Barlow Family Blog

Thurgoods Aug. 2010

2010-08-24T11:03:00.000-07:00

Well with the kids being in school now I've decided I need to get something done during my days....so here goes, updating some pictures!

We actually had a longer summer this year...5 whole weeks! We cramed as much as we could in...Camping, lots of Fishing (not me but everybody else) Lagoon, Swimming and ended it with a trip to Denver. They actually had to miss a couple of days of school for it but we are still counting it as our summer trip.

I have to admit I am LOVING having the three girls in school all day. Bronco is quite my little buddy! I am going to be doing a Joy School with him and 4 other kids starting in a couple of weeks. It will be at my house every fifth week. I am sure hoping that he will go!!! During those two hours that he is gone I plan to really get alot done. Like catching up on my shows, doing some crosstiching, napping maybe. Pretty sure I won't be doing any hard work.

The kiddos are in the same ol....Kennedy is now on a competition Tumble team and she is really excited to start competing in January. She still doesn't really enjoy school and complains about any type of homework...but oh well she only has 8 more years, she'll make it.

Grace on the other hand loves school and learning, she is very excited to start times tables this year (even though she learned half of them last year with Kennedy) She is still playing Soccer and any other sports that she can.

Demi started 1st grade...yea!! She loves it and loves eating school lunch and having 3 recesses!! She is captain of her dance team this year which thrilled her. She will also be competing in a solo this year. What possesses her to want to dance in front of judges by herself is beyond me!

And Bronco is still Bronco...hooked to my hip. ( I might have to have him surgically removed when he goes to Kindergarten) He loves Buzz light year, Geo Trax and his legos and beating everybody up.

So that sums it up...until next year when the kids start school and I'll think I'll get something done the first week....

Here are a bunch of pics of the kids, things we've done and trips ( Disneyland and Denver)

Halloween at the Thurgood's and Cheshire's

2009-11-05T10:08:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of Halloween. Quite a coincidence that we did the Peter Pan theme along with Josh's family. Our family was missing Mr. Smee , though and I dressed up as a pirate at the last minute. Scott was Captain Hook, Kaden-Peter, Kaylee-Wendy, Kassidy-Tiger Lily, and Kambrie-Tinkerbell. Here is a picture of our ward Trunk or Treat in front of our "Trunk" Also some pictures of Pumpkin carving with a family from our ward that we invited over to share our pumpkins from our garden.

2009-11-05T09:48:00.000-08:00

As everyone can tell, I am really terrible at blogging. I love following everyone else's blogs to see what everyone is up to. But, every once in a while I figure I'd better do some catching up on our family. So, I will start with some summer and fall pictures.

We enjoyed taking advantage of Lagoon this summer. The kids also had some fun whle camping and hiking. This hike picture was taken right before Kassidy fell into a very dirty swamp. It was quite disgusting, but she was a trooper. Scott and I also enjoyed our getaway to San Francisco this summer for his Planning Conference and I enjoyed a couple of days at Karen and Dan's house. Kaden has enjoyed cub scouts so far and this is a picture of him after getting his Bobcat award.

Kassidy chopped her hair before school started and both Mom and Kassidy love it short! Kaylee turned 10 years old! She is sure growing up fast. Kambrie broke her wrist and spent 6 weeks with a cast. She surprisingly did rather well. Her favorite thing lately is to draw on everything, so here are her pen covered legs. What a cutie!

Summer at the Thurgoods

2009-07-13T12:46:00.000-07:00

Well the girls summer is just about up, they go back on the 20th, so a week from today. We have had to cram alot in the six weeks that they had off!! We have done a lot of fishing (including me...darn now that Bronco is big enough to go, I don't have an excuse to stay home!) Went camping and still going one last time this week. We bought a family pass to the Clearfield Aquatic center, so we have been swimming several times and not to mention the two weeks of swim lessons that the girls did. We have done lots of other activities to keep us busy like The Bees baseball game, movies, playing at the park, swimming at Pine View Damn...etc. We have ran like crazy that I am actually going to be excited to send them to school and calm down for a little bit.

