Ashlie and Chris Bernard

nothing new to report...

2011-10-17T12:24:00.001-07:00

sorry nothing big is happening lately. but i will report as soon as there is a story...

october now...

2011-10-04T15:17:00.000-07:00

took Chris up to the airport last friday to send him off to SFAS (special forces assesment and selection). http://http//youtu.be/FTVLKGsZCKc this is what he is doing, and it has been a dream for Chris for a long time (not the SFAS part, but the after affects) he tried it last year, but he couldn't finish because he blew out his knee. i hope he is doing awesome. Love you Babe!!!

the last bits of summer

2011-10-04T15:14:00.001-07:00

we had such a great time...sorry to see it end

Darryl D...

2011-10-04T15:10:00.001-07:00

So my little man is a tornado. He never ever stops! He can demolish an entire house in less than 10 min without breaking a sweat. he is a little boy through and through!he is very into catching bugs lately, and unfortunatly, we have an abundance...

So the kiddies started school...

2011-10-04T14:55:00.000-07:00

Adrie was so excited to go to school all day, she said that school lunch was her favorite time.

Samantha also started kindergarten this year. She has the afternoon class, and she is with her best friend Lillee. Thank Goodness for that!

holy cow!!

2011-08-28T13:01:00.001-07:00

we have had a way way fun summer!!

everyone is growing so fast!!

we have played in the water every day and everyone has some awesome tan lines!!
Adrie finally got to ride a horse!!! thanks to uncle kyle and aunt jana!!!

PUPPIES!!!

2011-02-25T08:33:00.000-08:00

Jessie is the proud mother of 5 little baby girls! They are so so cute, and the girls are just having a blast with them. The poor little ones are loved to within an inch of their little lives, but it is so fun! and yes in case you were wondering, they are for sale...

2011-02-25T08:13:00.000-08:00

My sweet little Adriane turned 6! I still can't believe that it has been 6 years! it seems like yesturday that we welcomed her into our lives! Love you my special sweetheart!

Darryl D

2011-02-25T07:59:00.000-08:00

Sorry i put these photos in the wrong order...anywhoo, my baby has turned one!!! we had a birthday party where he had a way fun time with all his fun cousins, and he really loved his cake! and he also started walking! he is so cute toddling all over!

just the day to day...

2010-12-07T16:08:00.000-08:00

we haven't really done anything spectacular for a while, but i thought we could share a little of the everyday stuff...

HUGE pile of leaves...glad we finally got them all raked up!

mom and Darryl having a little dance in the kitchen...

Darryl "D" helping mom with all the dishes. he is an expert at taking the silverware out.

Adrie and Sammy just "huggin it out" sweet sisters!

we are just now getting ready for Christmas...so we will hopefully post again soon!

update...

2010-09-06T22:16:00.000-07:00

We have had alot happen in just a month, I just can't believe it! Our camera is broken, so pictures are slim to none, because i have to take them with my phone. Anyway, our darling Adriane has started school! She is in the morning class, and her teacher is Mrs. Norton. We were so lucky to get her, and Adrie is just having a blast. I love taking her to school every morning and watching her run so fast with her giant backpack bouncing around on her back. She likes to pack it with the funniest things too, like the first day she took 5 bottles of water in case she got thirsty, the next day she took a straw cup because 5 bottles of water was too heavy, and then the next day she took a bag of doughnuts. She just cracks me up.
Samantha is doing preschool at home with me, (sometimes we just go to the brew store, because she already knows her colors, shapes, numbers, and letters).
Little Darryl hit a milestone this last week as well...he is mobile! He started crawling on Friday, and every time i put him down, he gets a little bit better. he is crawling like a champ now!
Chris has just left to go to SFAS (special forces assesment and selection). he has been training all year for this and i hope it pays off. He has to be gone for 3 weeks of torture and brutality. They are testing physical and mental stamina for any signs of weakness, and I know alot of men break under the pressure, I am really nervous for him, I hope he does really well. I know he will be sore when he gets home. Other that, I think we are caught up...

2010-08-09T16:39:00.000-07:00

we had a way fun week at the EC fair this year...first we went up to see the pagent, (which is still the same thing every year, but we still love it) and then we went for 3 days in a row and did just about everything that we could. The girls and Chris were in the parade, while Darryl myself and Grandma Laurie watched. The girls got their faces painted 2 days in a row, we had a few navajo tacos, a lot of corn on the cob...and i won $17.oo! Chris also got a chance to play "minute to win it" but he had a little trouble with the cup stacking game. The funniest part was the hypno hick. he was so so funny, and one of the people hypnotized sat on Chris's lap acting like a puppy, and then tried to kiss him...but then i turned around and there was one on Samantha too!! She was in the stroller at the time, and she jumped off super fast and hid underneath in the little basket!

funny times!

