“The essence of love is kindness.” Robert Louis Stevenson Our week leading up to Valentine’s was incredible. It really truly was. I felt like we had so many moments where I just felt like I was catching glimpses of heaven on earth. Glimpses of the kind of love that Robert Louis Stevenson is talking about …
“Let us make Christmas real. It isn’t just tinsel and ribbon, unless we have made it so in our lives. Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and …
Christmas is magical. I love the simple Christmas traditions that we have created as a family. Christmas Cookies We have spent hours all cozied up reading Christmas books by the tree and watching “White Christmas” bundled up on the couch. And the holidays wouldn’t be the same without some gingerbread cookies. We were able to …
Benjamin makes us laugh from sun up to sun down. The kid is hilarious and so good natured and we just love him to bits. Our little guy is really not-so-little anymore. I can definitely see him evolving to play with more of the “big kid” toys and activities. His desired to do them is …
Everything lately in the Berning house is “THE BEST ____ EVER!!!” {I guess that’s better than the alternative!} Halloween this year was declared “THE BEST HALLOWEEN EVER!” by Jacob and we had a great day. Halloween and the whole week leading up to it {see this post!} was so much fun. We sure love our …
Once we hit our final day of the trip {usually our travel day home}, I get super antsy to pick our trip for the following year! My favorite tradition lives on and we have picked our trip for 2020! AHHH! Also, is anyone else in complete denial that next year is 2020?! Holy smokes! How …
This week we have had the amazing opportunity to celebrate one of our favorite girls in the entire world – our sweet and saucy little Sarah! Sarah is one of a kind. She really is. Half the time we wonder where she came from because she is such a spit-fire! She definitely knows how to …
This handsome man of ours celebrated his 37th Birthday – WOOT! For his actual birthday we were traveling home from the Berning Family Reunion and then Mark pretty much immediately had to run off to work {lame} so we KNEW we had to do better than that! So a couple days later Mark had a …
This last weekend was the Berning Family Reunion and we had a blast! This year the reunion was down in North Ogden where Mark’s parents live. It was a weekend filled with fun and family! The reunion was short and relaxed but oh so much fun. People came when they could and we enjoyed every …
We are full of such optimism as we begin this new school year. I could hardly sleep the night before because I just couldn’t wait to see how it would all go! I love learning and I hope to instill that love into my children. Here’s to a new school year!