We're as suprised as you are!

We aren't sure how it happened but somehow today my mother in law convinced me to update my blog and I decided that it was time. Notice that there are a lot of new posts so please make sure to read all of them if you've been wanting to know what we've been up to.

Mike- Mike is still working at Alltel. They were bought out by AT&T. During the buy out they decided to add a few more positions to each location. The main one being an Assistant Manager. Mike decided to apply and after waiting a month and half to find out if he got it or not he finally got the phone call offering him the job. We were pretty excited and I am so proud of him. He is such a hard worker and does so well with his job.

Last year Mike called me one day and told me that he had just won a 50 inch flat screen T.V. from work. I honestly thought he was kidding me but about a month later this got dropped off on our door step. We were thrilled!!
So this year when he called me again to tell me he had won another T.V. I really thought no way! but sure enough a week later another T.V. showed up. Yep that's right 2 T.V.s in a year!! Luckiest guy I know but he did work hard for them. Needless to say we love his job!!!
Me- I stopped working at the floral over a year and half ago due to the fact that Mike and I were ready to start our family. Unfortunately we haven't had much luck in that department but we are still patiently waiting. I have had a lot to keep me busy though. I got called as the first counselor in primary last year and since I am the only one besides our secretary who hasn't had a baby this year it has been keeping me on my toes. about 6 months ago a friend called me and asked if I would like to start watching her kids. This has honestly been the most fun and rewarding job ever. I absolutely love these kids and they make my day. They just had another baby in November so I have had a break for the last month but I am excited and ready to start back up on December 15 and yes I get to watch the new baby too! Aren't they the Cutest?

Sugar, spice, and everything nice!

We have been so blessed to have 4 new baby girls born into our families this year.
The first two are my sisters twins Lydia Marie and Addie May. They were born on February 5 Lydia weighed in at 5 lbs 14 oz 17.5 inches long and Addie weighed in at 6lbs 8 oz 18 inches long. It has been really exciting to have twins in the family. There personalities are completely different and it totally shows.

This next little cutie is my brothers first baby. Her name is KayLee Jane. She was born on August 24. She also weighed in at 6 lbs 8 oz 18 inches long. She looks so much like my brother to me, although everyone else says she looks like her mom.
And last but not least is our newest little niece Peyton. She is Mikes brothers little girl and she was born on November 17 Weighing in at 7 lbs 8 oz. It has been so exciting to have another girl in the Berlin family. Girls are a very rare occurence on that side so we were all pretty shocked when this little sweetie was born. I am so glad that they live close so we can hold her all the time.

GO UTES!!

The last 2 years Mike and I have started making it a tradition to go to a Utah game at least once a year. Last year we went with Brian, Chase, Colby, Cooper we sat on the 20 yard line 4 rows up. They were awesome seats.
This shows how close we were.

The pictures above and below are from this year. We sat at the north end zone 9 rows up. The seats weren't as good as last years but it was a lot more fun to watch them get a touch down. and the crowd was more rowdy and exciting.

I hate this picture of me but swoop came right up to where we were sitting. The row in front of us stole his attention and we couldn't get it back so this is the best picture we got.

family reunion

Unfortunately ever since Mike started working for Alltel we've missed out on a lot of the usual Berlin family events. We each got to go boating once this year but not together. and the only time we were able to go camping this year was at the Berlin family reunion. We look forward to this every year. I am so glad that we were able to go
Every year we have an auction where everyone donates a couple things and everyone else bids on them. The money goes toward the future family reunions. It gets pretty crazy and things can get a little competitive when it comes to bidding but it's a lot of fun! We always have some sort of cooking competition. This year Mike and I were teamed up with Stephen and Nikki. The competition was whole chickens this year. Ours took 3rd.

We played some fun games while we were there. this one is where you put a cookie on your forehead try to get it into your mouth without using your hands. It's actually really fun and it's funny to watch everyone do it because they pull some pretty funny faces.

St. George

The last 2 years Glen and Kathy have rented a house in St. George for a few days and they have been kind enough to let all of us come and stay with them. I love St. George and if I could I would totally stay and live there. It is so warm and beautiful!
This year Kathy had all of us bring an activity for everyone to do. Mike and I built a bottle rocket launcher. These are some of the pictures we got of them being launched. They went a lot higher then I expected!!

I think this picture was from part of Brian and Brandy's activity. As you can see this was the part that I wasn't very good at and didn't win.

Kathy bought stuff to do glitter toes with. I spent the week before we left figuring out how to do them and when we got there I did all the girls toes. It was actually fun although I don't think I must have been very good at it seeing how none of them came back for a second set.

We really enjoyed our trip and hope that we get to do it again next year. Thanks again Glen and Kathy.