2010-08-09T16:26:00.000-07:00

This month Chris and a couple of his friends decided to try the triathalon in huntington...so we woke up super early...and went to watch. They didn't do as well as they had hoped, but they still did way awesome! Chris had one of the fastest running times of everyone, and we are super proud of him!!! hopefully they will do better next year. it was so funny because sammy and little darryl fell asleep during the whole thing and adrie found a bunch of kids her age to play with. they didn't even see chris come across the finish line...

2010-07-15T09:58:00.000-07:00

we had such a fun time this week, we had to take Adrie up to a Dr. appointment, so we ended up getting a hotel room, and having a blast! we swam in their pool(which was just as cold as jumping in the lake) and the next day after the doc, we went to the zoo. it was such a hot day, and we were there right in the middle of the day but we had a blast!

a lot has happened since the last time i posted...

2010-07-11T16:35:00.000-07:00

here i am sitting on a Sunday afternoon with a little time on my hands, so i thought that i would update because it has been quite a while since the last time. Here is a little of the things that are keeping our lives busy, and full of fun, and happiness...

little brother got RSV during the month of May, and it was hard because we had to do breathing treatments and different meds every 4 hours. the only way that i could keep it all straight was by having Chris program my phone to have reminders for every time and different medicine. we are so glad that its behind us now.

the girls had their dance recital in May as well and they were so so so cute! they hated the actual dance class and they never wanted to go, but they were so cute and they actually danced when it was their turn.

Chris has been taking the girls on fun little fishing trips, and they absolutely love it! This particular trip was up at Scofield.

Chris also took the girls camping with his friend Brian and his family. they went down to wild horse canyon, and hiked through. they came back so dirty and so tired, but they had a really good time.
We also had a bunch of birthdays right in a row, starting with Daddy, then Grandma Laurie, then Sammy!!! She turned 4, and we had a really fun time at the pool!

Darryl's Baby Blessing

2010-04-18T16:30:00.000-07:00

We had a great time today. All of our families came for Darryl's Blessing, and then we had dinner at our house after. its amazing how fast our families are growing! there were so many little ones around it seemed like everyone had someone to play with. We are so lucky that we all live so close to one another And we are so happy that Chris's brother Troy and his family came from Ephraim, and my sister came from Cedar City. It was really nice to see everyone!!!!!

so we had an incident...

2010-04-18T16:22:00.000-07:00

Adrie found some gum that i had, and she ended up with a huge piece of it stuck in her hair, and she wouldn't let me even see it for several days, and then finally she let me look. it was almost all of her hair caught in this piece of gum by now, so i asked her what she wanted to do, try peanut butter and a comb or just cut it, and she says, "will it hurt to comb it?" and i said probably, and so she thinks for a minute and says, "just cut it mom." so we cut it off, and she loves her new haircut.

So CuTe!!

2010-03-04T16:46:00.000-08:00

Our newest addition...

2010-02-22T16:41:00.000-08:00

We have been so busy with our new baby boy, that I haven't even posted any pictures yet. We welcomed baby Darryl to our family, on January 27, 2010. After two full days of labor, and falling down in the hospital parking lot, he came, happy and healthy at 9:04 pm. He weighed
7 lbs. 04 oz. and he was 20 1/2 inches long. He is growing so fast and will soon out grow his newborn baby satus. I am really enjoying 3 kids, even though my mom has been extreemly helpful so I haven't really had to go at it alone yet. We will post some more pictures soon.

sledding fun...

2009-12-21T09:32:00.000-08:00

we decided to go and visit Grandma Debbie, and we took our little sleds with us...the girls had so much fun going up and down the little hills around Grandma's house, until Samantha took a pretty good tumble. She was so covered in snow that she couldn't see anything, and Adrie kept telling us that she wanted to just get warm and then go back outside because the snow is so much fun. They were so cute!

2009-12-03T16:39:00.000-08:00

my girls decided that jessie was cold the other day, so they gave her a shirt, then some shoes...and a hat. but they thought that her mouth was cold, so they made her a "heffalump" it was so funny that i just had to take some pictures of them. thank goodness that the dog is so good spirited with children!

Chris's Crazy Contraption...

2009-11-15T21:31:00.000-08:00

My husband had to build this contraption for one of his engineering classes last year, but it didn't do well then, so after a lot of tinkering and changes in the engineering, he and his friend Brian made it into a pumpkin launching crazy machine! with help from Chris's brothers this trebuchet launched a pumpkin over 750 feet! They had a few problems at first, but on game day it worked like a charm. They were the only team that showed up for the Emery County Pumpkin chunkin party, but nobody could have beat them anyway. Their machine launched pumpkins farther than it had counter weight on it, and that is outrageous and crazy!!! GOOD JOB BOYS!!!

