THANKSGIVING

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR A BEAUTIFUL DINNER AND A GREAT FAMILY GATHERING. WE MISSED THOSE WHO WERE ELSEWHERE BUT HEY EVERYDAY CAN BE A THANKSGIVING DAY.

OLIVIA'S BAPTISM

WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU OLIVIA! THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR SPECIAL DAY WITH US! LOVE THE KNUDSEN FAMILY!



AFTER YOUR BAPTISM WE WENT FOR A WALK IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD WITH YOUR MOM SYLVIA, SAW SOME ANIMALS AND THEN WENT OUT TO EAT AT THE ONE AND ONLY CHUCK-A-RAMA.

Desolation Canyon, July 2010

WHOA! #25! LOVE YA!

WOW, MEGGIE MOO! (aka Meagan Nichole Knudsen Thomander)

A rite of passage birthday into true true adulthood. Happy Birthday, cool surfer girl! And.........not just COOL, but gorgeous, smart, daughter, wife, mother, sister, friend, artist, surfer, skater, Oahu dweller (previously a snowy mountain dweller) churchgoer, organizer, tidy-upper, creative sewer, more-like-your-father-every-year chickadee, and a sweet pea, a contributer to the best our world has to offer. Enjoy this day Meg! We all love you and Corbin and Indie, the other sweet peas in your pod.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALI JANE

HEY ALI, HAPPY BIRTHDAY #21!
From a 5'11" newborn grows a gorgeous sweet pea like you! From age two when you said "I need to go shopping at the Gap," to age three when you arranged all your clothes into outfits on the floor and told Daddy, "Look at all my fitouts!", you've become quite the styling chickadee. With intelligence, style, humor, loyalty, beauty, spirituality and dancing, you go after your life. Extra happy birthday on this "rite of passage" day. We all love "our baby".

HAPPY #29 ALEXANDER SCOTT KNUDSEN!

Hey Alex, Born on the heels of 3 olders sisters under age 4 has left you a very independent, mellow, self sufficient guy, almost from day 2/26/1980. We never had time to pamper or indulge you--we were all just surviving! But maybe because of the circumstances of your birth you turned out to be the incredible person you are. I'm so glad I had a son, a brother for my 5 daughters. And a fabulous brother and son you have been. And now a good husband and father too. Happy birthday to you on this beautiful winter day! Love Madre (and Padre who doesn't blog).

2 Randoms

Me in Costa Rica

Hiking this fall in Big Cottonwood Canyon to Lake Blanche

June Birthday Dinner

ALI HAS A BLOG!

I STARTED A BLOG AND I NEED HELP!!! I am seriously so challenged I want to make it all cool, but it isn't going so well! But check it out anyways. www.aliknudsen.blogspot.com

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATHRYN WILLIAMS KNUDSEN

You love Alex and he loves you
so that we can all love you too,
which we do!
Happy birthday Kathy!
Love Scott and Mardi and Knudsen Clan

6 Months...

This is probably my favorite picture of Matt and I and I can't believe it has been 6 long months since he was hit in Brazil. I can't say that it is getting easier, I still cry every single day to my mom and my heart still hurts every single day. It has gotten to be a different hurt. I mean that by it isn't so hard after I have made the commitment to live my life the way Matt was living his life and the way he would have wanted me to live my life. Mom gave me a quote this morning as I was heading out to work, knowing that today was going to be hard, here it is: "Sometimes it seemed as if the world itself was broken, that there was something wrong with all of us, something broken in such a way that it might not be put together again; but the holding of hands, human hand in human hand, could help, could make the world seem less broken." (Mama Ramotswe) My world is broken, but all of your hands make it feel less broken and I love you for that! Thanks for letting me take one day at a time. I will love you.

Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Our weekend in Jackson Hole was so much fun. We all got to camp and raft together, pick raspberries and ride chair lifts together. I love my family and think that they are the most beautiful people ever.