As far the girls lives go...Kennedy has quit tumbling and has moved on to Gymnastics. She always wanted to do gymnastics and do the bars and beams so we are giving that a shot. She has a little advantage being able to do all the tumbling already and has been put on a pre-team until she gets the bars down. She is loving it, it takes up four hours a week. She really loved her swimming lessons the most out of the girls, and does really well with all the strokes and floats, that I don't even know what they are. She is very excited to start 3rd grade and hopes she meets lots of friends! (and boys even though she won't admit it)

Grace did a soccer camp with Kaylee for a week. She really loved it and showing us her moves. She is defiantly my sporty, competitive wild little thing! She loves swimming and does well but she just wants to swim and play, she didn't really want to learn what the teachers were teaching she just wants to play....she can't really hold still for more than a minute.

Demi just dances...thats all she does all day is dance. We ended this season but has already started the next season for competition. She had try outs last week, she has been moved up a level (which was a tad shocking because she is the youngest and smallest), however it doesn't shock me that she did well in front of the judges because thats her thing she loves to perform! SO now this year she will be the youngest and smallest again, the other girls with her are mostly seven, but we can't hold her back if this is what she wants to do. Today she decided to chop her hair off again....it is super cute!

Bronco....is finally potty trained, poor thing has been ready since last summer but had to wait until mom could fit it in her schedule to do it. So the training was easy and we are done. He is getting so big, he goes camping and fishing with us now and does about everything with us. The time is over that I have to have a babysitter for everything. He is still a major mamas boy so we will love having the kids at school, we will just play and watch TV all day. He does actually talk but I am usually the only one that understands everything.

Clint and I ran our first little race together, so fun! I plan to do two more this month for fun...my way of attempting to stay in shape! This sums up our life right now, I still feel like I am getting the house together but haven't worked on it since summer began...

The pictures are just random of things of the summer!

For those of you who still have summer left...Have a great Summer!

Article in the Ensign!

2009-06-30T18:08:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone!

How are you guys all doing? I am sure you are all having a fun summer! Every time I think about summer I think about mom Barlow's house with all the yummy barbecues, grilled corn, tons of watermelon, Lagoon, friends and family! It is a bit different here because of the good weather year around we can just know it is summer because the girls are at home! :0)
I wanted to add this post to talk to you about the July Ensign, you probably already read it, I am sure we are the last ones to get ours in the mail anyway...if you read it you saw the article talking about Israel Barlow. It is a cute part of his journal talking about when Israel and Elisabeth (first wife) lost a baby and the baby's grave, etc...I just wanted to make sure you read it. In the end of the article also mentions about grandma Ora Barlow and the Israel Barlow biography book!
It was fun for me to read the story there and know more about your great great grand, etc...father! :0) The article is called "Daddy, don't leave me here". Pages 34-36.
I hope everyone is doing good, I miss spending time with you. I know I have to get better in calling and writing you...
I enjoy looking at everyone's blog, it is great to know that you are doing good!
We are doing great, I will probably update our blog this week. I have been busy keeping the kids busy :0) but I do love when they are home! Have a great month and HAPPY 4TH OF JULY everyone! :0) Love you! Milena

More Cheshire Pictures

2009-06-23T15:53:00.000-07:00

Okay, here are more pictures from our life the past few months.....

We remodeled our kitchen, which was pretty crazy for a while. So here are some before, during, and after pictures.

I was also absolutely out of my mind, but I worked at Lagoon for the last month of school so that we could get 5 free season passes. I couldn't believe how hard it was to be a full-time working mom. Plus I'm not in the shape I used to be, so I was dead every night. So now we get to enjoy Lagoon all summer.

We went to Boise and McCall Idaho for a reunion with Scott's family. The kids loved swimming, hiking, and walking along the harbor.

Here are pictures of Kaden's 8th birthday. He will be getting baptized on August 1st.

Cheshire Pictures

2009-06-23T15:45:00.000-07:00

I know it's been awhile, so I'm going to try to catch up a little bit. In this post I'm posting the kids end of year school pictures and Easter. More will be following soon hopefully.

