Happy Fathers' Day Everyone!!

This post is entirely devoted to Fathers on this great day. I love my husband more than words can express but I will spend eternity trying! I love all of the fathers and fathers in law in my life and I am forever thankful for all they have done to either raise me or my husband. Please enjoy the pics!

Wow Skye, such a great sister pic

Freddy Kruger

Pops' "I am so happy" smile

Mee-wow

priceless

Roarke LOVES playing with balloons!

Me in my luau get up

I really like this picture

And he loves the Lei

Ada has a serious shoe fetish and I know she didn't get it from me!!

Blueberry pie. We also had a homemade key lime pie which we didn't get a picture of as it was eaten way too fast! Any of you who know my mom know she is a master key lime pie maker so it was fantastic!!

We had steak AND lobster! What a meal!

These are the lobsters. I was so surprised that Ada actually ate them this time!! She also ate some edamame (soybeans) and corn as long as we let her dip them in BBQ sauce so...we let her of course! I also gave in and let her have a bite of pie, but after that she closed her mouth and turned her head and resolutely asked for her berries! I love that she eats good things!!

Awww, the one time where they aren't fighting!

The pie being made

Yeah ain't we cute...?

The decorations

Ada will actually let me put hair clips in her hair for a few hours which makes me so happy!

P.S.- we have a video of surprising Pop with his Fathers' Day extravaganza if you want to check it out!

Walking

Roarke is walking now (well he's been stumbling along for quite some time now but he's now at the stage where he's really doing it alone and without falling; he actually will choose to walk much more often!!). Ada loves playing in the sand and someone at church recently gave us a free turtle sandbox so we just had to go out and buy more sand! Ada loves it and now so does Roarke! This is Ada playing at the park near us before we had our own sandbox.

Playing with the sand
Posing for the camera

Roarke loves to chase Ada around; she doesn't like it when he catches her and tackles her to the ground though...

When Meemaw comes home and takes her shoes off, Ada will go find them and try them on!

She loves having her picture taken!

Roarke will stick anything in his mouth! We actually had to leave church early today (right after sacrament) as he was screaming bloody murder even though he had his taggie blanket!! When we got home I gave him some childrens' motrin and about 10 seconds later he was out cold! Poor little guy, he had a tough hour and a half of screaming so I'd be exhausted too!

Also, we have a new video up of Roarke walking around the kitchen so that's been uploaded to You tube! I know I used to have them all easily on the blog, but that gadget no longer works so if you want to watch our videos, click on the you tube link on the side of the page or go to You Tube and look up greenfighter3 and it'll bring up all of the videos.

Another note: Ada is having a party on June 26th at 10 am so if you want to come just let me know! We let her pick the decorations so she chose her favorite movie: Disneys' Princess and the Frog!!

Mothers' Day and other assorted happenings

Hello Family and Friends!!

Well it's been a long time since you've had an update, so here I am obliging you all!!

The Beard Familys' new dog Snickers!! She's a King Charles Cavalier spaniel and about 13 weeks old. Yes, she was the runt of the litter as she is sooo tiny!
Before Ada new she shouldn't be in the crate, as it is supposed to be the dogs' alone place!!

Awww, holding her. Had to teach Ada not to lift her up by her hind legs or her neck...

Can't believe I never posted these!! This was the spread created for my mom and I on Mothers' Day. The boys and Skye did EVERYTHING! Not helping with the kids and dinner was tough (not that they didn't do a wonderful job) but it was hard not to help when they didn't know where something was or the like...just means my mom and I will have to pull out all the stops for Fathers' Day!

Skye put all of our names at our places!

My mom is lactose intolerant and fat intolerant (as she is always trying to be super healthy) so Skye made angels food cake!

We have a birthday bag, and this is it's cousin the mothers' day bag!

What we walked into

randomly cute pictures of Ada; it is easier to get pictures of her as she stands still!

My little bookworms! We also take the kids on Tuesday mornings to the library where they have reading time and crafts for kids 1-2, so Roarke tags along! Adas' favorite part is the computer time though...guess we'll have to eventually spring for KidSpiration or something!! Guess she inherited her mothers' love for computers!

Here Daddy! Read to me!

Roarke doesn't quite get the idea yet, that's why all of his books are board books and we don't let him check out library books yet...

Check out our new videos on YouTube too!

Skyes' Birthday and other assorted adventures

We have been a bit busy lately, with the move, Josh driving like an man on a mission across the country (not really stopping for more than 2 hrs at a time to sleep), Skyes' birthday and now the aquarium! Here are some pics of what we have been doing lately. Gazing at fish
In the shark tunnel

Not sure where we were in this picture, but somewhere near a fish tank!

Almost everyone wanted in on this picture!

My happy little man just chilin while Daddy chases Ada around

It was a lot like this...what can I say she was excited!!

Checking out the penguins

Here is the shark we all touched!! Even Roarke touched it and looked at me and squealed!! Priceless!! Later we touched sting rays, sea cucumbers and star fish too.

More fish, sharks, sea turtles and sting rays!

Playing in the sea weeds

The Megalodon jaws

Roarke did this a lot in the beginning until he saw the fish and knew I was right behind him

Sometimes I feel like he is a goat. He will put anything in his mouth and bite it. I think he is just like Sunny in the movie a Series of Unfortunate Events!!

Ada in her favorite pot

Skyes' birthday! Yes, there is the infamous birthday bag behind them all!!

Dangerous

I am sorry in advance Mom, but other than the fact that your eyes are closed this is a great picture!!

So excited!!

Be sure to view our new video too!!