The Berg Family

These sweet kittens love being near each other. Well, Snow Baby doesn't mind anything, but Mousey loves being with Snow.

Paul decided to start getting the exterior siding off, so soon we could change out the windows.

Sweet Pumpkin and Paul both fell asleep snuggling.

We had all the siding delivered for the Healing Hut.

Sweet Mousey loves a Hawken cuddle.

Sweet Swishy boy got a UTI and needed some bloodwork to make sure that's all it was. Thank goodness it was. He doesn't really love going to the vet. But they were super sweet with him.

Pokemon night at Crow's Nest. Always fun for the boys.

My dad died in 2021, and every year on the anniversary of that day I try to do something that makes me happy. I painted these big canvases, and stayed up late doing it. I watched some musicals he liked, and thought lots about him. I think it does get easier over time to accept that he's gone, but I still miss him tons. I hung them in the dining room behind the table.

Lullaby is the world's fastest reader. We go to the library a couple times a month and she always wants more.

The boys had been making all kinds of faces into my camera and making me giggle every time I downloaded them. Silly things. Sometimes they include Paul too.

Date night at Verde is always a treat. The ube churros are my favorite!

The mangos are growing! I'm amazed at how many are coming on at one time!

Curiosity kids projects, so fun. They did a self-portrait holding an umbrella, then we covered the umbrellas and everything underneath and used a paint spray bottle to mist blue rain drops on top. Turned out so cute. I taught the older class how to draw water droplets on a paper with pencils. They looked so realistic!

Time to start on replacing windows for our bedroom. Paul started removing the siding which was a surprise to me! Then we got going. We took out the old louver windows, took off the large sheet of screen we had attached to the outside, and when we took off the frame to put on a new frame before the new windows, we found LIVE TERMITES. Yikes! So we ended up removing the entire wall, until we didn't see any termite tracks anymore. Then we had to put additional treatment stuff there, and then build a new wall before getting the new windows installed. It was a lot of work, but when it was done, we loved it!

Paul helped us do the first window, then he had to start working at his real job (not his house renovation job), and so the kids and I finished the last two. We were so proud of ourselves that I got Bubba's for dinner and met a cute stray cat. Wins all around.

We got to go over and see the kittens at their new home at Alana's dad's house. So cute. They live indoors now and have an outside play area. Taquito was still quite a bit smaller and still loves climbing. The other two were more shy at first, but then very playful. I'm so glad they get to stay together and that they have such a good home.

Alex got back to Colorado and found some awesome cards for the kids (and Paul) to have. He's so sweet on them.

Lullaby and Solace love to serenade me. This time they sang Monsters by James Blunt.

Since our house is a single-wall construction house, before we put up the new siding, we decided to add extra 2x4's around the whole thing. Added support and a little insulation for sound and temperature. We don't really notice any difference for strength, but we're still glad we did it. It certainly made adding the siding a lot easier. We all added little notes all over it before the siding went up too. Eventually we added board and batten also, which was another enormous task.

Pomaika'i, the Hawaiian Studies teacher from Curiosity Kids, put on a fire knife performance for the kids before practice. It was super fun to watch and the kids loved it. In art class, the students painted backgrounds, and tattooed their whales on top. Auntie Stella brought our family musubi for lunch, yes please.

Date night, dessert first. Yum.

Solace loves to do a science experiment. Sometimes it's super messy, so he sits in the shower. He is so curious about life and the world and how things work.

We went out with the Bracken family to some secluded beach that I don't remember the name of. It was such a nice day. Everyone had a great time.

Sully got more sun than he needed. Poor thing.

Paul and Matix blessing the sacrament together is so sweet to see.

Breakfast in bed this time. Thanks Sully Boy!

Picking out a window that we ended up NOT using for the shed turned closet.

Pictures from Curiosity Kids. I love teaching art class.

The kids got some good Pokemon cards from Alex in the mail, they were so excited! Thanks Alex!

Lullaby went on a temple trip with the Young Women to Oahu.

Working on putting up the siding on the west side of the house, yay! Behind Paul you can see the old siding pretty well too.

