The Barlow Family

2009-07-14T16:23:00.000-07:00

4th of July weekend

We got to go out to Vernon Reservoir to camp for the weekend.

We all had lots of fun and I can't wait to go camping again soon.

We roasted pigs in a blanket over the fire. That was a big hit with the kids and adults.

Reanna wanted them every night. But she is also a hot dog nut.

We also went to the reservoir to play in the water. The water was so cold that some of the kids wouldn't get in past there knees.

It took some talking but we got Reanna in the water.

After she was in she wanted to play with any one of the kids that wold go in with her. In this picture she is with Kaylee, JD's girlfriends youngest.

She talked Dillin into going in with her but that is about as deep as they would go.

Kelton was trying to catch crawdads with the net and Kaylee was throwing the stick in the water for the dog. Kyle didn't want to go in.

This picture is of Dillin, Kaylee, and Reanna. The sun came out from behind the clouds for a minute so they went in the water a little bit deeper. I have to say that it was so cold that I only went in to half way up my calf. The kids played in the water for about 3 hours I have to call them crazy.

Reanna called this "sink swimmed". She fell over in the water this was not what she wanted to do.

The rest of the beach bums. Kelton is the kid, then my mom, Shannon (Jeff's wife), Shanin (JD's girlfriend), and Wes

When the sun came back out Jeff went in to play. I don't know if Reanna stopped at this point or if Jeff did But Jeff said that his legs were numb. Reanna talked Dillin into going out again with her. Isn't is cute he held her hand so she wouldn't fall again. He likes her even if she is a girl.

On the way back in she "sink swimed" again. That was about all she wanted. So Wes, Reanna, and I went back to camp.

After everyone got back to camp Jeff took out his gun and shot it. The kids thought that would be fun so he let Kelton shoot it and helped Dillin and Reanna shoot it. My little girl takes after her dad in so many ways. The love of guns, 4-wheelers, and speed.

She is showing me the shell she shot.

Speaking of Dad, Wes should us what his Razor would no thanks to my dad that told him if he would clime the steep part he would give him $100. He made it up the less steep part and then everyone thought that I was funny. I was screaming at him to stop before he rolled it. Then I had Reanna standing by me and she wanted to try it. Heaven help me. I have 2 crazy people at my house.

This is the less steep side that he climbed. He is crazy. He gunned it to make it over the lip on the hill. My heart dropped.

He made it up the less steep side and after he got turned around he was going to try to go up the steeper side.

When he did his front tires came up and he went sideways. At that point is when I started to yell. Everyone was cheering him on and laughing at me but lucky for him he didn't try after that. He kept trying to talk me into letting him but I didn't want to pick him up at the bottom of the hill. He was not to happy with me for messing up his fun.After the commotion from the 4-wheeler was over we were starting dinner and JD grabbed Reanna and started to dance. I made him dip her 2 times so I could get a picture of them. It is to bad that no one likes her. :)

2009-07-12T11:55:00.000-07:00

Our sale was great. We sold a lot of fabric but we still have a lot left so we are going to do it again in Sep or Oct. I wont to thank all of the helpers at the sale Karen, Elise & Denise. And thank you to Shannon for taking Reanna Wednesday - Friday. It was a lot of work but it was also fun at the same time I loved seeing people I haven't seen since the store closed. I got to talk with some of the ladies that took my beginning class. They told me about the quilts that they have finished and the fun things that they are going to do. I miss the teaching part of the store. But I am working on designing my own patterns. I have one done (the one I did and taught at the store), one that is very close to being done (I am teaching this quilt in Layton and Cedar at retreats), and I just started cutting out the one I am working on. I will have to blog it when it is done. This picture is of mom and Karen cutting fabric and Denise is behind Karen taking a break. I don't know about everyone else but I am very tried.

This is the empty bolts from 2 1/2 days of the sale. Jd was going to the dump so we sent them with him.

Wes took Reanna with him Saturday to Delta for his race. I couldn't go so I don't have any pictures from the race but he was in 2 different classes but he won both classes. Go Wes. My cousin Shelly and her family live in Delta so they came and got Reanna and took her to there house to play until the race started then they all came back to watch the race. Thanks again to Shelly and girls. When Wes and Reanna came home Reanna's cousin Kyle was here so Kyle and Reanna got to hold the trophies that Wes won.

