One month from today!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, next month at this exact time we will be celebrating the marriage of Stephen and Linseys wedding (did I spell her name right this time??).

We will all be together and happy and relaxed. Everything is looking rosie, at least for the Berger family, I hope the same goes for all of you.

Has everyone gotten what they are going to wear?? I haven't and I really don't have time to go look, so everyone give me so ideas, tell me what you are wearing, colors, that kind of thing.

House Colors

I am having my popcorn ceilings removed from all my ceilings in the Raleigh house. Plus the wallpaper in the kitchen, downstairs hall bathroom, and master bathroom, removed and painted. So now I need to pick colors. I think this is what I am looking at right now.

Kitchen: Butter yellow on the top, above chairrail, and white beadboard on the lower half. I would like to put a bead board back splash all along the counters, with a brilliant blue glass tile backsplash above the stove.

Downstairs bathroom:
Sea Foam Green. I will have the trim painted white.

Master Bedroom: The wall that the bedroom goes on will be chocolate brown, and the other three walls will be a creamy beige.

Master Bathroom: ??????

Any suggestions??? What do you think of what I have picked so far???

Patrick Berger got a new job!!

Patrick has been job hunting in Anaheim, CA trying to get a job near his girlfriend Ashley. He was hoping he would find one before we moved, and today he got a call from the one he really liked!! They are paying him the same amount he makes at Jeep, and they will be sending him to school!!! Isn't that great??

Selling Houses

I think over the past four months of trying to sell our house, and I feel exhausted. It is demoralizing to have people come into your home, that you feel is so beautiful and homey, and they paw through your stuff, and they tell us our house is lacking. "it's to old", "it has a small backyard", even though I know in my brain that my house is beautiful, I still doubt myself. I keep doing improvements. I have refinished the wood cabinets in every bathroom, hallway and kitchen. Gardening in a backyard that I know will not benifit me in the long run. Cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. Waking up on Sunday morning, knowing you have to get dressed and straighten up, in case someone calls to view it. I always dreamed of having a really clean house all the time, now I long for a house with newspapers on the table, glasses half full beside a chair. Books and magazines out for viewing, pictures of my family on my walls.

Now for the positive side. I have a beautiful house in California and North Carolina. My entire family is healthy and happy. We have a baby grandniece or nephew on the way, we will be at a family wedding in June, and I can fill my arms full of babies. I will be able to spend time with my favorite person, my beautiful and wonderfully kind sister, Mary. I will be with my wonderful daughter is is up for any kind of adventure. My two wonderful brothers will be there and that is always a treat. All my sisters kids will be there, and that is a huge treat all on its own, but now they have spouses that are to die for. My life is so blessed that it fills my chest up with emotion.

For those people out there reading this, can you name some things you are thankful for??

Positive Energy

I am learning to have positive energy, if a negative thought comes into my head, I try and get to a happy place. Like walking with the entire family in Yosemite, and thinking to myself, there wasn't anywhere in this world I would rather be than we these people, at this spot.

I believe positive energy works, I have to work at it, because it is a natural thing for me to get negative during stressful times, but I am going to work hard at being positive, and sending out positive energy.

Anyone else out there believe in positive energy??

I am a real blogger!!

Hi friends and family!!
I made my own blog. I cannot believe how clever I am. I love myself.
Don't ya wish your girlfriends were hot like me!!

Liz/AL/Mom