Kori and her hubby, Rick are expecting their 4th baby in June.  They found out the gender on Tuesday and had a party that night for close family to reveal the secret. 

How did they do it?  SO MUCH FUN!  Kori went to the store and bought silly string in the color (pink or blue) that would give us all the answer.  She was going to cover the cans with paper so we couldn't see the color ahead of time but didn't even have to. I guess the brand of silly string she bought could only be told the color by the cap (which makes me think that just anyone could go to the store and switch the caps for a prank...but I digress).  She just hid the caps and had cans of silly string out on the counter.  She had an ultrasound pic of the baby with pink and blue balloons, and pink and blue candy, set up and a bar of horderves for all of us to munch on.

When everyone had arrived they had us all guess what we thought and then gave out the cans of silly string and the spraying commenced!  It was BLUE!  That rounds their family out with 2 girls munchkins and 2 boy munchkins.  Perfect!

We are so excited for our 5th little grandchild.

2014 Pedersen Year In Review, Part 2

I'm back! Here is part 2 of the Pedersen Year in Review in pictures. Enjoy! We sure did!

Let me just give you a quick reminder that today is the last day for the December specials at Close To My Heart. Be sure to check back tomorrow for January's specials.

July

• Shooting with the family
• Independence Day
• Visiting Grandpa P's garden
• Family Time

 

August

• Sage turns 1
• Tuachan with Dan the Man to watch Daysha
• Dan and I road trip it to visit his mission of 35 years ago in South Dakota
• Daci starts Kindergarten and soccer
• Kori and I can salsa for a week (Kori's in charge of onions!  Age has it's advantages!)
• My birthday

 

 

 

September

• Kori and I continued to can salsa (it is quite a production to can 60 quarts! Kori was still in charge of onions)
• Brookley's birthday
• I held a meeting with my Close To My Heart team that included over 70 attendees!
• Football!

October

• Pumpkin pickin' 
• Football!
• I travel to Minnesota for a meeting with my team
• Dan is put in the Bishopric
• Daysha performs in Thriller
• Utah Deer Hunt (Rick's first deer)
• Halloween 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November

• Team Builders Meeting with CTMH
• Football
• Rick's birthday
• I took family photos for Kori
• Thanksgiving (forgot to take pics!)

December (I'm embarrassed to say that all of my December photos are still on my camera. All I have to share right now are from my phone. Forgive me!)

• Family
• Christmas 
• Skyping with our Australian missionary on Christmas Eve
• Tannon's elbow surgery
• Easton's Birthday

 

We have felt so very blessed in 2014. We are looking forward to another wonderful year.  Happy New Year!