texts

My text message conversations with Paul are always very strange. I had said before getting married, that I never wanted to feel BORED, and more than 10 years later, I'm happy to say that I've never felt bored. Paul is constantly making me laugh at his strange sense of humor. See these 2 examples of our texts back and forth. Paul is typing in a white text bubble and I'm typing in a blue text bubble... 

Sully the painter

Solace is quite the artist. He paints and eats now ONLY with his left hand, just like his brother Matix. He prefers one paint brush for each color of paint so that he doesn't have to mix the colors (except on the paper). In fact, Lullaby was painting right next to him and SHE mixed the paints a little and he was so sad about it. Eventually, he was left to himself to create yet another masterpiece. Sully, you are amazing.

Chick-fil-A

Dear Chick-fil-A,

Please consider coming to Oahu. Specifically, please come to Ewa Beach. We just moved from Houston, and are going through withdrawals. We miss your grilled chicken, and fresh fruit. We miss your lemonade and we even miss your ice cream headaches. Please come here!

-The Berg Family

(Solace always tries to wipe away his headaches with a napkin)

preschool

I pulled my April Fool's Day prank on the preschoolers again this year. It was pretty funny. The little grape tomatoes were perfect disguised as lollipops. I gave the preschoolers real lollipops afterward and that made up for the mean trick! :)

The preschoolers did a little planting of their own in the garden. They love learning about nature and how the earth works. Planting a garden and watching things grow just makes sense!

lizards

Usually the kids catch lizards, but this time, a lizard caught Hawken. :)

fun socks

The perks of your realtor being your friend, and also a clothing designer. He wears many hats...

garden

We got a couple of small starter plants (cherry tomatoes, regular tomatoes, and 2 kinds of peppers) to add to our garden. The kids helped dig the holes and plant the plants. My little rose bush and Mother's Day flowers from previous years are still alive and well! And of course, our never ending, never dying, pumpkins plants. Hawked had dumped out some pumpkin seeds/guts and they never stopped growing. I'm pretty sure that the new owner will have enough for her family, and the rest of the neighbors come October. :)

Mother's Day

Well, it's been a LONG time since I've written anything on here, so I had better get to it! We are in Hawaii now, and have been for a couple weeks. It is amazing and we really LOVE it.  For now though, I have to catch up on all the pictures and adventures from back in Texas still. Here goes!

Mother's Day this year was sweet, as usual. The kids made love notes and pictures for their grandmas, great grandmas, and Avia.  I got spoiled with treats, and of course a fruit bouquet. I love those! :) I am so grateful to be a momma and have 4 awesome kiddies. They really are my favorite things, ever.

Dr. Berg

Here he is, Dr. Berg, on his LAST day of residency. Ever. We are SO SO excited! This has been such a long hard road for him, and for all of us. I am so proud of all his hard work, dedication, perseverance, and strength. He is an amazing doctor and has been trained well. 

The kids are beyond excited to get out of here and on to our next adventure. They will be the most excited once Paul starts work and they find out that Daddy will be home for EVERY dinner, and Daddy will be there for EVERY school activity, and Daddy will be home for EVERY breakfast, and Daddy won't fall asleep in the car every time we drive… Paul, you did it! We knew you could! We love you!! Now there won't be any blog posts until we are out and settled in Hawaii in the next few weeks. Yay!

life

This school year has flown by. I spent more time in the car than I wanted to, but the kids all had good experiences. Here are some pictures from regular life stuff. Playing at the park after school with friends, and Matix showing everyone up!

Hawken and Stella, best friends, and they both earned citizenship awards and got to wear whatever they wanted to a few days at school.

Playing at the Flores' house after school, a very typical day.

Parked in the drive up line at Matix's school so he can be the first kids picked up, and I could race over to Hawken's school which was let out at the same time but was a few miles away… It was a circus for sure.   Solace and Lullaby got to have some fun times playing with each other though while they waited.

26 hour shifts no more!

The days are numbered for Paul to be THIS exhausted from work. He has worked SO hard for SO long. I cannot believe he will be done with residency in just a few days! We are SO EXCITED and SO PROUD!

Hawk's friends

Hawken has made some really great friends at school this year. I think I might miss some of them as much as he does. :)

art

All the electrical boxes in Houston are painted. Each one is different and reminds me so much of Atlanta. I know it's not particularly interesting, but we like it and want to remember it.

children's museum

We're going to miss this place. :(

snapchat

We super love playing with the filters on Snapchat, they're so much fun! Here are video clips and pictures from that app.  I know it's a lot, but they are just SO funny!