family

Another year whizzed by …. All 8 of us were all together for only 2 days this year – and that happened to be the day we said farewell to 92 year old Bob Bertelson; Dad to Nils, Father-in-Law to me and Grandpa to our 4 children. The background of the photo was taken by … Continue reading »

2 years since I posted here (but I did add our 2021 family photo to the gallery – link below) The ONE day that all but the NC couple were together this year was Christmas Eve. Loads of other photos and updates can be seen through the year are on my instagram (AlicetheBrit) and my … Continue reading »

Another year gone by!Mind you this last one seemed to be 5 years long !!! The ONE day that ALL of us were together this year was Nils’ birthday in October. Bullet points ….* Twix went over the rainbow at age 16.5) in Jan 2020* Matthew married Angela on 02/29/20* Kenzie moved back down here … Continue reading »

Another year gone by!We only had ONE day this year that ALL of us were together …… Christmas Day Bullet points ….* Matthew is engaged to Angela – we love her Their wedding is in February 2020, Date TBD* Twix still with us (16.5) but aging fast, very deaf & blind now* Grandpa well and … Continue reading »

The original plan for our Annual Family Photo this year was to do this drone shot of the family at the beach – but having only Christmas Day where all 4 of our kids and their significant others were all together meant we did it at Maddie’s house who hosted us all on Christmas Day. The Drone … Continue reading »

Once again I got this accomplished BEFORE the beginning of December!! YAY for Walgreens and the awesome 50% off coupon!! 2017 provided us the perfect opportunity to get not only all 6 of the Bertelson Bunch together in the same place at the same time, but also our newly acquired son-in-law Jonny who married our … Continue reading »

I am feeling SO proud of myself that I actually got this accomplished BEFORE the beginning of December even!! I mailed out the 70+  cards we are sending on Nov 30th!!  I like to wait until those have been delivered (well at least the majority of US bound ones, I know the UK, Japan, Canada … Continue reading »

The original plan for our Annual Family Photo this year was to do a Selfie Shot of the family. Since 2015 is the year of the #SelfieStick – combined with that I wanted to do it in a HIGH location (knowing that we would all be up in the Appalachia Mountains for Christmas at our … Continue reading »

In fact MORE than a year – this year’s photo is officially a…. HAPPY NEW YEAR photo !!! Our INITIAL idea for the 2014 photo was something completely different and we WERE going to try and accomplish it at Thanksgiving …. the first time that all 6 family members would be in Palm Beach County … Continue reading »

OK, so it’s that time again 🙂 Below is this years edition of our family photo (click on it to see larger version) We did have some great photos from Bali (Summer vacation) but only the 3 girls went with us so they were missing Matt – so we decided to create a different one … Continue reading »