After having a hard day with Solace, he wrote Paul this love note, it was so sweet.

Face-timing with Heidi is so fun. We usually Marco-Polo, so it's fun to see her in real time.

My book girl and a new stack of books she read through so fast.

Another funny face picture. Thank you Matix.

Hawken finally figured out what these little scan code cards in the Pokemon packs are for, TCG Live! A game he can play mimicking the in-person card game with other players around the world. He can create new decks and test them out and really loves to be able to get more practice time in for Pokemon.

Paul got the roof started on the Healing Hut, ready for the metal!

We did a field trip with Curiosity Kids to the tide pools to learn about the creatures, environment and tides. Really interesting information. The kids first hunted in groups and brought in all the things they found and used microscopes to see the really small stuff.

Lullaby and I put in all trim around the new windows. Woohoo!

Siding on the Healing Hut will match the house.

Date night with my favorite guy, and the silliest bathroom signs.

Beach day for Matix's boogie board competition. We were so excited to cheer him on. It's awesome to see him in his element and having such a great time. I of course didn't get his best run on film, but I got some of the other ones. Go Matix!

We keep hearing pigs in the yard, but it's hard to catch them on film! We caught one this time.

We picked out some paint for the house, because we got so excited about the new siding, but the funny thing is we didn't actually paint anything until January of 2026! Wowza!

Date with my favorite guy. His drink came with a Peep on the straw. So fun!

We decided to turn the shed/storage room in our bedroom into an actual clothing closet. I was so excited, but the termites continued! We had to remove tons of wood, treat the areas, then replace everything with better treated wood.

Sometimes Paul and Lullaby go to the sea cliffs to read. Sometimes they read on the trampoline together. I love that they do this.

Look how bright the moon was! It looks like a spotlight, even in the picture, which never does reality justice.

More pictures of the termites, this is in the closet looking out toward the windows. They were active at night, so I had to wait until then to get better pictures for our termite company. They came and solved the problem. What nasty little bugs.

Flooring for the hut. Lullaby is a beast, look at her muscles!

Out to eat with the missionaries. It's always a welcomed break from all the house work we've been doing!

Because of the new termites, we had to cut away some of the wall, so I thought, might as well make it an arch, and I love it!

My usual grocery helper.

Mousey Moo loves to sleep under the yellow chair, especially when Swishy is close by or Snow is on top.

Solace went with the Primary to an activity day at the nursing home. They sang songs again, and then did a few crafts together with the residents. Then all the kids said goodbye to the residents and got some food. It was a great day!

Another step in the process of making the shed room into a closet. Although we cleared and treated all the termites, we used a plastic/vinyl trim piece to not encourage any new unwanted residents... I also had to use liquid nails instead of regular nails, because it's right behind the shower and I didn't want any of the nails breaking the tiles on the other side by accident.

Annie and I worked on cookies for a couple days. She did the lettering, and I made the flowers. We were a good team.

Setting up for the Relief Society birthday party activity, I brought all of our cookies and we had a team of other people helping set up the room.

Extra cookies for the Relief Society birthday party, yum!

Sometimes I get breakfast brought to me. Not always in bed, sometimes at the desk, or in the living room, but always from Solace. He's a lover.

Someone is always playing Pokemon in the house. Almost all day, nearly every day.

Eye doctor date with the only other person in our family to need glasses, besides me. After getting our checkups, new prescriptions, and new glasses picked out, we went to Target to get some Pokemon cards and a slushy! Woohoo.

More work on the inside for me, and outside for Paul and at least on of the kids at a time. They work on siding and I work on painting, and prepping the new closet and finishing the bedroom.

Healing hut trim was labeled "Healing Hut" which was so fun to see.

Skateboarding and free-skating with Hawk and Sully, so fun. Always.

Painting and caulking all the places. The look of the new closet with that arch is so fun to me! I love it! Floors are painted and walls are done, and new windows in, not I just have to put my room and closet back together again.