Finally some new pictures!

2009-04-28T23:37:00.000-07:00

Things have been crazy it seems like for awhile now.... we are finally in a new home, no complaints staying with Dad and Mom for awhile it was great!! I am still unpacking..it took me a year to pack it all up and might just take another year to unpack it all. I don't have any pictures of it yet but I will get on that as soon as it starts coming together.

I am updating a few pictures, Clint and I went to the big Island Hawaii for our 10 year anniversary, I made Clint get pictures to celebrate ( I figure the kids might want them one day) We loved it like we do all our trips! It was great for me because there was less packing on my part since the kids were already at moms!

There is the Easter picture for the year with the kids.

Kennedy's Baptism picture clear back from her birthday.

Grace and Demi's belated birthday pictures also.

Demi has had two dance competitions in the last couple of weeks. Her team had competed 6 times and has taken first place in all of them ( sometimes it was against 9 other teams). We always knew she'd be a dancer, so they have been pretty fun.

I thought I would share Broncos excitement about new under ware....who wants to be the one to break it to him that they go under the clothes???

Well spring and summer will bring more crazyness, between Dance recitals, Preschool graduation, school ending, summer, swim lessons and then back to school in July for YEAR ROUND...woo hooo!

That about sums things up for right now, but will try to get house pictures up soon!

Cheshire February Birthdays

2009-03-18T12:48:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures from Kambrie and Kassidy's Birthdays. Kambrie had a good first birthday and Kassidy her 6th birthday.

3rd's a CHARM!

2009-02-28T15:43:00.000-08:00

Grace had an adventurous day on Tuesday at Recess, it ended well for her if you can't tell. She fell off the Monkey Bars and Broke both of her wrist. Luckily they thought that the one could just be in a brace, so that she wouldn't be totally confined. (not that she can do much anyways with both of them broken) So we have hit our third broken bone, not bad in 8 years!

Also we got our third realtor to sell our home....and it worked, we sold it and we have officially moved out. I never want to go through that again! I have been packing for a year thinking I would be so prepared for when the day came, but really nothing can get you ready. We were there until 3:00 in the morning finishing up for them to move in the next morning. So if you all didn't know we have moved over to mom's for the next month until we get into a home. Hopefully back to West Point.

We have had a very crazy month preparing to move, Demi and Grace's birthdays (they last 2 weeks becasuse of all the parties) Clint's dad had heart surgery, and is still in the hospital. Never a dull moment at the Thurgoods....and now not at mom's either!

Grandbaby #20

2009-01-29T16:41:00.001-08:00

Arriving the end of June!!!

Barlows visit the Briggs

2009-01-22T18:54:00.000-08:00

Thanks Dave for inspiring us all to post pictures. I wish I could be as entertaining. :) I didn't realize I've never actually posted anything on the family blog.

Josh and Alex's family were able to visit us on their way to see Alex's family in No. Cal last week. We're so glad they stopped and were surprised at how much fun we can have in such a short time (hint: there's a lot more time if you stay up until 4:00 in the morning!)

Here's a few pictures we got:

Lunch... quite a crew! We realized Brooklyn is the same age Casey was when I was a baby... that's a whole lot of little kids!

And here are some cute pics we got of the kids walking Max to school.

You said it.

2009-01-18T22:10:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Natasha!

2008-11-16T00:09:00.000-08:00

Halloween pictures again!

2008-11-03T10:26:00.001-08:00

I posted this picture again, since the last one was so small you couldn't see anyone. Hope this helps.

The Cheshire's Fall Season

2008-11-03T10:02:00.000-08:00

So, I am not the best at this blogging stuff, but I'm at least working on once a quarter. So here are our fall pictures, which ended up out of order. But here's a description of each one anyway. Kaden is very excited to be starting Jr. Jazz Basketball, so he's modeling his new jersey. Next we have Halloween at Grandma's and pumpkin carving. Kambrie is playing in the leaves for the first time, showing us how she can finally sit up, and her cheesy grin in the highchair. Next is the kids first day of school and then Kaylee's 9th birthday. We are looking forward to seeing everyone soon for the wedding.

