2013!

 Scott and I spent New Year’s Eve also in Driggs! My Aunt Hylin and her family are up visiting from Florida so we don’t get to see them very often. I haven’t seen most of the family in over 5 years! So we thought it was the perfect excuse to spend some time with them. Scott and I went up to Targhee to celebrate the last day of 2012! It was so very cold! I don’t think it got above 6-8 degrees while we were there! It was my first boarding of the year and I could definitely feel it! I had fun boarding but with being with child and all I was VERY cautions and therefore didn’t really push myself hard, go fast or try any new tricks. I think I’ll prob go one more time before I get to big but I don’t really want to spend the money on it seeing as I can’t really go and do the things I really enjoy doing for fear of crashing. It was still nice to go though and Scott had a blast! He loves skiing, and would go everyday if we had the money and time for it. He has started teaching ski lessons at Kelley Canyon and he loves it! It doesn’t pay well but he isn’t doing it for the money. He does it just because he enjoys doing it. That night we partied with the family playing games and eating our hearts out! As soon as the New Year rolled in though I kissed my sweetheart then headed to bed. I’m not a big party animal these days.

The New Year brought with it snowshoeing! Now although snowshoeing is more of an intense workout then a leisurely activity I have always enjoyed doing it. I went with my sister in law Crystal, my brother Scott, my cousin Vanessa and her fiancé Scott Davis. My Scott decided he wanted to spend the first day of the year also skiing so he went up to Kelley Canyon to teach some lessons and hit the slopes! Sorry... didn't take any pictures...

 A week following the New Year Scott and I were able to attend the sealing of my cousin Vanessa and her husband Scott Davis. This adds the FOURTH Scott to the family! I thought what a great way to start a New Year! It was a beautiful ceremony and a very cold day! They seem perfect for each other though and I wish them luck with their new life together!

All of the Scott's in the family taking a picture with their wives

December

We had a very busy December. With Christmas right around the corner and trying to find a new place to live. Everyday seemed to be filled with things to do.

A week before Christmas my brother Scott, his wife Crystal, my mom and of course Scott and I went on a little road trip to Portland Oregon to visit my sister Katrina, her husband Taylor and their three cute kids! We left Friday night around 10:30 pm, drove through the night switching off drivers, and arrived at the Funk house around 9:30 am Saturday morning. The trip actually went surprisingly fast. I was a little worried because I’m still suffering from some morning sickness and usually I feel the worst in the morning and at night. But the night went by and for the most part I was morning sickness free.  During our few day stay we went to the Hobbit while Grandma stayed home with the kids, went to a GYNORMOUS book store and just hung out around the house and had a good time! I was a nice little vacation and it was great to get to hang out with the Funk’s for a few days!  We drove back Tuesday and the trip back felt quite a bit longer then the trip there. I guess it pays to be sleeping more than half the drive.

At the Portland Temple

 My sister Katrina and my cute niece Holland!

The whole gang!

With Benson, Myer (upside down) and Holland.

We had a great Christmas will all our families! It’s so nice to live so close to both families so we can split our holidays. We spent Christmas Eve with Scott’s family. We had a delicious Christmas feast then got to open some awesome presents! I got a new pair of pajamas that I LOVE and wear all the time! They are so warm and especially since it has been so cold lately they have been great! Christmas morning was spent with just Scott, Cricket and I. It’s so fun to start new traditions with just the two, and soon to be, three of us! We had a great time opening our stockings, cooking a great Christmas breakfast and opening our presents together. After that was all done we headed up to Driggs to spend a couple days with my family. It was fun to open presents with everyone and just enjoy the small vacation from life.  The kids all got together and bought our parents a new dishwasher and I think it was the most used present throughout the holiday. With all the family that was up that thing ran nonstop for a week straight! It was also really nice not to spend half of our Christmas vacation doing hand dishes.

Christmas Morning!

Cricket opening her stocking

Scott opening his stocking

Me opening my stocking

 The mess after all the presents are opened!

 Merry Christmas everyone!

I can’t believe 2012 is over… It’s amazing to look at where Scott and I were a year ago and where we are today. So much has changed and we have been so truly blessed! We have great jobs, have an awesome ward and were able to accomplish a lot of our 2012 goals! It will be fun to see what 2013 brings. With a new member of the family on the way we can expect great change! But it will be a fun new adventure to add to our new life together. 

November...

We had a pretty good November... Me especially with it being my birthday month and all. For my birthday Scott and I both stayed home from work and I either laid in bed or lounged on the couch (being morning sick and all) while Scott pampered me and cooked me all my meals. In the afternoon Scott needed me to be gone out of the house so I called up Clarissa and made her take me maternity shopping. Later that night Scott had planned a surprise get together with all our friends at Wingers and then to the play Wizard of Oz! I loved it! After the play we all headed back to our apartment for presents, cake and ice cream. It was a really great birthday. Thank you Scott for throwing a great party!

