The Berthiaume's D-Day

Sorry, there haven't been very many posts of late. We have been busy! Man who knew so much went into moving almost half way around the world? I didn't...yep I can be naive...I know your shocked right? :) Well, there are a lot of things we'd like to do before we leave sunny CA, which our list is to long (and expensive) to actually conquer before we go, but we are going to do as much as we can. So this past week we went down to the Discovery museum in Santa Ana. It's pretty fun, we of course were like the oldest people trying out the exhibits :) But it doesn't take a lot of time so we decided hey we're like less then 10min away from Disneyland...so this is a picture story of our Discovery/Disney day...or D-day.

Alan air guitaring to Chicago (the band not the musical) Um...I love it. At least we entertain the other people on the free way, or we just scare them I'm not sure which :D

Alan is using his mad skills with "The Force". I know Jayden would appreciate this. Speaking of...this week I was watching some kids at church and we were talking about our favorite songs. All of them were typical little kids church songs, except for one...and oh Cari I knew your kids were cute, but Jayden took it up a notch. He was the last one to speak up about his favorite song but he was very excited to tell us that his favorite song is the Darth Vader melody. Yep and then proudly sang it for us, you know the Da Da Da Daaaaa. It was so cute.

Alan doing an impersonation of...a raptor I think?

Me inside of a big kaleidoscope that had tons of little fingerprints on it... pretty sweet :)

Alan and kiddo there apparently didn't get enough candy during Halloween.

We went into CA Adventures for only one ride, but it's the sweetest ride there...that's right Toy Story Mania. It might be Alan's new obsession. I like this pic, mickey mouse just got a whole lot cuter.

Apples to Apples

My mom, my sister, the Waters girls and I went apple picking in Tehatchapi this past wednesday afternoon. It was fun, more because of the company then the apples. We also stopped at "The Apple Shed" on the way home and got some fudge.

Pumpkin time...

Alan holding the chosen one

...pumpkin that is.

I love the rows upon rows of pumpkins at Lambardi's ranch.

A cow...for good measure

Yep...this batch is where we got our pumpkin

Instead of carving it I...well I don't what this is called. But it was fun and it should last longer because we didn't cut it open. There is an owl on one side and a typical pumpkin face on the other...but I like the owl.

Chi-Towm

We were in IL for 3 weeks for some international training...the midwest is definately a different culture :) We had a blast on our trip, we loved training and loved visiting our friend Alex in Chicago! He and his girlfriend Rochelle took us around all day and showed us the sites. It poured for most of the day, so Ididn't want to bring my camera, but I also wanted pictures so these are all from a disposable camera, that's why their quality is lacking. Our trip into Chicago was super fun...as you can see, I liked the bean.

This is The Bean...it's not really called that, but everyone does call it that...does that make sense? Oh well...it's a quirckly peice of "art" right buy millenium park.
This is the four of us from the left: me, Alan, Rochelle, and Alex. This is our reflection in the bean thingy.
This another quirky peice of "art". They have two cubes (I'm standing next to the other one) they can put different faces on them and it's like a video recording of the faces so they smile and wink. Sometime one face morphs into another one, they can also spit out water like that...
The magical mile (that's really what it's called). It's like the shopping district in down town, it has some good stores!

I think this is the sears tower up in those clouds, it was really rainy and cloudy so we didn't go up, we couldn't have seen anything.
They were having a Celtic festival, so we watched some of the festivities.
At the celtic festival we saw a Scottish strong man competetion, and lots of celtic things to buy, some bag pipers piping, and also a herding demonstration (see above) it was a sheep dog, with ducks...I know weird right. The dog still did a great job...not sure why they didn't just use real sheep but whatever, I am sure they have ducks in scotland.

She's here!!!

This is Emmie Kate Jackson and she's pretty much the most adorable baby ever! I cannot wait to meet her and give Rachel a big hug! She was born this morning at 9:24am and she is 7pounds and 24inches long. I love her already and am ready to meet her!!! Please be praying for the Jackson's as they bring her home and Rachel is recovering.

When boredom sets in...

When boredom sets in this is the result... I am living in Elgin IL for the next few weeks, with pretty much nothing within walking distance. So we have been going a little stir crazy. One evening I decided to go for a walk this is what I found...

Yay! Fall is coming! I really wish more of the leaves were turning colors.

This river really makes me want to go Kayaking

"But I will hope continually, and will praise You yet more and more. My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness and Your salvation all the day, for I do not know of their limits. I will go in the strength of the Lord God; I will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only."

Psalms 71:14-16

To infinaty and beyond...

Alan and I got to go to Disneyland this week for two days, it was wonderful! We have definate;y gotten use out of those season passes. We both got our highest scores ever on the Buzz Lightyear game of course he still kicked my butt. We rode on the new ride Toy Story Mania, I don't want to spoil it for you...but it was awesome! I didn't take any pictures while we were there. For some reason when it is SO hot outside I don't want to take many pictures, that and I'm still a tad bit bitter at our computer for going bersurk. Anywho, Disneyland was awesome! I highly recomend going while school is in session and during the weekdays! Today we walked onto Pirates of the Carribean...I know! Alan and I are off to chicago this Saturday, so maybe my next blog will from the windy city! Jeesh we can't get away from the wind!