All my Excuses!

I want to appologize to all my blogging followers! LOL I have been such a slacker when it comes to blogging. Here are a few of my excuses.

1. I am living with my parents and therefore am so not organzized which is driving me crazy!
2. I am still making bows (all the time) without my wonderful assistant Amanda who I had to leave behind in UTAH!
3. After moving to Ca I was asked to be in charge of my Stake's Youth Dance Festival...working with the leaders and youth and organizing it all has been a bit stressfull.
4. I am living with my parents and oh yeah, I can't ever find anything! Did I mention that already.
5. I volunteered, yes volunteered, to teach my local high school all the dances for their High School Musical Play which involved teaching high school for 2-3 hours almost every day for the past 3 months.
6. Did I mention that I can't find anything!
7. Living near family means there's a lot of parties and events to attend.
8. Oh yeah, and my sweet kids keep me on my toes all day long.

Enough about me, now on to some pictures and updates.

So Much to Update!

A lot has happened since my last post. To start with Andy got a job with Foster Farms and so with only a weeks notice we packed up and headed to California. Since we lived all Summer not knowing when a job would come we didn't go on vacation or do much of anything. So before the job started we went to Disneyland. Thanks to my sister Brooke, we got to go without Jacob. We had a great time. Abby did not like the "Madden Horn" or the "One that sings with the guys in the real clothes" (AKA Priates of the Caribbean). She is still talking about the trip! Here are a few photos.

Grammy, Aunt Brooke, and Jaden come to visit

Oops, Scott threw Kasia up a little higher than he expected! You should click on the photo so you can really see her face. She landed in the water kind of face first and didn't even mind. She's such a champ.

This is Scott throwing Jaden up in the air. He was really tossing the kids high.

Jacob with Gavin (I think?) I am terrible and telling them apart in photos, and Kasia

Jaden, Abby, and Abby climbing at Bridal Veil Falls. The water was freezing cold but they didn't mind too much.

Jaden loved loved loved Jacob. He always wanted to hold him and carry him and feed him and everything. It was really cute.

Jane Grandma and Lori come to visit

Jane stayed with us for a week while Lori was at EFY and visiting with the Allen's. We hiked up to Cascade Falls and let me just say that it is not "Stroller Friendly". You should have seen us trying to push that thing up the trail. We finally took Jacob out, ditched it, and just carried him the rest of the way.

Even though it was hard to get up there with a baby it was well worth it.

On Sunday we drove up North to visit Jim's cousins Grant and Dianne Anderson as well as Dennis and Marryanne Christensen. It was nice to meet some of Andy's extended family.

This is Abby hanging out with Grandma while she is cutting out the dress she is going to make and smock for her. Abby is so excited! Thanks for the great visit Jane, we had a great time.

Barth Cousin Get - To - Gether

We had a cousin get to gether for my side of the family towards the end of July. We held it at our place and had foil dinners! It was so nice to see everyone and to just visit. The kids spent almost the entire time digging in the sand and playing on the swings. Aunt Ginger and Alan were there because Amanda had just had her sweet little baby Ty about a week prior and they were out to visit and help.

Aaron feeding a bottle to Jake, what a good cousin!

Aunt Ginger, Alan, Rachel, and Jake (notice Andy and Joe in the background trying to get our fire to start with wet wood)
Gavin, Garrett, Kasia, and Abby

Carrie, Paul, Tiffany, and Aaron

4th of July

We spent the 4th with the Allen's with swimming, bbq, and homemade icecream (a must have family tradition) Afterwards we watched the Stadium of Fire from the grassy field by our house. The kids killed time by playing with a giant soccer ball, a huge hit! They didn't even stop when the fireworks started.

Lot's of Swimming!

We have been doing a lot of swimming this summer. Almost everyday we go down to the pool. Abby can swim all by herself now and Jake absolutley loves the water.

Loving Memory Mixer V3

I just got the newest version of memory mixer and I love it. I've been digi-scrapping all day! Here are some of the ones I like the best. The picture above was taken by Heather Taylor Photography. She took some great pictures of our family recently.

Proud New Parents of a - Puppy! Funny Story

So for Father's day the Primary sang a group of songs during Sacrament meeting. Abby loves it now that she is a big Sunbeam and can go up on "stage" and sing. She stood right in front with her little head poking up above the 1/2 wall. After the songs were over Abby dropped to the ground. I was just kind of watching and wondering where she went. ( we were in the back, as usual) I then notice some kids tripping and some older kids bending down trying to pick her up. Then I see the Bishop lunge forward trying to grab her. . . but misses. I was just thinking that I'm going to have to go up there and retrieve her when I hear "barking". I'm thinking, "oh my gosh who let a dog in here" then I'm thinking wow, that kind of sounds like Abby. Then to my horror I see her on all fours galloping down the isle barking like a dog! The entire congregation is laughing and I am just ducking my head hoping no one will know she's mine. She made it almost to the overflow and the barking is getting louder so I nudge Andy to go retrieve her ( I was holding Jake, so I got out of that one). It took several minutes for us all to recover. I'm sure she was the topic of everyone's Father's Day. We are so proud!

Happy Father's Day

I made this photo layout to give to my Dad. You can't go wrong with golf and pictures of the cutest baby boy in the world.