Christmas Break Sleep Over

The boys had a fun time of inviting some friends over during Christmas Break. The biggest sleep over to date...6 boys total!! Call it temporary insanity but I thought it would be fun! Well, it was fun to watch them all play, talk, laugh and make memories. Brittany was smart though; she left and went for her first "alone" sleep over at grandma and grandpa B's house. The boys had fun playing snow football, human snow bowling, riding bikes to the track at Blackhawk, dart wars, indoor football, WII games, bowling, walking to Georgetown donuts for breakfast and much much more.

Adult Berry Christmas

After the fun times with all of the kids it was time to have fellowship time with all of the adults of the family. It is such fun to get to eat, share, snack, and talk with those that we do not get to see often during the year. This year was a nice and relaxed time with family and alot of fun was had too. The "boys" had fun building quite the castle that was shared by all after dark.

Christmas with the cousins

Well what a Christmas we all had at Grandma's. All the cousins had a blast seeing each other, playing, and exchanging gifts. It is so amazing to see so many little ones in our family and to know there are more on the way already for next year. It is so fun to watch them all...coming from a family where I was the only child and only grandchild it is always amazing for me to sit back and watch all the love there is with all of these wonderful kids.

News Time

Well Brad and Jake got the opportunity to go to a local news station to get a private tour thanks to my good friend Kelly Greene(the weather girl). The boys lucked out and got not 1 but 2 tours thanks to a football game running over the first time causing the news to be cancelled. Lets just say they did not mind since they were able to take Kelly out to dinner and schedule a 2nd trip to the station. They were able to meet several of the newscasters, play with the weather green screen, check out the control room and watch how things are done and watch a live newscast. They were filled with lots of questions and everyone was kind enough to answer them. It was a fun trip for not just them but me as well. Thanks Kelly!!!

Fall Time Fun!!

The kids have enjoyed some time outside raking leaves and playing in them too. We don't really have many leaves in our yard but we were able to find some piles on our way to the park.

Boys will be Boys!!

Brad and Jake both had friends over the other day and could hardly wait to get outside to play mud football. Unknown to me this was planned out ahead of time and the boys had packed old clothes and shoes for the occassion. Afterwords I was doing laundry and sending them all upstairs for showers. There was no way I could send them home looking like that!!

Fall Fun

It was such a nice day so I thought it was time to get some fall pictures of the kids.

Brittany's Room

Well, Brittany finally has a girls room!! I would like to say it is done but not quite yet. Still need to hang her mirror I got at IKEA and need to put her Precious Moment Figurines up on her shelf but it is almost there. When we finished the painting and put up her big girl bed and led her upstairs she was sooooo excited. Then I finally got the flowers on the walls and she was equally excited. It is nice to say she finally has her own girl room!

Johnny Appleseed Fun

We were able to take some family time and stop by the Johnny Appleseed Festival this year. The boys always enjoy learning about the soldiers and guns from the wars. They also took time to make candles this year and Britt had fun with some games and the maze. We of course enjoyed the yummy food including carmel apples.

IKEA continued....

Just a few more shots of friends at IKEA.

IKEA here we come!!!

Wow, is it great to have friends or what!?!? In September some girls and I headed out for an adventure in Cincinnati to visit the IKEA store. We had a blast spending the entire day shopping, visiting, and eating, and more shopping at the outlets on the way home. And did I mention we laughed till our guts hurt! It was so nice to get away for a day.

Camping Fun!!!

Shannon and the boys went for their first official camping trip this summer. Lets just say the inexpensive summer trip ended up being one of the most expensive summer adventures. The boys were going for 3 days and 2 nights which turned into 4 days and 3 nights which is not where the money problems occured.(campsite was only $8) When they got there they decided to rent a canoe/boat for 24 hrs and headed out to go fishing. They ended up catching 9 fish and ate them for dinner. The next day they headed out in the canoe. Shannon dropped the new camera and broke it.(first big cost)Then Brad managed to drop his retainer in the murky water of a busy canal(second big cost)However, they did spend 2 hrs trying to find it and actually saw it twice!The third big cost was buying food at the camp store to spend an extra night. New camera $180, New retainer $160, cost of extra night $50, time spent camping with dad PRICELESS!