Happy Birthday Kennedy!

2008-10-12T13:27:00.000-07:00

Movie Review

2008-09-30T16:46:00.001-07:00

"Forever Strong"

We went and saw Forever Strong this weekend. It was excellent. It was a really well made movie with a positive message and it was set in Utah.

Don't be turned off that this is a movie about Rugby. Just like Rudy is a movie about Football. This movie is about doing your best and being true to your friends and your family.

I highly recommend going to see this movie. There's no doubt that you won't regret the price of a ticket on this one. Plus, while I don't consider this a really good reason for going to movies, it does feel good to support a positive, clean movie made by a smaller Utah studio.

And on a completely side note - check out the banner ad for Coach of the Year to the left. Everyone go vote for Bronco. Support a coach who cares about the athlete, integrity and doing the right thing. (and wins) I think you can vote every day, so please do!

Happy Birthday Kaylee!

2008-09-21T13:15:00.000-07:00

Football Season...Love it!

2008-09-18T11:16:00.000-07:00

Well September is already flying by... The pictures are the girls first day of school...(make sure you notice the girls "Roxy high heals, wedge shoes" They love them and think they are sooo cool in them. I didn't even know they knew what Roxy was! My fourth Wedding cake, and Broncos Bday! His pictures were taken this morning for his birthday, and surprisingly he hammed it up for the pictures, I have a mini Clint on my hands. He is loving his presents...he got a tool stand set thing that makes all kinds of noises that is already driving us all crazy. More Legos....yea and Bronco stuff! The girls are loving school, I'm not loving the Homework, but am actually liking having 2 gone all day. I didn't think I would, I think last year at this time I was still crying that Kennedy was gone all day. The 2 girls are on the same soccer team this year finally so that has been fun. They love their Hip Hop class and tumbling. Demi is loving her Dance class and LOVES preschool, she also thinks she is soooo big! On Mondays and Fridays for 2 hours it is only me and Bronco, and it is his nap time, so know not to call during this time because I will be on my bed crosstitching, watching my soaps and eating a whole package of cookies! Tomorrow Clint and I are off to Gods country to see the Broncos, the Broncos are already having a better season then we thought so hopefully we see a good game!

Thanks for all the birthday wishes, it was actually a great day!

Talk to you all Later!

BO BRONCOS

Heidi

Milena's new blog!

2008-09-18T10:25:00.002-07:00

Hey everyone!

How are you guys doing? I am so excited to see all of you again in December and I am glad you are all doing ok and that you are happy!
We are doing good, the kids are growing and our life is getting back to normal with Isaac at home. He has a doctor's ap tomorrow with his specialist because he started making some noises again but hopefully he won't need another laser procedure.
I wanted to tell you about my new blog, I am not going to be using the multiply site anymore and I'll just blog on my new address :

http://www.milenafbarlow.blogspot.com/.
I hope you enjoy it! Love you guys, :0) Milena

Happy Birthday Bronco!

2008-09-18T10:25:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Heidi! Thought you might want to celebrate like the good old days when you and Clint would tear up the dance floor!

2008-09-09T13:35:00.001-07:00

Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today!

Flashback Video

2008-08-23T20:40:00.000-07:00

Here's a fun video that everyone might enjoy.
(hint: this is Christmas 1989)

August 2008

2008-08-23T14:34:00.000-07:00

Hi Everybody!

Well for those of you that heard we sold our house, we did. We found a house in West Point that we put an offer on. (It goes to the school I wanted and has a master bath with a big tub!!) After we put an offer on it, the next day we found out that our buyers couldn't get their loan, so we had to back out of our house. We are back at square one....selling again! This is going to get so old!

I did a wedding cake this weekend..I promise it looks exactly like the picture the bride gave me and is the exact colors that she wanted. Cakes are getting so crazy now days. I heard at the reception it was getting raving reviews, and even the old people said they loved it and "are getting sick of seeing white cakes" I do another one on the 13th of September, it is just a boring, very pretty white one.

