Merry Christmas

WARNING: THIS POST WILL BE LONG!!

Christmas Eve and Christmas was cool for me because it was my memories from being a child.

Christmas Eve we went over to Grandpa McCoy's for pizza, treats, and traditions. It is a tradition in our family since I was a wee one that on Christmas Eve We would gather around as a family (on the McCoy side) to read out of the scriptures of the birth of Jesus as well as his death. Then Grandpa pick on someone to read The Night Before Christmas. We had a fun time as a family and there was a lot of people that I didn't get to see while we were there because I wanted to concentraite our time with my parents and my brother, Michael, and sister-in-law, Trish.

Its great to see my cousins all grown up and be able to hang out with them. My aunts and uncles are great people and I do miss all of them so much. I was spoiled growing up being around family, having get togethers monthly, and seeing everyone all the time. I do wish that my kidos had that now, but we know that Heavenly Father has us here for a reason and we love it.

On Christmas morning it was just our Bertram family. The kidos were so excited about Christmas. To be truthful, so was I! We had a great morning opening presents and having fun with our new toys and treasures, but the one thing that I was looking forward to more was a gift for my mama ceta.

Okay for the beginning of this story. My crafty and witty sister-in-law, Trish, and brother had asked for all of us siblings to fill out questions from our childhood, 192 questions. They gave me plenty of time, 8 months. Well, I got it done and turned in in 10 months.

Trish had put together all of our question and answers into one book with pictures. It is awesome and we knew that that would be something my mom would love.

She opened it and cried! Thats when you know that a gift is a treasure. Trish also surprised me with my own book and then we each got a DVD with our pictures in it of our family growing. BEAUTIFUL!

It was a great Christmas getting to know Michael and Trish more. (umm, this is where I'm suppose to have a picture or two of Michael and Trish, but the pics that I took of them is not on here!! grrr, where did they go?!)

Oh I better list what the kids got. Each kido, including David, got got an air soft pistal.

Kolton got all kinds of tennis stuff, games, and movies.

Kaylea and Bre Bear got clothes, movies, games (Kaylea collects Uno games now), purses, and TONS of scrapbooking things. They will be doing scrapbooking this summer.

David received most of his gifts early. He got a new Mountain bike, jacket to keep him warm, some books to read other than text books, and stuff that I cannot remember anymore.

It was a good Christmas day full of stories, hanging out, and being around the ones we love.

January Snow Day in Texas

Its raining, its pouring. . . Oh no it isn't!

It snowed on us and it was fun stuff. The day before it snowed and froze though it rained so the next day when we went to church I told David to watch the roads while we were in church. They said that they advise us to leave right before the 3rd hour and thank goodness they did. On the way home I started sliding 3 times! Okay, I know some of you out there are like "Your a bunch of wusses in TX", the roads were frozen people!! and its kinda nice to leave from church early. We got home and waited for David to get home, he had to stay at church until everyone left. Ryan and Liz REALLY wanted to go to the park to play in the snow there.

We listened to them and went too and we froze!!! It was FREAKIN cold. We could have stayed home to play in the snow. Any who, David, the kids, Semi, and Chewy loved though running around in the snow.

Semi and Chewy love to catch snow balls in their mouth.

The kids hand a ball out there, but I think we were there only for a half an hour before everyone was saying how cold they were. Ryan started whining first.

The snowed for the whole week. It was really cool. This is unusual for us to get it this soon so we are expecting to get more snow in February like we always do. Nice.

Yep, I suck!!

So once again I will try updating you on things because it has been crazy. So a quick updating for ya'll.

KC is now in the 6th grade and the school here has a total separate place for the 6th graders. He is in band playing the sax. I think he likes to do the things that his daddy did. In December he had his first band concert and he was chosen for 1st chair. He does love reading!!! Wow, this kid goes through a book a week. I'm so glad that they have libraries. He is in student council and is in charge of a program called PALS. He sets up times for sixth graders to go read to Kindergarten or first graders on Fridays. He is taking a break from Tennis this season due to us moving. (We'll talk more on that later)

Kaylea has been busy as well. She is in the 5th grade this year. We have been learning a lot from her and all the interests that she has. 1st interest is still softball. She is know on a different team and loves this team. 2nd Baking and cooking!! She made her first apple pie for our Thanksgiving and it was delicious!!! 3rd and this just was this past week she is starting to design dresses from material and from sheets. She was heart broken when I wouldn't let her wear her favoritest dress to church. I had to tell her that she couldn't wear a sheet that is all safety pinned up. David told her that we will take her to the store to get a pattern, material, and let her start sewing. umm, I'm not too sure about this, but maybe I should just let her do it. She is going to be competing in UIL for story telling next Saturday.

Bre has had a interest turn in events as well. She has decided that she no longer wants to play softball and has turned to swimming. She has practice 3 times a week for a hour and half. This season her team will start competing. She loves the water and anything to do with water. She is helping Kaylea out with the designing dresses by being the model because she is loving Kaylea dress her up. She is having a harder time in school this year, but she is trying hard. She is also going to be competing in UIL this year for Listening. Listening is new this year so we will see how she does.

David is right now in the home stretch of completing his Masters in Science Management. He will be graduating this August!! He is sooo not looking forward to this semester or the summer classes because there will be a lot of writing to do, but I know that he will do great and feel better when he is done. He has a calling as the executive secretary for the Bishopric. This guy is way busy so we like to keep our weekend free so he can relax on Saturday and the rest of the day on Sunday's after getting home from church. Humm, out of all the pictures 2010 this is the only one that I could find of David. That's crazy. Well, here's David with his groupie.
This has been a weird year for me. I had to have surgery to take out wires from a surgery that I had in high school. My right hand was starting to act weird and I couldn't control it and it hurt bad. The Dr. took out the wires and then had to fix my muscles and tendinit in there. I had to take fall semester off because I could not write or do anything with the right hand. I still am not going to school because of the move coming up soon, hopefully.

Well, that's a quick review of what has happen with us.

More info to come and hopefully I will do better with this.