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)

It's Almost Halloween!

The library story time had it's annual Halloween party, so my friend Rachel picked up Bekah from school and just Ray and I went. He was Batman and I went as a purple witch! (Yes, I try to stay as close as I can to my true character so it's not a stretch for me to pull it off.)

Anyway, we had a great time together and Ray got a lot of loot which he promptly shared with his brother and sisters. What a sweet little boy!Every year my kids humor me for this picture, they think their Mom is crazy! However, I love pumpkin patch pictures. So this is the pumpkin patch at the local grocery store. It was a little too bright, but hey it's still cute!

I love this time of year, and I love Halloween! I guess I'm just a big kid a heart!

Pumpkin Carving Contest

It's October and time for the annual pumpkin carving contest

that we have for Grandpa Vic's birthday.

First we have to carve the pumpkins. We did that part at our house this year. Bekah thought the gutting the pumpkin part was gross, that's because last year she just painted her pumpkin. This time she got the whole experience!
Grandma Susy found a white pumpkin this year and carved it into a ghost.

She won the contest for the adults with this creative pumpkin!

Bekah carved a cat and a moon, she did some of the carving herself,
then Dad helped her finish!

Ray got to Tatoo his pumpkin. He is really pround of it!
Weston carved a bunch of things and faces in his pumpkin.

He even added bullet holes and then later painted blood on it too.

It turned out very colorful!

Even Dad got into the act, but he didn't want his picture taken
Ellie carved a pumpkin but decided she didn't like it so she painted this witch for Gramie.
Great idea Ellie!

I found the pattern for this pirate on the internet,

however it didn't turn out as good as the pattern !

So that was the first night!

The next night we all got together at Gramie and Grandpa Vic's

for his 87th birthday and the pumpkin contest!

Here are all his great grandkids helping Grandpa blow out the candles!
This is my kids and the other cousins telling about the pumpkins they carved!

All the kids won candy bar prizes. Ellie won a "1000 grand" for her witch, Weston won the "Hot Tamale" pumpkin, Bekah got the "Big Hunk" award for the biggest pumpkin,

and Ray won the "Cool" Pumpkin award!

It was a fun night, and we had a good turn out, and Grandpa Vic had a great party!

Leaves at the Dale Berg Park

Ray and Bekah have been having fun together outside this week since I've been helping Grandma Berg. They were having a blast in the leaves, so I had to stop and take some pictures.
Jumping in the leaf pile
Bekah was throwing the leaves in this picture, It kinda looks like Ray is eating them, Ha-ha
This is Ray, Bekah and thier little cousin Maylie
Little Maylie playing in the leaves!

Jr. Enginering at School

At school on the Oct 9th, a program called Jr. Enginering came and the kids were able to learn a bunch of different thigns for their age group, then that night the school hosted a show and teach where the kids got to teach thier parents what they learned. This is the construction truck maze for K- 2nd grade. Weston got to show Ray how they worked and give him a ride. Bekah, in red also got to have a ride.
Bekah showing Mom how to drive the big truck.
Bekah learned about dinosaurs in her class. They put on a play about baby dino's hatching from their eggs, it was really cute. She was embrassed in this picture.
Weston taught us about the color wheel, and if you spin it fast all the colors make brown. This wheel was hooked to a drill and it was spining when I took the picture!

Weston also taught us about prisms and light and rainbows. The kids had fun looking through the prisms to see the rainbows.Ellie taught us about hydralics, and how increasing or decreasing the amount of fluid in each joint causes them to move. This was fun because everyone got to play with the machines. Weston loved it, he made the machine pick up all the objects and drop them in the cylinder.
This is a picture of Ellie making the machine pinch her nose.
This was a fun night for the parents and the kids.