Christmas Poem

Sitting around the Christmas
tree having lots of fun,
nobody knows what this Christmas is going to become!

My brothers are chasing each other
My little sister is playing,
while I'm just sitting here having fun laying!

We're sitting in our beds
eager for our presents,
Santa better visit our house before our hope lessens.

Ripping off our covers
Running for our gold,
a lot of fun and surprises and it never gets too old!


.... Tarrin Bergsjo

Thanksgiving and fun in the snow!

Thanksgiving weekend was really fun! Thursday we had Thanksgiving dinner at Kevin's brother Rob's house. It was delicious! he smoked a turkey and it was so juicy and moist! Kevin and I did the creamed corn ( a yummy recipe from Kev's cousin Heidi ) and I made a couple of pies( pecan and peach). Kev also took up a bunch of cocktail shrimp for an appetizer. We had a good time visiting with family. I even got to visit with my SIL who is in nursing school. We used to talk everyday, sometimes twice and now she is so busy with school that we hardly get to talk anymore. It almost brought me to tears but I sucked it up. I was just glad to visit with her. Thank you so much Tara for having dinner at your house, Your the best!


On Wednesday night Kev and I and the kids went and saw Despicable Me. It was a really good movie! I thought it was really funny but I am pretty sarcastic so maybe that's why I liked it so much. I also really like Steve Carell so that's probably another reason. We had a good time munching on popcorn and watching a movie together. Maisey was pretty good and remained in her seat most of the movie.


Yesterday we made a Thanksgiving dinner. I really wanted some more turkey! Kev and I made all of the fixings. Our neighbor Hans hurt his back really bad and has been basically bed ridden so when Kev was over snow plowing he told him we would bring him over some dinner. Well dumb me loaded up a big plate and headed over in the snow to take it to him. I decided to just hurry and put on Kevin's boots. Well I didn't tie up the laces very well and ended up tripping and almost landing face first in the snow! The food went all over the road! I was so irritated with myself but when I got back in the house Kev was just making sure I wasn't hurt. Kev took over another plate and when he got back we just laughed at it all. It's too bad nobody saw it, it probably would have been really funny to watch. It was a fun weekend and I am so glad to share it with people I love.

I guess it's time to round up all of the kids gloves, hats and boots. Trey and Maisey went outside today to have some fun in the snow. They are so funny to watch!

Maisey throwing snow in the air. She's so silly!
Maisey loving the snow!
Trey and Maisey trying to stay warm!

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Dress-up anyone?

If you know Maisey very well dressing up is a daily occurence. My neighbor Anessa gave Maisey all of these old costumes that her girls wore for dance. Maisey is in heaven and wears one everyday! Her favorite is the Tinkerbell one which I am sure most of you have seen her in. She not only wore it for Halloween she has to put it on at least a couple of times a day. A couple of weeks ago she ran out of the house wearing the costume with nothing else on underneath. It was freezing outside! She fights Kevin and I when we tell her its time for bed and she needs to put pajama's on. Today when I was getting her ready she threw a fit because I made her take off her dress and put on jeans. She screamed "I hate pants, mom!" I love the fact that she is girlie but I think she is rather extreme!

Christmas

We are done Christmas shopping for the kids! I never thought it would happen but shortly into November we were done! I am mostly excited because I hate shopping in huge crowds of people. Next it is to get the Christmas decorations up but that might take me awhile. I think I may have to buy a little tree this year while my brother and his family are visiting. The tree I have is beautiful but takes up most of my front room, and we are short on room when we have company. I got a text from Carly the last week to tell me Merry Christmas she had just put her tree up! I told her she was crazy! I didn't even want to think about Christmas yet it wasn't even Thanksgiving! Well the Christmas music in the car and my kids talking about it, The Christmas spirit has moved in and now I am all about Christmas!

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth

Wyatt lost his second top tooth today. Hopefully he gets his two front teeth for Christmas!

Playing the guitar

Here is T and Wyatt playing their guitar. They now have been doing lessons for about three months and I am excited about their progress.