Well School starts back up on Monday. One minute the girls are excited because they are bored and the next minute they don't want to go back. They have been so bored the past two weeks, we only went camping twice, swimming 4 times, Lagoon 3 times, and house hunting......but they are so bored because half of their toys are in storage now! My house is half empty!

September should be a fun month...not as stressful since we aren't moving now, but I will have my 4th wedding cake (hopefully Anne's is the 5th) Bronco will turn TWO!! I will turn 29, the last fabulous year before hitting 30! Clint and I will go to Denver for a game for a weekend...Bronco Season is starting!! GO BRONCOS!

Hope everyone's school year is great!

Heidi

Happy 1st Birthday Cali!

2008-08-22T00:00:00.000-07:00

Summer at the Cheshire's

2008-07-17T10:22:00.000-07:00

I'm posting some pictures of our summer which includes the kids on the 4th of July and the ward campout hike to a waterfall, Kaden's 7th birthday, a fishing trip for Kaylee and Kaden with the Cheshire Family, and of course cute Kambrie growing up and eating food!

Pansy our Pug

2008-07-04T07:34:00.000-07:00

We just want to keep everyone updated of what goes on around here. On Wednesday morning our pug pansy put a hole in her eyeball (we are blaming her daughter Holly) We took her to the vet and Thursday morning we took her back in to have her eye removed. What a sad surgery but she made it through great and came home last night. She is being very mellow, due to her pain shots that last 2 days. We now have have a one eyed pug. Instead of whistling to get her to come now, we will just say aaarrrrg.

Have a great 4th of July!

Heidi

(you guys might get sick of me and this blogger, it's kind of fun!)

Video from Natasha to Isaac

2008-07-02T18:06:00.000-07:00

Translation: Get Better Soon, Isaac, We Love You. Tasha!

Movie Review: Wall-E

2008-07-01T20:25:00.000-07:00

Wall-E

Wall-E was an interesting movie. It tries to make a political point while at the same time be cute and funny for kids.
It wants to convince you that Man has ruined the planet and filled it with garbage. And that even though Man has become fat and lazy we should still fight for the Earth. Blah, Blah, Blah. It was so over the top it was annoying.
It also wants to be cute and funny, and it really was. Wall-E and his girlfriend are great. The animators and voice actors do an amazing job. There is some genuinely sweet parts of the movie. There are some genuine laughs.

So, if you like the movie depends on how sensitive you are to being called fat, and lazy and all you do is make garbage.

On a rating scale of

See in the theater
Buy the DVD
get it from Redbox
wait till it's on TV
Never, ever see.

I give it a 3. I recommend you wait to only pay a $1 for the whole family.

Brian

This would be a first for HEIDI!!!

2008-06-26T07:38:00.000-07:00

Yea for me!! Well everyone sems to think we live an exciting life over here...so I am going to try to make this sound like we really do.... I'll start with Bronco....well that about sums that up. Just kidding we love our little handsome man! He will be turning two in just a few months and is getting crazy. Even though everyone seems to think he is not a happy child, he is my greatest yet. 4th a charm I guess. He is into everything, and it is true boys are different from girls! He does throw everything, climb on everything, breaks everything. I am redoing his room right now making it into " Broncos Country", I even used Denver Bronco Blue paint. It is looking super cute! He is just "loving" his season pass to Lagoon, his favorite ride the cars that drive around...Puff not so much!

As for Demi..... my sassy child. We are proud of her, this last week she made a competition dance team. She has always loved dancing as everyone knows and is quite the show girl, so I think she will do pretty good. She also started tumbling this summer and loves that also. She will start pre school in the fall, which she can't wait for her Mrs Hillary as a teacher.

