LIFE UPDATE

Lots of things have happened this past month.

The company that Mark has worked for since 2006 is selling and moving out of Canada. We are very sad to see that happen as the future is now unknown. Devon has been a great company to work for, and has taken care of our little family. We hope that the next company will be just as wonderful and will keep Mark on during and after the transition.

The weather has been dreadfully cold for many weeks now, but finally in early March warmed up to more seasonal temperatures. In light of this change, Mark took an extra day off to enjoy the warmth and as a family we all went skiing.
Our children did soooo good.
Macie picked up where she left off and was ready to get skiing.
Wade has progressed so well, and not only did he go down the bunny hill by himself, but also did all the runs available, in which he only fell down once on "the last run of the day" (of course). He was going so fast that dad could hardly keep up to him, but when he caught Wade, he was laying in the snow crying. Dad was very worried that Wade was in serious pain, but funny enough, Wade went too fast that he got scared and bailed. After a little bit of coaching Wade finished the hill. Very good day for Wade.
Kansas also had a great day. She was so cute as she went down the critter hill with mommy close by. She never fell over, and only cried for the first two runs. After that it was "again" "again"  in a quick cute high pitched voice. we used these little gator clips on to tie the skis together, otherwise here little legs would have spread apart wide and the day may have turned out much worse.

Kansas prepping for the first run
Her coat was a little too big.

Macie and Wade on the Chair lift

Mommy and Daddy have both been called to the Stake Self Reliance program  and are attempting to help the program move forward in the Sherwood Park stake.

We did a Fireside in Edmonton and have 3 groups that have started up. One of the principles that start the finance class is seen below.

Our little Kanas is growing like crazy and is talking like crazy as well. She knows a lot of animals and their sounds. She can repeat most words you say to her and comprehends most conversations.

Kansas eating peanut butter and Jam

Kansas loves her Peppa Pig

Our dancing girls 

Wades Leprechaun trap

Wade has finished up another season of gymnastics and did very well. He was very sad to have completed it. He took it pretty hard knowing that its all over.

Wade at Gymnastics

 We  were shown this great board game by our friends the Lowry's, in which we have since downloaded to our phones. The game was nearly impossible to win, infact we could not win playing the board game. We have since won several times and glory in the victory. This win came at a cost, some very late nights.......

screen shot of the win

Mommy was very sick one day and was having trouble moving about. Our Sweet kids pulled together and helped out big time. Macie put Kansas to bed. Then her and Wade wrote this sweet note to mommy. Then Macie helped put Wade to bed, and put herself to bed. What great kiddos

 it reads " I am sorry that you are sick. I love you very much. I hope you have a very  good day tomorrow. To Mom. Love Macie and Wade.

Our Sweet Lilly is getting up in Age and has had a tumour on her back hip that is progressively getting larger. We all dread the day we have to take her to the Vet one last time.

                        

And finally some very important news that had mommy and daddy stressing as they didn't know if it would happen in time. The children all got their passports and so we are all ready to go to Las Vegas trip.  Macie's and Wade's were delayed because they didn't get the correct birth certificates sent, and we had to order a new one for Macie. This had potential to take a long time to get mailed to us so we could send it to passport Canada. and then it would take some time to review and render the passport and mail it out. However, we have everything and we are ready to go.

ROCK WALL

This past Saturday the Energy Centre here in Cold Lake had the grand opening of the new Rock Wall.  I was so excited to hear that we got a rock wall, one more thing for us to do in the Winter to hep past the time. I decided to take the kiddos all by myself as they had Bounce Houses, sparkle Tattoos, Free Rock wall climbing, and Cupcakes all day long for the kiddos to have fun with. I was so nervous as I thought it was going to be jam packed with people. Thankfully though it wasn't that busy and we got their nice and early. The kiddos got their Tattoos right away, then Macie went climbing, Wade was to little, he was a little bummed but pulled through it. We then went to the bounce houses where the kiddos had a blast. One of Wade's best friends from school was their (Osric) and Macie found some older kids to play with and run around and burn tons of energy. After all that fun, we meet up with Lowry's for some skating. It didn't last to long as Wade was tired and Macie fell hard on the ice. It was such a great day and Kansas even lasted the whole time with no Nap. The kids were so good and we all had a blast. I'm excited as the kids get older and Wade and Macie are more independent and Kansas can handle not having a nap how much more things we can get out and do and not have to leave to come home and nap Kansas.

