Favorite place on earth!

We found it! It's not Disneyland (although I'm sure that will be a close 2nd). Austins favorite place on earth is Discovery Gateway! My friend, Lisa, told us of this place and we had to check it out.
What's better than balls?




And water??


...or driving around in different animal cars.


and playing with Dad! We thought this was awesome. They have a real channel 5 set. Humm...future reporter?


There was so much more! Austin could have stayed there forever. We had a fun time with Darons sister Katie and her little girl Libbie.
And to top it off, we can get six people in for free for the next 6 months! It's pretty awesome. So let me know if you want to tag a long with me and Austin. I'm pretty sure we will be going there often during the winter months.

A very long, yet exciting post...

Why is it that blogging is so hard to do? I actually wake up at nights and think in my head of something that I need to blog about, and yet I never do it. I know, my thoughts at night are totally crazy. It's even worse when I read a book or watch a movie right before bed, I suddenly am reliving what I just saw or read, only my version. Wow, randomness, anyway back onto what I was going to blog about...
Christmas! I know you thought it was over, but us slackers have to get our Christmas post on here.
Can you find Austin??? Not the one in the blue, that is Jaden. If you look behind the tree, you can see his shoes. This is his favorite thing about the tree, a place to hide!


We had such a fun time together as a family. Austin learned who santa was, and what he said. Every time he saw a red hat he would say, "ho, ho, ho!" It was really cute! He did actually see santa and he screamed, really loud! He didn't quite think he was a jolly man. The pictures are on Darons phone, so you'll just have to imagine that.

We had many parties leading up to Christmas. We got together with fun friends from out of state and in state that we never see. Which was fun like always. Crying from laughter and all :)

We had so much with family. My cute aunt Cindy has us over for a Christmas game night and exchange. We draw names for gifts, which is wonderful (less stressful, and cheaper!) and then we eat tons of good food and open our gifts and play games. This year we did Minute to Win it games. It was hilarious to watch them eat oreos off their foreheads and get them in their mouths. Luckily I didn't have to do that one, I was privileged to put Vaseline on my nose, stick a string in my mouth with a fuzzy ball on the end, and try to swing the ball up onto my nose, where is would stick. Sound fun?? I couldn't get the swing thing down, so I lost. But oh, the memories (which once again are on Darons phone).

We had a great time with Darons siblings on Christmas Eve. Since his parents are on a mission we had his siblings and family over to our house. First, we went and saw the Christmas lights at the Layton park and then we came back for a ham dinner. It was my first ham. I must say, it was really good. We had a great time exchanging gifts and trying to communicate with our missionary parents over the computer. Skype and google don't work so great from their apartment. Bummer, but we saw them for a few seconds.

Daron and I had to finish wrapping presents, so we stayed up till 11 or so and watched Elf.

Christmas Day! We slept in until 8:30. It was wonderful. Daron got up first and we started making a breakfast casserole, since Austin was STILL asleep. He woke up at 9 and we ran and grabbed him, then headed for presents. We took our time opening presents. Austin was so content with the cups that he opened, we worried he wouldn't want his "big" present. But, alas he LOVED the lawnmower he received. Austin loves the real lawnmower in the garage, he can even say it, and he smiles every time he does, so this was very cool for him.



Austin also got a forward facing carseat. He loved playing in the box, or his "house."


Later, after naps, we went to my parents for dinner. It was more presents, more wonderful food, and family.

Daron and Austin playing with toys (Daron looking very studly in his cute shirt:)


Some of the gang, hanging out.


Kezzie, learning how to crawl, and looking so cute!


We had so much fun together during Christmas. I truly am grateful for a time we have to celebrate life and Christ. I've decided that next year we need to implement a little more activities centered around Christ. I've got a few ideas already. What a wonderful year we have had and we are so excited for 2011!
The End

December

Oh what a fun month it's been so far. Even without the snow (we don't have much in Farmington!), I feel in the Christmas spirit. It seems we have been busy the past weeks. We have spent a lot of time with these guys...



Darons parents left a couple weeks ago for a mission in the San Bernadino, California mission. We won't see them until April! I am so blessed to be married into a wonderful family. We are counting down the days until we see them again.

Along with presents and Christmas trees, December also bring lights! We were able to walk around Temple Square and see the beautiful nativities. It was pretty cold, so as you can see, we bundled Austin. The best part for Austin was the water fountains. He loves it and kept saying water, over and over.





We also, FINALLY, got a new family picture. I have wanted a new family picture for months. We called my very talented cousin, Curtis and his cute wife Amanda. Curtis took our pictures, while Amanda was making sure we looked good :) I think they turned out really, really good!





