The Barratt's

Breanna

2011-06-29T15:17:00.000-07:00

My soapbox

2011-06-06T09:47:00.000-07:00

Last week I was up at 3am feeding my baby, so what better time to check facebook. I came across a post from a guy that I don't know, I think we are relatives somehow. Anyway this is what he posted: "Why is it that women think it is okay to breastfeed in public? Especially in a restaurant!!!!!!! Either go in the bathroom or go out to your freaking car!!!"
I wanted so badly to comment on his post. Since we don't know each other I thought that would be a little strange. I am not one who likes to breastfeed in public, but I don't believe in anyway is it wrong, discusting or taboo. If I had to though, I totally would, with no second thoughts. Nursing is the most natural thing in the world, it is what our BREASTS were intended for. Anyway I don't know a man alive who would turn their head if they happened to see a boob.
Some of the comments that he got really ripped into him, and some agreed. Mostly the people who were for it were women, which makes sense, but there were some men. This guy doesn't have any children, so it would be interesting to see what happens when they are out to eat and they have their first child with them and his wife says the baby is hungry. Is he going to make her go out into the car for a half hour, or into the bathroom while he gets to finish his meal. I don't think so. Why do people feel that going into the bathroom to eat is a good idea. Would you want to do that. I don't think it is a good idea for my baby to do that. Anyway this topic really got to me, and I just needed to get on my soapbox for a little bit. I would love to hear your thoughts on this topic.

Christmas 2010

2011-01-06T09:02:00.000-08:00

We started our Christmas parties off with Brandon's family. His Mom does a party at her house everyear on a day other than Christmas or Christmas Eve so that everyone can attend. I think this is very smart, that way we are not running around on Christmas Day when we would rather be relaxing.

All of the grandkids got cute little robes which they wore the entire night.

Yeah this is the best we could do. Brandon just barely poking through. I am blaming this pic of me on being prego. It does weird things to you.

Christmas morning.

Yep I got a new vaccum. Its no Kerby, but it works so I am happy.

I love how they always get so excited for the cheapest toy you buy. Kylee's this year was a barbie mermaid that changes color in the water.

The big unvailing....... Buzz Lightyear. Does it get any better than that when you are Austin? I think not.

Kylee is always wanting to help me cook, so we got her an easy bake oven so she can do her own cooking. She never wants to eat her own creations. Hmmm.......

The girls. Mom somehow skipped out on all the pics.

The boys, looking at different cameras.

Halloween

2010-12-12T15:13:00.000-08:00

For Halloween this year we went to Brandon's Mom's house. She lives in a complex that makes it great for trick-or-treating. Austin wanted to be Buzz Lightyear so bad, he wouldn't take any other suggestions. Luckily my sister-in-law had a costume and lent it to us. Kylee wanted to be Arial. I found a mermaid costume at Costco, but Kylee informed me that Arial's outfit was green so she decided to be Arial's best friend.

Kylee as a mermaid (Arial's best friend)

At Grammy's they decorated cupcakes and made cute little vampire teeth.

Pumpkin Patch

2010-10-19T12:07:00.000-07:00

Every year there is a farm by my house that has a pick your own pumpkin Patch. They have cute little picture displays and wagons and wheelbarrows, to gather your pumpkins in. We took the kids and let them pick out a couple of pumpkins. They had so much fun. They thought it was pretty neat they got to run around through all those pumpkins. We only had a few ouchies as they tripped over the pumpkin vines, but all in all in was a lot of fun. They even had a little corn maze for the kids. We let the kids lead the way, and only got lost once.

Kylee insisted on pulling Austin all by herself.

Their cute display.

Kylee would not get on the tractor. This is as high as she would get.

Birthdays

2010-03-11T16:45:00.000-08:00

So far this year we have celebrated 2 birthdays. First was Kylee's 4th birthday. We celebrated at Brandon's sisters house for all of the bdays in Jan and Feb. The kids decorated their own birthday cupcakes and made a big mess, of course. The next party was with my family. We went to TGI Fridays and ate until we were going to pop. Then we came back to our house and had cake and ice cream:) MMMM....... I made the cake, but I am not sure what to think of it. We had fun though, so that is all that matters.

For Austins 2nd bday we had pizza and cake and ice cream at our house. Austin had so much fun opening up his presents. He got some pretty cool stuff. Brandon and I were trying to find a basketball hoop for him, but had no success. Lucky for us Rachel and Mike came to the rescue and bought him one. He loves it and drags it everywhere. He won't shoot only dunk, but eventually he will get it.

Winter Fun

2010-01-17T14:35:00.000-08:00

It has been a long time since I posted anything, so I thought I would start out the new year, with a new post. During one of the big snow storms we had in December, the kids wanted to go out and play. I thought since I needed to shovel, I would let them. They did really good at first, until their fingers got cold.(Note to self: buy the kids decent gloves). Poor Austin had to use some of Kylee's old mittens, which aren't meant for actually playing IN the snow. This little excursion outside was short lived, but we had fun while it lasted.

Had to play with a rake, since I ran over the shovel.

Such big helpers!!!

It's FREEEEEZZZZZZING!!!!!