Grace and Kennedy, They are basically one... connected at the hips! They just finished being cheerleaders instead of dance this year. For this next year they decided they want to be in a hip hop class. They just go from one thing to another. They are still in tumbling, Kennedy has started working on whips, and her record for Back Handsprings is about 8 in a row on the floor. She has the little tough body type for this. Grace has her back hand spring down. Grace is also my Soccer Star, she will be my sporty girl. I don't think I have seen any one so competitive! (that includes you Josh, she could take you down)

For the summer we are just finishing up swim leessons..... We have the Lagoon passes so that is a weekly trip. The house is back up for sale, we are so indecisive.... so we do a lot of cleaning. We are loving having Clint home for the summer...we almost forgot that we had a dad. He just has one year left of school, however in the fall his week will consist of 80 hours of work, so back to no Dad. The girls do a lot of fishing with him to make up for it during the summer.

Clint and I spent our 9 year anniversary in LA for one night to watch Bon Jovi in concert. Still Love him! Then in May we went to NYC, we had a fabulous time! Favorite things was the broadways we saw Wicked and Phantom. Little dissapointed that the Mets Baseball game was rained out, and we spent a 100$ at Tavern on the Green resturant for lunch. We love our trips and treasure every moment that we get to spend alone!

Well that about sums it up! Hope everyone is happy, and if you want to know anything else let me know....because to me it is all a bore. Hope the pictures work. We have Easter in case I didn't get one to you. Demi dance nad the two girls cheer outfits.

Hope you all are having a great Summer!

Heidi

Happy Birthday Kaden!

2008-06-20T01:36:00.000-07:00

We love you!

-Belle and Hannah

Happy Birthday Anne!

2008-06-20T00:56:00.000-07:00

Love, Yochabelle and Hannah

Family Fun in London!

2008-06-19T03:02:00.000-07:00

We were so happy to have Annie come visit for a week then Karen & Dan! We had loads of fun with everyone. Life is great for us here... just getting ready to move back! Hope you are all doing well. The wall around Canterbury with Annie... we got out of the city for a day and went to Canterbury and Leeds Castle.
Crazy late nights w/Karen & Dan... we went to bed at 4 a.m. once and the sun was already coming up! Well worth it though. Thanks for teaching us how to play Nertz.

Josh and Karen flying a kite... he's throwing it up (not much wind that day) and she's getting ready to RUN!
For more pics... check out our blog... which we update more frequently than this one :)
Also... Karen, Dan, Josh & Alex are calling out Heidi to post the next blog! It's summer now... what's your excuse? We want to see pictures of you and Bon Jovi and NYC. :)

Fun Picture

2008-06-18T19:32:00.000-07:00

Thought you all might get a kick out of this.

Don't make too many comments about the styles.

>>>>>>>>>HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOMAN!<<<<<<<<

2008-05-26T22:23:00.000-07:00

We love you! From, Belle and Hannah

Happy Birthday Brooklyn!

2008-05-11T23:37:00.001-07:00

We love you!
Belle, Hannah, and Isaac

Isaac is home guys!

2008-05-10T16:11:00.000-07:00

We are very happy to let you know that our little Isaac is home! We got discharged Wednesday night and things are going pretty good...Thank you so much for all the prayers, phone calls, messages, emails, cards and packages you guys sent us! Milena was all the time in the hospital with Isaac and could not answer the phone because they would not allow cell phone use in the ICU, sorry if we missed your calls. Our little guy is just really cute and we look forward to be together at home with him! Having him at home was the best Mothers Day's gift Milena could get it or want it! Thank you again guys, you are the best family someone can have it! Here is a picture of him leaving the hospital :0)

For the readers

2008-05-05T15:16:00.000-07:00

Hey all you readers,
thought I would introduce you to the website I've been using to track books.

It's called LibraryThing. www.librarything.com
You enter books easily with ISBN, and can then label or tag them.

Free for under 200 books, but very cheap for a lifetime membership.

Here's my list of books.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dragonb

It's helping me track books I own, but also books I've read. Now I'm labeling the ones read this year, so I know how many books I read in a year. Up to 28 so far.

anyway, have a look.

