Our baby Brody just celebrated his 2nd birthday on June 7th. We had family and friends join us at Disneyland, where he and his cousin Jake enjoyed their first ever visit to the happiest place on earth. Brody’s excitement over all of his Thomas The Train gifts was just so fun to watch. He actually turned down cake so he could play longer with his new trains! I presented him with a plate full of cake and he said… “no, no cake…. bye, bye”.

We now have the living room filled with trains! Here are some photos that I took at Disneyland and him opening and playing with gifts. I have some videos as well, but haven’t processed those just yet. Stay tuned.

It was such a nice and warm day on February 14th, we chose to spend it at the beach with Brody. He already went once in January with Melanie on an equally warm weekday (I was jealous at work). Most kids love the sand and water, but we think it’s in his blood already and it shows!

It was non-stop action with him; he was only temporarily occupied with my hole digging adventures. He wanted to be down by the water and watch the waves creep up. The water was freezing, probably in the mid 50s, but he did not care at all. He was all about looking closely at the water and sand, investigating every little thing he found. And, another favorite thing to do at the beach is dig in the sand, which is not normally a bad thing… but it is when he throws the sand up into the air and it gets into his hair and eyes. Good times!

I think we’re in store for some fun this summer when it warms up even more. I took many photos and shot some video! Here are some of the choice photos and a little video that I edited together… enjoy. Read the rest of this entry »

Sorry for the long hiatus from posts here. It’s been super busy for the past few months. I’ve been lucky enough to have gotten a handful of photo gigs that have kept me working overtime after my day job. So, nights and weekends have been a little consumed with processing photos from these various jobs. [I still need to update that header image up top there to include last year's]

I thought I’d post this video of Brody and I from a few weeks ago. He’s really trying to say so many more words now, and doing so well at it. Here he is doing his best to say ‘pizza’. You may need to turn up your volume since he’s sort of whispering.

Greetings and happy holidays to all of our family and friends. Welcome to year 2 of our annual holiday newsletter. It’s been quite a year for us Bernharts, and we’re looking forward to it finishing up so we can get started on next year.

To keep you all up to speed on the happenings in our lives, below you’ll find a quick list of significant events in our past year. After that you’ll find a slideshow of photos of us taken throughout the holidays.
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