StaciaLynn Photography

What Cute Kids...Oh My!

Yes I am being a little bias when I say what cute kids I have!  I wanted to update my photo's around my house of my kids since they just keep coming:) These are a few of my fav's of our fun photo time outside about a month ago.

Miss adorable Selah Jean....

 
This is Selah's CHEESY smile:)

 

Miss Clara Grace...the newest and most smiley addition to the Gunderson Clan.  She of coarse is bigger and lost a tad bit of hair since this picture.

 

The little sisters!  So cute:)

The gorgeous Anyssa Lynn!

 

All the sisters!  It was pretty hard to get the two little ones to look at the camera...Anyssa is a pro.

 

Big sis and little bro...I love this picture!

 

And finally my little man Luke the goof! 

 
 

It Is So Hard To Say Goodbye....

 
 
Yesterday I lost my Murph Dog.  I never imagined how hard it would be to say goodbye.  My heart aches.  I wanted to post a few photos over the past years (they are mainly of him since I purchased my first digital camera when he was around 4) and memories I loved about Murphy.  He was in my life for 10 1/2 years.  Through all my ups and downs of finding myself.  The wonderful thing about the love of a dog is they love you no matter how bad of a day you had, if you made somebody mad, or made a mistake, they just love you and I always felt that love from Murphy.  He was loved by so many.  I am a dog person and feel so blessed to have had such a wonderful dog in my life.  

About the Murph Dog...boy did he have a funny personality.  He loved to play fetch and he was good at it.  His ball was like a pacifier to him.  Here is a snap shot of him with his ball.

 
He loved to chase birds, squirrels in Texas, and  lizards up our palm trees and would gnaw away on the branches thinking they hid under there.  He loved loved loved swimming in water and fetching sticks. Murphy would sit patiently through a bath and not run away to wait for his favorite part to get dried with a towel and then get bushed.  He was such a good dog.   Here is a photo of him enjoying the water when we went camping.  And one of him lying around the campsite. 

 
 

 

 He was funny when ever there was a camp fire or backyard fire he would chase the fire sparks for hours.  Jump high in the air and try to catch them in his mouth.

This is one of my favorites he did all the time.  He liked to watch TV, mainly the shows with dogs.  Anytime he heard a dog on TV he would come right over and wait for him to show up on the screen and would sometime grawl and bark at the dog.  It was super cute.  Here is Murphy in his TV action.

 
 
Murphy loved car trips and riding in cars.  He was a good road trip dog.  He did love to snag the drivers seat if you step out of the car.  He liked to show you who was the real dog in charge. Murphy was so good with kids.  He was the best family dog.  My niece Trinity just adored him. When she was around 2 she called him WEE WEE. Here is a last picture, about 4 weeks ago, of her and him.

Murphy developed allergies when he grew older and would shake and shake his head and a few times had to wear the cone of shame because he broke a blood vessel in his ear. He would run into stuff all the time when he had the cone on.  It was kind of funny.  These are a few pictures of him and his cone.

 
 
 

Murphy loved to get pet.  When people came over and started petting him he wouldn't leave their side.  He liked to put his paw on you to tell you he wanted more loving.  Here are a few of my favorite pictures of him.

 
 
Murphy had a good long life.  I thought he would be around another 3 years though at least make it tell 14.  Murphy was gradually loosing weight for about 9 months.  With his thick fur it didn't look like as much and seeing him everyday you didn't recognize it as much.  I thought well he is more active now that he has more room to play in a big yard and he is getting older.  Last Thursday I was giving him his last bath and just noticed a few things different in his gums and tongue color and took him in to the vet.  It took one x-ray for them to know what was going on.  Cancer...and it was everywhere.  I started bawling.  Just a week ago he was playing ball and acting like an older Murphy but not a sick Murphy.  He declined rapidly over the next 5 days. You could tell he was in alot of pain and had a hard time taking his pain medication.  It was time to let him go and be peaceful.  I love you so much Murphy and you meant so much to me.  Thanks for making my life so much more meaningful.  I will miss you and your funny personality tremendously.  I know you are playing ball with Hiro or swimming in a big lake and feeling healthy and happy. Goodbye Murphinator. 

 

Love it!

Now that I finally got these in the mail last week I can post Clara's announcement.  I wanted to share it with everyone. I just love it!!!!

 

Welcome Clara Grace!!!

Welcome to the world Clara Grace! Clara is the newest addition to the Gunderson gang.  She made her entrance on February 1st and is just as sweet as can be.  She was born with a head of black hair following in her big brother and big sisters footsteps.  And she has a dimple like Luke and I think daddy's eyes!  I wanted to share some photos of her first few days. 

Daddy cutting the cord!

 

Happy mommy and happy big sister!  Anyssa was in the delivery room for Selah and wanted to be there for Clara too.  She is an amazing sister and Luke, Selah, and Clara are lucky to have such a loving big sister. 

 

 I was so happy and thankful that my mom was able to be here for her birth. 

 

 

Selah and Clara are 15 months apart so I was a little nervous on how Selah would react to Clara when we brought her home. It didn't take long for her to want to shower her with kisses! 

 

Luke just loves babies!  He wants to hold her all the time.  He is going to be a great big brother!

 

Clara smiling for Grandma Lolo.  Look at her dimple!  So cute!

 

Here are just a few photos of us playing around having a little mini session before my mom left. 

I love this picture...brand new sleepy baby. 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

IT IS A.........