Brian

Isaac Pictures

2008-04-29T13:39:00.000-07:00

Milena is coming home tonight. But, Isaac will have to stay for about another week for him to get better at eating. Otherwise he is doing a little better each day and we look forward to bringing him home.

Happy Birthday Zack!

2008-04-21T00:34:00.000-07:00

Zack,
We love you,
Belle and Hannah

New Job

2008-04-17T22:54:00.000-07:00

I guess everyone probably already knows that I got a new job. In case you were curious, the website for the firm is www turbin.net.
So far it has been very interesting, but a lot of work while I learn the ropes.
We are getting excited for Isaac's birth, less than a month to go!

My first post

2008-04-01T21:26:00.000-07:00

I know, pathetic. We've sort of gone AWOL for a few months! I just wanted to let you know we're going to get back into the blog world! I've been looking at all your fun updates and I've also finally added some things to our blog.

Also, we're coming into town in a couple weeks and are excited to see everyone. We come in the 18th. I have to be at a shower on the 19th from 1:00-3:00. Then Jake's wedding is the next Saturday, the 26th. We know your kiddos are busy in school, but we hope to do some things together while we're there. Dan and I would even be happy to babysit if you want to start planning now! :) I just really want our kids to get to play together and it seems like time always goes so fast when we're there.

Okay, so this was a weak post, but at least I made an appearance... Heidi, you're up!

Kambrie Blessing

2008-03-30T17:32:00.001-07:00

Kambrie Blessing four generations

Kambrie blessing

Slackers

2008-03-28T18:05:00.001-07:00

no posts for a while here...

so, here's some helps...

I'm not an expert in digital cameras, or video cameras, but I generally know some places for info.

Here's the best site I've seen on video camera reviews.
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/

tons of great info. site is a little heavy on ads. But the reviews of each camera are great. The ratings with approximate prices helps too.

For digital camera reviews this site is great
http://www.steves-digicams.com

He doesn't review everything, but the reviews are great.
Click on either Our Reviews or a better starting point is "The Best Cameras" where it gives some recommendations in different categories.
I always jump to the conclusion and look for the times to take a picture which he will usually list.

Happy Birthday Max!

2008-02-25T00:44:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Maxwell from Lanikai Beach! We love you! :0)
Belle and Hannah

Happy Birthday Kassidy!

2008-02-25T00:39:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Kassidy! We love you :0) Belle and Hannah

Kambrie's Webpage

2008-02-21T15:38:00.000-08:00

Here is the hospital's webpage with Kambrie's pictures on it. Go to www.Our365.com and then put in the customer# 14821-2274-86627. Enjoy!

Kambrie Cheshire Pictures

2008-02-21T09:49:00.000-08:00

Dear Family, As most of you know, Kambrie was born on Feb. 18th at 11:57 am.
She weighed 7 lbs 1 ounce and was 20 1/2 inches long. Here are some pictures of her and the kids. You can't tell that they love her to death! Love, Casey

Happy Birthday Makenna!

2008-02-16T19:19:00.000-08:00

The girls really enjoy doing their little videos for their cousins...Here they are at the Honolulu Zoo!
Have a great birthday Makenna! :0)
We love you, Belle and Hannah!

Stats

2008-02-10T13:12:00.001-08:00

For the curious. We set up some free tracking on the website, and here's some stats.

182 Visits from 1/10 to 2/10
Avg Time on Site 2:22

17 Visits from the UK (Hi Josh and Alex)
80 Visits from Hawaii
68 Visits from Utah
8 Visits from California
2 Visits from Florida

Highest Visit in one day: 12 on Jan 14th
2nd Highest: 11 on Feb 8th
Lowest: 1 on Jan 29th

Brian

More Snow

2008-02-09T11:13:00.000-08:00

Snow, Snow and more Snow

2008-02-09T11:04:00.000-08:00

Our Hannah is 4 years old!

2008-02-08T17:44:00.000-08:00

Our Hannah turned 4 last Wednesday...she wanted a Enchanted Giselle's cake and she got so happy with all the calls, gifts or emails you guys sent her. Thank you so much guys!Here are some the pictures of our big girl! I hope you are all doing good...Love, Milena

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Happy Birthday Grace!