We had my entire family there. Even though it was FREEZING, the kids actually did pretty well.
My entire family...



My cute niece, Kezzie.



We have done quite a bit more in December, but I will have to track down Darons phone so I can download more pictures!

Picture this!

Okay I figured I should get these up before Thanksgiving! I finally down loaded these from Daron's Iphone. They actually look pretty good.
This year we started a tradition of going to Packs Pumpkin Patch. It's in west Farmington, it's awesome! Austin found his pumpkin as well as an airplane. I know, totally talented boy.


Picture with mom


What we did with the pumpkin.


Our little buffalo on Halloween.


Austin had to try out all the candy. He bit each one (still in the wrapper of course). We figured the trick -or- treaters wouldn't remember from which house they got the smashed candy bar :)


With Grandma Bergstrom and Libbie Lou aka the blue fairy


Pics of our trip to Salt Lake

Austin loved the train (This is his "cheese" smile)!


And we LOVED the Melting Pot


Daron said that this was the BEST food he's ever tasted!!! It was WAY expensive, but totally worth is for the experience. We had so much food, and it was all amazing. Austin did great sitting there for 2 hours! Thank goodness we had a window to look through.

This was a fun little outing. We then walked around the gateway, watched the water show, and then headed home.

Hum...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then I'm in trouble. Our camera broke a while back, so I feel that blogging is worthless. Aren't pictures what you want to see?? We've been using Daron's nifty difty Iphone for pictures. He needs to figure out how to get them on the computer, and when he does you can see...

1. Our cute little Halloween buffalo
2. Our fun little outing to Salt Lake on the Front Runner- Eating at the Melting Pot (yum!)

But most excitingly (is that a word??)......

Wait, this needs a little preface. For the past few years...yes years...I have begged and pleaded Daron to go to Disneyland. I love it there! But we always end up with other big vacations, and he doesn't have "that" much time off work, so needless to say we have not been.
So now for #3

3. Darons parents received their mission call. I bet you can't guess it...

Disneyland!!!!!!!! Or I guess to be technical it's the Anaheim, California mission!!
They leave December 6th, which is coming up way too fast. We are so excited for them. They are the kind of people that would do anything for ANYONE! They are truly great examples to us, and we are going to miss them lots and lots. But we know they are doing a wonderful service. Of course now, we HAVE to go to Anaheim, so we Have to go to Disneyland ...right? We are already planning a trip April or May sometime. :)

I will post soon, when we get the pics online, or after Black Friday :) :)

I'm so glad when daddy comes home...

This is what happens everyday...

"oooh is that Dad home??? I better go crawl over there and see..."

wait for it...


There he is!!



"Don't leave me ever again!"


And this is just cause he's cute :)



Here ...fishy...fishy...

Happy Birthday to ....US!

Daron and I share the same birthday, which brings a lot of confusion to many people. Yes the same day, AND the same year. We're pretty much twins. Sharing the same birthday is kind of crowded for two people to share, so we've decided to have a birthweek. That way we both get spoiled for a good amount of time :)
We started our birthweek with a trip to Taggarts Restaurant. Daron's parents took us there. It's a good 45 minute drive. It's near Morgan. It was wonderful. I had the yummy French Dip w/ Battered fries! I love fries, and battered just makes it better. Daron ordered the Salmon, which he enjoyed.

After dinner we went outside to see the peacocks and fish.



Thank you Mom and Dad Bergstrom for a wonderful meal!
On our "Real" Birthday, Austin and I played all day and then partied with Daron at night. We went to the Pizza Factory in Bountiful. We discovered two things. First, we loved the bread and salad. Second, not so much the pizza and pasta. Now we know.
Austin loves restaurants! He enjoys smiling at all the new people.

After dinner, Daron took me shopping. We went and tried on hats at Target...

for me, not Austin.
Then we opened presents. Austin was in awe as Daron opened lots of shirts and a game.

He helped me open my present...

Wahoo! One that works (Thanks Katie for helping Daron)!

We also celebrated for the rest of the week by:
Watching the BYU Game at Daron's brothers house. Daron held cute little Grace.

My family celebrated our birthdays with a fun BBQ! We also received our gift Cards to the Melting Pot and Teppanyaki. We are excited to use these. And thanks for the cute shirt and the fun game Catan. For those that don't know that game, you seriously have to try it out. It's only a two player game, but so fun. Daron and I played it for 3 hours the first time!

I experimented and made a Rachel Ray recipe. Pretty good, too much work though.


And of course, our free meals at Red Robin!


Phew! We had a great birthday. Here's to being 27!!