Warm inside with red, snotty noses.

Devey Lodge

2009-09-12T10:55:00.000-07:00

These are pics of us at Brandons aunts cabin (they call it the lodge cuz it is so big). It is beautiful. It is bigger than my house. We rode the 4 wheelers and roasted marshmallows and had a great time. Thanx for letting us go Marilyn.

Childrens Museum at Discovery Gateway

2009-07-31T09:49:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago we took the kids to the Childrens Museum and they had so much fun. There was this cute little house that had all of the big grownup toys only in little people size. Kylee would not leave, she loved it so much. She played with her cousin Abi in there for a long time serving their Grammy some yummy food they made:)

There was this water thingy(it was pretty cool) Austin wouldn't leave that, he was so wet.

They had this little store with cash registers and fake food. The kids had so much fun!!!!!!!!!

MAN OVERBOARD!!!!!

Kylee didn't mind sitting in the boat.

Upstairs was for the older ones, but the little ones enjoyed it too. There was a news set up with KSL 5 logo in the back. It had teleprompters with a story running so you could pretend to be a news anchor and a green screen where you could do the weather. Very real, and way cool. The pics didn't turn out so well of the green screen because you can't take very good pics of the monitors where it added the pics.

The coolest part for most of the kids was the lifeflight helicopter they had outside. You could get inside and be the pilot, and it made all of the appropriate sounds. Austin thought it was the coolest thing.

4th of July

2009-07-12T12:58:00.000-07:00

For the 4th of July we went to Heber to Brandon's brother's house. It was a lot of fun and the weather was great. The kids played with the slip and slide and a little pool. The grownups ate!!!!
Behind their house is a big playgroung and a tennis court. We took advantage of that and had a lot of fun. We played doubles against Justin and Michelle and Brandon and I won!!!! Yay!!!!
Before we even got started for the day Austin fell on the sidewalk and scraped most of his nose off. It looked ok until the end of the day, then it turned into a giant scab.

From here on out, I am pretty sure that every picture that you see of Austin he will have a ball in his hands. It is so hard to get a good picture of Kylee she is just too busy to stop and pose and when she does, she pulls the weirdest faces. This one turned out pretty good though. Although it looks like she has to go to the bathroom.

I just had to take a picture of my Rice Krispy treats. Aren't they so festive? I know I try!

Austin on a girl bike. Hmmmm....

You can't really see this picture very well, but Brandon was the only one in our family that actually did the fireworks. Kylee was scared to hold the sparklers (no news there) and Austin was out cold on my lap.

My little dancer

2009-07-03T18:23:00.001-07:00

This year we decided to get Kylee into dance. She LOVED it!!!! Every morning she would ask me if it was time to go to dance yet. They did there little dance recital in June, and it turned out so adorable. Kylee came out on stage with her hands over her eyes. I thought she was crying. Once the music started she began to do the dance, and did sooooo good. I was so proud, I couldn't stop smiling:) I was one proud mama.

Cloie also did so good. She is a natural. I think she loves being up there on stage.

I tried unsuccessfully to download the video of their actual dance and it won't work. I am very frustrated about that, but I did manage to upload this one. It is of them in their dance class. It is very cute as well. I will keep trying to upload the other video. I don't know what is wrong. Arghhhhh......

Cruise to Catalina

2009-06-04T12:19:00.000-07:00

Last week we went on a cruise to Catalina Island. They cancelled the port to Ensenada(something about swine flu, I don't really know, they haven't said much about it:)!!!!!) anyway we had so much fun. If you know me at all you know that I tend to forget my camera at the dumbest times, like when I want to take a picture. Luckily Brandon has his phone so we got some pics of Catalina. We went with our friends Jackie and Kevin. It was so nice to go on vacation without our kids. We missed them a lot, but the break was well worth it. Thank you everyone who helped watch them.

We stayed at Kevins parents house for a couple of nights and went swimming and hot tubbing. Fun!!! Kevin and his brother decided to throw Brandon in the pool. Everything was good until they discovered Brandon had his phone on him. No worries it dried out quite nicely.

I love these towel animals that they do, they are so cute.

The island was so cool. We rented a golf cart and cruised around checking out the place.

The only downside of the whole trip, was that it was chilly. I was expecting to lay out and get a tan, but instead we ended up wearing sweatshirts most of the time.

Mothers Day

2009-06-04T12:04:00.000-07:00

For Mothers Day my sister Rachel and I decided that we wanted to get my mom one of those edible arrangements. Come to find out, those things are EXPENSIVE. So being the creative types that we are, we decided to do it ourselves. I think it turned out rather well!!!!!!!!!

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We also had a barbecue at my house, which turned out to be a lot of fun. I don't have any pics of that, because Rachel took them all, but maybe if Rachel blogged we would be able to see them:)

Day at the Zoo

2009-06-04T11:22:00.000-07:00

So I am a little behind, but I am going to do 3-4 posts to get caught up. The first one is the trip to the Zoo. This was Austins first time, but Kylee's second. They thought it was pretty cool. The big water ball is always a hit.

