Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Fun Fall!

Okay these past few months have seriously flown by.  Is it really almost Thanksgiving!? What?  Here, at the Bergstrom household, we have had so much fun these past few months.  So once again, here is a whirlwind of pictures. 

At the end of September we were able to go up to Powder Mountain with my family.  My parents got a great deal on a condo.  We went up for the weekend.  It was the PERFECT time to go.  The leaves were changing and the weather was absolutely perfect!  We swam, went on walks, played games, watched movies, ate way too much.  It was so much fun.




 
Can you believe there is a little baby in that wrap!
 

 
 This is Austin talking to Grandpa out on the deck.  He loved to look at the view and chat.  His conversations usually begin with, "Tell me about your day." 

The next week, Daron and I were able to leave the kiddos and go to Park City!  It was so much fun!  We felt guilty leaving the kids at first, but about 10 minutes into our drive up there we were all smiles :)

Our good friends Josh and Jay were also able to get the time off and spend the weekend up in Park City with us.  Our first stop was the Alpine slides and coaster.  We bought a day pass.  Even though it was pricey, it was well worth it.

This is us going up the coaster.  Josh told us not to use the brakes, so we didn't.  It was awesome!
 


 

  
 Jay and I got stuck behind some slow pokes on the Alpine Slide.  This picture shows Josh speeding past us while we are crawling along :(

 
We also rode our bikes on a beautiful trail.  We lucked out with perfect weather!



We went to the Salt Lake Olympics park.  I have never been there, and it was pretty awesome.  There were people practicing their ski jumps into a pool of water.  We stayed and watched for quite a while.  We saw all the memorabilia from the Olympic games. 
 
We also toured downtown Park City.  We ended up at Butchers.  It was a super nice restaurant with delicious food.  

What would a great weekend be without a trip to the outlet malls?  Jay and I went shopping, while the boys went golfing.  Perfect.
The rest of the time we were playing games, watching movies, soaking in the hot tub, it was great.

Our baby Joshie turned one on October 7th.  We love this little guy so much.  He has been the hardest baby, but once we found out he was allergic to wheat, life became a lot better.  He is a happier little boy.  Now, we hope he will out grow this, but time will tell.
Right now he has the cutest 4 teeth.  He has the best smile.  I could kiss him all day long :)
 

 

 Halloween was super fun.  We always have so much to do.  We go to my dad's work and get a TON of candy.  Then we go to Daron's work and get a TON of candy.  Little secret...I didn't buy any Halloween candy this year to hand out.  I just used the candy we got from those two work parties, and we still had a ton left over. 







Fun high school friends Halloween party.  I always look forward to this.  Daron and I were s'mores (thanks Jay for the idea).  Those are marshmallows on my head.  Right before our party, I was like "Hey, I need something on my head.  Something that resembles a marshmallow.  Hummm...How about a marshmallow?  Perfect."  Hence, the Marshmallows.    Thanks to everyone who puts up with our silly games. :)

 
Finally, our last goal for the year was to get our new stairs built.  Our wonderful neighbor Greg helped Daron out with this project.  It looks great.  I was out there staining it the day before we got a foot of snow!  Yay for goals completed!

New (old)  post below :)  (You know you want to read more!)

End of Summer Highlights

Let's start in August....

Austin's 3rd Birthday!  August 25th ( I know, waaaay behind!)
We went to Lagoon and rode the train probably 3 times.  It's his favorite thing EVER.  We went to Famous Dave's and he got his FREE ice cream and meal :)



 Daron and I share a birthday.  We are about a week after Austin.  We had a goal for this year to visit a National Park.  We were running out of time.  So on our birthday (Labor Day) we decided to venture up to Golden Spike National Park.  It's in Promontory, Utah.  Basically it's two trains, that sit there...and do nothing.  Well almost nothing.  They "toot" their horn, and move up and down the tracks.  Austin thought it was the coolest thing ever.  Yay! 




 The weather was just beautiful in September, that I decided for my birthday I wanted a bike.  I decided on a cruiser bike because: A) I don't ride up mountains   B) I hate riding hunched over  C) I feel like Anne of Green Gables :).  Done deal.  It was so fun to ride.  The boys loved it.  Although, we would get back home and find Josh nearly at the bottom of Austin's feet.



Austin started preschool!  YAY!  He takes it from these super old ladies up the road. They scared me at first, but I have come to the conclusion that if I had been teaching preschool for 25 years, I would be just as ornery!  Okay, they aren't terrible.  Just the older one of the two scares me a bit.  I still feel like a 3 year old in her presence.  Austin loves it though.  He is learning so much. 

We went to the Brigham City LDS Temple open house.  It was absolutely stunning.  Austin was super excited to go inside the temple.  He kept the pamphlet and kept showing us where we had been.

Austin played his first soccer games!!  He is so funny to watch.  He will run after all the boys and the ball and then tell other people to kick it.  He then will fall down (on purpose) and start laughing.  His coach is our neighbor and he was so good with the boys.  He is excited for spring!



Grandpa and Grandma Bergstrom were Austin's faithful fans.  As well as Aunt Katie and Uncle Chris.  Austin LOVES being the center of attention, so this was fun to see him in action!







Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Summer in Pictures

Free Mini- Golf at Cherry Hill!
 
 Lagoon!  We got Lagoon season passes and have loved it! 
Baseball games watching the Bees!  We have gone 3 times this summer!  Austin loves to watch them pitch and run super fast.  But I think his favorite part about going to the Bees game is riding on the super fast train. (Do you notice I say "super fast " a lot?  Just using Austins lingo).
 Syracuse days with my sisters (minus Kimber).  We had fun walking around the carnival.  Austin and I rode the LONG slide.  It goes faster then you think!


  Free day at This is the Place State Park!  So worth it!  The kids had so much fun, plus free ice cream!



 Cute boys!  Josh loves making those faces :)


Kalia Lynn Jensen was born August 8th.  She is so super cute.
 We went camping to Smith and Moorehouse.  It was so fun to be away from the city and spend time with family.  My parents and Aunt Cindy picked out the PERFECT spot!  It was huge.  I remember going camping as a kid and we barely had enough room for a tent before we saw our camping neighbors a foot away.  But this spot we had room for games and it had a nice river running through it.  Perfect.  Austin loved throwing rocks in the river.  We ate amazing food by my cousin Melissa.  Dutch oven lasagna.  Yum!  The next day we used my parents Kayaks and enjoyed the lake (no pics, forgot the camera.)  The boys did surprisingly well at night.  They both slept through, except for the time Austin fell off the mattress onto Daron :)  Fun times!

Fun at the Davis County Fair!  We will always have a special place in our heart for the fair.  Daron and I used to work there during our high school years.  We definitely had to go check it out!  Austin had fun with his friend Luke.
 This past weekend, we ventured up to Logan to spend time with our friends.  We have known these couples since our married student ward at Utah State.  We have made sure to get together a few times a year, and we are determined to be friends forever (right?:)


The whole gang, minus a few couples that couldn't come and live out of state.  We sure had a fun time at Hyrum dam! (sorry Josh for blocking your cute face with my head)

We love summer!