The Second Coming

This morning Bailey came into my room and asked me if I knew what the second coming was. I replied yes and asked her is she learned about it in primary. She said she did and also told me she learned during the second coming Jesus will be incharge. Then she paused for a second and I could tell she was thinking. She then looks at me and tells me she is excited for the second coming because Jesus will be incharge, not me and I won't be able to tell her to eat her breakfast.

We will now break in our ignoring of this blog to bring you some very important messages.

*** Bailey went to play at a friend's house last week with all teeth accounted for and nothing wiggling and came home sans a tooth. The Toothfairy visited, Bailey was excited, mom cried because her baby is growing up way to fast.

*** Clementines are food from HEAVEN. Easy enough for kids to peel themselves, which keeps them occupied for a while, and the kids think they are candy.

*** We are proud owners of two homes and not very happy about it. Anyone want to buy our house????

*** Hazel got her first haircut. She no longer has a comb over. Oh and she is walking 3-4 steps between furniture. Again, Hazel is excited, mom is crying.

*** Claires new favorite "butt" is "Sleeping Booty." Translation: her favorite book is Sleeping Beauty

*** And this just in. I was just informed by my eldest that I have "Lost the privilege of being her mother." I thought she was five not thirteen.

Now back to our regular scheduled programing already in progress.

Pumpkin Patch

Despite the 104 degree temps on Saturday, we took our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. I admit our local patch isn't as idilic as pumpkin patches in other parts of the country, but we still had a good time. Here is what we did.

Hazel ate some dirt and dead grass.
Bailey loved decorating her very own pumpkin.

Claire loved posing as a "farmer."

And we loved spending time with our girls!

The Land of Enchantment

"Over the river and through the woods to grandmothers house we go."
Well it was actually over the mountains and through the Indian reservation to Albuquerque we go. Bailey had a two week fall break so we decided to take advantage of the break and take a long overdue trip to visit Grandpa and Grandma Sherwood house.

We had such a full and very fun week. The week started with a trip to the children's museum. We did art projects out of recyclable products, played with magnets, musical instruments, bubbles, water and Scott even rode a bike on a tight rope.

Later in the week we went to Albuquerque's annual International Balloon Fiesta. Every year during the first week of October, hot air balloon enthusiast descend on Albuquerque for a week of events.

First we went to a "Glowdeo." We rode on a school bus, a highlight for the girls in and of itself, to the balloon park. We had a picnic and watched the balloons inflate and then we got to walk among the balloons. Once it got dark, every few minutes they would all light the fire in the balloon and the whole field would glow. It was very impressive and a little magical.

On Saturday morning we woke the girls up early to go to a hillside park and watch the balloons float along the mountains. They flew right over the top of our heads, so close we could see the people in the basket. We also were able to see several of them land and pack up.

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Sherwood for such a fun week. We may just make this an annual event! We love and miss you!

The End

It's Offical

Our house is for sale. If you know anyone that is looking for a well taken care of home in Gilbert, send them my way. Here are a few of the highlight of the house:

*Exterior was painted in spring 2008

*All new exterior doors

*All new carpet, tile and laminate wood flooring on the inside. Plus we had a no shoe policy so the carpet is clean!

*HUGE storage room and pantry. Not many houses this size have storage rooms.

*Bonus room/office off of the master bedroom

*Fireplace

*New Corian counter tops in kitchen

Email me at barlownatalie@hotmail.com if you want more details or have any questions!!!

p.s. Our new house is still here in Gilbert. It is about a mile away from our current house. So we will still be close to all our friends around here.

SURPRISE! I have a tooth.

It's right here.

This will hopefully be ours soon!

A few months ago we put an offer in on this house. Monday, Scott got a call from the realtor telling us the bank excepted our offer and wants to close on October 21st. I am still a little scared that it won't happen because I have heard so many horror stories about short sales and foreclosures. But if all goes as plan we will be moving soon.

If anyone is looking for a cute little starter house in Gilbert, we will probably put ours on the market soon. Let us know!!!

At what age do kids...

sleep through the night

and

sleep past 6:00 am

and

not scream and cry until 10:30 at night because

they are beyond exhausted, yet refuse to go to sleep.

Please tell me when, so I can start counting the

seconds until that glorious age.

If I survive until then.

Crazy Hat Day

Friday was crazy hat day at Baileys school. This is the beauty she chose to wear. Needless to say she had the craziest hat in her class.

Thanks Aunt Celeste for the hat!

Just had to share

Today I went to Walgreens and I came home with these...

and I got paid $5 to take them away.

Not bad!

Mom! Look what I can do!

I promise she does wear things other than just her diaper. She looks so skinny in her disposables compared to her cloth diapers.

Huggies Baby Wipes

I just found this link to $2.00 off Huggies Diapering PRODUCTS coupon
http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=qinjblu9829492&bt=vi&o=57463&c=HG&p=7gaQhPFm
Use it in combination with a sale on Huggies Baby Wipes and you could get yourself some cheap baby wipes.
Who knows, maybe we may get lucky and there will be a sale were you can get paid to take the wipes away like there was a few weeks ago!!!!

p.s. If the cashier gives you grief about the coupons wording, make sure you point out to them it says "diapering product" not just diapers.
p.s.s. can someone teach me how to link to other websites without having to put the entire web address down. Thanks!

How can you say no to a face like this?

She is too little.....

to be doing this.

And this.

When she is only 6 months and her feet are so little

like this.

Look at those baby blues!

I thought this was funny

My mom sent this quote to me and I thought I was rather amusing.

"Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it and whose members will be exempt from it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that is broke.What could possibly go wrong?"

The Morning

I love kids first thing in the morning. I love how they are still half asleep and are willing to take a few minutes to cuddle with you. Often they are smelly and have fabulous hairdos from the night, but for some reason you love them even more for it.

My dad likes to say that they are so perfect and awful at the same time in the morning. I agree.

Jedi Mullet

My poor little Hazel is loosing her hair. Her hair on top is actually very long but she has lost a ton of her underneath hair. We tease that she has a Jedi Mullet. I try to hide it with a combover hairdo but it doesn't work too well. Poor little thing.

Baby Half Off

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Anyone need a car wash?

"Yoot Mom, I got dressed!"

My New Bathroom!!

While the girls and I were gone in Idaho, my sweet husband spent his nights redoing the kids bathroom. He laid a tile floor and gave us a new countertop and faucet. He did such a good job. It looks fabulous! And to make it even better, I didn't have to deal with all the construction. We just came home to a new bathroom. Thank you Scott!

Treasures!!!

The last month or two I have collected quite a few treasures. The first set of treasures I got was a box from my mother in law Carol with a pillow for Hazel made by her great grandma Hazel. There was also a bag of old buttons from great grandma Hazel. There are some fabulous buttons I can't wait to use! Thanks Carol!

The next set of treasure came from my aunt Lisa. Her mother in law passed away a few years ago leaving a treasure trove of craft supplies. Lisa took me to her inlaws house and her father inlaw, Brother Hawkins, shared with me TONS of stuff. The pictures below shows just a few of the things he gave me including crochet thread, needles, crochet hooks, lace, ric rac and a cool old ciagr box. Thank you Brother Hawkins and Lisa, I can't wait to get started on some projects!

This last picture shows my great grandmothers and grandmothers buttons. My aunt Pam had the buttons and was kind enough to let me have some of them. If you can't tell, I love buttons!!! I already have ideas about where I am going to use the buttons.

p.s. if anyone is ever getting rid of buttons or has family that is getting rid of theirs, I would be happy to take them off your hands and put them to good use!!!