Friday, December 18, 2009

For unto us a Savior is Born!



And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Luke 2:8-11

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Merry Berggren Christmas!

The Berggren Family
Grandma (aka Koma) and her Huntley grand kids
The kids
Jer & Dee
Ash & Jer
Jeremy just waiting to open some presents that have been under the tree for a week tempting and teasing him!
Jeremy's favorite present of the night! Bumblebee!
But that's not all.......Santa now knows that Jeremy wants a Buzz Lightyear for Christmas this year!
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We celebrated Christmas in Huntley tonight with the Berggren side of the family since we will be in Connecticut with the Christensen side for Christmas this year. We enjoyed the company of Grandma all day and dinner was cornish hens, carrot souffle and wild rice....Cookies & Apple Pie for dessert...YUMMMMM!!!!
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We leave for Connecticut in 7 days!!!
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Merry Christmas to ALL!!!

Monday, November 30, 2009

before & after....

Above is the best picture I could find of me before my hair cut and this picture was taken about a month or more ago.


My new hair! Shorter and Blonder!

Sunday, November 22, 2009

I miss this little guy!







I miss this little Jeremy! These are pictures of him in November 2005...only 1 1/2 years old....What a cutie! I wish he still had that blonde blonde hair! Now he is such a kid!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

32 Days.......


.......and a 16 hour car drive....and we will be in Connecticut visiting the lovely people pictured above in their beautiful New England home!!!!! Like I love to say.....
"Let the Wild Rumpus Begin!!!!"

Friday, November 13, 2009

Family in Sweden

This is Svea.
She is 90 years old....she is Jeff's Great Aunt. She was married to Jeff's Dad's Mother's Brother, Olle (he died many years ago). She lives in Sweden.
This is Bosse.
He also lives in Sweden. To Jeff he is a cousin once removed. He is one of Jeff's Dad's cousins.
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These are pictures and information that we received via email from Rachel. She is another of Jeff's cousins once removed. Rachel is the daughter of one of Jeff's Dad's Mother's Sister. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden. We met her and her husband, Lars, last year when they were here for a visit.
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I think it is amazing how much blood family Jeff probably still has in Sweden and would love to go and visit and stay with Rachel and learn more about that side of Jeremy's family. It would be cool information for Jeremy to have....now if I can just win the lottery and figure out a way to take the family to Sweden!!!! We have a place to stay and family to visit!
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Eva was Jeff's Grandma. She was the mother of Roger...Jeff's dad. She was born in Sweden and came to the united states where she spent the rest of her life. Eva had siblings as well and they all stayed in Sweden so all the family of Eva's siblings are still there. I am sure that there is family of Eva's husband...Jeff's grandpa Berggren...Roger's dad....somewhere too...but I don't know where to start to find out more about them. Jeff never knew his grandpa Berggren as he died at a young age when Roger was only about 15.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Crazy Hair and Crazy Dress!

Jeremy really needed a haircut so I put "jello", as he calls it, in his hair to make it look really crazy! Then we got it cut the next day!
Here, Jeremy is reading a book about airplanes that he got from Grandpa Roger while waiting to go to church. Please note that he picked out his entire outfit for church....with NO help from me at all! I think he has been influenced by his crazy Pa in Seattle!!! I think this is a cool picture that shows the influence on his life of both his Pa and his Grandpa....even though he doesn't see either one very often!

Sunday, November 01, 2009

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!




Kasper and Jeremy...er..I mean...Spider-Man and Buzz Lightyear!
Yes...that is Jeff with Kasper's Dad....
Jeremy & Jeremy

Brendan, Jeremy & Jeremy


Look at all the candy.....

My little pumpkin!

Happy Halloween everyone!

Thursday, October 22, 2009

First Man to Walk on Mars?????

Career Day at school was on Wednesday...Jeremy went to school in the above outfit...thanks to Jodi for getting it in the mail so fast from Connecticut so he had it to wear...there is nothing else that he wants to be more than an astronaut!
This is a picture that Jeremy drew for Buzz Aldrin that we will include in a letter that we have written to Buzz. I think that this is one of my favorite space pictures that Jeremy has done...he worked very hard and careful and said, "Buzz is going to love this picture!" as he was drawing it.
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I just finished reading "Magnificent Desolation" by Buzz Aldrin. Of course, the main reason I am drawn to his book is because Jeremy is so into space at this time. Last night Jeremy and I were reading a book called "Living on the Moon" (thanks Granny!) and Jeremy said, "I am so going to Mars!" That comment made me think of the book and Buzz Aldrin's hope for the future of space travel. Here are some of my favorite lines from Buzz's book in regards to man going to Mars:
  • "I believe mankind must explore or expire. We must venture outward. And one way or another, when men and women first set foot on Mars, I will be there, whether watching on my flat-screen television in my Los Angeles home, or looking down from the stars."
  • "I look forward to seeing these things happening during my lifetime, but if they don't, please keep this dream alive; please keep going; Mars is there waiting for your footsteps."

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First Man to Walk on Mars......Jeremy Berggren???
Only time will tell!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

I need to buy stock in a paper company!

This picture has a mountain with snow on it (lower right corner) and next to the mountain is a girl painting the mountain. Next to her is a monster ball shooting stuff out of his head and next to him is a man. Above is a sun and a ghost and two meteors.
This is a maze that I had help the ghost find his way to the haunted house. The clue is the stairs. The ghost has to stay away from the black cats because they will block your way. The witch will just stand there waiting for the ghost to come by. The pumpkins just waiting like the witch too and the bats are just to chase the ghost.
So then Jeremy drew a few mazes of his own that you will see above and below.

This is a volcano with meteors flying and a ghost and the man is getting burned by lava and the volcano is a she and has a face because she is friendly and there is a rocket ship with guy tied to it and the lines are music going down to Earth and the sun.....
One guy is jumping upside down and the other guy is jumping right side up and they are jumping on the building that has a spider on it and the small green picture is a restaurant.
Monsters...that is a giant monster and that is a monster and the giant monster is standing on top of the building. Then a tree with an apple hanging and a flower and a flower.
A tornado is heading towards this house and the sun is out.

This is a rain storm with a garbage can in the grass.

This is a rainbow with the sun hiding behind it.

This is hearts turning into rocket ships.

This is one heart that is turning into a space ship.

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All of the pictures above were drawn by Jeremy during his after school care today. Everyday I pick him up and there are a handful of pictures that he has drawn during his few hours he stays after school. Today, however, there were enough to make a book! Not to mention that he usually draws about this many every few days at home. Needless to say I am getting buried in paper but they are all so precious to me at this time and I want to keep them. Not to mention that I love to see how he progresses in his artistic ability. So, I am going to try and put this blog to work in the way that it was meant to. I am going to take pictures of and post a lot of his pictures so that I can track the progression of his art as time goes on. I am going to therefore have a digital copy as well as one on my blog to keep rather than keeping EVERY.SINGLE.ONE of them. And, I hear that my dad is enjoying looking at Jeremy's art so this way Dad can also follow along with Jeremy's Artistic Journey. And of course the 3-4 other of you out there that look at this blog every so often! NOTE: the captions under the pictures are Jeremy's words for what the pictures are.