2009-07-09T21:45:00.000-07:00

Mom and I have been very busy trying to get things ready for the sale we are having. As you can see we were in a mess. We had fabric stacked every where. The notions were in boxes stacked allover.

This is the stack of flannel that we took off the shelves trying to put the cotton fabric in one place.

This is some of the other shelves. Some of you came to shop before the sale and seen first hand what a mess I was in.
After 5 days of hard work this is what we were able to do for the sale. Notice that the top of the shelves have very little fabric on them :)

This is where we put most of the flannel fabric. It is hard to tell but there is 4 tables in there.

(2 per row) Lots better then where they were.

This is the cutting tables and the register. We are having everyone come in the outside entrance. The first day we needed more cutting space. We had 3 people cutting fabric and we had a line with at least 10 people most of the time. CRAZY but fun. I have missed the store. Well the people not the hard work and stress.

Just a different view of the cotton fabric. No more boxes :) And don't you love the lighting We put up so we could see.
This is the tables of notions

Just a different view of the cotton fabric.

2009-06-30T21:37:00.000-07:00

For anyone that would like to come mom and I (Quik Quilts) is having a sale on July 8th - 11th. From 10am to 4pm. It is in my basement so use the door on the south side of the house. Bring all your Friends with you I (really Wes) wants the basement back. My address is 1693 N 850W Orem.

2009-06-27T17:40:00.000-07:00

Gordon Family Reunion

2009

My mom's mom is a Gordon. There is 1 boy and 7 girls. In the picture going from left to right is Dixie, Jenny(my Grandma), Libby, and Morie. They have lost there brother Dee and 3 girls, Alta, Susie, and Makie. But that doesn't stop us from getting together.

We had a lunch and talked to cousins. Reanna got to play with her cousin Sara (she is my cousins girl).

Then they started taking the kids for rides on the trains that my mom's cousin makes. The trains are pulled by mowers that the mower parts have been taken off. They they have flat wagons that has ride on toys bolted on them. The kids love them. They had 4 different trains running so there was not much of a wait.
Reanna loved it and after the reunion was over she was very sad and wonted to take a train home with her so if it is good weather for her b-day this is what she wants to do.

The horse was her favorite one she went on that one at least 4 times.

This is the next favorite one.

This is Dallon (my cousins boy)

This is Sara

Even the young at heart loved the train (my great aunt Morie)

My great aunt Dixie is the end car of the one that is on the side walk.

They also had a slip and slide that was a big hit with the kids. It took some talking but we finally got Reanna to do it. Then I couldn't get her off when it was time to go.

We all had a great time and can't wait for next year.

2009-06-25T21:15:00.000-07:00

Look everyone I do have a girl!!!!! She got three dress up dresses for Christmas and yesterday and today have been the only times she put them on. She went to play with 2 girls that live by us. One of Wes's friends brought his twin 5 year old girls over to work on the bikes trying to get ready for a race and Reanna hit it off very well.

She had to walk down to see if she had mail. On the way back Wes pulled up in the dump truck. She is definitely dad's little girl.

She loves her daddy and her daddy only likes her a little. Thanks to dad she now knows that the van that drives around with music has ice cream for sale. So now every time she sees it she runs up to dad and asks him for one with one of her cute smiles that makes dad say yes dear. Look at her eyes, is that her dad or what.

2009-06-14T19:40:00.000-07:00

The Barlow Family Camp out 2009.

We went to Sherrill and Sandra's house in Koosarem (thanks again for the use of your house and everything else). Sherrill, Sandra, Kaylee, Wes, Reanna, and I was able to go down a day early so we went to on a 4-wheeler ride and went fishing at upper box creak. Sherill was the lucky one and got the first fish. Reanna was so excited she wonted to pet the fish before he put it on the string.

Shortly after she pet the fish Reanna caught a fish on her pole.

10 minutes later she got the fish out of the water. She was a lucky girl and got to help her dad with his fish. Sadly it was to small so we had to put it back.

She also got to help uncle Sherrill with his fish. When it slowed down she wonted to see and pet the fish over and over. By the end of the fishing trip we had 9 fish. All of them had to be pet before they your put on the string.

There was lots of kids to play with all weekend. Robin and Kaylee loved to sit with there babies and watch everyone.