18 MONTHS!!!

Holy Moly this little cutie is 18 months old! Of course like always it is going by way to fast. I love that she is getting older and more independent and becoming a little kid, but man why does it have to happen so fast! The Toddler stage is the best and worst. They are so busy and Mom's are so exhausted by the end of the day, but they are so stinking fun and adorable. They are learning so much and exploring and growing so quickly. It just amazes me on a daily basis how much she changes and learns. Sometimes I just sit there and watch and observe her, learning new things and figuring things out.

Kansas at 18 months!!

-She is talking up a storm and says tons of words, puts 2 words together a lot and can repeat a lot of what we say. Some of my favourite words she says are... Sit Down, Thank You, Fun, DADDY!!!!, Lily, Yeah. Her voice is so stinking cute. She also does a sign language for Please where she puts her finger to the palm of her other hand. She pretty much gets whatever she wants when she does that, as it is the most adorable little thing on the planet. Especially if she does it to Daddy.

-She is 100% a Daddy's girl, she doesn't even say Mom yet, not cause she can't but she just always has Dad on her mind. When he gets home from work, she runs to the door and yells DADDY!!!, then gives him the biggest, longest hug ever. You want your heart melted, watching Kansas hug her Daddy is pretty stinking amazing!

- She is an amazing eater and for the most part eats anything I give her. Their are a couple things she doesn't like (apples, grapes, broccoli, and sometimes bread). She especially loves oranges, grapefruit, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, cheese, yogurt, any kind of meat, cookies from Sobey's and any kind of treat.

- Kansas loves to Dance and starts moving her body the second she hears music. Reading books, playing with Macie and Wade, giving Lily kisses, going to play at the energy centre and the parent link centre, she loves being outside, watching Peppa Pig, playing with toys, and just hanging with Mom and Dad.

-She is completely obsessed with her Nani (blanket) and has to have it with her everywhere she goes. She also loves sucking her thumb, and she can't suck her thumb unless she has her Nani in her hand. It's pretty stinking adorable and doesn't bug me at all. Although I might think differently if she is 10 and still doing it.

- We went and saw a Neurologist in November and she had a bunch of blood work done. Everything with the blood work came back good. Her eye's still droop a lot and the Neurologist wants to monitor Kansas on a regular basis until we have made the diagnosis that she just has Ptosis in her eyes, or their is something else going on. We won't  know for sure until she gets older and more signs and symptoms start to happen, or hopefully no more signs and symptons happen. From their if the eyes continue to droop she might have to have surgery. It is just a waiting game and lots of prayers that everything will be OK with her, or if their is something bigger going on and she does have Myasthenia Gravis or possibly something else that we will find the right help and the best Doctors to help her.

-Kansas's milestones were walking at 14 months, talking lots these past two months (her first words were Dad, Lily and Yeah). She weighs about 20 lbs right now and although she doesn't have quit the energy that Macie and Wade did she still keeps us busy. She's peed on the potty a couple times, although I don't think she is ready to go hardcore on the potty training yet. She is definitely tiny and I get comments on it all the time, it use to bother me just because their was so much stress in the beginning with her weight, but I try know to just ignore it and think yeah she is tiny but it makes her so stinking adorable.

This little girl is so amazing and we just love her to pieces, she has such a fun, bright personality with a little sass and attitude. She loves saying Thank You and loves helping Mom around the house. She has such a sweet heart and cries if she ever gets in trouble, and loves helping people get their shoes. We sure love you little bug and love watching you grow up.

Macie doing her best

Yesterday we had an opportunity to go to the school during an assembly and listen to Macie's name being called out for being a Student of the Month. We then headed back to her classroom where the teacher presented her with the Award. Macie was given the award for Always being a helper to the other kids in class. I wasn't surprised as Macie is always so amazing and helping those around her. It definitely made for a proud Mom moment. As well over the Christmas break I had challenged Macie to get a book read buy the end of the school year, well she totally blowed my mind away and finished over Christmas break. With all these awesome accomplishments I decided it was time to reward Macie for all her efforts. So last night after Dance Class I picked her up and we went and saw the new Mary Poppins Movie. We both loved it and had so much fun together. Love this girl and so proud of everything she is doing.

