The Barton Family Blog

For those of you who don't know the Gash's... Jacqui was my roommate in college and my best friend. She married Jon Gash (a friend I grew up with...) and a year and a half ago they moved to Missoula Montana to pioneer a church. Sooooo far away! Pioneer Rally time... they're back home and their youngest, Isaiah, has to re-get-to-know Natalee & everyone else! Natalee, Jacqui, & Isaiah I don't even know this girl! Who are you? Is this okay mom? here goes nothin..... And he lays one on her! You'd better believe these pictures will be in their graduation slide show as well as every other means of embarrassing them when they're older! (: My mom took some pictures in Nursery... Ring-Around-the-Rosies led my Miley Ann (: Isaiah is a cutie! Sarah trying to pose Natalee & Isaiah for a picture Again.... Sarah trying to pose Natalee, Isaiah, and Jackson for a picture... don't these kids know these are memories in the making???!?! Natalee & Jack-Jack on...

I promised the kids we'd go to the fountain. Little did I know that the weather wasn't going to be that great. Finally, the forecast predicted 75 degrees. Better than 60. We planned to go. Yep. It was cold. We had the WHOLE fountain to ourselves! Gee. I wonder why... Maybe everyone else had the right idea. But we made the most of it and the kids had fun!

Ok so here's the deal... I've been planning this post for a while... I WANT COMMENTS! I always hear about how all these random people read my blog.... people I didn't even know about... so... IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! LEAVE ME A COMMENT! Not an email... a comment. Go down to the bottom of this post... look for "____ (#) commments" and click on that. And then write a comment... and sign your name... using annonymous or your blogger name. I want to see who reads my blog! Even if you never leave a comment again... PLEASE leave one today! (: On Sunday Naomi & I had a joint b-day party.... our birthdays are 2 days apart... What she thought was just a family get together... was actually a surprise birthday party I planned for her... with all her close girl friends from McMinnville (she gets alittle homesick from time to time! I don't know why, when she had ME!) She was very surprised! Here's my little Chulita "Cutie" (as Tia Allison calls her) She LO...

LOOK AT THIS CUTIE!!! Ok.... now onto the real post... My Pastor and his wife are gone on a much needed vacation and we are staying with their kids! (well at least 7 of them....) The Rice's have 9 kids... Jason, the oldest, is married to my sister Naomi... and Jackson the youngest went on the trip with his parents. Soooo... we've been trying to keep things fun for those left behind... On Friday we loaded up the van and headed to Borders Books... just for a change of scenery... (Tyler) The little kids had never been to Borders so it was kinda a fun change... (Noah) different kinds of books than the library! (Caleb) The kids were engrossed! (Abbi) (Jonathan) Even the older kids/young adults kept themselves entertained! They actually got a little bit of a much-need-break~ (below Kenz) ~ (Josiah not pictured!) The hardest park was keeping Natalee entertained! She just wanted to pull all the books off the shelf! After we wore out our welcome there, we headed to the library to chec...

Tia Allison bough Natalee this ADORABLE outfit! Pardon the scary hair (:

First of all... I'm noticing a pattern w/ Natalee's pictures. Enough w/ the sippy cups! This girl is obsessed! She doesn't drink milk so it's watered down juice ALL DAY LONG! So much that now I've got tons of pictures with sippies in them! (reference the Pig-Tail pictures posted earlier) Anyway... Here's Natalee's first Pony Tail. Adorable if I do say so myself! I love this girl!!!

Johnny and I have a picture of us sitting in Starbucks on 9th street... having coffee & looking all cute & in love. We were dating. (He thought I was crazy to ask someone to take our picture at Starbucks!) I love that picture. The other day, we were in that same Starbucks again. This time with a little addition to our two-some. Natalee. so... feeling the inspiration of a scrapbook page at hand... I stopped someone to ask them to snap our picture once again. Today I realized... I already scrap-booked that picture. poo. but I took a picture of the picture so you can see the "then & now" (: THEN & NOW