The kids loved to ride the 4-wheelers and if no one would take them the would pretend to take each other for a ride. (Reanna on the back bike and Brooklyn and Archer is on the first bike).

For Saturday we were making dutch oven roast with potatoes and carets but the rain would not corporate with us so we cooked in the carport. Fun times.

On one of the rainy afternoon Candy had all the kids that wonted to go into Grandma Rea's trailer and make fruit loop necklaces.

The best part about making the necklaces is they get to eat them when they are done. Except for Reanna she never got the fruit loops on the string before she ate them.

Saturday night we had a b-day party for one of Reanna's cousin Brinley. They had a very cute Barbie cake for her. Then we were watching a movie at 9:30pm and Reanna got so involved with the movie that she forgot she was eating the cake and almost dropped it in her lap.

Trever sitting by Brinley watching the movie. Trever is such a good uncle to Brinley.

Burke and Rea's Grand kids and Great Grand kids came in pairs. Burklee and Robin are about 2 months apart. They are getting so big.

We had lots of fun and can't wait for next year. Thanks to everyone for your help.

2009-06-06T21:15:00.000-07:00

Today Wes had a race in Delta. His qualifying was to fast so he got put in the fastest group, it ended up being only Wes and one other guy. Wes was not to happy because the guy he had to race was one of the guys he raced last time and lost. But after fixing a problem with his bike he got 1st place in his race. The track is 300 feet. He ran the first race in 3.9 seconds and the second was 4.1 seconds. He was going a little over 80 mph. My boy loves his speed. By the end of summer don't be surprised to see me with gray hair. The next race in Delta is in July. He has a race in Mt Pleasant on June 27. We will keep you all informed on the biggest kid in the family.

2009-05-25T09:15:00.000-07:00

I just had to say how big my baby is. The other day I went to Costco with my mom to get somethings. One of the things we needed was pull ups for night time. When I went to get them they were $28 for the big box and since Wes hasn't worked very long (he is working now but in someone truck not his) I have had to watch every penny so I asked mom how much the plastic sheets are. We decided to not get the pull ups and go to Wal-mart to the sheets. So that night when I was getting her ready for bed I told her that I thought that she was a big girl and didn't need to have pull ups at night any more. So I put her to bed expecting to be woke up in the night with a wet bed but, when she woke me up at 3am it was to help her on the potty. She has been 6 nights with out pull ups and has not had a wet bed yet. She is growing up on me so fast. I can't believe she is 3 1/2 all ready.

2009-05-20T18:15:00.000-07:00

Wes was gone to Moab from Tuesday to Sunday morning.(May 13-17) So we played also. We went to Reanna's beloved "Dinosaur Zeum"on that Thursday. We went with Grandma Ann, Shannon, and Kyle. It is a great way to kill 3-4 hours. Everyone except for Grandma played in the wet sand.

Reanna and Kyle were the only kids in the wet sand place for a little bit, so they found all the Dinos they could and put them in herds. All the plant eaters on one side with each dino in its own herds. The meat eaters on the other side. Those two are to smart for there britches.

It took some talking to get Reanna to sit for this picture.

The last thing to do is dig for dino bones with a paint brush.

That Friday we went and did a little shopping with Grandma and Grandpa Kirk. Me being the crazy mom I am I bought her an egg that has a lizard in it. Fun I thought. It takes 36 to 48 hours to crack and grow. I thought not bad what is a day and a half to two days. A lifetime to a 3 year old. We put it in the water before we went to bed. I caught her playing with it at 2am and 4am. This picture is when we put it in the water.

This is what it looked like at 4am.

This is a side view of 4am

When I got done with breakfast I went to get dressed. When I came back out I caught her "helping" the egg hatch. I told her that I will hatch all by its self. She then said that she was it mom and had to help just like the dinosaurs have to help there babes.

this is what it looked like after she helped it.

And finally (before it was time) she got to take it out of the water. She wants to do another one but it will be a long time until the next time.

We went to the Zoo on Monday in 90 degree heat. Some of her favorite thing was the elephants. The zoo keepers were having a show when we got to the elephants so they were very active. The keepers had a big block of ice with fruit in it. The elephants were hitting it with there trunks until the fruit would brake off. Reanna thought that was great.

