The family grows

Everyone wants a good look at Josiah! The first time having supper as a family of six.

Josiah comes home

Mommy is home!

Josiah is home too!

Checking out his new "Moses" basket. Seems pretty good to Josiah.

My first look at...

Josiah Adam Berge
Will he always be this sweet?? I think so.

Update

Our 6th grandchild has arrived. His name is Josiah Adam Berge, he was born at 8:59 p.m. Central time. He is 6 lbs 12 oz. and is 20 1/2 inches long. Blond hair. Happy parents. Happy grandparents.

I can't wait to see him!

Grandbaby on the way...

Sorry, no pictures with this post since the subject of the post has yet to appear for a photo -op!
Andrea is in the hospital, Adam encouragingly by her side. Today seems to be the big day for Baby Berge to join the rest of the active Berge family! I am heading to Wisconsin to be a good grandma to Timothy, Luke and Hannah while mom and dad have other things on their minds! For further updates check www.fiveberges.blogspot.com (Though it will soon be 6 Berge's in that household!)

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Sailing the Apostle Islands

It is hard to capture the experience of being on a 36 foot sailboat moving across Lake Superior around the Apostle Islands. It is quite a rush! Here is an attempt to show what it was like! Amazing.

Rodeo fun!

Tonight was the Third Annual PRCA Rodeo at the state-of-the-art Red Horse Ranch Arena here in Fergus Falls. It is a great family activity!

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What's hiding in the garden?

Here's some of our garden produce - but upon further investigation, what else is in grandma's garden? Brooklyn and I went out to check and we found....

Look carefully..... a watermelon is growing!!


And some cantaloupe is ripening....

What's orange under those big leaves, grandma? A pumpkin for halloween!

More zucchini... anyone need zucchini??

And grandpa!! Look, there are carrots in your garden!!

Chokecherry time!

Being a New Jersey gal, I didn't grow up with chokecherries. This marvelous little dark berry, often overlooked, produces the most wonderful syrup for waffles, pancakes, etc. Of course, by itself it is fairly.... chokey.... but add lots of sugar and viola! This fabulous syrup is highly esteemed in the Berge household!! How do you like my homemade label?
Here is the result of our efforts. Wally and I did the picking last Saturday and though I am not too fond of the canning process (I would much rather bake than can anything!!) here stands the proud jars, completed today! 12 quarts (and two pints) from the 2007 harvest. Yippee!!

Wally climbs the wall

Family Camp is terrific!

We enjoyed attending family camp at Inspiration Point Bible camp from Thursday evening until Sunday noon. Along with Wally and me were Daniel, Meghan and the children and Meghan's family including her Aunt Sherri & Paul and their family and Aunt Rita. Here is the main building at camp and the way many spent the warm sunny afternoon!

Brooklyn, Julia and Aunt Rita enjoy the lake!

Preston thought the sand was fun - but it didn't taste as good as it looked...

Also enjoying the lake were Wally & Lynn (Meghan's dad) on the red sailboat and Daniel on the sailboard in the center of the picture. The sailboard to the right is either Meghan's brother Patrick or her cousin Andrew.

I decided I had to try the climbing wall! I wasn't quite as good was Wally or Rae (Meghan's mom) , but at least I did it!!

Julia (in pink) and Brooklyn (in light blue) enjoyed the playground equipment.

The food at camp was outstanding. It was so great to be together and have someone else do all the cooking! We must do this every year!

Daniel and Meghan and Brooklyn and Preston pause for a picture before we all head home.

Another favorite picture

Here is one more picture I had to post today. Preston enjoys playing with this little Fisher-Price drum that had once been played with by his Daddy and his Uncles. In fact, I have most of the wonderful Fisher-Price toys we had from their era! Am I ever glad I saved them now!

The toddlers are off and running.....

There are two young ones in our mix - soon to be replaced by another two young ones (August and December). Miss Hannah is off and walking and pretty pleased with her new found freedom!
Preston, the youngest member of the Berge grandchildren (soon to change in a few weeks...) is oh-so-close to walking by himself. He is willing to take steps between people but hasn't quite mustered up the courage to try it without those willing hands waiting for him...

Girls and Boys.......

Here is a sweet picture of our two grand daughters, Brooklyn and Hannah - slightly outnumbered right now by the boys.....
And here are the two oldest grandsons having fun with Uncle Daniel! Boys are soo different then girls!!

Welcome Home Troops!!

On Sunday in Fergus Falls some of our troops arrived safely home after serving our country in Iraq. It was definitely special for many families and as a town. We were encouraged to show our support for these men and women by lining the route that the bus would be driving as it went to our local high school for them to join their families. Here I am on the main street of our town with my friend JoAnn. Our hubbies waved the flags that are laying on our chairs while JoAnn and I held this huge flag. (This flag was presented to my Aunt at the burial of my Uncle Stan, who served in the Aleutian Islands during World War II). When the bus carrying our soldiers drove down the main street there were many many people welcoming them. Preceeding the bus were lots of squad cars with their lights flashing the sirens blaring. It was wonderful and very very emotional. Also note the yellow bow on the tree to the right. There were yellow ribbons tied all over town to welcome them home.

Happy Birthday brother John

Happy Birthday today to my brother John. It was a great time vacationing together, thank you for that. I hope today is a good day for you. Saddle up Jake and go for a good trail ride!

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Montana moutain views

I am still working through the beautiful pictures from our vacation - I could post so many but thought I should be prudent and restrain myself - else you may not want to visit this blog! As you can tell, I have now learned how to post a slide show (dangerous knowledge!!) and even a little video from my camera (wasn't that special?? I had just learned that feature on my camera that day!) At any rate, here are two more pictures from Montana - I wanted to see what happened when I choose the "large" size for posting pictures.

This lake view was from the highway that goes over the Beartooth mountains taking us from Red Lodge, Montana towards Yellowstone Park in Wyoming. Stunning.