Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Bowling Fun

Last Friday we went bowling with some of the family. It was Sophie's first time bowling but she was kind sick so she wasn't really that into it. You have to check out the video of my niece Mia bowling at the bottom. She danced every time she would throw the ball.

What a good looking group!

Grandma and Grandpa Beaird came for moral support/child care

Isn't she just the sweetest?

I love those tights on Sophie. Just a little moment with daddy and daughter.

This video is awesome. You go Mia!

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Enjoying The Warmer Weather

Enjoying The Warmer Weather

Sophie loves slides.

Here are a few shots

at the park on Wednesday

when the weather was nice

and warm. Sophie you are

so cute and happy!












Friday, March 19, 2010

Going Bald? Hopefully Not

You may think at first that I am referring to Mike, but it is not so. Mike has a nice full and thick head of hair. I, on the other hand, am losing my hair or at least some of it. When I was getting my hair done in February, Ciara, my awesome hair stylist, found two nickel size spots of missing hair. I didn’t really think too much about it, but since then it has gotten progressively worse. I do not have an official diagnoses yet (the Dr. appt is next week) but we are pretty sure that it is Alopecia Areata. Basically totally health people can have their hair just fall out in patches. There is no cure and not really any long-term treatments either. Most treatment is just observation so I figured I should take a few pictures just to track the progress of it.

They say that no two cases of Alopecia are alike. Some people lose just little patches and then it grows back in a few months, years, or not at all. In others it will just continue to fall out. Some people can lose all their hair completely for years and then it will start growing back in again. It is just really unpredictable. I will give you an update after seeing my Dr.


It a little hard to tell from the pictures, but one spot is on the top of my head near my part. The other is under my hair on my right side as pictured in the last photo.

These two are the same spot


This one is a little bigger, but it's under my other hair so you can't really see it.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Cancun Part Two

I was hoping to get some more pictures from our friends but we just haven’t gotten together to make the exchange. So here are more of the photos that we took. We went to this place called Xplorer. It was like a theme park mostly made from underground caves. One of our favorite parts was the swimming and rafting in the underground rivers. There was also 11 zip lines and ATV/Carts that we drove in and out of caves and around a path through the park.








We were very tired by the end of the day so we sacked out in some hammocks for a while.

On the last full day we enjoyed the ocean one last time before going home. I miss the waves and blue water.


Saturday, March 6, 2010

Cancun Part 1


Cancun has been really fun! We are having a blast and enjoying the weather and the beach. We spent one day in the water and boogie boarding and another day we went out to Chichen Itza to the Mayan Ruins. It was amazing! It was incredible to be standing next to such awesome history. Here are a few pictures from our trip so far.

Getting ready to go boogie boarding and have fun in the waves

My cute hubby posing on the beach

This is the first evening looking from the beach back at the hotel. It was a little overcast but still beautiful.

The hotel had bike and a group of us rode around town

Chichen Itza

This is the main temple in the center of Chichen Itza

This is the hoop that the players had to get the ball through only using there hips, shoulder and I think knees. If it looks high, that's because it is.


This is a very little Mayan woman selling tortilla napkins. She was maybe 3 1/2 feet tall. Most of the Mayan people we saw were very little.

This is an area that has been excavated and exposed layers of the city that had been covered. In different eras buildings would be knocked down and the foundations would be added to and built on again.


Some of the symbolic carvings

This are some of the masks that the locals make by hand and paint with plants of different colors. It was really neat watching them make them. We bought one to add to our collection.

Mike and Joe hanging out waiting for the group.

This is part of the Mayan city outside of Chichen Itza.