Happy Valentines Day

Our Valentine's weekend started early. The kids were going to spend the weekend with my Aunt and Uncle. We decided to head up one night early so that I could visit too! Here are Riley and Sam playing with Uncle Jimmy!

They were waiting for there friend to arrive!


Riley and Kaydon loved playing together.

All day Friday we decided to bake some Valentines day goodies! Here are my little helpers!

Showing some love...

We were a bit adventurous and attempted to make two things we had never done before. I loved the way they turned out and had such a good time baking with GG.

The kids helped us frost a few...

Here are our cookies for daddy!

They had to sample, of course.

We had all of the cookies lined up and outlined. Next step: flooding!

While the ouline was drying on the cookies we started to coat the heart pops! We just made the regular recipe for cake balls and then shaped them into hearts, and put them in a stick! I LOVED the way our cake pops turned out.

Finally, all the cookies were flooded and most of them were decorated!

GG and GGP thank you SO much for letting me come and bake. I had so much fun and I loved handing out treats to people on Valentine's Day. I can't wait to do it again, but next time, we will have some more time :)

I headed home Friday night and the kids stayed. I was happy to have an evening to myself because Ryne was at work. Saturday when Ryne was done at work we headed to Tyler for our Valentines weekend! Here I am giving Ryne his gift!

Oh yeah! A box of his favorite gum...

And tickets to a Mudbug Hockey game in Shreveport!!!! I have never been to a hockey game and it has been years for Ryne so we are looking forward to going together!

Then we headed over to the resteraunt where we were meeting our good friends the Reese's. We ate at the Poppouri House in Tyler and it was SO good.

Ryne and I

The food was super good. Here is Ryne's standing pork roast.

And my breaded chicken with a bell pepper and onion cream sauce. It was so yummy!

All of us in front of the Valentine's day tree. Appropriate.

Just me and my Valentine!

Valentine's day is special to me for a lot of reasons. I don't actually care for roses and I don't like chocolate, but I do love LOVE! I love loving on people and relationships. I love hearing about lives and trials and triumphs. I love that my grandparents were married on Valentine's day and that my father proposed to my mom on Valentines day as well. I love that we have a reminder to tell those around us that we love them, not just our significan other. I love my kids, my family, my friends, and above all, my God.

Hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's day!!!

Catch-up

We have been so busy this past semester, there have been a few things that have fallen through the cracks on my blog. So here is a random post on things going on with my little family...


We celebrated Lucas's 1st birthday! We had a great time visiting with our friends. It isn't often that we can get all 8 of us together and in the month of January, we had at least 3 big group get togethers. It was great!

Here we all are!! (of couse Angie has moved down to Houston now...)

These pictures are for my mom and dad:

So, I found Riley sitting (hiding) over in this corner. It was an unusual place for her to be so I went in to investigate...

She was totally sneaking some of our left over Chik-fil-a! What a ham. She is just like her mommy when she was a little girl :)

Sam has been such a hoot here lately. He loves playing with swords, hats, and cars. Oh and he loves to dance to music!

We had another big even take place in the Bergren household... Riley gave herself a haircut!

I found a wad of hair in our bathroom but couldn't find any scissors. I searched everywhere and finally went to her bedroom to find this at the bottom of the stairs. I then discovered a little pair of scissors wraped up in her blanket, under her covers, up in her bunk bed...guilty conscience I think!

So the next day we headed to the salon to try and save what we could... We couldn't save much!

She was being so good. And of course this is where we talked about how we don't use scissors on anything but paper and only with an adult, all over again!

And, a new Emma Watson dew...

These are just a few of the things that we have been doing lately. There was a LOT more, but I was to busy to pick up my camera!

Sam I Am

The Grub...

Funky Fruit Skewers

Green Deviled Eggs and Ham Sandwiches

His "Hooray for Samuel" banner.

Dr. Seuss books were everywhere!

We even had some "Green Eggs" for people to leave birthday wishes for Sam!

My mom made some adorable "Red Fish Blue Fish" thank you bags!

Sure do love these ladies

The four of us.

Daddy, Sammy, and Mommy!

Ryner and Caiter!

Me and My Man

The Kid table :)

There were lots of fun things that were funny!

Sam sure did love his presents!

Riley came up to us about a week before the party and exclaimed "I want to get Sammy a present!" It was so sweet and thoughtful so we did. We went out and she picked something just for Sam all by herself. (Good choice too, a s

About a week before Sam's party, Riley came and told us that she wanted to buy Sammy a birthday present. With a request so simple and loving we couldn't refuse. So Riley picked out Sam's gift all by herself! (pretty good too. A set of airplanes) Sam loved him. I told him they were from Riley and then they hugged! So sweet!

Apparently, the guy table now :)

Sam was mesmorized by the flames...

Either that, or he was very thoughtful about what his wish would be.

Sam LOVED the cup cakes!

The back of his "Sam I Am" shirt. (on the front was a "2" and a wocket in his pocket)

Friends!

More presents

We were so excited that Corey and Patty could come!

I was so excited that GG and Aunt DD could come!

Honey and Preacher!

The Birthday Boy!

I can't believe that my Sammy boy is two years old! I was thinking back to his first birthday and about how much he has grown and changed.

We had a fabulous 2nd birthday party this past Saturday. We had a Dr. Seuss- Sam I am party. We had helium filled balloons, green eggs and ham, pink ink, cheese trees, red fish, blue fish, and so much more! The whole day was great. I just love getting to spend time with the people who I love most.

Sam, at two years old you are ALL BOY! You are either happy or sad, there really isn't any in between. You love to play with planes, cars, and trains and any type of ball. I wonder if you will love to play sports? You love to eat and you enjoy helping me with whatever I am doing. I think it is because you just want to be with me. You are a momma's boy but you really look forward to your "boy" time with daddy. (and so do I. Riley and I don't much care for the wrestling :) You are more and more like your daddy each day. You are almost exactly what I imagine Ryne being like as a baby. The funny thing is, daddy says the exact same thing!

We love you so much and look forward to many more years with you Sam Man!

Thank you to everyone who could come and celebrate Sam's life with us. We missed those of you who couldn't come!