BVI Trip

Last weekend we returned from an amazing trip to the British Virgin Islands with the family. We lived on a sailboat and each day we sailed to a new island. All the islands were absolutely amazing...I am not quite sure which one was my favorite, because I loved them all! The only downfall about the trip was that I had to leave Adeline. It was so hard to leave her, but we both survived!

Here we are on our dingy. Every time we went out to eat or needed to get on land, this is how we traveled.

The whole family at the baths

Here is Mase doing a backflip off the sailboat

Me and Abe

Me and Abe on the back of the sailboat

Here we are ready to dive the "Wreck of the Rhone"

The whole family eating at a little place on Cooper island. The food was so yummy!

Me, Abe, Amanda and Mase at the baths. It was so beautiful there!


Right now we are in Ohio and just bought a house yesterday! I don't have anyway to download my pictures from here, so I will have to post pictures of our new house when I return to California.

San Francisco weekend, birthday and standing up

So, over a week ago Sierra (my sister) and I went to San Francisco to have a girls weekend with our cousin in-law Analecia, Cousin Tori and Emily. We had a fun time! Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures and need to get them from Analecia....so I don't have any to post from San Fran except for some pictures Sierra took of the babies.


On the way home from San Francisco, Sierra and I stopped by a mall to do a bit more shopping:) Let's just say Jojo LOVED the mall stroller that we rented!

Bath with both the babies


Me and Adeline out to dinner for my birthday!!

Me and Abe

The past couple days have been pretty rough for Adeline. She has a very bad cold, and ear infection, and has her first tooth that just started popping out today. So let's just say she hasn't been the happiest baby on the block. But she did figure out how to stand up in her crib, even though she doesn't feel well. It takes her about an 1 to 1 1/2 hours to fall asleep for a nap because she just keeps standing up. Here are some pictures that I was trying to sneak of her because she was so funny.


When I was in our bathroom that is across from Adeline's bedroom, I looked over and she was peeking at me between the crib bars!

6 month photo shoot

I know Adeline is almost 7 months now, but I haven't got around to posting her 6 month pictures yet. Sierra took them and they turned out so cute!!
Here are a couple

Crawling, Scooting, etc....

Last weekend Adeline all of a sudden started trying to crawl. She was getting up on all fours and rocking back and forth. Over the past 5-6 days, she has made a lot of progress. She is now semi-crawling. She starts on her hands and knees and once she starts moving forward, she falls down. At that point, she just scoots across the floor with her hands and also by getting up on her toes and pushing herself forward. She is growing up so fast!!




Here is a picture of Adeline over the weekend....thought it was cute :)

Husband Tag

Alright, I got tagged with the husband tag....... Here it goes


What is his name?
Daniel Abram Barker

How long have you been together?
Married for 2 1/2 years

How long did you date?
7 months including our engagement.....way faster than I expected it to be. Whenever anyone asks this question, Abe's answer is "Ah, 2 weeks".

How old is he?
Just turned 28. People are always pretty suprised when they find out how old Abe is. On our honeymoon, someone at the hotel thought that we were both in High School. Pretty sad.

Who said I love you first?
I don't really remember....that is bad. I know that I wanted to say it way before Abe said it to me, but didn't want to do it first. I think that Abe said it first to me.

Who's taller?
For sure Abe, he is way taller than me!

Who can sing better?
Uh, I am about the worst singer that you have ever heard. Abe is better than me, but the Barker's don't have any singing talent either.....haha.

Who is smarter?
ABE!! He has like a 3.95 GPA right now in graduate school for his MBA, and had about that for his undergrad. Not only is he book smart, but he knows the most random facts. Whenever we are watching a game show or something, he knows all the answers.

Who does the laundry?
I do most of it. Sometimes Abe will throw in a load and he is good at helping me fold it if it is on the couch.

Who pays the bills?
Abe just passed that task off to me now that I don't work. However, lots of the bills are bill-pay and get paid automatically.

Who sleeps on the right side?
Abe. No matter where we are, we always sleep on "our" sides.

Who mows the lawn?
Haha, no lawn for us to mow. When we move to Ohio in a couple months though, I am sure we will have a lawn to mow. I will make Abe do it :)

Who cooks dinner?
Me, almost 100% of the time.

Who drives?
Abe almost always drives

Who is more stubborn?
I can be stubborn, but Abe passes me up on that one.

Who kissed who first?
I made Abe kiss me first of course! It was on Valentines day three years ago. I knew for sure that we were going to kiss that night, but I let him make the move first.

Who asked who out first?
We were at a party and Abe came up to me and got my number. He had seen me for the first time at church the week before that and had noticed me. About 3 days after he got my number, he called and asked me out.

Who proposed?
Abe! I came to California to visit (he had already got stationed out here) and he took me to this cliff, where you could walk down to the beach. It was late at night and Abe whipped out the ring and got on one knee. It was perfect and I was totally surprised. This picture is the night we got engaged.



Who has more friends?
I probably have more friends than Abe. Abe keeps to himself more.

Who is more sensitive?
That's easy.....ME!!

Who has more siblings?
Abe, he has 4 sisters and 1 brother

Who wears the pants?
Totally depends on the situation

Alright.... I TAG: AMANDA WAITE, NICOLE LAMBERT, MINDY WILSON, JACKIE CANTY, AND KAREN DAVIS

PROBLEM....

Ok, so I have a problem. My dog loves people to play with her. So she will always bring us toys and set them on our hand, or our lap to get us to start playing. Well, I keep finding Chloe giving her toys to Adeline. We do wash Chloe's toys, but they are disgusting and are definitely not clean. Yesterday I kept finding Adeline holding onto one end of "piggy" (chloe's toy) and Chloe holding onto the other end. And of course everything goes into Adeline's mouth. So I finally hid Piggy, and Chloe brought her Tug, which is her other toy.
Now today, I found one end of Chloe's "string" in her mouth, and the other end in Adeline's. This "string" is an old drawstring of Abe's that became Chloe's toy....and it is disgusting. I about wanted to barf, but had to take a picture first. Gross!!

Then, when I was putting that picture on the blog, I looked over and Chloe had given Adeline Tug again. I don't know what to do!

And here is just a cute picture of Adeline I took this morning. Hopfully I didn't gross you all out!

Swimming, Shopping Cart cover, and tribute to diva...

First of all, I wanted to have a little "tribute" to my dad's horse Diva. She was pregnant with a little colt and was due in about two months. Last week, she was found dead in the pasture and had miscarried. We are not exactly sure what happened, but there must have been a complication. Diva was my dad's baby......and he was so excited to have a little colt. We are so sad that Diva is gone. Luckily, we were able to ride her and spend time with her over the summer.

Here is a picture of Abe, Adeline and Diva when Adeline was about 4 weeks old.


On a happier note, I took Adeline swimming for the first time this last Thursday to a mommy and me swim class. She absolutely loved it. She was kicking her legs the entire time and had a big smile on her face. It was cute because in the class they sing little songs, splash around and get the babies used to the water. Next week, they are even going to have Adeline go under water and do the "dolphin dive". I am going to be more scared than she will be! She doesn't look like she was happy in this picture, but she was.....just a little cold at this point :)


So, I got a sewing machine for Christmas and have had my mind set that I can make whatever I want. I probably can, but I don't know if they will turn out very well. I made this shopping cart cover for Adeline and finally finished it last night. I pretty much made the pattern up, so it took me a long time to finish. I didn't know if it would turn out, but I am pretty proud of the final product! Now I just need to go to the store and pray that it will fit in the shopping cart :)