35 Years & The Best is Yet to Come!

My parents are celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary today. Growing up I can always remember my parents loving one another. I can remember while I was in high school...my parents flirted in the kitchen and enjoyed showing affection towards one another. I was weirded out then, but am very grateful now for the example of true love and companionship. Looking back that affection brought comfort to me, knowing that they loved one another. I know how lucky I am to have had such a great example of true love and devotion. No matter what they were having to conquer at the time (school, work, raising 5 kids, house burning down, etc.) my parents have battled together. Now that I am a parent and raising my own children and trying to be my best, I recognize what an extraordinary task that was and is.
I am grateful for loving parents and their example, they are truly a strength for me on my hardest days. I hope that in 35 years I can say that my sons/daughter served honorable missions, all of my children have graduated from college and gone on to further their educations, been married in the House of the Lord & are raising their own families in righteousness. I am smart enough to know that without my parents efforts not only to themselves, but our family I would not be who and where I am today and I am grateful.

Congratulations Mom & Dad!

From here until Eternity!

Gingerbread Fun...

Over the past few weeks we have been enjoying a few Christmas projects!
We started with decorating our very own Gingerbread Men/Women.
After we decorated our little people we enjoyed taking a bite!

Last night the kids decorated our gingerbread house. Alex was in charge of the gingerbread men, Addison took care of the tree and Adam worked on the majority of the house. Addison helped out once her trees were done. The house is great and is now being displayed on our bookcase high above little fingers :)

Look at Me Grow

Amelia is 11 months today!! She is standing alone now and starting to take steps. She is very leery, but she really wants to keep up with her siblings. She is starting to find her voice which unfortunately is a loud screech. We are hoping that in the end she finds a quieter one :) Amelia is very happy & full of life. Every time she hears music she dances. We have attached a video so that you can enjoy her dancing as much as we do :)

Church Christmas Party

We kicked off the Christmas season with a party at church! The theme was Christmas Movies. Families were paired to tables that were decorated and centered around a movie. We sat at the table of It's a Wonderful Life. We enjoyed a wonderful meal and entertainment. Clips of each of the movies were shown and carols were sung. At the end of the night the children were visited by Santa. Alex didn't make it to the end of the evening (he fell asleep), but he enjoyed dressing up as Santa at home!! Later that week Alex saw Santa at the mall & his hospital. Santa was in a firetruck which Alex LOVED!!!

Thanksgiving 2010

We were very excited to have Uncle Jared, Grandma Greg & Nanee visit for Thanksgiving.

A full & happy bunch of Berniger's!! Nanee & Uncle Jared took Addison & Adam to Tangled in 3-D. Addison came home singing and announcing that she wanted long hair like the movie!!

Amelia loved her first Thanksgiving meal! She started with her own plate and then moved onto the leftovers sitting next to her!!

Grandma's & Grandpa's Visit

Grandma & Grandpa slipped into town late November 10th. When the kids woke up the next morning they were so excited to have Grandpa & Grandma visiting. We had such a wonderful time during our visit. Grandma & Grandpa took the kids to see Mega Mind. Addison & Adam were instant fans!! The Zoo was a fun day, were were able to visit the koala bears that had just arrived here in Phoenix.
Adam joined the chess club at school and since Grandpa was visiting Adam got to play chess with his Grandpa. He loved that and is still talking about the game!
Most of all we just enjoyed having Grandpa & Grandma around to play/visit with.

Sunday Best

I promised a picture of Amelia's new smile! If you click on the picture above you get a great view of her new teeth :) Amelia is continuing to make get strides each day. She is crawling throughout the house and is standing up and cruising around the family room along the furniture. She loves playing outside with the kids and feeding herself. She has had enough baby food...she is ready to do it herself :) She truly is a joy and makes us smile everyday!