Trying to do better in 2012

Well where has the time gone? Oh how things have changed for our little family! Geoff quit his job to get his CDL and we were hoping for agreat career move but when things sound to good to be true ....they usually are! So now Geoff is on the job hunt! He really enjoyed the bank while he was there but now he is wanting a change and all I want from him is a paycheck! Yikes being the provider for our little family is stressful! Yuppers I don't enjoy the pressure at all! But I know everything will be fine!
Khloee is about to turn two and she is so stinkin cute! She loves playing hair stylist with mommy and playing with her baby dolls! She is such a joy and I am so happy she came to our family!
I am loving what I do, a mom, wife and hair stylist to the most wonderful clients a stylist could have! I enjoy going to work and doing hair! I also enjoy coming home to my sweet husband and amazing daughter! We are living with my parents right now and we thankfully have our townhouse rented to some wonderful tenants! What a blessing I just keep praying they will stay awhile! I am enjoying living with my parents and helping each ore out! We were here all the time any way so why sleep in different houses! Mom and dad seem to enjoy khloees sweet spirit here in there house with them 24/7!
I hope I can do better with the blog in 2012 so that close family and friends can stay connected even though we are miles away! This Christmas we spent it in north Carolina! We had a great time but best of all our uncle Craige got baptized! Yippe so this Christmas a baptism next Christmas a temple session together as a family for endowments and a sealing! What an amazing gift we could have at such a special time of year!
So here's to 2011 thanks for all the good but bye bye to all the bad! May 2012 be prosperous, healthy, wealthy, wise and maybe another Barton!

HELLO!!!

For some reason i was inspired to check out our blog and see when i last posted! WOW it has been a very long time and I am so sad about that! Honestly since we got the ipod touch we never use the computer very often. But i was reading over my primary lesson and decided to browse around the web and it landed me to our blog! I guess this will be a good way to express how i am feeling since both my sisters have decided to move away one further than the other but still it looks like we are even numbers again here at the beach. 3 girls and 3 boys! It will be me and mom cleaning the house and tending to khloee and Geoff dad and blake doing whatever they feel like doing that moment!

So update on the fam! Geoff and I just celebrated our 6 year anniversary by going to a concert in Charlotte North Carolina! We were able to see Easton Corbin, Justin Moore, Sarah Evans and RASCAL FLATTS! WOW what a freakin hot concert! But i admit it was good! i really enjoyed dinner before hand with some of our totally awesome cousins... Matt and Chelsee! They were so kind to let us stay with them after the concert and Chelsee was sweet enough to stay up and wait for us to get to there beautiful home! I admire Chelsee so much and i want to become a minimalist like her. Not sure I spelled that right but I am about to hire her to help me simplify our home so i can then simply my mom and dads home since we will be moving in with them when we are able to find a renter or get our townhouse on a property management program! I am so ready to pay off some debt and build our savings account! Plus mom and dads house had 5 bedrooms so they have plenty of room for us! So that is our goal for the moment!

Jessica is still in Charleston and seems to be doing well! i am so proud of her for following her dreams and reaching her goals! If only she could be a little more organized and pick up after herself that would be great! LOL but her nickname has always been messy jessy! But we love her regardless! She is finishing up her physical therapy and will be done in may of 2012! Go Jessica! After she is done who knows what her outgoing mind will want to do next!

Emilee has moved to Utah with a family friend Andrea! They drove across country with their moms and arrived in Utah on a Wednesday I think! Emilee wanted to find herself and figure out what she wanted to do with her life! I hate that it took her all the way to Utah but if it makes her happy that is good she just will have to skype with us all the time so Khloee will not forget her YAH YAH!

Blake will starting his sophomore year of High school and he is super excited about going back to school.... yeah right! The kid would rather play modern warfare, hunt, clean guns or be with dad doing random stuff! He is really good with Khloee and he is fun to be with most of the time and if he gets pizza he is even happier! Crazy kid!

Mom is working her butt off and so is Dad. We are going through some trials but we are doing the best we can and praying things get better sooner than later! We are a strong family and we know that through the gospel and our faith we will survive. We are just supposed to learn something and I am trying to figure our what it is we are to learn so we can get back on our feet! I am just so glad that we are able to talk and share our feelings as a family and be supportive of each other! Dad is 2nd councilor in our bishopric in our ward and it is very intense for him! I have not seen this side of my dad but I know heavenly father knew what he was doing so we could learn lessons for this time in our lives as a family!

Geoff is still at the bank doing his best to keep clients happy! He comes home frustrated sometimes but he has learned patience in his job so he is doing well. He has picked up the desire to hunt. Cant imagine where he got that desire from but for our anniversary i got him some kind of gun that my dad and blake said he would like! I sure do love the man and I am grateful he has something he likes to do with my dad and blake! He still loves Georgia football like crazy as do I, he talks with his friend bryant about college football and enjoys every second he gets to talk to him about it! He is also a super awesome dad and loves spending time with Khloee! She loves him so much and it is an amazing feeling to have such a great family!

