Bergeson reunion!!!

We had a little Bergeson get together last weekend in St. George. I shouldn't say little because the family isn't so little anymore!! We were only missing about 14 people total. We had lots of fun!! It is always good times when we get together... good food, good laughs, and always good entertainment. The girls definately outnumber the boys and I will add one more to the mix.
Here are the boys.. including the grandson in laws! :)

And ALL the girls....

and another one...

We have 5 new babies that will be born into the Bergeson family in 2009!! 3 girls, 1 boy.. and one unknown. We know how to obey the commandment to multiply and replenish the earth. Thanks to my CUTE Grandma and Grandpa that started all this! We love and admire their faith, their determination, and their love for everyone!! GrandPa was diagnosed with cancer almost 10 years ago and was only given 3-5 years to live and is still fighting!! Grandma has recently been diagnosed with cancer too and has fought has hard as ever to put up with all the treatments. WE LOVE YOU GUYS! Brandon has loved having Grandparents since we got married as he never knew his and loves talking to a fellow AGGIE! Here they are in thier cute little DI outfits.. See below for more explanation.

Years and years ago we used to do DI Christmases and we would draw names and go to DI and pick out gag gifts for the person we drew. We decided to do this again for a good laugh. I remember when I was really little, my cousin got me a football helmet and I started bawling! We had a good time in DI and opening the gifts later that night! I can't post too many pictures.. I would get in trouble. Brandon said only the Bergeson's could do this and make it so entertaining!! There were some creative gifts and outfits. The rule is that you have to put on what you get.. luckilly all I got was a hideous elephant candle holder and didn't have to put anything on. My Grandpa had Brandon and got him a BYU T-shirt. He was a good sport and put it on long enough to have a picture and it was off and back in the DI bag in no time!

The boys went golfing while the girls stayed home and did a Humanitarian quilt that had the most random pieces of fabric ever!!

It was so good to see everyone. Thanks Blaine and Leslie for letting us stay at your house!!

How did this happen?

I had some maternity pants that I bought during the first of my pregnancy. I ordered them online from Gap. I got 2 sizes because I wasn't sure what size I would need. I tried them on and definately needed the smaller size. I started wearing them because they were so much more comfy on my growing belly. They were HUGE and not very attractive because they were so Big and just hung on me. Brandon HATED THEM! I finally got some new ones and when I bought them, Brandon wanted me to wear them out of the store instead of the other ones! :) They fit MUCH better.

I was thinking about trying to sell them because they were so big and not cheap and I hardly wore them. I got them out again and thought that I better try them on just in case and...............



THEY FIT!!!

AGH!! How did this happen?? I cant decide if I am happy about having another pair of pants to wear or if I am pissed that they fit and I have gotten that big!! I guess I should put away the M&M's and all the other treats for awhile and hold off... I will be HUGE before we know it if I don't! I guess it gives me even more motivation to REALLY train and run a half marathon after this baby comes, not because I like to run, but because it will get me back in shape! I guess that the poor little baby needs some growing room!!
Other than that... we are doing good. I am starting to feel a bit more tired than usual and can barely get in a workout without being so dang tired. I am now at week 26 and getting very large. We went up to Brigham really quick today and my mom was amazed at how much I grew since last time I saw her! We had an appt a couple weeks ago and she was face down and backwards so we couldn't see anything, but they were able to measure her. She is measuring a bit small, but the Dr. wasn't worried. Her heartbeat is strong and looks good. 14 weeks to go!!

Brandon is doing well...he is getting more and more excited as the days and weeks pass and the closer we get to graduation!! He has worked so hard to get to this point and I can't say that I blame him for wanting to be done after almost 30 years of his life in school! YUCK!! He is busy with the JOB SEARCH. There aren't a ton of positions available unless you want to work in a nursing home, which is VERY last resort or work part time without benefits. Um... kind of need those with a new baby coming!

Our burns are healing up very well. My scars are quite noticeable, but I think they will slowly fade away. They are very dry and peeling, but NO MORE PAIN!!

**birthday, idaho fun, and a little excitement**

As promised.... a new post.....FINALLY!!!

There might be a bit of an overload.. sorry!!

We have had a few things going on... I turned 27!! I hate that I am one year closer to turning 30, but there is no way to stop it, so I guess I have to deal with it. I had a great day!! Thanks for all the birthday wishes from everyone!! Brandon got me flowers.....my favorite.. DAISIES.