Me with all my Birthday Present. The reason I am wearing the oversized pajamas is because I was given them by my good friend Jordan who things after I am 8 months pregnant I will then need a size of XXL pajamas to sleep in because my regular ones wont fit anymore. So thank you Jordan!

The following weekend we celebrated my birthday with the family. Scott's family on Saturday and with my family on Sunday where we told them the big news! To let everyone know we were expecting I had Scott give me a "birthday present" that was a baby picture frame and I'd pull it out of the bag and say "Oh cute, it's a picture frame" Then I'd turned it around and just waited holding it until everyone caught on. Everyone was very excited!

My birthday pie! I made pie because I don't love cake. I still can't believe I'm 25... It feels so old! In my mind I'm still just 23.

 Scott and I with the baby picture frame I made

The benefit of living so close to each of our families is that a lot of our holidays can be split between the two families. Scott's family has always ate Thanksgiving dinner on Friday so that on Thanksgiving day they could go skiing. Now that most of the kids are grown and married they have kept doing it on Friday because it's more convenient with having to split family time. So Thursday Scott and I headed up Driggs to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family. I love being with the whole family! It's always so much fun to get together. Unfortunately we were not able to go skiing because Targhee decided not to open the hill until the day after Thanksgiving. We headed back to Idaho Falls on Friday and then celebrated Thanksgiving with Scott's family. Both dinners were very good! We are a little spoiled to get two Thanksgiving dinners every year :)

The past three months....

Pregnancy.... No exactly what I expected, but I don't think one can fully ever prepare for it. We grow up seeing women with cute little bellies all over the place thinking that one day, when we are older, we will be able to experience this fun, happy, joyful experience for our selves. Well.... I'm not saying its been ALL bad, but it's definitely different then I expected. For starters, morning sickness... One can NOT prepare for morning sickness... And its not that feeling nauseous all day is terrible... Its feeling nauseous all day, all night, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 2 months straight that really starts to make it miserable. Thankfully, you do get used to the toilet being your best friend... The first couple weeks was the hardest... But then you get used to it and it just becomes a part of your everyday life. Then you have all the other symptoms... being overly tired all the time, breaking out in zits all over your body, not feeling like eating anything, ever, having to pee every half an hour (Does it sound like I'm complaining?)

BUT, like I said earlier... It isn't ALL bad. There is nothing like seeing your baby on that Ultrasound screen for the first time with the soon to be father by your side. Words can't describe the millions of thoughts and feelings that you have. Its still surreal. You see that image, and you know that its showing you what's inside YOUR body, but you still can't believe that you have a body inside of you. And then you get to tell your family and friends. And everyone is so excited and happy for you! And they cry and smile and laugh and give you hugs. You also get your own personal insulation system. Which is coming in handy now that we are moving into the winter months. Then you still have many things to look forward to. Feeling the baby move inside of you for the first time. Letting the father to be, feel the baby move for the first time. Finding out the gender of the baby. Having an excuse to buy a whole new wardrobe. Pregnancy is pretty amazing. And yes, it is hard sometimes, and your sick of feeling sick all the time, but there is still so much to look forward to. I'm excited for the future and for the opportunity that Scott and I have to start a family together. And have I mentioned I have the most amazing husband ever? Because I do. He has been so amazing through everything, and pampers me like crazy. He has definitely picked up the slack around the house that I haven't been in the mood to do lately. He really is so good to me. Not all things in pregnancy are fun, happy and joyful, but in the end the good outweigh the bad and I'm excited to start this new adventure and chapter in our lives.

Ok, I'm now done with all the mushy, complaining stuff.... :) As you can see from the earlier picture, Baby Bergy will make its appearance on or near June, 1st 2013. I am currently 12 weeks pregnant.

13.1

Yes.... Scott and I have officially joined the 13.1 HALF MARATHON CLUB!!!!! Pretty much you can just call us super awesome runners now... Because we are. It has always been a goal of mine to run a half marathon and I'm very happy I have accomplished it. I know Scott now wants to go on to bigger better things (Like a full marathon) but my personal goal has been met and I don't really have a desire at this time in my life to go beyond the half.

How was it, you ask? Well lets just say it was harder then I expected. I have been training and the furthest I'd ran during my training was 12 miles. So I really didn't think 13 miles would be that much harder. I think the problem was it was only 3 weeks after the Red Rock Relay and the week before we hiked Table Rock... So I don't think my body had fully recovered. Also... I discovered later that I was 5 weeks pregnant at the time. So that may or may not have helped. But anyways... I think for Scott and I both, we thought the first 10 miles went pretty slick and the last 3 miles felt like an additional 10. haha My goal had been to run it under 2 hours, but I ended up running it in 2:07:38 (which isn't bad) and Scott's goal was to run it in under 2 1/2 hours and he ended up running it in 2:17:00 Which was so so awesome! I was so proud of him! He did soooooo good!

