First Picture With Santa

Here is Aiden's first picture with Santa. This is the first picture we have of any of our kids with Santa. Our first two kids were both 1 at their first christmas picture, and at that age they were too scared of him. Emmalee is now 6 and is still tariffed, and Bradley this year we thought would be fine but once he saw Emmalee's reaction decided to freak out too. Hopefully next year we can get one with all the kids and Santa. I guess this will have to do for now.

Gingerbread Houses

On Sunday we went to my parents home for turkey stew(yum), and made our gingerbread houses. We do this every year, and always have so much fun doing it. This year my mom made small ones or the kids, they had a blast making them. I love the holidays and all the traditions our family has. I look forward to them every year. I love Spending time with my family.

Bradley and his house

(Brian had fun helping).

Emmalee was so proud that

she made hers all by her self

with out any help.

Here we all are in front of our homes. The big one was mine, it took me a long time to make, I had to feed Aiden, so it took twice as long, but it was still fun.

Photo Shoot

On Sunday my sister and her husband blessed there baby girl Hannah. Brian took the opportunity and took some pictures of Emmalee and Bradley. Here is a sample of what he took.

Bradley James Barton Age 3

Emmalee Shea Barton Age 6

I thought this one was too cute. My parents were leaving and this is how bradley said good bye.

Bradley and his cousin Caleb

Aiden Dean Barton

On Saturday November 28th our sweet baby boy cam into the world. He weighed 8 lbs 9 oz, 21 1/2 in long. He is so cute and is a great addition to our family. Bradley loves to shower him with kisses and even baught a dinosaur for him and actually lets Aiden "play with it" he is such a good brother. Emmalee is such a big help and loves to hold Aiden, she is and has always been an awesome big sister. I am so grateful for all of my children, even on the bad days. Here are some pictures of Aiden with his family.

Aiden Dean Barton

Aiden and Papa

Aiden and Nana

Aiden and Grandma

Bradley giving Aiden his dinosaur

Aiden and Grandpa

Aiden and Emmalee

Pumpkin Carving 2009

This year we did our pumpkin carving at our house. My family came over and we had tons of fun together.

In this picture Brian is telling Bradley to put his hand in and pull out all the seeds. As you can tell he wasn't to thrilled. But after a while he did it and had fun doing it.

Emmalee loved this part. I was trying to help her and she got mad because she wanted to do it all on her own.

Here we all are with our pumpkins.

Here we are with my sisters family.

Here are pictures of all of our pumpkins.

Brian's

Mark's

Tiffany's

Emmalee's

Mine and Bradley's

Last here is a video of my nephew Caleb. He is a bit of a neat freak and so he hated digging into the pumpkin because he didn't want to get his hands dirty.

Our New Cousin

As many of you may know my sister Tiffany had her baby on the 21st of October. My kids are always asking non stop if they can hold the baby. They fight over who asked first. So I decited to take some pictures of them together. Here they are. I hope they will love their new baby as much as their new cousin.

Emmalee had been crying

so she is a little blotchy.

Bradley asked to hold

her first and Emmalee got upset.

Bradley always has a

huge smile on his face

when he is holding her.

Princess Ball

Brian and Emmalee went to our stake's Princess Ball on Saturday. Emmalee was so excited. My mom bought the dress and added the selves and the beads around the waist. She also made a matching bow and little tassels for Emmalee's shoes. Brian and Emmalee danced, made crafts and ate yummy treats. I am so glad they had the chance to spend time together. Here are some photos.

Here they are together

father and daughter.

This makes them look

so much alike

How Beautiful.

The back. She told me

she wanted one barde

so this is what my mom

did to her hair because I

can't do french bardes

for the life of me.

Emmalee wearing the crown

she made and holding the

corsage they made for all the

little girls.