Me, well i am still doing hair and loving almost every second of it! It is hard working and being a mom but I don't want to give up working because I love doing hair so much! I also love being mom and a wife! It is a lot of work but totally worth it when khloee comes up to me and gives me kisses or a hug! What a sweet angel she is and an ever better blessing to our family! She enjoys going to her aunt kimmys house while i work so she can play with her little friend Cohen who is 2 months older than Khloee! They are so cute together and I am so blessed to have such a great friend to watch my sweet girl!

So all in all our family is moving along slowly but surely and no matter what trials our Heavenly father places before us we have each other! We are so blessed and we count our blessings often! May we all reflect on our blessings and be grateful for what we do have!

I hope to continue to keep blogging and keeping our followers update!

Baby Blankets/Quillows

Hi Everyone!! So I think it is time for me to re enter the blogging world! Yeah I know its about time right! Well there is one big thing driving me .... my mom has started sewing baby blankets and taggy blankets. Her baby blankets are also quillows so they fold up nice and are easy to carry. We are trying to be outgoing and productive as a family so we are encouraging each other to do the best we can with our talents! Dad is building houses, mom is working and sewing, Geoff is banking, Emilee is going to school and working a lot, Blake is being Blake and helping Dad some of the time and hunting, and I am still doing hair, loving it and most of all Loving being a mom!
So if you know anyone who would like a baby blanket/quillow LET ME KNOW!!! We are making crafts, doing hair and building homes to live in at a price you can live with ... or something like that! Leave me a comment if you have any questions about our family business'.

Busy Life

Ok so It has been FOREVER since my last post. Again I have been staying super busy with work and doctors appointments. I am 33 weeks and ready for little Khloee to enter our world! I am getting very nervous but excited to meet our little girl! We have had a very nice Holiday with family and friends and look forward to many more. We have also been getting Khloee's room ready for her. Today I realized I (we) still have a lot to do before she gets here. I know she wont be in her room right at first but it will be nice to have that project finished. I promise to post pics soon. Maybe this week.
We are so thankful for our many blessings and for each other. Geoff and I are so excited to be parents and to love and teach Khloee in the Gospel.
May we all remember our blessings at this time of year.

Its Been a LONG Time

I have been super busy at home and work and not on the computer much. I have been wanting to catch up on our blog but I have no idea where to start! UGH!!
All is well. I am 25 weeks preggers and feeling a lot of movement on the inside. My belly is the biggest it has ever been and not comfortable at all! I totally don't understand how some women say they love being with child. NOT ME! I cant wait till February. I am scared to death about the whole delivery thing but I will be fine. To feel normal again will be great. And by normal I am sure we will be sleep deprived and cranky at first! But I admit that I am a whiner about being with child!
Football season is not going so well. Our team is not performing to there fullest potential..at least I don't think so! I must admit I still love watching them play. I will be a bulldog fan win or lose!

I hope to update more soon!

Update and Football Season

OK so I have not been keeping up with our blog very well. Been really tired and busy with my new church calling. Baby first:
We go Sept 15Th to find out what our little dawg is. I am pulling for a dawgette and Geoff is pulling for a dawg! Either way I just want a healthy baby dawg to grace us with their presence! I am so excited but tired. Been working and trying to get things organized in the house so we can add room for our little one.
Church calling: I have been called as our ward Primary Sec. I have been so blessed to be able to work with some really awesome women. My really amazing awesome friend Tiff is the pres, another friend is the 1st coun. and then another friend is the 2nd coun! How freakin awesome is that. We have the best time at our meeting while still being able to get things organized and ready for each week. I am so blessed to be able to work with them in this calling.
Football season: So Geoff and i are totally stoked for our football season. Geoff is worried we will not do to well this year but a true fan will always stay loyal I tell him. We have way to much Georgia stuff in our house to get to bummed, plus you cant have a great season every year! Our boys are learning to work together and improving each practice. I cant wait till Saturday. I am wanting to get the house cleaned so we can just eat and watch the game! Go DAWGS!!
Also hunting season is upon us and Geoff and I took our hunter safety class last year so we can get our license and hunt with dad and Blake this year. I hope to shoot my first deer while i am pregers! Ha what a site to see a pregnant woman in camo. I am laughing just thinking about it. Any who we have been busy working and trying to save money for when the baby gets here and the bills start pouring in. Plus we will be needing Georgia stuff to decorate the nursery with after we find out the 15th if we will be doing footballs and baseballs or cheerleaders and girly stuff in the nursery. I am totally excited and cant wait till it is over. I know I shouldn't say that but I just don't get a kick out of being pregers! But I am making the best of it and Geoff has been amazing! Taking care of me and pampering me with the things i need. What an amazing man he is. Also mom and dad have kinda been spoiling me too! Mom cooking dinner and dad making a cradle for the baby. I am so blessed to have such an amazing support group all around me!

Baby News!

