Ode to High School Class of '89

This post is for my fun friend Rachel, who has dubbed this week Hooray for High school! High school was not a fun memory for me. I wasn't a jock, but I wasn't a nerd either, and our class of '89 was very clickish and social classed, so bad that it was taboo to date anyone outside of your social class, my senior year was the most fun for me, cause I rebeled and tried to change all that! I was still clogging my freshman year. Our group the Heber Hoedowners( not the best name) even went to competitions.
For all 4 years of high school I entered the ZCMI table setting contest and won and represented Wasatch High in the State contest. It was fun!

This is my favorite table setting of the 4. It was called a crisp country morning! The center piece ducks are still in my mothers front room.
I also loved to sing, and made the elite show choir called Sound Investment. This is a picture of us in Florida, performing at Disney World my Senior year. My brother Corey, and my cousin Tonya were in this group too. We had a lot of good times in choir!
This is my Jr. Prom. My Mother made this beautiful dress for me. We did the promanade thing and coming out thing where they annouce your name, my dress got a lot of ooo's and ahhh's. We also had the first dance with the parents. This is my Dad. He was so proud!

This is my best friend Wynn. We made a pack that we would go to the dances together, so we could always have a date. That only worked until he got a girlfriend, but this is my favorite picture of our date dances.
My Jr. year I decided that Heber boys were stupid. So I started dating out of town. This Rob Wirthlin, I meet him at a chior competition. We hung out/dated for about 3 1/2 months then the gas to SLC and Heber got to be too much of both of us. We remained freinds til after his mission. He was a lot of fun, but I was always so nervous around his Granfather, Elder Wirthlin.
This is the guy I liked all through High School, and never went out with til my senior year. We were both on the decorating committee for Morp, (girls choice) I wasn't "going" but Doug had to be there and I guess everyone assumed he had a date, but didn't. So the day before I asked him. I since I was the only one who did, I finally got my dream date. From the picture you can tell I was way more excited than he was. Cheesy grin! It was a great night, and we had a lot of fun. However the repreconsions (sp) weren't any fun for either of us!
Any way enough of my sob story. This is graduation! I was so glad to not have to go back again that I planned it, so that I was on my mission for my 5 year reunion. Cheesy enough they invited me and not my good friend Kim, who still lived in Heber with her parents.

Thanksgiving Weekend

Gramie and Grandpa took us to this Dinosaur track Museum
It was cool. Most of the exhibits were just to look at but this one you could touch, which was good for Bekah, cause she had a hard time not touching!
This is a big stone slab with footprints all over it!
This is the discovery center for kids, where they could make dinosaur rubbings. We had a great time. Thanks Gramie and Grandpa!

That evening we went to the lighting ceremony at the St. George Temple, It was beautiful!
This is the kids listening to the Christmas story.
This family picture is a requirement for going to the vistor center. It was even more special this year, because Lyn's cousin Bethany Anderson from VA. is a sister missionary, stationed at the visitors center. So we had a little family reunion and got to visit with her for a while.
Wise Men Still Seek Him!

Thanksgiving '07

This year we went down to St. George, for Thanksgiving with Lyn's family. The trip down wasn't too bad. The kids watched Transformers on the DVD player, and slept, we rolled in around 11:30 p.m. The next day we all helped to get dinner ready, the kids even helped set the table and fold the napkins.
We didn't eat dinner until 2 p.m. and everyone was sneakin' food by then.
Caught ya, Ellie!

Ray's favorite part of Thanksgiving Dinner! OLIVES!
Man that Turkey drug kicks in fast!

These are our after Thanksgiving Dinner traditions!

Above is Nap time, next is a walk down to the clubhouse to see the swans.
This is a bridge across the swan pond. It was such a nice day!


For supper on Thanksgiving Day we have pie, 4 kinds this year & apple spice cake too. Then we express the things that we are thankful for. Family is the most common thing. It's a great way to end the day!

Slumber Party!

My kids only get to have sleep-overs with their cousins, since all their cousins live out of town it doesn't happen very often. So when we get it have a rare sleep-over I try to make it special.

So I braided the girls hair after their bath.
Trennedy got to sleep on the cot in Ellie and Bekah's room. They went to bed at 9:00, but we had to tell them to stop giggling at 10:30 and go to sleep!

Trennedy went to church with us the next day. Bekah was excited to have her in primary with her, even if it was only for a little while before she had to go home. The girls had a fun time together!

Tiesha's Bridal Shower

Well after all the craziness of planning this bridal shower for Tiesha (my soon to be sister in law)It was a success and everyone had a great time!

This picture is of my Towel Cake. I planned the shower & couldn't be in the contest!
We had a room to room shower with a prize going to the most creative gift. This gift won the prize. It is for the laundry room with a basket full of supplies, but the kicker was how Gramie decorated it with the clothes pins hanging from the outside for the basket. Anyway, it had some stiff competition with a case of toilet paper and a bathroom reader book, and a box of cookie cutters with a rolling pin and a sugar cookie recipe. Everyone had a hard time deciding who should win!
The best part of the shower was the giving of the Something OLD, Something NEW, Something BORROWED, Something BLUE.

This is the Something Old!

Teisha's Mother, Carolyn gave Tiesha a beautiful white hankie that her Grandmother had given to her, when they were sealed in the temple as a family. so she passed on the tradition.

Something New!
Her girlfriends bought her pearl earrings to wear on her wedding day.

