Baby Barnes #4
Welcoming Baby Barnes #4. Due August 19th! Currently 9 weeks
Daily Life
New Year’s Eve 2016
This year we drove down to spend New Year’s Eve with the Estradas! We had a blast playing games and having a glow party! Claire fell asleep on the drive down, so she missed all of the party, which is OK, she is only 3 after all!
Winter in Big Bear
There is actual snow this year! We drove up the day after Christmas and stayed 3 days. I wasn’t feeling well, morning sickness, so I spent most of the time indoors. The girls loved being in the cabin and didn’t go outside in the snow much, probably because Adrian was technically working from home those day and I wasn’t feeling well. So our homebody kids didn’t have anyone pushing them outside. haha
No clue which child this is… maybe Olivia
Claire didn’t make it in. Olivia didn’t make it in, she’s the little fox hat. 
Jillian loved the frost on the plants
Merry Christmas
Once again I suck at documenting our lives with photos! haha here is one of Claire with her new kitchen from Santa.
Christmas Eve
It’s a busy time of the year, but I was able to remember to take one picture! haha
It’s Christmas time
I got to go to Claire’s school today for their gingerbread house decorating and singing performance 🙂
Today was also Olivia’s singing performance at school too.
I was so glad that my winter break was one week different from the girls so I could attend all their special events!
Gingerbread House Party 2016
Our annual gingerbread house party happened today. We had a ton of new faces join our party this year. Both Jillian and Olivia had friends join from school. I learned that 3rd grade parents just drop off, next year I will explain this is not a drop off party, parents need to supervise.
Family Trip pt 4: Bearizona and Grand Canyon
For our final day of our trip we decided to check out a couple extra things before heading out for the 8 hour drive home. Our first stop was Bearizona. It was the most memorable part of our trip! This is a drive through zoo. We were able to see bears, wolves, deer, and other forest animals wandering around our car. After the drive through zoo, we did the walking part. The girls were thrilled to see live goats, since they’ve been playing an ipad game called goat simulator. Olivia was also super excited to see a white fox. 
After our Bearizona trip, we decided to take the detour to the Grand Canyon, since I’ve never seen it. It was amazing! You never really get the full grandeur of the grand canyon from pictures. This was truly an amazing sight! Jillian was terrified and didn’t want to get close to see the edge, but that is ok… I was a bit nervous the whole time thinking about watching the children 🙂