Banana Queen

Love this face!

Jordan Turns 3

Jordan turned 3 years old on Jan. 26th! We had a great party and Karen (Barry's mom) made an awesome cake, yet again! The woman is amazing! I wished I could've gotten more pictures of Jordan, but he wouldn't sit still or smile for that matter. He got his first bike and loved it! We took a video of this, but I'm too lazy right now to wait for it to upload (sorry). The top of the cake is actually a playdough toy that she put on top of her beautiful iced grass. Cool idea isn't it?

Girly from the get go!

So I haven't been quick to getting dresses on Sam till I saw her reaction to some dresses grandma brought over. I had left them hanging over the couch when Sam came over and pulled a little red one down and brought it to me whining and pointing to her chest. I asked, "Do you want to wear this?" and she replied with a determined head nod. So I put it on her and she took off squealing and spinning in the kitchen. I could hardly believe how excited she was about the thing. I wished I could've gotten a video of her first reaction, but these pictures still show the glee on her face. I loved it! I had no idea she was so girly!

Anniversary Video

Bonnie posted below about our 8 wonderful years of marriage and the progression we've had.  Personally, I feel like I have to work harder to get better looking (thus the home gym), since Bonnie gets more beautiful with each new year!  She's better than a fine wine; not like I'd know though.....

Anyways, I really enjoy making family videos and presentations since we got our Apple  computers.  It is so easy and fun.  Here's a video I made for Bonnie on our Anniversary last month.  It's some highlights of 2008 (pause the music from Bonnie's music corner on the right, as this video has its own soundtrack).

- Barry

After 8 Years

It all started in 2000!

Then in 2006....

Then again in 2007.... (what was I thinking two years in a row!)

And here we are present date and happy!

I have to say, we make cute babies, but not cute enough to keep going that strong! haha
I will say having a family has been the most wonderful and horrible thing I've ever experienced in my life (all you real people know what I'm talking about). I wouldn't change a thing! I've learned more in the last eight years of my marriage than I have the first 18 years of my life! Damn that law of opposition....but thank heaven for it too. It feels good to honestly say I'm happy!

Holidays + Pictures = nada

So I don't know why I can't seem to get my camera out the day of special holidays, but I just don't think about it till it's too late! Sorry I don't have any pics of Christmas. We had an awesome one! The Barry got his workout room, the kids got too many gifts, I got a new phone and a new jean size (yeah!!!) and we had lots of great food and family to celebrate with! Hope everyone else had a great one too!

Am I crazy or considerate....both.

So Barry and I have been trying to work out and we had a membership to LA Fitness for a while, but it got in the way of family time with Barry and he doesn't really like working out in front of people anyway. Who does for that matter? So he asked me, "Why don't we get a home gym?" I ask "Where will we put it?" Then we proceed to think for a long time. I like the way my house is set up right now, everything has it's place. So we put it off due to not wanting to make the decision. Well, a month later, Barry asks me about it again but this time I've seen how hard it is for him leaving us at night, when he only has about 2 hours a day with the kids anyways. I always wanted work out with him, so we went for it. I gave up my beautiful dining room table for, hopefully, rock hard abbs eventually. (Don't hold me to that!)
Anyway here's the before: (This is Barry's single friend, Dobie, who's keeping the table for us. Anyone interested?)

And after:

I am having a hard time trying to figure out how to girly up this room just a bit. How do you decorate a workout room? Any suggestions?

I know some of you are thinking Barry's got me whipped (which I would be fine with), but I'm not, I'm just a good at compromises. Besides this will be a good one to hold to him for when I really want something! hehe I will say that I love how Barry still thanks me everyday for doing this for him.