The past 5 weeks!!!

I have been informed by many people that my last post was about 5 weeks ago so YAY I finally have another one done!!! The first couple pictures are of the belly and the rest are what has been happening in our lives for the past 5 weeks. Enjoy!!!

24 weeks

25 Weeks

My Cousin Tom Bakke and his wife Jonetta had a baby girl named Bergen. We were all fortunate to be able to meet her at Easter!! Mackenzie and Bergen Lanae, Mackenzie and Bergen Still Bergen, not mine yet!!! Brian and Bergen Brad and Barb came to visit us and see our new house this past week and I was very fortunate to have Brad's help making my very first garden. On the left you will see an old ladder that we made into a trellis.

This isn't actually the most updated picture of the garden, I will try to get that on the next post. This little guy is the newest addition to our family!! My moms horse Jessie (the mama) had her little baby the begining of April. We are still thinking of names so if anyone has any good suggestions let us know!!

Brian and I hope everyone is doing well. I hope you enjoyed the pictures and hopefully it is not another 5 weeks before the next post! Love you all!

The Past 4 Weeks!!!

The past 4 weeks have been pretty eventful. Below are a few pics of the belly, our trip to Big Sky Montana and my nephew Rylan's 5th Birthday Party which he really wanted it to be a pirate party so we all did our best to dress the part :)

17 Weeks

19 Weeks

20 Weeks (taken today )

Our trip to Big Sky was alot of fun, good weather and good skiing (so I heard, I didn't ski this year)!! In this pic we are at a restaurant on the mountain called The Cabin, we all met there for lunch after a few runs!!

The Skiers and Boarders!!!

One of the days there was a momma and baby moose that came right to our front door step!!

Rylan's 5th Birthday Party

ARRRRRRR :)

Hope you enjoyed all the pics!! I will post more later about the house it is really coming along nicely!!

BIG NEWS!!!!

HOLY COW it has been a really long time since our last blog update and so much has happened. I will try give you the short version. The end of September Brian and I moved back to Grand Forks, ND and just before Christmas we found out that I am PREGNANT!! YEAH we are super excited! I am due August 26th!! About 4 weeks ago we bought a house in Grand Forks and we are starting another remodel project in hopes to move in some time in May before the baby arrives. Here are some pictures to document these new big strides in our life. ENJOY!!! I am going to try to be good about documenting my belly so stay tuned for the growing of little baby Bergner.

I am 12 weeks along in this picture. Not much to see yet. I started feeling the baby move at 13 weeks which I hear is really early. Yikes I hope I don't have a huge baby :)

I am 15 weeks in this picture

Well we are heavy into the demo of our remodel, well I guess I shouldn't say we as I am not allowed in the house during construction. We are tearing out our kitchen, new flooring, paint, doors and trim and of course Brian is doing about 90% of the work so he has his work cut out for him, but I think he likes it that way.

This is currently the state of our kitchen and dining room, Yikes we have alot of work to do :) Along with a baby pool we should start a house pool and see who thinks we will have it all done before the baby gets here. HAHA! Well lets hope we do :)

Brian and I had a nice Valentines Day together, he made me a new Thai dish and bought me roses!!!

And I made him his own chocolate cake!!

And of course bought him a few little gifts from me and the baby since he had been so good to me making me breakfast in bed every morning for about 6 weeks as I was so sick with morning sickness I couldn't even get out of bed without eating something.

Oh and we are not going to find out the gender of the baby so I bought one of each :)

Voilà!

Well, we met our goal of finishing our remodel before my parents came to visit at the end of April! We're still waiting on some trim and new interior doors, but everything is functional. We got new carpet in a few weeks ago so our house now actually feels like a home, not just a construction site! Everything turned out great, we're really happy with everything. We started the whole project last October so we're happy to be mostly done and enjoy our new space. We will soon have all of our pictures from the remodel, start to finish, on our picture website which is linked at the top right of this page.

We had a great time with my parents for a week at the end of April. Unfortunately the weather wasn't very cooperative, but it didn't rain much, just cloudy, so we can't complain too much. We had a great time down at Pike Place Market, we took a trip to Snoqualmie Falls for a GREAT breakfast, had some fun at home grilling out and they were able to see a lot of their old friends. It was a lot of fun having them out to visit! We have a few more pictures of their visit on our picture website as well.

Catching Up

Whoa time has flown by. I've been meaning to get a new post up for the last couple months now but never seemed to find the time. We went to Burnsville for Christmas this year and had a lot of fun. Katie and Renee and their families were all home, it was great to see everyone! We were also able to spent a few days in Grand Forks with Katie's family. Not too long after we got back Katie and I had our 1 year wedding anniversary. We're going to be doing a lot of traveling this year, so we decided to stay close to home. We spend the afternoon and night in a nice hotel downtown and went out for a nice dinner. It was great to get away from working on the house for a bit and truly relax! We lucked out with the weather and the sun graced us with its presence for the afternoon. The house is coming along great. We have begun remodeling the master bathroom and closet. We pretty much gutted it completely, took out the inside walls and re-framed a new wall and a new doorway. We put a schedule together to make sure we kept track of everything and so far we're two weeks ahead of schedule! We hope to be done by mid-April. Here are some pictures from the last couple months.

Mt. Rainier from our hotel room

A view of the sound, again from the hotel room. The sun was so nice!

Ripping apart the bathroom

Here's the new door to the bathroom. Katie and I had a fun evening putting together the new closet wall

Finished pocket door

New bathroom all framed in. The sinks will be on the left just this side of the small wall. The shower is just beyond the small wall, and the toilet will be in the far right corner.