I just love side profile images of babies in their mommy's bellies.  This is my baby!  My 4rth...I do love large families so 4 kids is a perfect number for us.  I am pretty sure we are done having kids unless 3-4 years we are getting an itch for another baby before Mike gets that manly surgery done:) 

Well I was really surprised on the gender of this baby.  

IT IS A GIRL!!!!  So Selah is going to have a little sister only 16 months younger than her...they are going to be so cute. Luke is going to have fun with his little sisters.  I told Anyssa I was going to ship the girls off to her for a few weeks when she is in college:) 

If you know of any cute, a little different girl names please please please share.  We are having a hard time with the name. 
  

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Summer Fun In Wisconsin!

I wanted to share some fun pictures from our trip to Wisconsin this June.  We went to celebrate Mike's parents 40th wedding anniversary!  Isn't that amazing...40 years!  We had a great time.  We stayed at the Barn Again Lodge, where we stay for Christmas but this time it was green, green, green verses white, white, white.  We decided to make the trip a Gunderson family road trip in our van....crazy!  It was definitely an adventure!  There are a ton of pictures I wanted to share so enjoy. 

Anyssa in the van at some beautiful park in Nebraska some where.

Me at a beautiful park in Nebraska some where.  I did the hand self portrait since I am the one always taking pictures I have to have some documentation that I was actually there:)

This is my wonderful Aunt Della in South Dakota.  Her and Selah have the same birthday day!  We where able to stop and see her for 10 minutes:)  

Here is the Barn Again Lodge in Mondovi, Wisconsin in the summer time. 

Mike and Luke doing a little romping and exploring!  Luke is such a ham!

Selah taking a bath in the kitchen sink.  I have some cute pictures of Luke in the same sink when he was a little guy.

Anyssa and her Aunt Sarah coming back from a walk.

These pictures are hilarious to me.  Selah loves taking my glasses off so she was crying for Mike and he thought wearing the glasses would help her stop crying...it didn't work but I love this pictures!

Selah and Luke before Mike's parents party.  I loved Luke's hair in this one while he was running.

This picture also makes me laugh...Luke looks like he could play a part in Oliver.  I had to share it!

Ahhh that looks more like Luke:)

Selah at the dinner.  

These next few are of Luke catching Lightning Bugs.  He loved it.  He wanted to catch them ever night!

Showing Daddy his bugs.  Oh you can see me...well my legs and feet anyways:)

Funny face time!

Ahhh Luke loving on his Auntie Sarah.

We took some great pictures of Anyssa for her birthday invitations this year...which I will share at a later date.  I loved this set, so I wanted to share today!

I tried really hard to do a little session with Selah but she was not down for pictures.  The lady bug beanie picture shows how happy she was.

Ahh a little smile when we moved indoors.  I don't think she was liking the humidity outside:) 

Love this one of Selah sleeping on Daddy!

Anyssa blowing a huge dandelion!

We had a little fun with some fireworks one night.  I am big fan of sparklers...they are so fun!

Mike, Luke, and Ed squeezed in a fishing trip before we had to leave.  Ed took this one on his phone of the fish Luke caught.

Selah with her Auntie Hannah and Auntie Sarah!  Thanks for the perfect Auntie shirt Auntie Rikki!!!

Mike's wonderful parents.

A family picture:)

A few last ones on the road trip home.  Mike received his Masters all on-line through a school in Kansas.  He was super excited when we passed the school so we had to get a picture of him by the school sign.

Last one...whew that was allot of pictures!  We drove through a fun storm and I snapped this picture with a little point and shoot only 5 mega pixels...so you know it is an old camera.  I liked the way it turned out.

 
 
 
 

First Day Of School!

Summer is officially over...it is crazy how fast the summer flew by.  Anyssa started 8th grade at a new school today and Mike started his first official day as head football coach for the La Joya 2010 football season.  It is a big day for both of them.  I always take pictures of Anyssa on her first day of school, it is fun to look at them over the years.  I thought she looked so adorable today.  I hope her first day of 8th grade at a new school goes well for her!
 

Yay! Another Gunderson On The Way!

Yup that is right!  We are having another baby!  We are so excited to add to our family.  We wanted to have one more baby and now we are.  Selah and this baby will be about 16 months apart, pretty close.  I am a little nervous about that.  But hopefully Selah will be running around after Luke and Anyssa when the baby comes in February!  Oh and we are definitely finding out the gender this time....that was really hard to do with Selah.  I will be for sure posting any fun updates about baby #4!

Bath Time!

I wanted to share these adorable pictures of Selah and her first bath in her new home by the kitchen window.  They are from April but better late than never.  She is getting so big and so stinking cute!

The bath water and her blue tub just illuminated her blue eyes!

Big sister Anyssa helping out while mommy snaps a few pictures.

I love the first picture below it just makes me smile!

 

Happy Anniversary!!!!

Today is Mike and my 5 year wedding anniversary!!!  I just loved my wedding...it was very unique and very fun.  Mike and I love to get dressed up in goofy out fits and have themed dress up get together's.  So when Mike told me he thought it would be awesome to have 70's style baby blue tuxes at the wedding and I said yes everyone knew we where a perfect match:)  Mike was addicted to ebay and found original 70's baby blue tux with the dry cleaner receipt and all.  We had fun disco ball favors and original action figures such as The Smurfs, Gumby, Star Wars, etc. and confetti with our pictures printed on them to decorate the tables.  There was a life size Gumby and lava lamps to greet our guest by the guest book.   I wanted to share just a few pictures.  I so wished I had purchased a CD from our wedding.  Here are a couple imges from my mom's camera.  

Ahhh our first kiss!!! 

Our wedding party!

and then we where off to Belize for a fabulous honeymoon!