Just because

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!