I got to sleep in and then Brandon made me some waffles and actually put candles in them and sang to me...

He got me a few gifts..a cookbook (don't worry I asked for it, no hints), a shirt, and money for a new camera.

Later that day.. we headed up to Brigham to celebrate with the fam to have lunch and cake. Mom made a delicious lunch and for dessert.....my absolute favorite.. STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE!! It is no surprise what kind of cake I want.. it is the same EVERY year! The pic is a bit dark.. whoops!

Hadlee decided that we needed to make some party hats. We got a little out of control and made one for EVERYONE!! Not everyone kept them on the whole time, but it was a good idea!!! Brandon's parents came and brought the CUTEST flippin' tutu and headband for our little girl. I want to put it on her NOW!! :)

and a little monster game with aunt Riley. It was much funnier in person!! :)

Then..............

A couple weekends ago, we headed up to good ol' Driggs, Idaho to my cousin's mission farewell (I know they aren't supposed to be called that, but didn't know what else to call it). We were able to take Tee and Trey with us, so their Mom could enjoy the new baby in peace! :) Grandpa and Uncle Wayne were so excited to get the snowmobiles out and pull the kids on sleds behind them. It was a little warm and not a ton of snow, but it was enough to do go sledding. I drove around on the back of Brandon's snowmobile for a minute and told him not to go fast as he had a pregnant women with him...He was glad to get me off and switch snowmobiles and TAKE OFF!

Excuse Brandon's beautiful attire.. we weren't really prepared, so this is what we came up with from the closet at Grandma and Grandpa's! :) SEXY!!

Tee and Trey couldn't stand the wait and were ready to GET GOING!!!

with Grandpa...

We had tons of fun and some of the kids were soaked, but had a blast!! I think Hadlee might have had more fun eating the snow as they rode along! :) Funny kids!

AND....FOR THE EXCITEMENT!!!!

I guess we weren't having enough excitement, so I decided to create some. Okay.. not really!!

WARNING: SOME PICTURES MIGHT BE A LITTLE GRAPHIC!!

I was trying to be an EXCELLENT wife and make some Navajo tacos for my cute husband from my new cookbook. I had everything ready to go and just had the scones left to cook. I had the oil on the stove heating up. I ran in the other room for a minute to turn off my work computer and saw a reflection of FLAMES on the kitchen wall!! I ran in there to see flames as high as the flipping ceiling!!!!! AGH!!! I panicked and yelled for Brandon (SO GLAD HE WAS HOME!). He came in and didn't know it was grease, so he grabbed the pan and threw it in the sink and it blew UP into even bigger flames!! I was in too much panic to tell him it was grease! The flames were HUGE.. the heat flew Brandon back and hit the floor HARD. Luckilly there wasnt a ton of oil, so it put itself out with the water. I just kept thinking.. Oh crap... we cannot start the whole complex on fire. The alarms started going off.. I opened the door and our neighbor came running up. He said that there was 2 feet of BLACK smoke at the top of our apartment! That can't be good for a pregnant girl! We got the windows open, the alarms turned off so the fire trucks didn't have to come. We went downstairs and it wasn't till then that we noticed our BURNS!! We ran them under cold water for 20 minutes while trying to decide how I got burnt when I didn't even touch the stupid pan. We figured that when Brandon threw it into the sink.. it splashed out onto my hand, cus my clothes were covered in grease! Brandon's pointer finger and thumb was burnt BADLY!! He was in tons of pain that night and the stubborn thing just kept cleaning and wouldn't put ice on it!! Mine is 3 of my fingers on the knucles and below. It took skin off! It didn't hurt too bad. Brandon's was killing him. Mine didn't hurt, so Brandon was worried about it being 3rd degree and burning my nerve endings. Our neighbor was great and let us hang out down there till our apartment cleared out and we got calmed down a little. He bandaged up my fingers.