Motherhood

This past week I have been thinking about ways I can be a better mom. I decided that this week I am going to work on my relationship with Emmalee. Sometimes I feel like I am to hard on her, so this week I decided am going to try to ease up and try to relax. So everything was going good this morning until we get to the bus stop. We were not even there for 2 minutes and Emmalee is running around with her friends and playing, when she falls into a pile of mud. And the bus is at the end of our street about to stop to pick up the kids. So i start to walk Emmalee home and start reaming on her for the poor choice she made by falling in the mud and how i was so mad because now she couldn't go to school because I didn't have a car to take her in. So we get home and right as we are walking in the door her bus stops in front of our house and waits for Emmalee to get changed. I was so grateful for the wonderful bus driver at that moment. So Emmalee got changed and got on the bus. I didn't give her her usual kiss and I love you because I was in a hurry to get her on the bus. So when i was watching the bus leave I felt so bad for what I had said to her. I don't know if I am the only mom who feels bad sometimes but today I felt really bad. I also can't stop thinking about if something bad happens to her or I her last memory of me she will have is of me yelling at her for falling in the mud which may I point out wasn't her fault its not like the mud was like"hey let me trip this little girl so her mom can yell at her". I feel so guilty, and like a horrible mom. I only had one goal set out this morning and it is only 9am and i have already failed. I just hope that she will forgive me when she gets home. I am going to be thinking about this all day. Sorry for my rambles, and for no pictures. Just had to get it off my chest. Thanks for listening.

Baking Cookies

Yesterday Bradley and I decided to make cookies. It was Bradley's first time helping. He loved it. Here are pictures of our exciting adventure. And some extras that Bradley decided he wanted to take.

Random by Bradley

Potty Training

On Sunday we officially started potty training. I watch a little girl who is the same age as Bradley. She is potty trained, so when she came over last Friday Bradley said he didn't want to wear a diaper and wanted to wear under wear like Ainsley. But that afternoon we were leaving to go camping so we decided to wait till we got back on Sunday. Bradley was ok with that. We went to wal- mart and let him pick out underwear. He liked the cars ones the best. So as of today no accidents. I hope it sticks. Here is a picture of what he does all day. Plays with is monster trucks and has candy in his mouth for going potty on the toilet. I am sure is going to be more then ready to see a dentist after he is done potty training.

Emmalee's First Day of School

Today was Emmalee's First day of school. We went out to the bus stop at 8:30 and waited for the bus. Emmmalee's uncle Mark and cousin Caleb came with us to say good bye. When the bus came the number on the bus wasn't the number that the school gave me. So I went up to the bus driver and made sure it was the right bus. Emmalee got on the bus and just stood there and was staring at me. At first I thought she was going to freak out but then I realized I was holding her back pack.Once I gave her her bag she went and sat down next to a little girl and they were off. She is getting so big. So the the first 15 min. I was nervous that she was going to get lost once she got off the bus, so I text Brian at work and he assured me that I didn't need to call the school to make sure she got to her class with out getting lost. I hope she has a good day and has tons of fun. I am excited to see how her day went and what she did. She was most excited to go because her class has a pet genie pig , and if you know Emmalee, you know she loves all animals. So now Bradley and I are going to try to keep busy entertaining each other. Wish us luck. Here are some photos of her first day of school outfit and her back pack.

She wanted this Tinkerbell

back pack so bad

Bradley had to be in a

picture with his sissy.

When we got back from the bus stop Bradley asked me where sissy was. I told him she was at school and he started to cry, he sure is going to miss her while she is at school. He loves her so much.

Monster Jam

On Saturday we had a blast at Monster Jam. The kids loved every minute of it. Here are pictures of our awesome family night out.


Here we are waiting for it to start

Emmalee having a good time

watching with her lovely ear protection

And Bradley with his ear protection

When Bradley got sick of wearing

his ear protection he looked

like this. Funny Kid.

At the end 5 of the trucks were

broken and could no longer run.

Here they all are in the corner waiting to be taken out.