The Life And Times Of The Bergs: October 2008

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Note To Self

When baking bread one must always turn on the oven and not just the oven light! Duhhhh!

I decided to try and bake the bread anyway, I kneaded it again and then waited to see if it would rise a second time. It did, sort of. So I put it in the oven anyway. It came out about 1 1/2 inches high, but still tasting like good bread and not a brick. I'm calling it a success. Hailey saw the bread, and bless her heart, did not notice that it was flat as a pancake. She scarfed it down with gusto and once again pronounced me a GREAT baker "You're going to a bakery woman! Did you hear me? A BAKERY!" Goodness I love that kid!

Monday, October 6, 2008

Oh My Goodness, I forgot Jamaica!

So I totally forgot to post pictures of the AWESOME trip I took to Jamaica with Laura. Laura and I celebrated her birthday with a long weekend in Jamaica without our families! Can you say LOVELY? It was so nice, we did just about nothing, it was great. Read books on the beach, drank lots of fruity "specials," did some paddle boating, watched "Superman" lead the aerobics classes on the beach (really, he had the necklace and belt buckle to prove it)...nice. The highlight of the trip was the sunset cruise to Ricks Cafe and my jump off the 40 foot cliff. That rocked! Of course, there are no pictures of me jumping, only of the cliff, but as Laura is my witness, I did jump. So I bruised the bottoms of my feet, but other than that I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Well, maybe not a heartbeat but it was fun!

Of course the Jamaica pictures are not on the laptop so you will have to wait until tomorrow (or some other day) for me to upload them from the desk top.

The important point...Jamaica was GREAT! We are going to go back to celebrate my birthday. I'm not sure Bill knows about this plan yet...Shhhhhhh!

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Where'd We Go?

Clearly I am not so good about keeping this blog up to date! Apparently life keeps me very busy all the time! I have just spent a lot of time trying to figure out the mistakes of my past posts and correct them. I was only marginally successful. I have discovered that some of the links to the pictures don't work so my next task is to figure out why and fix them.

The past year has been full with fun and exciting stuff - the amount of pictures that Bill has taken is truly mind boggling. Keeping up with the girls activities requires a masters in time management. They kept busy with gymnastics, swimming, girl scouts, and play dates. Not to mention all the school sponsored activities they participated in. Summer was filled with visits to and from family (including Grandma's 95th birthday party), swim team, nature camp, girl scout camp, space camp, learning to ride bikes, camping and general hanging out.

School started with Hailey going into 2nd grade and Madeline starting kindergarten! Samantha wants to go to school as well, she packs her little lunch box every day while the big kids are packing their lunches! Samantha goes to "school" when I got to MOPS - who cares if "school" is the childcare provided for my MOPS meetings - it's all in the name! :-)

We are now gearing up for the birthday season. Hailey wants to have a Halloween party this year - complete with everyone going trick-or-treating and she would like to have a few (two) friends sleepover. This will be a first in the Berg household (if you don't count family) and she is very excited! Samantha's birthday is also this month and will be much more low-key, but just as much fun I'm sure.

Here are some shots from the summer that I'm sure you will enjoy! I was not able to get these pictures to open in a new link...I will work on that, in the meantime you will have to hit your back button or open them manually in a new window. Lisa, any hints on how to fix this?!?!