Our Little Monkey!

Braxton's was a monkey for halloween this year. We didn't take him trick or treating because I still think he's too young. We went to the Reformation Day party at our church and Braxton and the other little toddler (who was dressed as a dragon) got honorable mention in the costume contest. What can I say? They were too much adorableness for words! :-)

Look at the tail!!! :-)

Peek-a-boo!

The real monkey of the Bergen family

We took off the costume and let him play for a little while. The slide is his favorite part of the playground!

Gotta love the banana!

Our family after the party at church

Happy November!!!

We did family pictures on Saturday so that we would be able to order our Christmas cards before the season rush. :-) We went to the lodge that we had our wedding reception at. They have really developed the land behind it and now there is gorgeous landscaping in the forest. We also had an unusually warm day so we took advantage of it! (Even though, as you will notice, the sun got in our way for some of the pictures!)

Enjoy!!

Random Ramblings of a Preggo's Brain

Journal Entry #2

Tonight while I was making dinner, Justin said "you know, I'm pretty sure the Bible verse 'Man shall not live by bread alone' can also apply to rice." Hmmmm....Guess I have been making a lot of rice dishes lately. I just smiled and said "So chicken and rice sound good, hon?" :-)

Journal Entry #3
Today, I sent Justin to the store....for mayonnaise and chocolate ice cream. Gotta love cravings. I was dying for a lunchmeat sandwich, but our off-brand mayo was not going to cut it. And the chocolate ice cream, well...need I say more? He totally went above and beyond the call of duty and came home with Double Chocolate Klondike bars, chocolate brownie chunk ice cream and Hellmans Mayonnaise. I love that man!! :-)

Gotta love technology!

You know you live in an age of technological advances when...

Your 15-month old son pretends to text right along with you

Your 15-month old son can still have storytime with grandma, even when grandma is 500 miles away. :-( / :-) (bonus is that he can't rip pages this way!!)

Random Ramblings of a Preggo's Brain

Journal Entry#1

There are few things in this world that can compare to a Starbucks Peppermint Mocha. Have a happy Saturday everyone! I sure am! :-)

Bergen - Party of 4

Home Pregnancy Test - $12
OB Dr Visit Copay - $20
Zofran Anti Nausea Prescription - $8
Fulfilled Donut craving - $3
The look on your face when you realize there are really 4 people in our family picture below - PRICELESS.

There are some things money can't buy... ;-)


BABY #2 is due MAY 5, 2011!!!

Camping!

A few weekends ago I did something that shocked my friends and family...and myself. I went camping. Those that know me well, know that this is one thing I have always dreaded and avoided at any cost. But, trying to be a good wife and try new things, we loaded up and headed out to the wilderness.

When camping with a toddler who is not walking...said toddler will get very very very filthy!

Our beautiful campsite. We backed up to a stream.

Braxton discovering his shadow.

Look at the filthy mess of adorableness! Just call him Pigpen from Charlie Brown. :-)

Dinner burning...ahem...cooking away

Enjoying our dinner of charcoal
with a few pieces of potato and sausage here and there

Evening hike

This part of the forest had a wildfire go through it decades ago and it zapped all the roots so even though the trees are there, there is no foliage. It's ever so slightly creepy.

Do you see the deer?

Playing ring around the smokey campfire. We had to keep moving our chairs because the wind couldn't decide which way to blow!

During the night, I got horribly sick. I hadn't been feeling well earlier in the day, but chalked it up to pregnancy. In the middle of the night I got chilled and shakes and threw up several times. I finally moved and slept in the car so as not to keep waking up the boys with going in and out of the tent. Needless to say I only got an hour or two of sleep all night. We found out when we got home that I had a fever of almost 102!! Hurray for having the flu while camping. :-P

The next morning. I sat by the campfire for about 5 minutes. We had planned an entire day of hiking and boulder-seeing, and I was so sad we had to cut it short...I was just too sick to do anything.

I went back to the car and the boys made themselves breakfast.

Story of my camping experience from about 2am-when we left

Our drive back home

Imagine how different this would look if the tree had leaves!

So overall, our camping trip was kind of a fail. BUT, before I came down with the flu, I was having a blast. I told Justin I would definitely do it again if I had the opportunity.