{"id":90,"date":"2009-01-02T18:48:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T01:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2009-01-02T20:38:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T03:38:24","slug":"the-gundersen-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"The Gundersen Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like the <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/?p=85\" title=\"Keller Family Photos\">Kellers<\/a>, the Gundersens also contributed in a big way to our wedding day.\u00c2\u00a0 Cindi made an individual cake for each one of our guests.\u00c2\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t learn until later that she recruited a whole team of people to help her pull it off.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I offered to do some family photos for them as a small way of saying thanks.<\/p>\n<p>The Gundersens adopted Judah from Uganda about a year and a half ago, and he&#8217;s grown so much since then.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m convinced that he&#8217;s going to grow up to be an entertainer of some sort.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s very perceptive of what makes people laugh, and knows just how to act to get everyone to smile.\u00c2\u00a0 Which made this shoot a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0016-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0016-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0053-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0053-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0114-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0114-gundersens.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Judah wanted to drive the train&#8230; to Oklahoma.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0073-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0073-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0108-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0108-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0188-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0188-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0273-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0273-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0001-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0001-gundersens.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>King of the rock!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0263-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0263-gundersens.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love this one.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0079-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0079-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0225-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0225-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0003-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0003-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0179-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0179-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0156-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0156-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0214-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0214-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0205-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0205-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0143-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0143-gundersens.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every hole we passed was just screaming for Judah to throw rocks into it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0305-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0305-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0045-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0045-gundersens.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Judah was singing &#8220;King of New York&#8221; from Newsies.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t believe he knew all the words&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0298-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0298-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0176-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0176-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0158-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0158-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0170-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0170-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0197-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0197-gundersens.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20081211-0128-gundersens.jpg\" alt=\"20081211-0128-gundersens.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gunner, Cindi, and Judah, thanks for being involved in our wedding and our lives!\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve loved going through life together with you, and look forward to seeing where God uses you in the future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the Kellers, the Gundersens also contributed in a big way to our wedding day.\u00c2\u00a0 Cindi made an individual cake for each one of our guests.\u00c2\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t learn until later that she recruited a whole team of people to help her pull it off.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I offered to do some family photos for them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}