Crazy Sept. Fun!

School Starts

Ellie started 6th grade at the Old Jr. High, now the new Timpanogos Intermediate school,

she is excited, because her BFF Kenna Duke, is in her class, and that she gets to ride her bike every day.

1st day of school 2009-2010
Bekah-7, Ellie-11, & Weston-9

Ellie's off on her new bike, for school.

Lyn's Elk

I didn't get a picture of the elk, it was a young cow, but here we are cutting it up.

even the kids like to help run the meat grinder.

Ray and Bekah making elk burger.

Ray really liked to push the meat into the grinder.

We got around 200 lbs of meat.
We have already tried some of the steaks and the burger, both were delicious!

Pam and Trisha's Visit

Unfortunately, they had to visit for a sad reason, Pam's step-mother past away, however we still made the most of their visit. I hadn't seen Pam for years, and I hadn't seen Trisha since she about 1 year old, and now she is 18. So needless to say we had a lot of catching up to do!

Trisha, Ray, Ellie, Pam, Bekah, and Weston in front.
The kids really enjoyed Pam and Trisha staying with us. The girls even gave up their room.

Of course we had to go to lunch at the Dairy Keen, and Pam had to have the souvenir hats.

We also took Trisha, up to Breakfast at Whiskey Springs.

and made them get their picture by the sign.

Ray really took a liking to Trisha, maybe because he got to spend the most time with her, since he didn't have to go to school.

Ray was even jealous when Trisha got to go up to the Arnold's house to hang out with some kids her own age for a bit. It was kinda cute.

He tells me all the time that he misses Trisha and wants her to come back.

So I had to have this picture, because somewhere I have a picture of Trisha and I when she was only a year.

Pam is one of my BFF. We have been friends since grade school, and have kept in touch over the years. She was the one friend that wrote to me my whole mission, and I know that if I ever needed her for any reason she would make that 10 hour drive from New Mexico for me. I was glad that I could help her in her time of need this time, and I really enjoyed the spirit she brought into our home and the love that she showed to my kids.

Thanks for always being and Great and Understanding Friend!
I hope we can stay in touch better now that we have facebook!

School's Out Fun!

Since it was raining the day school got out for the summer. We got all the Berg cousins together and took a trip to the Zoo, on the 1st really nice day. I was tending Sammy Schwinn that day so he got to got too. It was a nice day to be outside.
This is Ellie's favorite picture spot, by the Zebras
Weston just relaxing in the hollow log,
at the playground.


Brieanna the "Princess" and Bekah the "Pauper"

Best Friends!

Ray the Crocodile Hunter!

Here are all the cousins (LtoR) Sammy (not a cousin), Bekah, Weston, Brieanna, Sydney, & Ellie. In front Maddison, Ray, Mason, Annelisa holding Sophie.
The best part of the Zoo this time was to find out that one of the Elephants is going to have a baby next year in July. (I can't image being pregnant for 22 months.) So next year we will have a new baby elephant at the Zoo.

Bekah's Last Day of Kindergarten

This is Bekah and her teacher Mrs. Holly Hansen.

Bekah was so sad that she wouldn't get to she her teacher again.
We made Mrs. Hansen a special class gift. I bought a white T-shirt, & Bekah wrote the words,"Mrs. Hansen's Kinder"Garden" on the front. Then we took it to her class and drew 20 flower stems on the front and back of the shirt and put the kids hands on top of each stem for the flower and then let the kids write there name in their hand. It turned out really cute, and Mrs. Hansen loved it!

This is Bekah and her best friend from school, Kaya.

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.