Brandon called his sister,Tai and bro in law Joe to come help. Tai took me to Instacare to get my burns checked out... only 2nd degree.. thank goodness, but the most painful!! He prescribed me some pain meds and I didn't understand why because they didn't even hurt at the time, but a day or two later, I totally UNDERSTOOD! My mom is amazing and drove down to SLC the next day to bring us some miracle Maleleuca OIL and JEL to put on our burns and made it here before Brandon left for work. I was in so much pain. I am so not a medicine taker and especially being pregnant I hesitate to take medicine, so I dealt with the pain and only took 2 extra strength Tylenols the whole week and that was only at night so I could sleep! That and A LOT OF ICE!! It was a few miserable nights and days of PAIN and tears. I really was ready to cut off my fingers! My little Phyiscal Therapist keeps reminding me to move my fingers so that I don't loose functionality of them. Brandon's pain was gone after the first night sleeping with ice on it.. but now is straight DRY LEATHER! We are well on our way to recovery. My stupid burns took over a week to scab. I am so scared of the scars it is going to LEAVE!! AGH!! Hello maderma, biosilk, vitamin E and any other suggestions! :) It had to be on my fingers where everyone can see! Oh well.. just MORE THAN GRATEFUL it wasn't our faces. I have no idea how in the world people that get burned all over can deal with that pain!!
Yes.. this is my hand.. not Brandon's.. it is a bit swollen!!


The kitchen looked awful covered in black. Brandon and Joe started cleaning while we ran to Instacare.. it went into the family room on the ceiling.. OH MAN!! People that live in my apt complex... DO NOT TELL THE MANAGERS!! :) I am still a little embarssed about the whole thing, but oh well.. Accidents happen!! I cleaned till 12:30, with one hand, that night to get at least the first layer of black off. It still didn't look so good. My wonderful Mom came over the weekend and helped scrub the rest of it off as she told me NOT to do it and get infection in my fingers. It is pretty much back to normal. Thanks to EVERYONE for their help. What would we do without these people in our lives?

We are so grateful that it wasn't worse and it wasn't our faces that got burnt or that they weren't any worse and that the damage wasn't worse!! We feel super blessed and protected!!
The next day.. I was so scared to cook ANYTHING...I had the fire extinguisher out and ready to go.. just in case!! Where was the fire extinguisher during the fire, you ask? Well, to be honest.. we didn't even think of it and the next morning couldn't even find it. We now know exactly where it is!! Why didn't we do baking soda?? IT was in the cupboard above the fire and didn't have time to think that fast! Our baking soda is now in a different cupboard!! We now know what we would do different if this were to happen again.. we sure hope not, but... for all of you...IF this were to happen to you....DON"T PANIC... Look at the movie on my sister's blog so you will know what to do!!! www.toynfamily.com.

COMING SOON!!

I am so sorry.. I have been a HUGE slacker with posting.

I have a lot to catch up on and even have some pictures.

My fingers and life have been a little out of comission for a bit if any of you heard about our incident, but finally back up and running..

I just need to have a little extra timeto get it all posted!!

STAY TUNED!!

27 years ago today......

I WAS BORN!!!

1. I was born on March 15, 1982
2. I was born in Driggs, Idaho
3. I was 21 inches long---What happend I am super short now.
4. I weighed 7 pounds 7 oz--smallest of all my siblings
5. I had L O N G fingers
6. I had L O N G toes
7. I had dark hair---not a lot at birth, but it grew fast. My hair has ALWAYS been long.. as soon as it could be anyway.
8. I was the second child---me and my older sister were 22 months apart.
9. My original due date was March 5 (my aunt MaShel's b-day)
10. I was born a day before my Grandpa Hartshorns birthday (March 16th). I guess I needed my own day! Weird because my mom thought I looked like Grandpa Hartshorn when I was born
11. My parents liked the name Bridget and the pretty ring it had to it
12. My middle name is after my two great grandma's (Mae and May..hence the Maye).
13. The hospital I was born in only had about 10 rooms
14. The Dr. that delivered me was named Dr. Head
15. We lived in Tetonia, Idaho when I was born. We lived in a trailer home behind Grandma and Grandpas store that Mom and Dad ran... where our handprints once were in the cement.. I don't remember what happened to em!
16. My mom was only 21 when she had me
17. I have been told that when I used to drink my bottle my eyes went crazy... (microscawjawwiner---I am not making this diagnosis up... it really does exist.. go ask Dr. Anderson at the U of U)!
18. I was my mom's favorite baby... sorry sisters! :)
19. I was blessed on May 2nd by my Dad. My blessing dress was made by mom Mom out of lots of lace that Great Grandma Glover tatted for me.
20. I would cry all the way home to Tetonia after we left Grandma's cus I wanted her
21. I was always sick and caught every sickness that went around--my voice was hoarse a lot
22. I loved playing with dolls
23. I NEVER liked animals. Funny how things that start so young become WHO YOU ARE!
24. When I got older, I HATED wearing pants with zippers.. I would only wear pants with elastic!
25. I always wanted to be 'going'. If the car went somewhere, I was in it......with my purse that was completely organized with pen, paper and anything else I might need.
26. I didn't have a binkie after 6 months or a bottle after 12 months---I plan to carry this on for sure!!!
27. I never sucked my thumb and I was potty trained as soon as I turned 2!

