B-RAD!!

Here are some pictures of me meeting my newest nephew, Brad Thompsen Barlow! He is super cute and so precious! I LOVE HIM! These are from the day he was born! Life has been super crazy lately but I'll take more pictures and put them up soon! I know all of you who live far away would always love more pictures!! :)

I happen to know the nurse that came in to give Brad an exam while i was there, and so she had me come in with her and watch her and take pictures! AHH he's so cute!

She was burping him. Look at that adorable face!!

Thumb Sucker! Just like his big brother!

All done and right back to sleep!

Happy Birthday...

...Todd!!!
Hope you had a great day filled with pepsi and thin mint cookies!! :):) I love you!!

Happy Birthday...

...Ty!

Holy Cow I can't believe you're 10!!! I love you!

A Special Dinner

The Sunday after the Valentines, I made dinner, with Anna and Carly's help, for the family to show my love for Valentines Day. It was a yummy apricot chicken dinner with rice, and cupcakes and chocolate cover strawberries for dessert! yum!

Happy Birthday...

...Michelle!!!

Love ya!

Happy Birthday...

....Mckay!!!

Love you bro!!

My favorite part of being an aunt...

Babysitting the Anna, Carly, and Mac is always fun! My friend Ashley Clark came over this night to join in on the fun! The kids love her too! We played and had mucho fun! We did pedicures, made/ate muddy buddies, tooks LOTS of hair flipping pictures and stayed up WAY TOO LATE!! ;) :) (mac went to bed on time though!) I sure hope the girls slept in the next day!! It was a blast!

Oh so lovely!

Showing off the pretty nails!

My new love!

I've started watching the food network and I love it! It's amazing how fun it is to watch someone cook! And you can learn a lot and get great ideas! I love it! Even the gross food they made is still interesting to watch like fish and stuff. I know I'm a picking eater and don't like a lot but watching them make it makes me consider trying some new food! Just thought I'd share! :)

FHE FUN!

This was one of our FHE activities that I actually remember to take pictures at, well I had Chuck take pictures because my hand were FROZEN in ICE CREAM!! We made ice cream sculptures and played carnival games like 3-legged races (or for some people 5-legged) and crab soccer! Then Root beer floats! We have a great ward! The ice cream sculpting was a hit, a friend that just moved out of the ward, Leah, suggested it and it was way cool. My group made the boom box and the missionaries judged and we won!! There was also a football a turkey and a temple!! It was def. a successful activity which is a relief because it's tough to come up with something fun every week! So if you have any ideas or suggestions...let me know!!

Holiday Fun...

Well I'm catching up on some blogging so here are some random pictures from the holidays! With everyone in the family taking pictures I usually don't pull out my camera but here's a few shots I got!

Loreal, Summer, and I getting ready to go to the Regional New Year's Eve Eve Bash!

Pile up! Somehow this pile up developed! Hallie wanted in on the fun with her brothers, uncle, and dad! These pictures are a little backwards, sorry!

Hallie and Alisa!

She's very excited about her princess tent!

The Barlow boys love their BYU blankets from grandma!

THis is when the byu chants start! :)

TJ was dad's helper with getting the presents, I retired from that job! :)

Mom loves her new baby dolls!

Brock is getting hint about BYU!

Jared and his cool action toys!!

Brock with his new blanket i made for him!

Waking up and seeing what Santa left for us!!

Cutie pie!

Hanging out at the mall during the reunion!

Michelle and bryn at the Barlow party!Cute little girl!

Yay! The 3 Rachels!

On the left is Rachel T's brothers Travis' wife Rachel J. Thompsen. Then the center is Rachel T. Barlow, McKay's wife, and then on the right ME, Rachel Barlow! Haha, kinda hard to explain when we're all Rachel! Definitley the best name!!! So fun to meet Rachel (as anna and carly say "Travis' Rachel). It was great that her and Travis could come visit McKay and Rachel!