Our Underwater Adventure

These adventurers, upon being displaced from their home for the day, set out to find some new land worthy of exploration. The Mall of America was chosen even though that land has been covered many, many times - mainly due to its proximity to home and easy access to bathrooms and eating establishments. Yet, there was one MOA destination yet to be traversed by the Berge fam: Underwater Adventures Aquarium. The littlest explorer learned how to say "Wow," and did so many times. It was great! Thankfully, the voyagers returned home safely and are resting up since who knows what tomorrow may bring?

Lay Your Burdens Down

In light of a not-so-terrific ending to the Vikings season, I'm still chalking this weekend up to a great one. A Saturday afternoon house showing and Sunday night football game gave us two excuses to hang out with good friends.

Saturday was dedicated to honing our marching band skills. Here's T-bird after his first drumming lesson and demonstration by big T.

Here is big T and T-bird along their parade route from the bedroom to the family room.

Post parade jam session

Sunday night cheering on the Vikings

Sweet Z

T-bird and Z taking a beverage break

Is it past our bedtime? Nah.

Reason to Shout Hurray!

Many good things come in 1 and a half, and usually for me it is dessert helpings. Today it is T's age. Here's our buddy having a great New Year's Day.

He loves stacking blocks.

Watch out for the Lion!

We love having you in our lives, T-bird.

Last Nosh of 2009

New Year's Eve was pretty quiet at our house.

John and I combined our meal requests into one great dinner - steak and "fun"due!

For dessert, I made a lovely sour cream lemon cake with blueberries on the side.

A certain someone loves blueberries and learned how to slurp the remaining juice from a certain Grandpa . . .

Happy New Year, everyone!