I couldn't get Kylee to pose with with the giant gorilla so here is Austin and me.

We went with my friend Jackie and her girls. AvRee and Kylee had a lot of fun together.

I think Kylee liked the train the best.

Kylee ,Wynter and AvRee. It was pretty tricky to get them to stand still long enough.

Austin wasn't the biggest fan of doing this, so this is the best that we got.

Sad, that my arms are almost as long as the gorillas. I guess that is where Austin gets it from.

Easter

2009-05-05T20:24:00.000-07:00

Kylee wasn't the most cooperative on Easter. I tried to take a picture of her and her basket, but she kept hiding her face. I also wanted a picture of her in her new Easter dress, but she cried the whole time. You can tell in the picture, because her eyes are all red, and if you know my daughter, you know that her new thing is to pick her nose. Gross, I know. I am going to add this to the "Pics Kylee will love when she is older" file.

Austin on the other hand loved his Easter basket. He thought those eggs were so cool. I had to take pics of him in his church clothes, because I just think he is so studly. We went to Brandon's brothers house for dinner. We had tons of fun. There was a full house, but they have plenty of house to fill, so it worked out. Dinner was delicious!!!! It was a very nice day.

Kylee

2009-04-04T20:57:00.000-07:00

My sister Rachel is turning into quite the little photographer. She took these pictures and I thought they turned out so good. So I wanted to post them and give Rachel props at the same time.

Twilight Mayhem

2009-03-25T12:58:00.000-07:00

So in true Twilight fan fashion, Mom, Tara, Rachel, Marielle, and I went to the dvd release party. We went to the Walmart by my house because we figured it would be less busy than downtown stores. Well when we got there, there were news trucks and cops galore. Apparently there was something big happening.

When we got inside they had it all decorated in Twilight memorabilia. We shoved and pushed and got shoved ourselves, trying to get to the front. There were whispers that Victoria was going to be there. Sure enough she was, and people went crazy. We couldn't really see her, but she did stand for a minute and I hurried and snapped a picture. As you can see from the pic below, it wasn't fast enough and the big security guard is blocking her. So I posted a picture of what we saw most of the time, peoples heads(well except Mari, she saw mostly peoples butts, it pays to be tall) :)

Despite the stinky sweaty room it was fun I guess. We did get our dvd and had a party to watch it on Saturday night. Yep just as cheesy as the first 5 times I saw it, but its Twilight so who cares.

Happy 1st Birthday Austin

2009-03-05T07:59:00.000-08:00

We had a party for Austins 1st birthday! We had so much fun. He got so many new toys and clothes. Austin has a hard time being able to play with his new toys, because Kylee always comes and takes them from him. She thinks all toys are her toys.

This was a delicious cake. MMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!! We had pizza and ice cream as well. No diets at this house :)

Just a few of our party guests. (Larissa I know you'll love this one).

At first Austin just stared at the cake. I thought he would just dig right in, but I soon learned that I have a proper son and he waited until I gave him a spoon.

It turns out that Austin is more like his mom than I thought. He needed a little milk to go with his cake.

Superbowl Sunday

2009-02-03T15:13:00.000-08:00

We had a party at our house for the Superbowl and cheered on the Cardinals. I wanted to capture the excitement that Brandon had, so I took a picture of him and Austin before the game started.

Braydon also dressed up for the occasion. He has rooted for the bird team since he was just a little guy.

As you all know the game didn't go in our favor, so I thought that I would capture Brandon post game and show everyone how sad he was after the loss. It really was a good game and good fun for everyone, despite the outcome.

Kylee's 3rd birthday

2009-01-29T20:50:00.000-08:00

For Kylee's 3rd birthday we had a party for her. Brandon's family does one for everyone in the month so his family was not at this one. Everyone was there except Becky, but we were able to talk to her via a camera phone. It was fun to be able to have her there, so to speak. (By the way Ashley is getting so big and so cute.) Oh so adorable! Even at a party Cloie and Kylee dress up. Cloie wanted to help open the presents and blow out the candles. Kylee did need some help though, she spit all over the cake. I am not sure how many people actually knew that tid bit, but everyone ate the cake anyway:) I know, I know the cake looks wonderful, it should, I made it myself!

2009-01-26T15:01:00.000-08:00

Christmas this year was a lot of fun. Brandons family had a party and Santa came for a visit. Of course Kylee and Austin were too afraid to get anywhere near him, so we just took a picture without them. Kylee had a lot more fun this year opening her presents. She loved all of her new princess dresses. We had a ton of snow and almost decided to stay home, but later in the day it cleared up enough to go to my parents for dinner. It was delicious!!!!!

2009-01-24T15:40:00.001-08:00

For the first time ever the Arizona Cardinals made it to the Superbowl. To celebrate this rare occasion we had a party and dressed in our Cardinal gear. Brandon wore his beloved Plummer jersey but sadly I didn't take a picture, but of course I made sure to get one of Austin.

2008-10-06T19:40:00.000-07:00

Okay so I decided to give this thing a try. Not that anyone is really that interested, but I thought if everyone is doing it, why not me. I get a kick out of reading other peoples so maybe the same goes for mine.