BARNES FAMILY

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Brenna's 1st Dance recital/ 5th Birthday!

It is so much fun having a girl--a super girly girl too. Brenna loves her gymnastic/dance class. She is a head taller than most the girls and loves to be the leader. She was very "professional" and didn't take her eyes off the teacher the whole time. Not even to look at mom when she was trying to take her picture!

"sleeping" section of the song

always pondering...

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY BRENNA LEIGH!!
1. Fav color: pink
2. Fav food: strawberry ice cream with sprinkles
3. Fav princess: Brave princess
4. Fav tv show: Tom and Jerry, My Little Pony
5. Fav thing to do: play kitty or cheetah outside
6. Fav subject at preschool: writing letters
7. Best friend- Sophia Burgon
8. Sleep with- kitty Kylie and lizard Lizzie, Rainbow stylish
9. Be when grow up?: a cowgirl
10. What do you NOT like: brushing hair

Bringing birthday cookies to preschool. Jace was tracked out so he got to come help. This was her fancy birthday outfit she picked out without my help.

Happy birthday breakfast--donuts, sausage, pancakes...no eggs. doesnt like eggs

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Her big girl present was to get her ears pierced! She was so brave and didn't even flinch. She is dying to wear my big dangly earrings soon. She picked the sparkle diamond ones of course.

Daddy brought her flowers home from work. She is SUCH a daddys girl. The first thing she asks me every morning is "Where's dad???"

Best present! Unicorn pony pink sparkle castle

Brenna had to have her party at "Jumpin Beans"....because her nickname is Beans. Huge blow up jump house, so perfect to get some sugar energy out. Her friends are Karolina, Ella, Sophia and Rowan Burgon and Emma Reynolds.

Best Aunt Vivian made her cake....it has now become a tradition because she is so good at it!! Strawberry cheesecake cake balls around the side and chocolate mousse on the inside. To DIE for. See why I don't make the cake??

WE LOVE CAKE BALLS!

Best friends and cousins Sophia, Rowan, and Ella

I love my Brenna girl. She is this fun spunky original personality. You never know what she is going to say or come out wearing. She is always in her own little unicorn sparkle world ;)

I love her imagination! She is always putting on shows for her animals that ALL have original names and building these huge cities/castles/pet shop lands. Every day she has built up something different.

Sometimes I get a lot of this face ;) and "moooommmm i dont wannnnnt to" She is all girl and with that comes attitude. Im sure I was just the same growing up.

My best friend and oldest daughter Brenna Leigh--I love you SOOOOO much and will always be your best friend no matter what. I am so proud of you and excited to see you grow up to be a beautiful, righteous, courageous, smart, athletic, musical, artistic, spiritual lady. Heavenly Father has so much in store for you. Happy 5th bday my princess----love mom

Saturday, March 2, 2013

9 moves in 10 years....here we go again!

Can't believe we are doing this again! Chad has the wonderful plan of paying cash on a house soon, so we buy and sell foreclosures to build equity. Sounds all fine and dandy until you have to move. It also bugs knowing that I can't really decorate a space the way I want. However I know in the long run it will pay off. This house had quite the story when we bought it off the court house steps. Lets just say the previous owner made special "adult" movies up in the playroom and was nice enough to leave a bunch of the props. Scary to think what people do behind closed doors. After blessing each room multiple times, cleaning carpets, painting, the house was as good as new!

We LOVED this house in Bedford--right by the pool, nice backyard, perfect music room, more house than we needed. When inventory was low we decided to put it up on the market at a pretty steep price to see what we could get for it. After a few months of showings and no offers, I decided to pull it off the market for the holidays because I was getting sick and tired of cleaning!! Literally the day we were pulling it off, a couple came to look at it and made a great offer that we couldn't refuse although I was tempted. We only had 10 days to pack and find a rental before we were to head to Dallas for Christmas. This was my house for a week straight. Pure chaos!

and then add a one year old whom we call "Tornado of Destruction" on top of it

This is me moving day. Natasha and I caught the flu bug the night before the movers came. I was in the bathroom all night and the whole time they were moving boxes. Kind of a nightmare

Since I can't get any of my videos to work, I want to post a few pics to remember our house by. Loved my little music room. I always had beautiful flowers hanging from the porch so I could look out at them during lessons.

My couch that fit perfectly in this giant room that probably wont fit another house again. Still never decided what to cover my wing back chairs in. Those poor red target chairs are on their last leg.

office/sunroom/playroom

Our new rental we luckily found in the same neighborhood. Its nice and small but seriously the paint color makes me want to lick the walls. I can hardly take it. At least Im not inspired to decorate which saves money.

Jace and Brenna are having one continuous slumber party! Yep they get to share a room for a while until we find our next house. It only takes twice the amount of time to get anyone to sleep around here but I figure it'll make for some good memories.

Enjoying not having to have a perfectly clean house right now! Excited to see where we end up next. Being married to Chad has been quite the adventure ;) As much as I complain, Im proud of him for always working and learning how he can make a better future for our family.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Christmas in Texas!

Another wonderful Christmas in Texas!

Nutcracker Ballet

reading stories with great grandma,

always a tradition!

What Child is this violin duet for our Christmas Eve program

Mom and her best friend Fran Colley. This was her last Christmas as she just recently passed from a long battle of cancer. What a wonderful beautiful person that will be missed.