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.

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