At the finish line with our medals!

Well that's the end of our bragging... We didn't really get any pictures because we were both running, but we had a good time regardless of the pain that it caused! No more big races this year, but we'll see what next summer brings!

Red Rock Relay!

So... The reason for the decision to do intense running training all summer! The Red Rock Relay! For those of you who don't know what this is (I stole the description from the website because it was better then mine)...

Teams of 12 run relay style through 187 miles of southern Utah's most stunning landscapes in a journey that starts on a Friday morning at Brian Head ski resort and ends sometime the following day at the base of Zion National Park. Teams split into two cars so one set of six runners can rest while the other set of six takes turns running their legs of the race. Teams switch off running and resting until each runner has run three times, and then they are all standing together in a exhausted daze at the finish line, gazing up at the base of an extraordinary red rock monolith. 

 Cricket was our team mascot

I feel so accomplished after running this! Scott and I both ran it and I was so proud of him. Scott isn't really a distance runner, more of a sprinter, but he trained hard through shin splints and got to a point where he could run the distances he would need to! I thought he did so so good! So there is a total of 36 legs. I ran legs 10, 22 and 34 and Scott ran the legs right before mine so that he would hand off to me. So he ran 9, 21 and 33. I ran a total of 17.8 miles and Scott ran a total of 11.5. It was so intense but was also a lot of fun. It was fun to be apart of a team and to have the support of them and also the other teams. Our team did great to! We finished the race in 29 1/2 hours! It was a lot of work with little sleep and lots of running. But like I said before, I feel very accomplished.

Scott finishing his first leg

 Me waiting to start my first leg

 Scott handing off to me

Clarissa and her boyfriend Justin were also apart of the team. Clarissa ran legs 1, 13 and 25 for a total of 10.8 miles and Justin ran lets 4, 16 and 28 for a total of 18.5 miles! I was impressed with Clarissa because she only started training for the race less then a month before she ran it! We were glad she joined though because we were a runner short and that would have meant more running for other people. Other members of the team consisted of Sharna (my old roommate) and her sister and father. And a bunch of random other people who came together by knowing someone or another on the team.

Clarissa and Justin after the race

 Justin, Clarissa, me, Scott

 So strong!

 With our medals!

 It was fun having Clarissa run with us! I'm glad she did it :)

 Next year we plan on running the Grand Teton Relay with my family! So everyone better get training!

The tunnel... And Scott running like a dork

Bragging time! About a month before we ran the race Scott was given the opportunity to hike the Grand Teton with one of his old roommates and a bunch of his friends! This was his second time climbing it and I'm very proud of him! The first time he climbed it he climbed it in one day. This time he climbed it in two and said if he ever had the choice he would chose to do it in one day. They backpacked to the lower saddle and camped in the saddle on the first day and then finished to the top on the second before climbing down. He said it was to much work to pack everything up and then have to pack it down and he would much rather just have a day pack. He was a little stiff from having to carry the pack and just had a little bit of a hard time walking the next couple days but he enjoyed going all the same. He is my mountain goat that's for sure. :) I hope that in the next few years he'll be able to take me up with him!

Mother/Daughter Outing

 Every year or so all of my mother-in-law's sisters and their daughters go on an outing together. This year we went down to southern Utah to go white water rafting on the Colorado River near Moab!

On the bus heading to the drop off location for rafting

 Red rock of southern Utah

 The whole group!

 Aunt Denise wanted a picture too!

 My mother-in-law decided it would be funny to splash Janette. So naturally, with the help of myself, she was the first one to be tossed out of the raft :)

 At one point everyone had been pushed, pulled or thrown in the water except for Grandma Bird! Well we didn't think that would fly and next went Grandma into the water! We were very gentle about it, but thought it was only fair. She did great though! This is a picture of our Guide (can't remember his name) pulling her back into the raft.

 The water was very brown and dirty. You couldn't see your hand at all after it was 6 inches under the water.  but the water was also very warm, which made me happy.

 The whole gang after rafting. Our group all wore green M&M shirts and all the other rafters loved it! Everyone called us "The Green M&M's" which was pretty fitting :)

 I can't remember her name, or where she was from, but we saved this girl after she had floated quite a ways down stream from her own raft. She was foreign and was with a group of people that had come to the United States on a three week tour. She was really cute and nice.

The next day after rafting we all went to the Olympic Park in Park City, Utah to ride the Alpine slides and to go zip lining! It was great to be able to hang out with all the cousins and Aunt's for a few days!