She has always liked the giraffes. We went to the zoo last spring and got to see a baby one when it was only about 1-2 mo old. We got to see the same baby this time. He is about half the size of his mom now.

And this is were she is not mine and Wes's kid. She likes snakes. She keeps asking me if she can have one at our house. Crazzzzzzy girl.

And when you go to the zoo you just have to see if you measure up. She was not to happy that she was not as big as she thought she is.

And to top off the crazy times (mostly in part to J.D. and Dad) we tilled and leveled the garden yesterday and today we planted the garden. Reanna got to plant her pumpkins this year. We didn't plant any last year. She love to go out after the pumpkins start to grow to see if it is any bigger then it was the day before. She has already asked me when they will be out of the ground. If I thought that 1 1/2 days were long what are we going to do for about 10. We will keep you posted on the pumpkins.

2009-05-10T11:59:00.000-07:00

We had a very fun Saturday. We went to find the town of Joy Utah. Joy is an old ghost mining town from the 1800's. It is out by Delta. You turn on the road to the IPP plant . My mom, dad, Jeff, Shannon, Kyle, Reanna, and I spent in the day looking at old mines after we found the town. The town had 2 crumbled foundations and 1 grave.

This is the grave This is one of the foundations.

After we found the town we went to some of the mines. Some of them we could walk into.

this one had a door just inside. Jeff opened it but we couldn't see far back it went.

there was some old equipment left that we checked out.

we also found some animals along the way. I think that the animals was Reanna's favorite part.

Shannon caught a horny toad and let Kyle and Reanna hold it.

Grandma found a lizard and we tried to sneak up on it. (the lizard is on the rock but is hard to see)

We found pollywog's in a spring. I showed Kyle how to catch them without hurting them. I also let Reanna hold one.

When we got out in some places I got to take pictures of some of my passions. nature pictures.

All in all we had a great time and can't wait to do it again.

2009-05-03T17:45:00.000-07:00

One of Reanna's favorite places is the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point. We have been there at least 4 times and we are planning another trip soon. She has this love for dinosaurs. she has learned about 9-10 different ones. she know them by name and most of them what they eat. I need to find a good book that has pictures and the names (how you say them) and somethings about them so if anyone knows a good book please let me know. For our last trip there she talked her dad into going with us. she was so funny she was his personal tour guide. there was a lady there walking around cleaning so she was around us a lot. she was listening to Reanna tell her dad what there names are and if they were in a movie what the name they had in the movie. she also was telling him what they ate. the lady came up to me and asked me how old Reanna was and she didn't believe me when I told her 3. Here are some of the pictures we took from that trip.

in this picture she was standing on her dads shoulders

Sorry I can't make this on go the right way.

Sorry same with this one.

it is a picture of Wes and Reanna digging for bones

This picture is of her playing in the sand and water that they have set up for the kids (and dads that is Wes's hand) to build dams and dig for toy dinosaurs.

For Burke and Rea, Reanna wants to take you next time you are here so when you can call me.

2009-04-30T21:38:00.000-07:00

Wes has this need for speed. He is racing Banshee 4-wheelers. (I think that sometimes he is my biggest kid)

He has been fixing up one (making it faster) the red is the before

the blue is the after.

So far he has taken it to the sand duns 2 times and has blown the tranny and to a race once. But at the race he was trying to get the jetting right and had a small accident. He didn't get hurt to bad mostly his pride.

2009-04-28T20:32:00.000-07:00

I thought that this would be the easy way to keep everyone up on our little family. keep in mind that I am a beginner.

Reanna turned 3 on Dec 1st 2008. I can't believe that she is 3 already. She loves Dinosaurs, any kind of animals (rhino, lion, sharks, ect) she likes to have big and small animals so they can be mom and baby. See likes to play with Barbie but she has to be on a Dino or a horse.

She loves to learn new things (mostly about animals) so I signed her up for a class at Thanksgiving Point at the barn yard. The class was called duck, duck, goose. She got to make a duck that quacks out of a plastic cup, some paper, a string, and a small sponge. Then she got to go feed the ducks and geese.

After the class she got to go on a pony ride. (not the first time on the pony but the first time she was all by her self) Then she got to feed the other animals. She found out that chickens do bite. There are goats, chickens, horses, sheep, and cows. she had a great time.