Update on Casa de Barrios....

...since it's been so long, I thought I would post a short update on all things happening in Casa de Barrios the past two years...watch out, lots of pictures and most of them are from my long lost iphone.

Here goes nothing:

Emily started the 2nd Grade.  And started an sassy attitude at the same time.

Steve played and coached a lot of baseball, which meant lots of time spent at the ballpark.

Lots of dress up and play time.  And goodness gracious, so glad the "wah-wah", or pacifier for those not in the Barrios clan, is gone!!!!

Lots of weddings...

And a few new babies...

Ran our first 1/2 marathon.

Second trip to Puerto Rico.

We are officially potty trained!  YAY!!! No more diapers!



That almost wraps up our last 2 years.  You'll see some of these things in more detail in future posts and a few other posts from the past couple years I didn't include (like some partying!!).

Hope you didn't get too bored with all the pictures!

Wordless Wednesday...

Second Opportunity to serve the wonderful people of Puerto Rico!!!

Welcome Taylor Marie...

So, just came across this post from two years ago!  Pretty sad state of my blog!  The saddest part is Kim already has a second baby now!  But I thought I would go ahead and post this anywyas.  Here's the original post:

This past weekend a few girls threw a shower for our friend Kim, who is due Oct. 22nd with sweet Taylor Marie.  We decided to do a "bird" theme.  So we had lots of birds, a bird house, and a wishing tree.

It wa so much fun working with pink - it seems like a lot of my friends lately have been having boys!

 

Here's some shots from the day:

Yes It's True...

...I'm actually blogging an update!  I know it's been almost 2 years, and I know I've been probably the worst blogger known to man the past 2 years.  I took a break just to live life, but oh how I have missed it.  I've stopped and thought about picking back up the whole blog thing again, but then would get side tracked by homework, baseball, cooking, cleaning, or chasing around the tornado named Elaina!

There are so many things that have happened the past 2 years, there's no way I could actually blog everything, but I'm going to try to do what I can in between blogging the here and now.  So here goes....

Here and Now: 

Today is the here and now. Emily had her first day of 3rd grade today! I can't believe it!!!! Where did the time go? As I walked her into school this morning, I kept remembering how it was just years ago I was walking her into Kindergarten. She was so excited about starting school again. We have definitely been blessed with a child who LOVES school! Here's the pictures from this morning:

(Can you see the attitude?  What am I going to do when she's a teenager!?!?!)

(Their silly faces)

(See why we call her the tornado!?!  Even her hair looks like a tornado.  When I clicked the shutter button, she was smiling, not so much the next second!)

There's so much else going on, but I'll follow up with more posts!  Be looking for them!

This picture says it all...

but the good news is, after a VERY long break Casa de Barrios is back in business!!! I took several months off, just to enjoy living life with my family and not stressing over the idea of blogging every moment in our lifes.

Lots has happened, but I don't know that I'll be able to catch up with it all. I might get around to it, but I won't strees if I don't. I will just start from where we are right now.

And we are in the beginning of summer, about to go on a get away weekend to Cincnnati. So once we're back, I'll officially start blogging!

It feels good to be back! Now, I'm sure you want to see some pictures of the girls.