2009-10-26T10:52:00.000-07:00

grandma and grandpa

busy carving pumpkins

Kenny, Elisha, & Tyler

Josh & Angie

Steeny, Maddie, MeyRick, & Cov...

Halloween Party!!!

2009-10-26T10:45:00.000-07:00

this year was really fun except I got sick the day before the party so grandma laurie was nice and had it at her house.

2009-10-07T18:28:00.000-07:00

Halloween 2008. Our 2007 party is still on someone else's computer, but anyway at this party, Grandma Laurie made "witches brew" and it was the hit of the party... i wonder what she will come up with for this year... by the way our party is on Oct. 24 at my house...happy haunting!

2009-10-07T18:16:00.000-07:00

Halloween 2006, our 1st year of pumkin carving...Adrie, Sammy, Maddie, and Kade, with Grandpa Kent...

This girl likes dirt...

2009-06-20T15:43:00.000-07:00

Adrie has always liked dirt and water, so what is more natural than putting them together. She was having the time of her life at grandpa's house, and she dug a huge hole and made a mud hole right where he had just planted his potatoes...ooops!!! Sorry Grandpa! She was so covered in mud that she ditched her clothes and just played in her underwear...what a mess, but it was so funny!

the Sam-Sam...

2009-06-09T19:37:00.001-07:00

Adrie, Adrie, Adrie...

2009-06-09T19:28:00.000-07:00

the girls and their daddy...

2009-06-09T14:50:00.000-07:00

My silly dog Max...

2009-06-06T21:45:00.000-07:00

Max is so funny sometimes! He loves to run and play, but especially if it is HIGH ENERGY!!! He is so weird because he hates men...it took him days to finally quit growling at Chris and let Chris even touch him. But on the other hand, he is my little shadow. He won't even let me go to the bathroom by myself! Talk about a watch dog!!! Max loves to be loved and he loves it when someone gives him all their attention. The other funny thing about Max is that he loves to ride 4-wheelers and lawn mowers, and pretty much anything with a motor that will go reasonably faster than he can run. What a silly dog!!! But I love him!

My little girls are swimmers...

2009-06-05T16:29:00.000-07:00

It seems like as soon as summer comes, Adrie and Sammy practically live in their bathing suits. Every day rain or shine, they want to "swim" even if it is in the bathtub. They especially love to go to the pool with their life jackets. But even if they are only running through the sprinkler, they just love it. Yesturday, we put out the slip n slide, and what a fun time they had! Max (our dog) loved it too! He would chase them with his toungue hanging out and barking and jumping...it was really quite a sight with all of them running and running. They even talked me into sliding too, and wouldn't you know, I forgot all about the poor cell phone in my pocket! It went a little funny for a while but it is back to almost normal...I hope. But I was thinking to myself, what a fun memory for us. There is nothing like playing in the water!!!!

2009-06-04T09:45:00.001-07:00

Samantha is such a little sweetheart. She is so tenderhearted, and sweet. But if you get her mad, she will fight back. She is also a little comic. She loves to dance and sing. At some point of the day you can hear her singing as she is in the potty, or when she is concentrating on something. She sings to her dollies and stuffed animals and it is so cute! If you ask Sammy how old she is she says "tiny" and then says "see, I am little."

2009-06-04T09:28:00.000-07:00

Mornings are my craziest times. It seems that as hard as I try, it always seems like utter caos. My daughter Adrie is just NOT a morning person. She is a grizzly bear every time she wakes up. I think that is alot of the reason that we don't have naps anymore. She is so funny because she is always the first one awake...go figure. She is so much like her daddy that it is scarry. But other than her distaste of waking up and talking with other people, she is absolutly adorable. The way that she talks just cracks me up! She uses lots of big words like, actually, probably, irritating, fantastic, and instantly. But the really funny thing is that she really knows what they mean! It is the funniest thing when a four year old tells you that her younger sister is irritating her. Adrie is a really good swimmer too. She loves to swim in the `deep' part of the pool. She is so cute in her life jacket that she always has to wear. She has loved the water ever since she was born. She has never once cried during a bath. She is my little smart girl. Four going on twenty it seems like.

2009-06-03T22:02:00.000-07:00

Our dogs just had puppies about three weeks ago, and they are just getting their eyes open. They are so cute with their little baby eyes! Jessie is such a good mom to them, but with Adrie and Sammy aroud I am sure she is more than nervous.

This is just the begining...

2009-06-03T21:54:00.000-07:00

I am new at this, but I will give it a try...