The Barnes Family Blog

On Tuesday when I went back to work I recieved a Text Message from my mom:

” Can’t get Vaseline out of Jillian’s hair, washed it 4 times.”

So apparently our sneaky 2 1/2 year old found a container of Vaseline and put it all over the couch, her face, and her hair. I searched online and it said to use dish soap to get it out of hair. Well it is Saturday and she still has greasy hair! My mom’s friend is a dog groomer and she said that Vaseline is used on dog’s ears for cleaning and their is only one soap that works: Dawn, the blue bottle. I’ve been using Palmalive all week. Tonight I’m off to the store to buy Dawn! I’ll write an update once we get the vaseline out.

here is greasy hair Jillian… It just looks wet!

For Christmas my mom got Jillian a sewing machine. My mom taught her how to use the foot pedal today. (the needle has been removed until she is ready) Here are some pictures after the first lesson.

2010 was a great year due to the addition to our family in February.  I also began my master’s program in September, I’m looking forward to it’s completion in December 2011! I am so proud of myself for actually sticking to a New Year’s Resolution!! Last January I decided to blog about the fun events that go on around our house hold. A year later I am happy to say that I am still doing it! This year’s resolution is a bit more personal so I won’t be posting it, but I will continue to check off things on my 30 before Thirty list.

For New Year’s Eve we spent the evening with my friend Lacey at the W Hollywood. She hosted a Poker Pajama Night. Lacey is amazing when it comes to themed parties. She purchased the cutest pajamas ever for us! Here is a link to the brand David and Goliath, SOOO CUTE!

Jillian is such a social butterfly. She mingled with everyone as if she’d known them for years!  We played Taboo and after an extra round the girls beat the guys 🙂  Jillian and Olivia didn’t understand the countdown but they did like the fireworks at midnight. I had no idea LA set off fireworks, it was a definite plus! (Yes you read Olivia’s name!) The girls were super troopers! They stayed awake up until about 10 minutes into the car ride home. They weren’t even cranky, whoooo!

Here are some pictures supplied by Lacey!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year! On Christmas Eve we went to the Longo party. There are so many people it’s crazy! It is really neat to see everyone growing up. I’m one of the eldest great grandkids, so seeing all the little ones as teenagers is really fun.

Christmas morning was a blast. However, I think Jillian was overwhelmed. She didn’t quite know what to do. She became fixated on the candy in her stocking which is not a good thing at 8 AM.  Her favorite thing to play with was the wooden magnetic dress up dolls.

In the afternoon we wen’t over and spent some time with Adrian’s parents. Jillian gets so excited to go and see them. Olivia got a talking Elmo, which she loves!

Later in the day we had a very nice and mellow Christmas dinner at my Aunt Angie’s house. Jillian enjoyed decorating a Build-A-Bear box.

Boxing day was not the day I had anticipated it being. Adrian was lucky enough to receive an Xbox 360 from his parents, so naturally he had to find his games out in our playhouse/storage.  It turned out to be a huge project! We ended up having to reorganize a lot of the boxes out there. We also found that the playhouse door was not keeping the water out so most of the boxes on the front side of the house are wet. We’ll have to invest in some plastic bins to keep our items safe from water. We also got rid of a lot of things sending them off to good will.