Ice skating+ bruise= Success

So a little update on the Bergs
- 40 days until we leave for Europe (yes we are counting down)
-37 days until we graduate from College!!!!!!
- 3 weeks left of student teaching
-2 day until our 1 year anniversary :)
Besides that there is not much else to update you on. I am still busy with student teaching, but still loving it. We ended our trimester this week and I kind of teared up after all the students left. They were a lot of fun and I really grew to love them. Referring to all the uproar from the education bill being passed in Idaho my cooperating teacher stated that teachers will keep taking pay cuts and being treated badly for one reason, they love the kids. This has become very evident in my short teaching experience. Kevin is also still busy with school and getting senioritis as our graduation draws near.

Last weekend I forced Kevin to go ice skating with me. Yes I said forced. He always joked about how bad he was and how much he does not like it. Well at least I thought it was a joke until we actually went ice skating, and he was truly nervous. However, he picked it up fast and turned out to not be to bad of a skater as long as I held his hand (which I did not mind). In the end we had one crash. Lucky for me I landed on top of Kevin so I had a cushion... well except for my knee which took the blunt of the fall. I thought for sure I had hurt Kevin, but he jumped right up and said that popped my back and it felt good. So even after the crash I would consider Ice skating a success (I mean anything with a battle wound is a success right?) Now to get Kevin to go ice skating again might not be as successful.

The End of Life as We Know it

So we officially bought our tickets to Germany. We will be spending 66 days in europe. 2 weeks in Italy, a week in Paris and Spain, and the rest of the time with family in Germany. WOW. CRAZY. WEIRD. EXCITING. A DREAM. I remember when I was out there before I would dream about one day taking my husband over there and showing him all the beautiful sights I had seen. Now it is here.

Next week will be midterms for student teaching. I LOVE IT. They say teaching is in your blood so I guess I got teaching blood running through me. My classes have been

A lot of fun.
Lots of work.
Lots of laughs.
Lots of stress.
Lots of reexplaining assignments.
Lots of shhhhh's.
Lots or warnings.
Lots of sore throats.
Lots of extra help.
But lots of fun.

So far my cooperating teacher has been a lot of help and very nice, praising me in all that I do with the kids. And the Students of course have made the whole thing a lot of fun. I think they are finally catching on to my sarcasm. Students: "Can we make number 3 and 4 on the quiz a bonus" "No lets make number 4 and 5 a bonus" "No 2 and 3 a bonus". Me: "Actually lets make the whole quiz a bonus while we are at it". Students: "Really"? Me: "No not really".

While I spend my days planning lesson plans Kevin has been plugging away at homework (he has a tough schedule this semester), or planning our trip to Europe. Planning seems to be his favorite past time. Now if we can only agree on what we want to do in Spain.

AND... if we both have free time it is usually spent eating or playing tank on the wii play. We discovered it at Christmas and have been addicted ever since. We passed it twice now though so pretty soon it will get boring.

Tomorrow Feb. 5 me and Kevin will have been married 11 months. Which is only one month short of a year. Where has time gone? We extended our housing contract one extra month and then will move out the end of March. Where are we going? I wish I knew. Probably to live with the parents for 12 days until we leave to Europe, and then when we get back... Well we don't know that much yet.

What we do know however is we are coming up on the The End of Life as We Know it. Soon we will be college graduates so no more homework. Soon we will be moving, so no more Cougar Court. Soon we will be married one year, so no more newly wed title. Soon we will have to grow up, so no more unemployment.

Nonetheless we did it once we can do it again. We jumped into marriage which was a big End to the life that we knew. Now we will jump into adulthood TOGETHER and i wouldn't want it any other way.

A Quick Glance at Christmas

This year I spent my first Christmas away from home. Although I missed my family A LOT I still had a GREAT Christmas. So here is a quick glance at our Christmas with the Berg Family. (And thank you Jen and Shelby for the pictures that you took and I stole from the computer)













Thanks Pat and Stacey for a wonderful Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a Happy Halloween

Where to begin?
I do not know.
Where have we been?
School, school, school, school, school, work, school, school, library, school, library.
What have we been up to?
Homework and the following...
Did we survive?
Barely.
Are we excited to be done with school?
YES!!!!

Well here is a quick update on the last couple months of our life. Halloween weekend Kevin's old roommate Jim and his wife Lauren came down for a visit and stayed at our place. It was lots of fun. Friday night we went to our ward party and then to the haunted mill (insert girly screams here from Kevin) and then saturday we hung out and relaxed, went to big Juds, and watched some football. I was lazy and did not get any pictures of me and Kevin in our Halloween costumes but I keep telling him I am going to make him dress up again (Kevin doesn't like dressing up) so we can get pictures. But until that happens you will have to settle for pictures of the Boys at Big Juds and a few of our halloween decorations. Overall it was a quick fun weekend and we really enjoyed having Jim and Lauren up for a visit.




The next weekend Kevin and I celebrated our 9 month anniversary at a Colin Raye concert. He was very good and we both really enjoyed it.



Next was Kevins Birthday. I think i was more excited for Kevins Birthday then he was. According to him birthdays were never big deals but to me they are. I try to make it a good day, but considering I came down with a nasty cold that day it was not as good as i had hoped. My mother was nice enough to step in and make him dinner and I baked a couple cakes. One for our family to eat and one for his face. A couple days later we had a friend birthday party for him where he was lucky enough to get another cake in the face.










One weekend my sister Becca and her husband went to Utah and left there 3 children with my parents. We decided we would rescue them for a day and took the kids out to lunch and bowling. They were very cute and like I have said before great birth control.







