Finally

Finally I am making an update. I am having to use my brother Davids internet to get it done but that is okay. So here you go.



She has grown since these pictures but they are on the camera still. I will try to steal his internet again soon.

Not the greatest starts.

So things have not worked out exactly as planned for our family. Everything worked well with the birth of Maggie, both she and Rene' are doing well but the same can not be said of the rest of the family. First off, Tuesday afternoon while I was at the hospital I got food poisoning. at least that is what we think it was. I spent the rest of the day and that night throwing up or as Jen put it "throwing up my toes" and the next day I was fine nothing wrong with me. Sadly the same can not be said of Ethan who has come down with a fever and allergy's and we think a sinus infection, we find out for sure later today when we take him the the doctor.

Lets hope the next few day's of Maggie's life are better on the family than the first ones have been.

Margret Lynn Barlow "Maggie"

The Pictures speak for themselves.

She is determined to keep this pacifier.

We're Ready

Thats right you read it right We Are Ready. During the last month or so whenever we talked to people they would ask what we were up to and the answer was always "getting things ready for Maggie"Well with hours to spare we did it. Our entire house is ready for her to join our family. What does this involve you say. Well it involved rearranging our room to make room for her and to make sure that it was the most efficient design for waking up in the morning and getting the things you need.
It involved moving every book I own to make room for her.
It involved making, painting, hanging, and filling several shelves. (with more selves on order once Rene' saw how well they turned out)
And it involved not only getting a spare bed for all those people coming to help us but it also took all of the time to move every box (we still have not unpacked and every storage box) several times, first to make room for the bed and then to make the bed accessible. And yes if you look closely you will see a lot of banker boxes under the bed.
Sadly these are but a few of the things that we had to do. But once again we can say "WE ARE READY"

Greene Family Reunion

The Greene Family Reunion was also the same day as Ethan's birthday. So after visiting with Grandma and Grandpa Barlow some more we went to Uncle DeR's house in Lehi for another party. They had a mini golf tournament set up and Ethan joined Grandpa's team.

Ethan liked playing with Grandpa so much he wanted to try it out on his own. He's pretty good... maybe the next pro?... He'll probably need a few pointers on form, but I think he's on his way!

This was my favorite part. Eating homemade ice cream! Ethan likes it as much as I do -he's such a momma's boy. It was a fun to see the relatives and visit and Ethan was such a good boy... no sign of the terrible-twos (at least not on this day)!

Birthday Boy

These are long over due, but here are some pictures of Ethan's birthday. The Sunday before we went to Dugway to celebrate with my family. The first picture is Ethan sitting in Grandma's toy car. He LOVES this car. All he wanted to do was go outside and play in it. He would get in and out over and over. Below is Ethan and his cousin Kambri making birthday cupcakes with Grandma. They were such good helpers.

We opened presents from Grandma and Grandpa and Kambri. Then we had cupcakes. Notice that Ethan doesn't have any clothes on. This was so he could eat the chocolate frosting and we wouldn't have to worry about his clothes. He later had a bath and story time with Grandma and Kambri. It was a great way to celebrate turning two.
On his birthday we were at Chris' parents in Mt. Pleasant. Grandma and Grandpa Barlow gave him a set of cars with this cool road map to drive them on. He had tons of fun playing with them and still likes to play with them at our house now.
Then we opened the presents from mom and dad. We gave him some peg puzzles and a small play keyboard. He loves to play with both of them. He has gotten pretty good at the puzzles. There is one that has a train and a boat and it's his favorite.

This is the Place State Park

For Memorial Day Weekend we went to This is the Place State Park with my family. Ethan LOVED the train ride. I think this is where his obsession with trains -choo, choos - as he calls them started. He now has 2 Thomas the Train movies, 3 Thomas and Friends trains, 2 Thomas books, and 1 pair of Thomas pajamas. He loves them all. He wore his pajamas for 3 days straight. And the day Chris finally changed his clothes he found them, brought them to daddy, and said, "pease" (please). So of course Chris had no choice but to put them back on. I didn't know that one little train ride could turn our life into "choo, choos" mania.
There was also a small petty farm. Ethan was pretty scared of most of the animals. But we finally got him to touch the bunny and the goat. All this dad's help of course. It was a fun day and we enjoyed spending time with family.

Easter

About a week before Easter we had a small Easter/house warming party with my family. Here is Ethan and Kambri eating the jelly beans - their favorite part.

Becky, Ryan, and Ellie came to stay with us for Easter weekend. Becky tuned our piano (thank you Becky, it really needed it after moving). Ethan LOVED Elli. Here he is holding her and saying "baby" over and over. I hope he loves his new sister as much as Elli.
Easter morning. Ethan got a movie, a children's CD, a Mr. Potato head, and some candy. Of course he went for the eggs full of candy first.

Baby #2

Hey I though that I would make another posting for all of you that still manage to look at our blog. Good news, our baby is healthy and so is Rene' but not only that we are having a girl. We are very excited about it and it makes our life easier because we already know what we are going to call her so we don't have to figure out the name.
So stay tuned for pictures. Coming up you will see a lovely crib for Becky and Ryan Allen, David and Elann Barlow's kitchen (after a year in the making), and a beautifully designed piano bench for Rene'. All of these will be coming this month on Furniture Barlow's.

Phone

Here are some quick pictures from off my phone. I finally pulled them off so they range in date. I should be able to update more because I am done with school.

This is a picture that I took when I came out of the shower. Usually when i come out I can hear Ethan either really grumpy or getting into trouble. But this time I came out and the house was dead quite. When I went to go get some cloths (Yes they were in the dryer still) this is what I found.
I sent these to Rene' and they quickly became her favorite. She ended up showing them to every person that she works with.

House

So we have officially moved into our house. It is really nice but it is a lot of work to try and get everything setup how we want. I am just using somebody elses internet so I don't have time to put pictures on but I will post them soon when we get the internet. Until then just picture iin your mind a nice beautiful house filled with boxes and out of place furniture.

Kitchen

Here is our kitchen, it is not very big but we didn't want to get any upgrades because I am going to redo it in a year or so. So there it is.

Drywall and Paint

Now I know that it has been a while since I have posted. I just got busy with school and we had some internet problems but we are back up and going. so as you can see a lot has happened with our house. It has drywall paint and stucco. This week they also installed the cabinets and the floor. We will be moving in about 2 weeks. We sign for the house on the 5th of march and we get the keys the next Monday. We plan on moving the following week on the 12th and 13th if anybody wants to help. Before that we are going to paint some rooms our colors and get everything else ready that we want.


I think I should mention that this is not the final color of our house this is just one of the layers.

Up Stairs

It is not easy to tell from the pictures but the above is our stairs. Below is our Master bedroom closet.
Here I am in the master bedroom.
This is part of Ethans room
Behind all the 2x4's is our 3rd bedroom and in between the 2x4's is the Master Bath.

Down Stairs

Here are pictures of our down stairs. Below is the living room window.
Here are the bottom of the stairs and the entry and half bath.
This is looking at the kitchen. With the pantry on the left.
And best of all my garage.

Framing

So we were told that they started framing on Wed and so we came to see the house and here is what we saw. Poof all done. They apperantly got the framing done really fast. So here are the pictures of the out side.