2008-02-07T00:26:00.000-08:00

2008-01-30T13:14:00.000-08:00

Hi Family!
My plans took another little turn this week. Last week I was confronted by the rink here in Provo because the current Skating Director/Marketing Manager is moving in May and they asked me to fill the position. I committed to it today and I turned down the job at the assisted living center. I am super excited! I will still graduate in April and then start this job in May and it will count as my internship. It is amazing that my dream job fell into my lap right when I graduate! I feel very blessed.
Life in Provo is still AMAZING! I love all of my classes! It is such a fun time of life!

Happy Bday Demi!

2008-01-27T23:20:00.000-08:00

Happy Bday Demi! We love you! :0) Belle and Hannah

Josh's First Post

2008-01-26T04:51:00.000-08:00

Hiya Family,

Here is my first blog entry. I think Alex usually makes a weekly entry into our blog. I added a couple albums to our multiply site. I think most of you are included on my email list. Anyway we had a good time in Southern France and it was nice to warm up a little. But we are back home to the cold.

I also just added a picture of my B-day present--a scooter. It was Makenna's idea I guess. Sweet and useful. --Josh

Casey's first post-Surprise!

2008-01-14T19:31:00.000-08:00

OK everyone, I'm really going to give this a try, even though I'm pretty Blogger illiterate! I'm not sure how often we will have anything too exciting to post, but we'll try to at least get some pictures up. It was so fun to have everyone here at Christmas. It's nice to see how all the kids are growing up and getting along so well. Our kids are all back in school and we keep busy with the usual-volunteering in their classrooms, teaching music at preschool, doctor appointments, chiropractor appointments, meetings, homework, etc. etc. Our biggest excitement lately has been that Scott and I went to IKEA for the first time on Saturday. It was quite an experience, but not one that I'm up for again for awhile. I'm having fun trying to get the house organized and ready for a baby to come and take up more space though. Well, hope to continue to hear from everyone and I'll try hard to contribute, even though our lives aren't near as exciting as some of yours!

Annie's First Post

2008-01-13T20:43:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone!!
This is perfect that I can keep you all posted! My first week has been wonderful! I almost forgot how much I love this place!! I got all situated and I will be done with my course work at the end of this semester and I will walk at graduation on April 24th and 25th! I am pretty positive that I am doing my internship at an assisted living center here in Provo as the activities director. My boss will be quitting in September and then ideally the job will be mine. My ward and roomates are amazing!! One got home from her mission to Brasil one week ago and the other got home 2 weeks ago from Madagascar. They are still adjusting but we are having fun! Good times!

David's first post

2008-01-13T02:04:00.000-08:00

Hi Everybody!
I hope that everyone enjoys this blog and that it will be useful for us to have a central place to keep in touch.
For now, I just wanted to let you know that I have updated our family website: familybarlow.com, you should see a link for it to the left.

Note

2008-01-12T15:22:00.001-08:00

Also, me or Dave may change the look of things every once in a while, don't be alarmed. All the posts will stay the same.

First Post

2008-01-12T15:14:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the Barlow Family Blog.
Dave set it up. It's for everyone to post. You don't have to put pictures, just post what's going on.
Definitely all trips and trip plans should be posted. Trip ideas should be posted. Kid happenings should be posted. Teeth loss, hair loss, anything. If Heidi gets a speeding ticket, post it! If you add pictures to your Multiply, post it.

Also, make sure to put a label on the post. Labels and frequency will be tracked on the side. I think just put the barlow kid name or Parents.

Anyway, contact me, Dave or Karen for the username and password to post. If you need help make sure to ask.

I think this will help to keep everyone better informed. For example, I didn't know that Anne will graduate this April.

And of course check back often for other peoples news.

We will keep the blog "hidden" so too many non-fam from the internet don't show up, but be slightly circumspect when talking about things. No need for addresses, full names, etc. Don't make it easy for crooks.

later,
Brian