Sunday, December 23, 2007

Our Living Christmas card from Cecil!!




Our next door neighbor Cecil came over tonight and knocked on our door. He then proceeded to sing "Meile Kaualwaka" to us for our Christmas card. It is about 65 degrees out, and you can see the moon in the background. He was hilarious. Please note the tiki torch burning and the parrot on his canoe. He was awesome. If you don't know that song, it is the one from Christmas vacation, with Chevy Chase.

Trip to B 3 W's




Patricks favorite thing in the world. The hotter the better.

Adam, he ate so many wings he passed out. It wasn't pretty. Poor Daniel hates anything hot, so he had a cheese burger. Patrick almost made him walk home because he didn't eat any wings.

Caitlyn and Eric enjoying the fire!!


Here is Caitlyn and her new main squeeze. Eric O'Connell!!

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Daniel, Patrick and Bill built me a fire pit!!

I asked for them to go get bricks and build me a pit, and bam, it was done. I love it.

Dan Jamison is in the house!!


This is Caitlyn and Patricks cousin. He lives in New Jersey. He is going to be spending the week with us.
He was born on Patricks birthday a year after Patrick was born!!

Friday, December 21, 2007

Campfire in the backyard!!



Patch couldn't wait to start a fire in the woods.
It was fun. We just sat and talked and Patrick played with the fire.
Bill was in his shirt sleeves, I wore a big thick winter coat. It was 40 degrees
and Bill acted like it was June.

Patchy is here!!!!


Patrick William Berger is in the house!!!
He arrived at 6:32 AM in Raleigh Durham International airport.
He was picked up by his loving Mother, Elizabeth Donnelly Berger.

He was obnoxious and was showing off his Ducks sweatshirt, when he knows
darn well, that the Carolina Hurricanes rule!!

All is well in the house of the Bergers.

Monday, December 10, 2007

Caitlyn was baptized on 12/1/07!!




Yup she is baptized. It was a great evening. She was also called and accepted into Watts school of Nursing!! She starts in January!!! Yeah (except here comes the bills, ugh). We are very happy for her, it was a hard school to get into. She will do all her clinicals at Duke University Hospital. If she signs a contract saying that she will work for three years at Duke Hospital, she will get a full ride to school. That is about $50K of schooling that we won't have to pay.

Bills is a working man now!!

Yup he is official now. Wake County Public School system. He seems very happy, and loves to talk about his new job. I guess now that we are all working, we are officially living here now.

Saturday, December 1, 2007

My new job at C3 church!!

Cleveland Community Church
This is the new Church being built. It will seat 2,500 people in the sanctuary. It has a cafe, and large book store, that will be opened all week. The cross in front, if you look close, is 98 ft. tall. We are still in the old church but on December 23rd we have our first service in the new church. It is kind of weird because the church is so large, but it still feels like you know everyone. It is almost a family feeling. Great church.

Just the two of us now!!


Bill and I decorated the tree this year, I thought it would be sad without the kids, but it just was different. It is a new season of our life, and I want to embrace it. Please notice our beautiful eggnog mugs that Mary bought us many years ago.

Piggly Wiggly!!!

Can you believe it?? Yup, a Piggly Wiggly is still up and running in Sanford, NC. Bill and I were out driving around, and I saw that, wow!!

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Pig Heaven!!



I had two big brawny men working in my back yard at the same time yesterday. Bill and his little chipper, and Shawn (the gardner) tearing up our lawn and reseeding it. Can't get much better thing to look at then that :)

Friday, November 16, 2007

I didn't think my yard would change color!!

One of the oak trees that I didn't think would color!
Our street looking from the house.
View from front porch!!

My first try at poaching eggs!!

I am 49 years old, and never made a real poached egg. My Mom used to make them for my Dad all the time, but I never tried it, because it looked to messy and difficult.
Well today, I decided to do it, and it was fairly simple. They were cooked perfectly.
Anyone for some eggs???

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Bachelor

Okay, we are down to the last two. ONe is Jenni and the other.....I cannot remember her name.
Anyhow, for those of you who watch it, who do you think will win??? Or who do you wish would win???

I want the other girl, even though I cannot think of her name right now. I think she is so awesome, pretty, honest, straight forward, and she will be loyal and a great Mommmy.