Parent Teacher Conferences

Last week was Parent Teacher Conferences and I have to admit Trey is such a wild one that I was wondering what his teacher had to say about him. When we first sat down Trey and Kevin were teasing each other and the teacher just looks at us and says "That's the most lively I have ever seen Trey" I just looked at her like she must be kidding. I looked at her and said " This kid sitting right here beside me?" She's like Yeah " He just comes to class, Sits down and listens and does his work" He is such a good kid" Kevin and I both look at each other shocked! Apparently he is quite the good little student. Who would have thought it! Wyatt is doing great and his taking after his big brother. Tarrin is now reading and comprehending at a post High School level so we are looking into getting him tested for some accelerated classes for next year. He may have to switch schools but we are keeping our options open and are going to see what happens. I was pleasantly surprised and when we get good reports back from their teachers, They get to pick out a book at the book fair. They had fun choosing their books out and going home and reading them.

Church

Maisey has some entitlement issues and they sure do come out at church. She thinks she is entitled to a handful of bread and more than one cup of water during the sacrament. This was funny when she did it the first few times, ya know one of those funny silly things they do as two year old but now it is just embarrassing! Sunday when I preyed the cup from her fingers to put it back because she was taking so long, She preceded to scream because she didn't get her way so Kevin took her out. We were sitting close to the front so he took her out the side door near the front. As she is kicking and screaming she reaches up and smacks Kevin in the face one hand smacking the back and one smacking the front. I guess everyone thought this was funny because as I looked around everyone was trying to keep a straight face(even the bishopric). I too thought it was a little funny but seriously the girl is such a pill sometimes.

Scrabble

My new favorite thing is Scrabble on the Ipod! Yes, I know I am a nerd but if a have a few extra minutes in the day I will be playing Scrabble. Scrabble is the game my family always played together when I was younger. I have great memories playing Scrabble. Kevin say's I am addicted but I didn't even pick it up until 4:30 today so I can't be addicted right?

Playing with puppies

My friend Amanda called to see if the kids wanted to come and see some cute little puppies that her dad is selling. Of course the kids wanted to go. They are the cutest things in the world! I couldn't get over their cute little faces. The kids were in heaven, Thanks Amanda for thinking of us!

Happy Halloween!

My two clone troopers, fairy and knight, waiting to go to the ward Halloween carnival on Friday. The Young Men and Young Women's were in charge of it. Heidi Cookson and I were in charge of the fish pond. It was fun to see all the kids in their costumes. On Saturday we carved pumpkins and I took the kids to the Treehouse for their Halloween party and we went to the library and made some fun Halloween crafts. Kevin had to work so he wasn't able to go trick of treating with us. Anessa and I took the kids around the neighborhood. I always am shocked at all of the candy the kids get. I think we see at least a couple hundred kids while were out. When the kids started to complain that there bags were too heavy I told them we better call it a night but they wouldn't let me so we had to trick or treat a little more. Trey was a little nosy and when we were trick or treating at somebodies house he asked the lady if she was making dinner and at another place he yelled to me " Hey mom, I remember going to this old lady's house last year" I was so embarrassed but I don't think she heard because she was pretty old. Me and Anessa got a good chuckle!

Trey didn't want to wear his knight costume the night of trick or treating so I just put this glow in the dark mask on and a hat and we called it good.



Tarrin carved this Pickachu pumpkin.


Overall it was a really fun day and the kids had a blast. I was really bummed and the kids were to that Kevin wasn't able to be there. Now I get to stare at all this candy and try not to eat too much of it. The kids are at school and what they don't know what hurt them right?

Wyatt's swollen face

Wyatt's face is finally back to normal. A few of days ago he was crying all night that his tooth hurt. That next morning I got him into the dentist and they did a root canal. Well that night Wyatt was crying that his tooth hurt and I just thought it was sore from the root canal. When I saw him that morning I was shocked! He was all swollen and crying. We called the dentist and he met with us twenty minutes later. When Wyatt was getting his root canal a pocket of air got down in the tooth. He put him on antibiotics and gave him some lortab for the pain. Wyatt is mostly out of pain with the medicine but from what the dentist said it could take three or four days for the swelling to go down and he could have some bruising! It has been such a horrible experience for Wyatt and he had to miss his Halloween party at school. He was still a little swollen for trick or treating but that didn't slow him down. We are glad to have our handsome little Wyatt back and that he is no longer in pain!