Sophie,

Thank you for no more poopy diapers. Your dad and I are really happy that you tell us when you have to poo. We have not had to change a poopy diaper in months. I know soon you will not need diaper at all. Great job!

Love, Mommy and Daddy

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

Sophie Looking for Bjorn

A Little Twinkle Twinkle

It's hard to capture the whole song, so here is a piece that I could actually get on tape. We have more video of her on our other camera that I still need to download.

Funny Kids

Mike and I recently were called to be teachers for the CTR 4 class at church. It is 4 year olds turning 5. They are honestly the best class in all of junior primary. There are 2 other classes of kids their same age and those classes are much more wiggly. We love our little group.

Last Sunday one of the kids in our class said, "Jesus lives in the north pole." Mike and I did all we could not to laugh too hard. I said "no, that is Santa that lives at the north pole. Jesus lives in heaven." Then he said, "Well, didn't Jesus use some sort of weapon and go to the north pole to get to heaven?" We could hardly talk because we were holding back our laughter. I said "No, Jesus was raised in to heaven through the sky and he didn't have any weapons."

Oh, kids...that have such funny things to say!

Being Crafty

A week or so ago I made this towel
poncho for Sophie. I bought the
towel for $4! I think it turned out
really well. I made it a little big
so that she can grow into it.
I also made a matching one for her doll.



I know, it can double as a
costume for a church Christmas party.
She would be quite a colorful Mary with baby Jesus.