Thanksgiving was mixed in this time somewhere. We had the whole week off of school however it did not feel like it because we did homework the whole time. The 20 credits were really starting to catch up to me and I had a lot to do if I was going to survive finals. Thanksgiving day was good though. We had dinner at my Uncle Bens and then played games with my family. We also got ourselves a Christmas tree and a few decorations that week and prepared our house for Christmas. I thought it turned out really cute.






Well that is what we have been up to, hope you enjoyed and thanks for your patience :)

P.S I got my student teaching placement. I will be teaching Junior and Senior English at Madison High School. I am very excited and a little nervous. I hope the students don't find out I am from Rigby. We are rivals in case you did not know.

Crawling to the finish line

Yes, we are still alive. However life has taken over and I have had no time to update the blog. We officially have 2 weeks of school left and 3 days of finals. FINALLY! This has been a busy semester and it seems like we are just trying to crawl to the finish line. So once this school race ends I will update on our life. Thanks for the patience :)

Halloween Fun

Just some Halloween fun!

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You are the one I never knew I always wanted

I had one of those moments today. A moment where I could clearly see God's hand in my life.

I woke up grumpy as always, threw on my sweatshirt to keep me warm and headed to the bathroom to get ready. Kevin was already bouncing around the house. Happily he exclaimed to me that he felt like he had woke up every hour last night, and was not quite sure why he was so awake. As he danced around the kitchen singing the "return of the quack" I remembered once again why i married Kevin Thomas Berg. It's true what they say about "opposites attracting". I never would have pictured myself marrying someone who was so opposite of me. I mean Kevin is a morning person, I am a night. Kevin is clean i am messy. Kevin likes to have a plan, and i don't know what i will be doing in 10 minutes. But i am thankful for it everyday. Because where i slack Kevin makes up, and where Kevin slacks i make up. What makes me grumpy usually doesn't make Kevin grumpy so he is always able to crack a joke or do something stupid to cheer me up again. When i do not want to fold the laundry or do the dishes Kevin is always there to jump in and do it. Or when Kevin is stressed about his plan I can jump in there and make him do something spontaneous. It was his goofy, childish, friendly, caring side that i fell in love with and it is his humble, sensible, tidy side that not only keeps this family strong but that i have also grown to admire and love.

Kevin truly is the one "i never knew i always wanted" and i must add "and needed". Luckily someone else knew i needed him and his stability in my life and intervened. I am so grateful for these moments of reassurance and peace in my life.

RIP Ol' Blue

Ol' Blue died September 15, 2010 at family dollar due to natural causes. Ol' Blue lived a good life. He was born in 1994 in a honda manufacturing company where soon after he was sent to the US. Little is known about his childhood. In 2006 Katelyn Berg became the proud driver of Ol' Blue and enjoyed every minute she had with her. Her black hood will always be a horrible reminder of her first crash, the dent in the door will always bring back happy memories of Crystal trying to do a backflip off of Ol' Blue. And of course you cannot forget the dent in the drivers bumper where Daddy hit a deer. Ol' blue put up a good fight. Ol' Blue is survived by Katelyn & Kevin Berg (the drivers) and Verl & Jan Dial (the owners). Funeral services will be held whenever the demolition derby is (we don't know that yet) because the guy who was supposed to bury her bought her for $50 to use in a demolition derby. Ol' blue will always be remembered as a stubborn car who only started when she wanted too and died if you left the lights on for more then 5 minutes. Ol' Blue will truly be missed!

Yes, the rumors are true Ol' blue officially died. However Verl & Jan her owners were glad to replace her with this beauty.












It is a 2005 Chevy Malibu and so far has been great (besides the panic going off a few times on us). It is really nice to finally have a reliable car in which i do not have to drive at night with my brights on. Yay!

A few more adventures

Before school started Kevin and I were able to squeeze in a few more adventures. These adventures consisted of Mesa Falls, Jackson hole, and Utah. My father won some tickets to Bar T 5 in Jackson and due to his recent surgery was not able to go... so me and Kevin gladly volunteered to take them. It was a BLAST! They took us on covered wagon rides up to a little stage where we were fed a yummy dutch oven dinner which was followed by a show. When Kevin went back for seconds the main guy asked him if i would be willing to volunteer for the show. Kevin gladly volunteered me. The guy told him to keep it a secret. A little background information to the video is the mountain man was trying to get me to run away with him. He is trying to sweep me off my feet with an amazing song ha Enjoy!



































































We also went to Utah and spent a day at Seven Peaks with Jim and Lauren. It was also a lot of fun! I have never been to a water park so it was a whole new adventure to me. I survived the wedgies and only ended up with a bumped up knee so overall it was a complete success. And luckily when our sleeping arrangements fell through Jim and Lauren let us crash on their floor. I forgot to take pictures while we there :(

The next weekend consisted of another trip to Utah so that i could meet my brother in-law Scott. Yes, i said meet my brother in-law. He is in med school and was not able to make it to the wedding and until now we have not had a chance to meet up. Before we went to Utah again we stopped by the Eastern Idaho State Fair. I took Kevin on our first date their last year. We indulged in all the yummy fair food and enjoyed the people watching for a couple hours. Utah was very entertaining thanks to Scott. I can see now why they saved him for last... just kidding. It was lots of fun and consisted of lots of football. Luckily the ducks won or i would have had to deal with 3 grumpy men. Once again i forgot to take pictures.

I do have a few pictures of our drive up to mesa though so feel free to enjoy them.