An Evening visitor!

We had our usual Monday evening going, we had just finished dinner, and one of the Katseanes boys knocked on the door and said there was a moose in our neighbors yard down the road. So of course we grabbed the camera and off we ran to get a look. It was just meandering down everyone's back yard and munching on bushes and then it would go into the next yard. It's walking over the fence on it's way to our yard...

It made it into our yard and was shy at first... see it peeking around our shed?


It kind of blends in with the tree... but it's there eating leaves off of our poplar tree...


Then it decided to move down to our other poplar tree... Tyson Katseanes took my camera and snuck under the willow tree to get closer pics....



It was going to go over to the neighbor's house to the right of us... and then decided to stay in our yard... and back to our poplar tree. Must have like the leaves.




it was getting quite dark... we had the flash on but zooming in with the lense only made it so the flash made the moose's eye's glow!! It looks possessed!! hahaha

This is the poplar tree it ate. When it got full, it turned and stepped over our back fence and into the potato field. And just wandered off.

Wonder where he/she went?? and where it came from?

Random things I love about summer!

I was sitting out on the deck the other day and thinking... so I thought of 7 random things I love about summer...
1. I love the longer days. I love sunshine and no matter what I'm doing if the sun is shining, I'm in a better mood.
2. Clear warm summer nights. I love to sit out on the deck and enjoy the peace of the evening when it's barely dark and the star are just coming out. You can hear crickets, frogs, birds... and quiet. The other night me, Andrew, Sarah and Dave were sitting out there enjoying a night just like that. The moon was one of those slivers where it looks like a cheshire cat smile, and there were two stars right at the right spot to look like eyes... so I said "Look! Heaven is smiling upon us" and kind of rolled my hand into a point so the kids would look... and I got laughed at. Now I get teased all the time about heaven smiling upon us.... but it was and is. :o)
3. I love family BBQ's! The 4th of July was the funnest yet!! I love having family over and cooking for people, whether it's just my immediate family or all my brothers and sisters enjoying each others company and getting to know all there kids... fun! I guess I love to make people happy, and I love cooking for them and have them enjoy it, and sit around and visit and just be together.
4. I love growing a garden. I love the fact that you put a little hard seed in the dirt, water it and with the sunshine it grows into food. I love the miraculousness of it all.(is that a word? Well, it is for me) I don't mind weeding, or the harvesting or the canning, cuz I enjoy eating it all winter long. It gives me time to think while I'm out weeding and I love feeling the sun shining on my back...
5. I love to watch the birds in my back yard. Just sitting out on my deck all kinds of birds flutter around looking for worms. I saw 3 robins fighting over a worm the other day. And I've noticed all kinds of colored birds other than robins around. I like the little kill deer birds that run fast when you drive by and they are by the road. I like to listen to the birds sing. I will be sad when they fly south for the winter.
6. I love my flowers that I've planted and my rose bushes. I love the way they smell, and when new little rosebuds are just about to open or have opened just slightly, that's how I like them best. Not sure which is my favorite color of flower...love them all.
7. I love mowing the lawn... Beats housework! I love the smell of fresh mown grass! And then you put the sprinkler on it and it smells even better. I love to sit and look and my yard... can't imagine being anywhere else. I love to walk barefoot through the grass (which explains my ugly feet) but you can't wear shoes all the time in the summer.
Isn't summer time the best?? I'd way rather be too hot than too cold. You can sit and feel hot and eat popsicles and watermelon, and ice cold lemonade, but when you're cold it's almost painful. At least it is for me.
And those are my few random thought's of summer......

Random silliness over the Holiday weekend!

Well, Jim and I finally found a cute patio set that we liked. It was half price at Walmart! Wee Hoo! I love it when you find the perfect thing and it's on sale. We got it Friday, but kept it in the box until after our big family BBQ, didn't want things spilled on it, plus it would have been in the way.
So Sunday we got it out and set up! Love it! But we had this huge box, so we thought we'd take it down to Mom and Dad's incase someone needed a huge box (grandkids could use it for a Fort) It was really windy, and Jim said he needed one of us to ride in it so it wouldn't blow out of the truck....Well, guess who got to be in it! Me!!

I was having a hard time getting into the box because with my short legs, I was scared of becoming high centered on the edge of the box!!



I finally made it in!! Woo hooo!!!

ok, for anyone who watches "Sponge Bob", remember the episode with the imagination box, where Bob and Patrick are in the box and Squidward is listening and it's sounding like they are having soooo much fun in just a plain old box?

Well, that's what I felt like, like I was in an imagination box, on an adventure on the high seas..... or something! hahaha


Well, after all that, here is my lovely patio set!!


On Monday, we all decided to go to the movies! Jim, Virginia, and Andy went to "Knight and Day" with Tom Cruise. They loved it! Sarah and I went to "Eclipse" of course!! And we went an hour early because we were scared of long lines, and not getting our favorite center seat on the row that has the wall you can put your feet on.

