One of the Cutest Girls Ever...

So, I guess I am a biased aunt who thinks that her nieces and nephews are the cutest. But I think most aunts say that. Anyway, one of my cute niece's name is Shayla (as you can tell from the picture, duh) and she just started preschool. She absolutely loves it! She is a complete social butterfly and loves being around other kids. These are her first school pictures ever and they turned out so dang cute - I just had to post it on my blog! She posed like a pro. She moved to Wyoming last Spring with her family and I miss them like crazy. I especially miss her mom Erin, we are really close and it is hard to be so far apart. Thank goodness for phones I guess. Shayla and her brother Jonny are growing up so fast – it is crazy. I need to get more pictures of them (hint hint Jon...). The last picture I posted of little Jonny was when he was standing there with his crack showing. So cute. They are such fun kids. Hopefully someday soon we will be able to go up to Gillette and see them. Anyway, enjoy the cute picture of Shayla. I love you Shayla!!! Love, Aunt Bergen

Bergen Gets an Idea...

So I guess I am going to back the train up a little bit and tell you about something we did last August. I know this will mess up the order of my posts, but just bear with me here.

So, it was a Friday night, and we were doing the usual weekend thing...sitting home on the couch by ourselves. Tony says, "What do you want to do?" And I respond, "I don't know, what do you want to do?" And it continues on until about 10:00 PM when we then decide to watch the news, Sports Center, and then hit the sack. Exciting eh? So one Friday night I had had enough of that. I got to thinking and had an epiphany whilst sitting in the water closet. (Don’t most of you do your best thinking there???) I decided...WE WERE GOING TO THE ZOO!!! So Saturday morning we got up, got all ready and headed up to Salt Lake to go to the infamous Hogle Zoo. I hadn't been there since fifth grade, and I soon found out why. When we got there, we got out of the car and were immediately surrounded by families with little kids and strollers and coolers. Not a single soul our age was in the vicinity. Oh well, what the heck, we were going to go and have fun. So we went. We never did see anyone our age the whole time, but we did run into Dana Petersen (Kent Petersen's sister) who was there with her kids, and she took a picture of us. So we do have this picture.

Other than that I just took pictures of animals. And at one point we came across this gorilla figure and decided we had better try and stand like gorillas. Ya, pretty cute I know.

So, after all, it really wasn't that exciting of a day - it was quite a juvenile activity actually, but at least we did something and got out of the house and inhaled some fresh air. I'll think of something better for next time, or better yet how about you come down and keep us company!!!

Tony's Birthday...

Well yes, we do all tend to get older as time goes by - sadly enough. And Tony has now reached the ripe old age of 26, which is approximately 9,490 days. Ya, he is an old man. But we had a fun birthday for him...at least I hope it was fun. I tried to make it different than a normal day. The only thing I failed miserably at was making his favorite cake - which I forgot all about. He LOVES the rainbow chip cake with rainbow chip frosting, ya I'm a bad wife. But, I made a big happy birthday sign and laid it on the floor for him when he got home from work (he gets home about 2 hours before me) and then when I came home I walked in the door with some balloons, including a "Go Diego Go" mylar one with several colored latex ones to go with it. He loves Diego, he watches it all the time. He was thrilled, I just know it.


Then that night we went to dinner at Red Robin with my Aunt, and my cousin and her family. We had a good time.

For his birthday Tony got quite a few things, including: 2 XBOX games, a new church shirt, a Kohl's gift certificate, a Wal-Mart gift card, some coin, a new basketball (well actually it was just one that his brother Nick found at the church one day and no one claimed it for a while so he gave it to Tony), and then he got some new basketball shoes. I think he had a pretty good birthday. Even Stick remembered and called, so I think that that really capped off the day!

The Best Month of All...

Well, October is my absolute favorite month for quite a few reasons. Let me fill you in...#1 There are a ton of birthdays...(I think the best spirits were sent during this month, sorry guys.) Tony's birthday is on the 1st. On the 13th is Adrian's (my sister), Stick's, and Chris's ( Tony's Brother) birthday, and on the 26th is my mom and dad's anniversary, my grandma's birthday, and my birthday. And of course the 31st is Halloween!!!! #2 it is great because you get to stay home in your pajamas the first Sunday and watch General Conference, #3 The weather is just perfect, not too hot and just starting to cool off. And the very best reason of all is #4...you get to watch Football, Baseball, AND Basketball all month long!!! Hallelujah! (Ya, I have to admit, I was way late to church the other day because I had to see the fabulous end of the Falcons game. It was exciting.) So those are my reasons to love this month.

Because there are so many birthdays in the family during the month of October, my mother-in-law has one big birthday party on a Sunday and everyone gets together for dinner, dessert, and to open presents. It is a big sha-bang. This year was fun, and Isabella had the most fun of all because she was the appointed one to open all the presents...

(Chris, Tony and I are all just barely mature enough to let a 1 year old unwrap our presents for us...) She had fun and we all got fun stuff - thanks to everybody..

I was actually released from the hospital about an hour before the party believe it or not. I had just enough time to shower and get to Tony's house. I was feeling pretty weak and sickly but I was glad that I made it. We always have fun when we get together for birthday parties.

Isabella was cute as usual. She had on her Halloween outfit, Melissa always dresses her so cute. She is fun. Here is a nice cheeser smile for ya...

Vegas Baby! Here We Come...

So yes...I am WAY behind with the blogging. Sorry to disappoint all you on-top-of-the-world-bloggers who stay up on this stuff. I have had a couple recent stays in the hospital (I'm ok, really) so I am really behind on all this. So I am basically going to skip a small section of our life and just start here. :o)

On September 2, we celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary. Crazy how time flies. We went down to Vegas for a couple of days and just did the Vegas thing. It was really fun. I can't believe we have been married for 4 years, time flies. Sad to say, this is the only picture we had taken of us together the whole time we were down there and I don't even know where it is at - ya, I'm awesome. So apparently from the picture we ate at some restaurant. I don't know if it was good or not - you will have to ask Tony. We had fun down there and spent way too much money. But hey, what can ya do. I bought way too many things at the malls and shopping places, and then I found my new calling in life...to be a professional B-I-N-G-O player! Yes, I know it is gambling, so yes I am heading to H-E Double Hockey sticks, but it is great. It is pretty intense too. For those of you who have done it before, you know what I mean. It is some serious stuff. It was great. I hung out in the Bingo room while Tony tried to master 21. And no we don't have a gambling problem, so you really don't need to be calling our bishop...

While we were there we met up with my cousin Cameron & his wife Christina who live down there. The picture of Cameron is actually one of his finest, I caught him when he was deep in thought apparently. But his family is really cute. They have 4 girls, and 2 of them are twins. Way cute.

Other than that we didn't do much. We were only there a couple days though. We were going to go to the traveling exhibit "Bodies", but for some reason we ended up running out of time. I'm sure there are many more details about our Vegas trip, but my memory lasts about 30 seconds, so if you want more detail you can give Tony a call! I am pretty sure we had a blast though!!