Bunnies, hearts and what not.

Katelyn and Laura's bunnies had babies! They are soooo darling and sweet. Luke and Aves are constantly begging to go hold them. Now Sarah has a new goat down at the barn that's supposed to have a baby in March, and there is a chance it might be twins! We can't wait! It's fun to have sweet baby animals around to enjoy but don't have to take care of. :)Thanks Karen and Sarah.


Enjoying their Valentine's breakfast.


The other day I told Ava to keep an eye on Ruth for me while I grabbed a quick shower (...am I the only person who "grabs" a shower? Jeremy always makes fun of me for saying that, "are you Annie, are you gonna "grab" a shower?" He's a brat.) So after grabbing my shower I came out of the bathroom to find that little Ava had drug her entire barbie house down the hall to play with Ruth. I thought it was pretty sweet.

I can't wait for these two have a "girly" room of their own someday. Right now Ruth is still in our room, with a little corner all to herself.:) We up graded from the bassinet to the crib last weekend. I'm working on up dating Ava's old crib bedding with some cute fabric I found. I'll post more pictures as soon as it's all done. Here's her little nightstand for now so you can see the colors.

Ruthy at 4 1/2 months

Black and white photo shoot with Ruthy in an array of blessing dresses. These dresses have been hanging in my closet for months and I just got a kick in the pants from myself to get projects finished up that I have been putting off. This was one of those things on my to do list: Get pictures of Ruth in GG's blessing dress, my blessing dress, and Jaime's dress (that was the dress Ava was blessed in) I was glad she still fit in them. Ava helped with entertaining and getting a few stingy smiles out of this slobbery-stick-anything-and-everything-in-the-mouth little girl. You really can't see the dresses very well but, check, I took them and also got my closet cleaned out, another thing on my to do list, check check.

Jaime's dress


Dress my sisters and I wore.


GG's dress

Barker Family Fun

Super Bowl Party

Winter hot tub/movie party



Nice steamy hot tub picture. :)

Funny Family Videos

The first one is of me scaring poor Ava to death. I know, I'm a mean mom...as you will also see in video #2 with poor little Ruth stuck in her swing and I just video her. Anyway we were all at Em's clubhouse getting ready to get in the hot tub, when we overhear Ava singing in the bathroom as she was changing into her swim suit. It's hard to hear but she is singing,"I hate scary stuff. Don't want anything to scare me toniiiiight! tonight yeah baby! tonight yeah baby!" We may have listened to a little Lady Gaga in the car ride over. See what a great mom I am. So she is singing about not being scared and what do I do...scare her. I really was just going to video her cute singing but then when she came out I just couldn't resist. Oh my poor kids.

I especially love how I say "bye bye" to her. Bye Bye is something I always seem to say right before I turn the video camera off. Looking back over the years of our home videos you are forced to hear hundreds of my very annoying bye byes. Yet I still can't seem to brake the habit. Oh and I promise I rescued her right after I turned off the camera and honestly I don't go around scaring my kids! Okay then, bye bye!

Mama's Little Rollie Pollie

She's already 4 months old!! It's hard to believe how much she's grown. I've had to pack up the 3 month clothes and bring out the 6 monthers. I've also had to stock up on the bibs...she lives in them. I think her bib gets changed about as much as her diaper. Ava was a spit-upper too and back then little Luke called spit up, Av-ups, and we still seem to call it that. Not many days go by that I don't have Av-ups in my hair or down my shirt from this Cheesy-little-butterball (yes another nickname) Cheesy because of the Av-ups and butterball because at her doctor appointment last week she weighed a whoppin 13 pounds 5 ounces. Mama's little rollie pollie is the newest nickname though...tonight she rolled over! A for real roll over. She has been trying for a few days now and tonight was the night. She did it all on her own and I actually caught one on video!

little sister

little sister is sick.

little sister looks like she got punched in the eye.
little sister takes lots of steamy baths.

poor little sister.
Ruth got her first cold this weekend. Of course it had to happen on a long/no Dr.'s offices open weekend. And just ask Jeremy I am a worry wort. I HATE when my kids are sick! Especially when they're little tiny, it scares me. Her cold sadly moved on into her eyes. She looked so pathetic with her red swollen gooey eyes and a big smile still on her face. Poor little thing took it all like a champ and after a trip to the Doctor today for some drops, she is looking like her normal self again. I can finally breath a sigh of releif to know that it's not in her lungs and it's not RSV or whatever else I had imagined it could be all weekend long. I thought by my third baby I'd be less crazy about every little sickness, but no, I think I might be worse. Being a mom is scary!

A Friday the 13th Bon Fire

According to Sarah, Friday the thirteenth fires are haunted. They're hard to start and they burn weird, more blue and not very big or warm. True to form that was exactly what happened on this spooky, chilly, superstitiously fun night.

Grandma Patsy was flying back to Virginia the next day, so this was our last get together before she left. It was a fun night of hot dogs, hot chocolate, donuts, Sarah's ghost stories and some running in a serpentine fashion. :)