Well, we were way early, no one had shown up yet, so we went to the car and read a new book I had just bought for Sarah for a half an hour. Then we thought we'd better go in for sure! So we lined up! We were the first in line!! Sarah had to go to the restroom so I stood in line by myself for a few minutes. It was such a windy day,whenever someone opened the door the wind would rush in and blow the ends of the vest I had on up and mess my hair! (I felt a little like Marilyn Monroe!!) Then Sarah joined me! We were the first in line and almost the last... only two more people joined us! Then they let us in the theater!

While we were out in the lobby trying to decide whether to stand in line or not, we saw the gum and prize machines... we were gonna get fake tattoos... and then we spotted the fake mustache machine!! woo hooo! We thought that would pass the time for sure....

And it did!!

We got the giggles..... and I couldn't get mine to stick.... and then we traded!!

Then it was time for the movie!! woo hooo! We loved it! It was the best one yet out of the Twilight saga!! Both Sarah and I decided we were "Team Edward" in this one!! Woo hoo! I want to go see it again!

A little bit of heaven on Earth

This weekend was the annual Bergeson 4th of July BBQ. We were going to have it Saturday afternoon. All week the weather report said the weather was to be sunny and mild with slight breezes. So we thought all would be good.
Jim's mom, Virginia, came Thursday evening. We got pizza and had a good visit. On Friday I got off work early and got the rest of my groceries and went home and got the salads all ready and the ribs in their foil packets and the chicken marinating. I'd been praying that the weather would hold out. It was beautiful Friday night.
Saturday morning came and so did the wind, and chilly weather. Oh NO!!! Well, I thought to myself, I'd been praying silently so now Jim and I needed to kneel in prayer and ask that the weather would be nice enough that our family could enjoy themselves at our party and all would be well.
We went on with the preparations of setting up tables and getting the last minute food preparations done. It was close to noon and the wind was still blowing and it was chilly, so we put the tables closer to the house, so it would be a little bit of a wind break and the sun would keep us warm.
Then when all was ready, and we had about an hour to wait for guests to start arriving we took a little break to wait....

Jim and his mom, Virginia

Andrew


and the wind died down, and it was in the mid seventies!! Our prayers were answered ... don't you love that Heavenly Father loves us and knows the desires of our hearts and answers are prayers?? It was the only calm afternoon of the whole 4th of July weekend!!! I'm so thankful, and as I sit and watch how windy it is right now... I am still impressed by the power of prayer, faith and a loving Heavenly Father.



Our guests started to arrive, and kept coming!! All in all I think we had 75 of my relatives there. We were only missing my sisters, Jan and Juli and their families. Brian had to work but his family was there. Brick wasn't there of Kim's family, and Jon and Casey were missing from Gary and Carols' family, and Eli from Nancy's but everyone else was there!! How awesome is that! We had lots of good salads, and we had plenty of ribs and chicken and even had leftovers.

me starting to cook!


This is: Chloe, Aunt Ruth, Aunt Jeanne, Uncle Jerry, Michael, Andrea, and Clate


Nathan, Dee, Linda (my sis), Charlotte, Jessie, Luther


Dad, MaKella, Jennifer, Jordan, Kylie, Dillon, Nancy(my sis), and Jeff


Courtney, Ty, Tyson, Marilyn (my sis), Jason w/Sophia



Jared, Angela, Kim (my brother), Jill, Adam, and Jessica


Dave(Alison's), Natalie, Alison, Emily, Evan w/ Lincoln


Macy, Pam, I think Rob??, Ashley, and Randon


Me, cooking, assited by Jim, and his mom, Virginia

Everyone brought yummy cookies and brownies and ice cream!! and we also had lots of fruit too!! As you can tell, we didnt' lack on the food part of the party.

Below: lots of little guys, at least the ones that would hold still for a picture!


Below is Gary,and Marilyn (not sure what they were looking at)


Below: Sarah and Dave in the middle of a deep conversation


This is my Uncle Jerry talking to Jim, with Nancy in the background, and me cooking


a nice pic of Andrew


a cute pic of Sarah and Dave holding Jill's baby, Whitney



Marilyn brought lots of jumpropes, and balls, and frisbees for the kids to play with. Kim had his croquet set and another fun game with balls on a rope that you throw at posts. I had bubbles with a giant pack of wands, and markers to color on the table covers with, and some of my craft paints for face painting!!

Kella enjoying a jumprope


Chloe blowing bubbles


Brenner with evidence he enjoyed the strawberries and cherries


Kyle with my frisbee

it was a blast. All the kids seemed to have a ball, running and playing. And a few even climbed my tree, even my sister Marilyn, (she had climbed to get the kids out of it, and thought it was quite fun and kept going clear to the top!!


I was sad when it had to end! We clean everything up and then Jim, me, Andy and Virginia wrapped up in blankets and enjoyed watching the Jensen grove fireworks from home.
Andy did have one last California candle left over from last year that he lit...



All in all it was a good day! and the next day the wind was blowing all day long!!
I love my family.... and it was a little bit of heaven on Earth with them all in my back yard!
I had soooo many cute pics it was hard to decide which to post!