Okay so I have not blogged in a while because I couldn't let the secret out that we are going to have a baby in Feb of 2010! How excited we are. Last Friday on Pioneer Day I had an appointment and my wonderful mother went with me! The doctor surprised me and the only thing we did was a ultra sound! Fun! Mom got to come in the room and see the baby on the screen. We got some really good pics from the sonogram. I was so happy my mom was with me. This time being pregnant has been so different. I feel really tired and things are changing. Last time i just felt a sick like i had the flu. Maybe because of the RH factor thing. BUT thank goodness the Lord has blessed us with another opportunity and allowing us to be parents to one of his sweet spirits! I am getting nervous but super excited.
Now I hope to blog more because i don't have to keep anything a secret! We found out on June 2, 2009 that we were expecting. Then I did the figures and found out that the baby would be arriving near mom's birthday. So from the beginning i was excited. June 2 is dad's birthday and that made me feel good because that day was already special.
So more updates will come soon just taking things one day at a time!

Say it isnt so!

So last night Geoff and I, mostly me, got settled in for an announcement from Jon and Kate. I have become totally addicted to this show and I find myself thinking about them through out the day. I have watched the Marathons and counted down till the first episode of this season. My heart goes out to them because just seeing it in the magazines and hearing on the news stations, Jon and Kate splitting up. I hate that! Marriage and children are hard enough with out the cameras I cant and don't want to imagine life with cameras and all the people wanting to get pictures of you and your family! I love the show but I just wish they would have stopped the show and just done update shows or something so they could get counseling for themselves and the children!
I wish it wasn't so but they filed yesterday for separation!
I guess all I can do is hope for the best for them all!

To Our Moms

Well today was Mothers Day and it was a good day. We were able to enjoy a great breakfast with Mom Em at Cracker Barrel. I enjoyed french toast along with Mom Em. Geoff had oatmeal and a blueberry muffin and Dad Joe had the sampler I think, he got biscuits and gravy with grits and bacon i think. Anyway he said that they cooked him Yankee grits. They were runny, but I don't like grits very much anyway. We loved being able to do this with Mom Em. She is a wonderful woman and great mother. She did a great job raising Geoff to be a very loving and caring man. Thank you Mom Em for blessing me with a fantastic husband. You are a great mom and we are so blessed to have you in our lives.

We were a little late for church BUT we made it! I was able to put my Mom's flowers on for her after sacrament and they looked so pretty on her. We spent the afternoon with my mom and dad made ribs and Geoff did the potatoes. Mom loves ribs and baked potatoes so that is what she got. She was able to rest all afternoon and take it easy. Sad thing is she was feeling crappy because of a cold. But I she enjoyed the food and not having to prepare it and clean it up!

I wanted to tell my mom how thankful I am for her! Since I have moved out of the house and been married I have realized how much work it is to keep up a house and work. I am so thankful to my mom for her example. She is so awesome and I am so thankful that I have the greatest relationship with her. I enjoy all the time we spend together and all the things we get to do. I tell everyone all the time that I am still attached and I will not be able to move anywhere unless she is willing to go with me! I love you mom so much and I am so glad that our Father in Heaven sent me to you! I have the BEST mom ever! Happy Mothers Day Mom.

Now to my wonderful Grandmothers. How thankful I am that they raised their children in the church. What a great legacy we can carry on thru the years and for eternities if we are faithful. I am so thankful for my Grandmothers and their great examples. Grandma Lois for all the yummy Chocolate Pies and for the time she loves to ride and look at the beach when she comes to visit! Grandma Carol for all the times she has taught me her ways of cleaning and just getting the job done. For being so strong and hanging for all her family! What wonderful Women I have been blessed with as examples.

To my wonderful girl friends. How I would be lost without them and all the things they teach me. They are great moms to their children and I am so blessed to have them in nursery! Thank you for always being there to talk Tiff and for the times you listen when I ramble on about nothing. I am truly blessed for all the wonderful examples I have from Mothers in my life. One day I will be able to try to be an example to my baby and teach them to be grateful for all the Wonderful examples around them. May we fill our lives with Great examples of Mothers and learn from them!

Happy Mothers Day!

A day with Ginnie and and Auction at church...

So today was really awesome. I was able to spend time with a favorite little girl of mine, my little Ginnie! It was awesome. We were able to play some indoor basketball with Geoff's blow up goal in the am. Then my wonderful sister Jessica watched her while i went to the salon and did an client. I got home and made mac and cheese for Ginnie. We then did lots of errands together all afternoon. The last thing we did we ended up at the church for an auction for the youth group! It was totally fun. It was the 2ND annual auction and Brad was the guy with the microphone! There were lots of jokes and funny stories from Brad. I loved it but was also sad that I was out bid on a very yummy cake made by Nicole! She makes the best chocolate chip cookie cake with the best icing! I was upset but managed to get a taste from the buyer! Great Job Nicole and the cake! Dad did the BBQ for the dinner and mom and Pam did the corn, beans and rolls. They did a great job and everyone that helped set up and clean up were super awesome too.
This weekend is mothers day so Geoff and I have to do the shopping tomorrow. I really want to also get the house cleaned. It is the past the spring cleaning time so ours will be Summer Cleaning in our house! I will do a post tomorrow dedicated to our moms! Had a great Friday and hope to have many more!