Something Borrowed!

I had everyone bring thier favorite recipe to give to Tiesha with this cute recipe stand.

Something Blue!

I had to find something for the Wedding Night. Poor Tiesha was throughly embarassed.

It was such a fun afternoon and the food was really good (Thanks Susy)

Flu

We have all (except Weston and Lyn) had the Flu this week. I didn't even get to help in the schools. Ellie came down with it Sunday night, then Bekah got it Tuesday, then Ray, then me. I think I had it the worst case, cause I hadn't had a lot of sleep since Sunday. I was up most every night with a different child, luckily it wasn't the throw-up kind, sometimes I wonder why kids always have to have their Mommas when they are sick, it would be nice once in a while to hear a child call for Daddy. Anyway, the only good thing about all this flu is I lost 4 lbs with out doing too much. So, hopefully I'll be able to keep it off. Now we all are feeling much better and just in the nic a time, I'm having my future sister-in-laws bridal shower at my house on Sat. Maybe I'll post some pictures from that! It should be fun!

Sunday Night Jam Session

After the

Cowboy

Church

concert

our family

plus Doc.

Mongo

came

back to

our house

for Sunday

Dinner

and

afterwards

Doc. got

out his

guitar

and we

had a Jam

session.

Doc. played

& sang

and the

kids

danced with

Grandma

Susy. Then

Lyn and Chris

got out their

guitars, and

Bekah got

out the kid

guitar and

we all jammed

and danced.
It was a fun

evening together,

Ellie's Uncle

Klint even

taught her

some swing

moves, and I

taught

some to

Weston. Ray

danced with

Grandma Susy and Lyn and Bekah were content to just listen. A good time was had by all.

Cowboy Poetry '07

Cowboy Poetry this year was so fun! We only went to the Cowboy church, yet it was such a great time! All my kids dressed up in their cowboy clothes and we all had too have our picture taken.
A rare picture of Lyn and I.

Doc. Mongo opened the concert and he did a great job!
Doc. Mongo

Belinda Gail & Curly Musgrave are great preformers one of my favorite song they sing is called Father to Father, and they sang it that day!


This is the fabulous Bar J Wranglers, They are one of my favorite cowboy groups. I tried to film a song to put on my blog, but it didn't work, anyway we sat in the 2nd row from the stage.
Brian is one of my favorites in the group! So here's to all the Brian fans out there, he did a great job on his solo!My hero's have always been cowboys is true in Weston's eyes, this is one for his hero's,
Richard Espinoza. He loves him so much that one year for Halloween he dressed up as him.
We had a fun afternoon as a family!

Bekah's Butterfly book

Bekah is my child, who loves to read infomation books. I've tired many times to read novel type stories to her but after a couple of chapters, she's just not interested anymore. Lately, she enjoys the Magic School Bus series, which is just enough of a story for me with lots of info. for her. Anyway, in school her class is learning about the 5 senses and at home we are reading about butterflies and in the book it tells the 5 senses of a butterfly. So she had to make this book for show n tell so her class could learn about it too.
I drew most of the pictures and wrote some of the words and she colored it!



Bekah had a lot of fun making this book and especially wanted to show it to Brieanna and Sydney, and couldn't wait till Christmas to show them. We hope you enjoy!

Snowman Snow!

A Couple of weeks ago we woke up to a winter wonderland. The snow only lasted one day, but the kids made the most of it! After Bekah got home from school, we all went out to build a snowman. Bekah started the bottom piece clear out in the middle of the grass lot, and it was huge and heavy by the time we rolled it to the corner of the house. The next two parts weren't quite so bad. Then Bekah helped me put the decorations on it with the snowman kit, while Ray filled in the sides with snow. When we were all done we took this picture, then came in the house for hot choc., because we were tired and cold. That was about 2:15 p.m.

By the time Ellie and Weston got home from school at 3:30, someone had knocked down our snowman. The highschool and middle school kids get dropped off by the bus at 2:45, so they must have knocked it down. I was mad, and Ray & Bekah were so sad, But thank goodness I love snowmen, so of course I took a picture. I'm grateful for that!

Halloween '07

Part of Halloween is making and frosting sugar cookies to eat and give away!

My children love this tradition, in fact this year they frosted cookies last Friday, then they helped Grandma Berg on Monday, then we frosted the rest of the cookies on Halloween Day!

As you can see Ray likes to eat the frosting best!

We didn't give any of his cookies away.

Yummy Sugar Cookies!
This is Ray's verision of Truck or Treating.

Lyn didn't have much work today, so he took Ray, Weston and Bekah with him to go get wood with his Mom and Klint. The kids had fun helping and playing and spending time with their Dad, however I guess Ray was more worn out than we thought. He didn't wake up until we got to Kathryn and Charlotte's party. Yet he still ended up with a bag full of candy.

The Parks and Rec put on Halloween Canival and Costume Contest this year at the new events center. The kids had fun going to that also. I can't believe that not one of these cute kids won the contest. Maybe I'm a little bias.

(L-R) Ellie =Zebra even her hair is striped black and white, Weston=Ninja, Ray=Batman I found the main part of his costume at the thirft store for $1. Bekah =Annie Oakley and Rebecca=a butterfly fairy princess.

This is a cool picture of the kids in the haunted graveyard.

We had a great Halloween, even Lyn was able to come with us this year!
( more cousin pictures on the Ray & Lola Berg family blog)