By popular demand!!


Mary and Cassandra requested pictures. Alas, we went everywhere and didn't bring our camera. All we have is our last morning, we frantically started taking pictures. So I cannot show you where we went and what we did.


As for food, hmmm..... On Saturday night, Bill made Prime Rib, but by the time we

had eaten, we were kinda full on appetizers and food we had eaten all day.

Cindys favorite place


If we ever found ourselves looking for Cindy, we knew to find her on the porch. As you can see by the picture, she had her own heater, because it got down in the 30's and she was out there, smoking and reading her book. Crazy woman. Friday night, I stayed up until 3:30 AM with her talking and drinking champagne, and when I went to bed, I realized that my entire back was frozen solid. It took me a hour wiggling around in bed to get the feeling back in that area. Ugh.... Please note Cindys feet, she bought actual croc's. I found the fashion queen wearing "knock offs" and I shamed her into buying the real mccoy. I think they are the most amazing and comfortable shoes. Now at the same time, they are one of the ugliest shoes in the world as well, I figure when you get close to 50, comfort takes first place over looks though :)

Rick and Cindys visit to North Carolina!

It was a wonderful visit from Rick and Cindy. They came late, late Friday night, and left Monday morning. I cannot say we did anything earth shattering, but it was fun just being
together. I have come to realize that I am not the best person to visit, because I can never
think of what to do, or where to show people. I was better in CA, so I guess, I am still so new
to North Carolina, that I need to pick "in spots" to visit with our guests.

Anyhow, it was fun having them here. Ricky updated my computer like crazy, because I messed it up pretty bad. (BTW Rick, it is working lickety split this morning).

The four of us went to "Streets of Southgate" it is a really pretty mall in Durham. That was fun, except I kept catching the guys trying to light themselves on fire whenever Cindy would find another store to go into :)

Monday, November 5, 2007

Men and their power tools!!




Paul Bunyon

Well Bill has started his thining of our woods.
Already we get more light in the backyard then before, and it looks good.
I asked that he clear a good space for me to build a fire pit with chairs all
around it, and so if you look at the one picture with the little clearing, that
is the future land for our firepit, entertaining area.

Thank goodness, life is kinda settling down!!

Life here is starting to feel kinda back on kilter. Between Bills Dad passing away, having my Brother Tim here for a week, and most of my friends evacuated due to the horrific fires in CA, needless to say, life has been like walking on eggshells.

Bill is still sad, of course. All my friends are back in their smokey filthy homes. Timmy is back safe and sound and had his caterac surgury and it went fine.

I can sit back and enjoy having my best friend/husband home with us. He and I spend most of the mornings looking for jobs, and the afternoons, playing at doing yard work, or some other chore.

Here in North Carolina, we give a big "shout out" to Maisy Tait Herman. Welcome sweet baby girl, to your family!!! I personally feel you made a good choice in families, but that is only your Aunties opinion. Cannot wait to meet you.

That is about it for us for now. Just wanted to touch bases with you all.....

Love to all!!

Sunday, October 28, 2007

We are back safe and sound!!

The lake at the Lake house, in New Jersey
Tim, Liz and Bill in front of Cindy and Ricks lake house.
Lake house in New Jersey.
Hello everyone;

We got home safe and sound. We sure couldn't have done it without Tim. He helped us in so many ways, thanks Timmy.


It was a sad trip, but at the same time, we found blessings in our family in New Jersey. Tom Berger married into a great family. Very warm and loving. They made us feel as one of them, even though not a drop of blood is shared by any of us. It is a weird how close I have always felt to Bills "steps".
Claire is Toms wife, Stephen is Bills brother, and Suzie is Bills sister. Stephen is married to Kim, and Suzie is married to Robbie. I have pictures of them but it isn't on this camera. I will post them later.
I wish I could have gotten a picture of the swans on the lake. I counted, and there were over a hundered on the lake.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Tom Berger Passed away this morning

Bill and Tim got into North Carolina late last night, and Tom passed away this morning around 4AM. Bill is in shock, he missed him by one day.

Anyhow I don't know what is happening, but I will keep you posted.