We were flown to a Presidency Training on Oahu and it was awesome. President Uchdorf was there as the primary teacher, and he was magnificent. He is such a gifted speaker, and we learned a lot. After the regular training, they held a large question and answer session. A woman in the back of the chapel stood up and told us about her woes for her youngest daughter in her large family. The daughter wanted to get a second piercing in her ears and the woman was so upset by that. (Yikes) She explained that the new For The Strength of Youth booklet was too vague, and encouraged young people to make the best decisions for themselves rather than having any hardline rules anymore. Well, it turns out that the person who was charged with writing that new booklet was President Uchdorf himself. He said, "If your focus on the rules is so rigid, then you're missing the point." He got close to the microphone and emphasized each word, "You're. Missing. The. Point." I was in the front row and wanted to clap, but that would have been inappropriate. He made his point. It was awesome. He really wants to make changes in the church to help celebrate our differences and make sure all are welcome. Which seems pretty Christ-like to me!

He couldn't stop for pictures so I had to just get these while he walked, and greeted us all. We shook hands, although I don't have a photo of that. So fun.

We took a ward picture and I got a picture of Scott running to join the picture. So funny. I actually don't think I ever got the whole group one anyway. Ha ha ha. Then we had a Linger Longer and stayed after church to eat all together. There are definite bonuses to being in the latest ward in the building. 1:30 church time has it's perks.

Out to Anini on a windy day.

Another date night with my favorite guy. We went out a ton this month!

Sweet kittens. Mousey and Snow Baby. And a video taken too late of Pumpkin playing around

Matix was invited to his friend Luke's birthday party at the bowling alley. They had a great time and his mom sent me all the pics.

We got SO much done in the house and outside the house and on the Healing Hut this month! It was a huge push to get everything done before our visitors came. Here is a video of everything we did, plus a video of where the rooms all are. We play musical rooms in the house a lot. This is what they were in March of 2024, anyway. :)

Aunt Julie, cousin Lauren, her husband Alex and their kids Evie and Leto came for a visit! Yay!

Pokemon night fun! They get at least one pack each time they play.

Spent the day on the sunny south side at Poipu and Brennecke's, snacking and boogie boarding and spotting for sea turtles. We even saw a rooster in the water, but they're not great swimmers so it was good he went back to the beach.

Kitty cuddles.

Family dinner with all the cousins and Aunt Julie is so fun. I love having a full house.

Leto loves Snow Baby. He drew this picture of her.

Playing Pokemon, always a fun activity.

We went up to Hanalei and spent the whole day there. We stayed until the sunset and had the best time. The kids surfed and jumped from the pier and built sand castles and practiced spinning the fire knife and swam and climbed trees and ate. So so fun.

Hike to the falls and swinging from the vines, always a blast. Even more fun with cousins!

Getting all fancy with Aunt Julie's colorful zinc sunscreen, then off to paddle the Wailua River. First up to the Fern Grotto, then past it to the cliff jump. Such a nice day and fun adventure.

We sure love spending time with Aunt Julie, and the Then family. They are so much fun!

Shave ice at Wailua Shave Ice, always a treat.

MarioKart with the cousins.

The cold plunge for Paul is an every day thing, but not so much for Alex, though he was willing to try. Brrrr.

With all the visitors at the house, Paul and I sleep in his office on a mattress on the floor, which Swishy loves and takes full advantage of. He loves a cuddle.

Easter party at the Owen's house. Lots of fun hunting for eggs, eating good food, and swimming in the pool. So happy that the cousins and Aunt Julie wanted to join us too.

We got the doors delivered for the Healing Hut, so exciting!

Easter basket hunt and prize opening was so fun. Lauren and Julie both brought things from Oregon to add to the baskets. It was so fun. Then we lit Aunt Julie's beeswax candles.

We don't always do egg dying, but it's sure fun when we do. And with extra kids, it made it more fun. Many many brightly colored eggs were made, plus some of the kids used puffy paints to add little details.

5-stranded braids for Lulli for Easter Sunday at church.

Opening Easter cards from Grandma Kim and Grandpa Louie and Great-Grandma Della.

Solace's sweet relationship with Auntie Karleen at church makes us so happy. She always remembers him and brings him gifts and treats him so kindly. He always looks forward to seeing her. What a special lady.