HUNSPERGER'S 2019 GOALS

As a Family we sat down and made some goals for the New Year, I always love the New Year and assessing where we are at and trying to improve ourselves. I was impressed with the kids and their excitement to participate, they made some great goals and some funny goals and then we made some goals as a family to try and improve our health this year.

CHRISTMAS 2018

Another Christmas has come and gone. It was a great Christmas this year. Sure we stayed home, we missed a bunch of family gatherings, and we all got really sick, but there were many things that were quite enjoyable.


This year we bought a real tree. It smelled and look lovely. The kids enjoyed setting up the decorations around the house, and decorating the tree. They said to themselves how much they love the decorations. I remember as a child being excited as well for the transition from the normal to the Christmas décor, and how that brought me joy to help set up the house.


We got the Christmas Village out and set up, we got the nice Advent calendar out, which the kids loved turning over the numbers each day. we got out the wreaths and the Christmas music. We watched the Christmas shows while we were sick. I enjoyed the time at home with the kids.


We even sang a lot of Christmas songs that we found on this TV station Karaoke. Wade loved the Hippo song, and Macie loved the Santa and Mommy kissing song.


Christmas Eve we tried some traditions, The kids dressed up as Mary and Joseph and we set up a small stable and hung a star. The kids acted out the story as dad read it. We sang more carols, the kids opened up their pajamas, and we cleaned up the house and watched Christmas Chronicles and ate chips and pina colodas which was lovely. Then we got ready for bead.


Wade was up really, really ,really early. I think the first number on the clock was a 4......
He ran up to our bedroom and gave us all the updates..


Guys Santa Came...
Guys Santa ate his cookies and drank his milk, he left part of his cookie.
Guys I got a Hat


It was super cute.

We got rolling around 650 opening up stockings and presents. The kids got Sleeping bags to help for the canoe trip this summer.


and Mom pulled off the big Christmas meal. Keeping the tradition alive that we had as little kids. except I ate like 10 lbs of mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes, the stuffing and turkey ..while our kids eat the buns and nibble on what they have too.... man did they miss out. and the chocolate cream pies were delicious.

Building the CandyHouse

Joseph, Mary and a pink sheep

Early New Year

Macie sleeping by the Real Christmas Tree

MACIE TURNS 7!!

This little beauty of mine turned 7 last week. She got an early Birthday present when we were in Edmonton for Kansas' Doctors appointment. We got her Ears pierced at Claire's. She was so excited and has been loving them ever since. The actual day of her Birthday, Dad was still at work and Macie wasn't really getting any presents, but I still wanted to do something sweet for her. So I copied an idea from my friend and I decorated her Door with Money, Candy and some notebooks. She was so surprised in the morning and so excited, Mom definitely filled her bucket. Then on Saturday we invited the Ellis family to come skating with us for Macie's Birthday, then back to our house for a pasta dinner and some cake and Ice cream. Macie had requested a Lion cake so I went to pinterest and found one that would be pretty easy to do. She was so excited when she saw the cake all done and decorated. Macie had a blast skating but when we got home she started feeling not to great. She spiked a fever and ended up falling asleep on the couch, not getting to eat any of the delicious pasta and Lion Cake. Poor girl!

My 7 year Old!

They don't make them much better then this girl. Macie is kind, sweet, a hard worker, determined, independent and loves making others happy. She is almost always thinking of others and finding ways to be sweet and fill peoples bucket. She loves writing notes to her family and friends, Me and Mark are finding notes and pictures endlessly in our bedroom. Macie has come a long way with her reading, she is doing so well and has developed such a good attitude for her nightly reading. She is doing great at school and got all 4's and 5's on her report card. She still loves swimming, biking, skating and skiing. She loves crafting, colouring and writing notes. She is going to Dance two nights a week, Tuesday is Jazz and Ballet and Friday is Hip Hop with Wade. Monday after school she does Piano lessons and her Piano has had huge improvements this year with more consistent practicing and longer lessons. She just loves being a goof ball and having fun. We just love this sweet little girl so much and are so grateful every day she is in our family.