Friday, October 19, 2007

Update on Bills Dad

Okay, he is doing much better. He is having a trac put in, because he is having problems with his throat, but his heart is doing better, and his diabedies is stablized.

Bill and Tim will be here tonight or tomorrow, and then we head for Virginia to drop Timmy off with Ricky and Bill and I will head for New Jersey. Bills Dad is very excited to see Bill.

So if anyone is looking for me, I will be in New Jersey until about Wed.

Liz

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Bills Dad

Some of you know that Bills Dad is in critical condition. Bill left a couple of weeks early, to make the trek across so that he can see his Dad. He is hauling butt trying to get here, and bless Tims heart, he is trucking right next to him.

I got a very sad call today from Toms wife, Claire. Tom is not doing so good. His left lung is filling up with blood, and they are taking him into surgery this morning.

Please pray that Tom holds on until Bill gets here. It would be so cruel if something happened to Tom as Bill is making his pilgrimage to see him.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Bill and Tim on the way to the Carolina's!!

They left this morning around 6:45 from Santee, CA.
They plan on taking five days to make it across country.
Bill is in the truck towing the fifth wheel.
Tim is in a Penske truck that is carrying, the Harley and the Waverunner, and it is towing the pontoon boat. So they are moving kind of slow. Not as slow as a covered wagon, but pretty close.
Please keep them in your prayers that they have a safe trip.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Is this the start of Fall, or another trick???

My porch
No color change

Today I woke to a chilly morning. I start my day with Bible study out on my back porch every morning. Today, I needed a robe and slippers!! The wind is whipping around, and it is nippy and fresh smelling. I hope this is the real McCoy and not just Mother Nature teasing us again.

Drinking coffee while nature is at its peak is one of lifes great enjoyments for me.


Do you ever think how egotistical a blog is??? I mean, I am writing about me, my life, my thoughts as if any of you are chomping at the bit to read about me. I just enjoy it, but mostly I love to read the other blogs our family has created.


Niki is coming to visit tomorrow and spend the weekend with us, I am very happy about that. We (Caitlyn and I) as most of you know go to bunco once a month, and it fell on Saturday night this month (Bills 50th Birthday), so we are dragging Niki to our night out on Saturday. What she doesn't know is that Caitlyn has gotten some of her girlfriends together, and they are all taking Niki out on the town after bunco!!! Poor Niki!!


Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Some pics from the trip







Okay I don't know how to put labels on these so I will just explain.
- First two are of Cassandra and I sitting out front of her house watching the kids play in the street with their millions of friends!!
- Next is of Cassandra and Maisy.
- Cassandra and Hank in front of a neat candy store on the wharf in Cincinatti.
- A fall picture of the side of the road, while driving 80 MPH!!!! =0
- Of Niki in her new house in West Virginia. She just got a job as a news anchor of a CBS affiliate in WV. She is on the morning and afternoon broadcasts, and sometimes the 6 O'clock news in the evening. We went out to dinner, and it was weird, because people recognized her so they pointed and whispered when we walked by. Pretty cool.

The river I came upon!!


Traveling for 9 hours by yourself!!

I have to admit, I really didn't hate it. I thought I was going to get tired, or bored, but honestly, it gave me lots of time with myself, with God and with nature. I was able to listen to my worship music loud, and sing along which believe me, isn't pretty. I was able to admire the beauty of the landscape without Bill or Caitlyn making fun of me, I exclaimed outloud how beautiful it is. I mean really, from North Carolina, into Virginia, into West Virginia with the huge breathtaking mountains covered in a tweed jacket of fall, and into the beautiful rolling hills of Kentucky. How can you go wrong with that???
Amazing colors, and it is just starting. I mean, the reds are so vibrant, and the oranges and yellows. At one time I stopped to let Midge out to walk and do her business, and I was walking around and came upon a beautiful river surrounded by mountains, and nobody was even there to ruin it, people start to take it for granted around there I think. That was in West Virginia. I am going to try and show you a picture of it, but with my computer skills, who knows?? I will try.
Anyhow, I had a great weekend with Niki and with the Hermans and Taits. Fun was had by all.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Me making apple dumplings...


Adam and I enjoying the fire...


Cassandra and I making apple dumplings...


Adam building the fire...