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FROM THE BERRIS FAMILY :>)

OUR BEST WISHES FOR A WONDERFUL 2012 ALAN, LILA AND KATIE BERRIS

Telephone number change: Alan and Lila Berris

Hello friends and relatives,

Lila and I wanted to let you know that we are discontinuing our
land-line telephone service and are only going to have our cell phones.

Please cancel all listings you have of the 805-683-3401 number.

Alan can be reached and left messages at 805-455-6063.

Lila can be reached and left messages at 805-895-4363.

We hope this change causes you no confusion or problems. Sorry if
you get duplicate e-mailings of this letter.

Take care and thank you.

Alan and Lila Berris

KATIE IS MOVING AUGUST 24, 2009

The adventures of Katie, Alan, Lila, Bonnie the Shih-Tzu, and Bart the African Gray Parrot is moving to FaceBook.....just a lot easier to deal with.....see you there!

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=100000212460911&ref=profile

IS NO NEWS GOOD NEWS?

Yep, we are all alive and well....just absent from blogging: so little time.

It has been nearly a year since the last entry.

Katie has not lost any of her baby teeth yet, and they are no looser. The dentist isn't worried, but I think a six year old needs a nice gap in her uppers to look like a six year old is meant to look.

Ok well, the tooth fairy probably needs a government bailout anyway.

KATIE'S GROWING UP

Well....I haven't seen Katie this excited in forever.

Yesterday Lila took her to the dentist for a regular checkup, and they were told that two of her teeth were just barely starting to loosen.

She is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO proud and ecstatic....she has wanted a loose tooth for at least a couple of years.

It will prove two things:

1) She really is growing up.
2) That fairies (at least tooth fairies) really do exist and are generous with money.

Katie's Finer Uses of the English Language

taste-bugs = taste-buds
"Taste bugs are on my tongue and make pizza taste good."

crunches = crutches
"My teacher sprained her ankle and was walking on her crunches today."

hannaber = hamburger
"I can say hannaber the right way now!"

bisset = biscuit
"Bissets are my favorite bread."

vimanin = vitamin
"Please give me my vimanin right now so I can get down from the table."

crinkle = wrinkle
"That lady's face has a lot of crinkles."

ambleeeyance = ambulance
"Whenever I hear an ambleeeyance it means somebody is going to the hospital to be dead soon."

talow = towel
"I wiped my body with the talow."

YES, WORLD, KATIE'S ERSTWHILE FAMILY IS STILL HERE.....MORE OR LESS. HERE ARE SOME UN-CAPTIONED PHOTOS FROM MAY 27, 2007 THROUGH JUNE 23, 2007.

BLUEBERRY PICKING. 06-09-2007

Today we took a ride to the Santa Barbara Blueberry Farm at Restoration Ranch. It is on Hwy 101 right between the Gaviota tunnel and the town of Buellton. We had a great time picking berries, noshing a LOT, and enjoying the differences between the 13 subvarieties of the "Southern Highbrush Blueberries" they grow. We got there and the weather was just perfect, mid-70's with a nice breeze. Got our little pails and went out to the fields. We didn't eat as many as we picked, but we ate a lot, they are really great...some of them are as big as grapes, ripe, sweet and intense. We took home two pails worth and have been eating them by the handful....well....it is healthfood after all. They have more antioxidants than almost anything else you can eat. Anyway we will be going back very soon. They have picking from mid-May to mid-September.

OUR HOUSEWARMING CACUS IS FLOWERING!!!

This is the cactus that Alan's folks gave us as part of the housewarming gift in December 1999. It was in a 6 oz. bowl and was about as thick as a thumb and had the length of a pinky finger. As you can see, 7 1/2 years later, it has seven babies and is flowering for the first time ever....we are thrilled.....

Thanks again, Buby and Zady.