...Our little girl...

Here she is!!!

This picture is my favorite!!! We, of course, think that she is perfect and I cannot stand not being able to hold her right NOW!

The appointment went GREAT!! The ultrasound tech was so nice and explained what she was seeing or checking during the whole visit. I had a hard time seeing it all, but Brandon knew exactly what she was looking at. I am going to have Brandon watch the whole thing with me again and explain it to me where I can see straight on and not on an angle!

She said that everything looks perfect! Oh man.. all my worrying for nothing! :) We are SO BLESSED! It took us so long to get her here and we are so excited!!!

Our little one takes after her Dad and has quite the hyper little personality. She was moving like crazy and let us see everything we wanted! I have started to feel her a lot and I think that explains why! :) The tech said that she was pretty much turning in circles the whole time!

She has super long toes and fingers and her second toe is WAY longer than the first... SORRY..that would be from ME!

The tech loved the name that we have picked out. I am sorry I just have something about not posting it yet! Soon enough...have to keep something a surprise! :)

It is so amazing to me that we can get a little glimpse of her when she is only 12 oz!! Brandon is thinking that she is looking like a GOLDSBERRY, but we can't figure out where that nose is coming from! :) Yes... they spelled my name wrong!

This is showing us that she is FOR SURE a girl! (looking from the bottom)

It is so exciting. Now I can continue my girl shopping and start on my quilt and projects!!!

HOME SWEET HOME!!!

We made it home on Friday night. Brandon's parents helped us load all of our junk that we hauled up there into our cars. It is a good thing that we have our cute little truck or we NEVER would have made it home with everything (work computer, clothes, my cricut machine, everything we bought for our baby---car seat/stroller, clothes etc). IT took us awhile of hauling loads into our apartment (3 flights of stairs). I was huffing and puffing. That seems to happen a lot these days! :) There was a lot to unpack. I was going to take a picture of it all, but I have the best husband in the world that went to town helping me get it all put away before I could even find the camera! I was so stinkin' excited to be HOME that I was nearly in tears! We stayed in bed FOREVER Saturday morning because our bed felt like HEAVEN! There is just something about being HOME!

Thanks to our families for EVERYTHING!!! The yummy food, the fun time we had spending time together, the laughs, our outings, and the memories. We have the best families around! It was so great to not have to be alone during those 8 weeks and always having someone around. Thanks to Cara, Hadlee, and Cora for the little distractions and breaks from work and keeping me sane during the day!! I won't know what to do here when I am alone during the day!
I have noticed at work at how forgetful I am getting! I find myself having to ask questions on things that came so easily and I had down before. YIKES!! I draw more blanks than even before! Luckilly everyone at work is VERY understanding. It just drives me CRAZY, but having a little one in the end will be so worth it!

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We have our next appt on Wednesday! This is the targeted ultrasound. We might be able to get a tiny idea of what she might look like and MAKE sure that she is a girl!!


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Brandon was really bummed that he couldn't finish the last 8 weeks of his internship in Logan. He worked in the inpatient part of PT and LOVED every second of it. IT really surprised me that he loved it so much when coming a little too close to being pooped on a couple times!! For those of you that know Brandon.... you know what I mean! LOL!!! He always had good stories to tell when he got home! This next internship is with Neuro patients, which is totally different, but it will be good experience and hopefully he will enjoy it also! He is applying for jobs and definitely looking forward to GRADUATON!!! I am so grateful that he chose the profession that he did in the scary economy right now. There will also be a need for healthcare and PT. There might not be oodles of positions, but we both feel pretty good about him finding a job here in Northern Utah. Everything will work out!