Daily Life
Gingerbread Houses
Every year we have a Gingerbread House party. We invite our close friends to decorate Gingerbread Houses using milk cartons and graham crackers. Jillian was excited to invite her friends from school. She talked about the party all week long.
She enjoyed seeing everyone’s houses 🙂
This was mine.
Here is Jillian’s. 
Here is Olivia’s
My Fabulous Husband
I had been a bit stressed at work lately. I was dealing with issues that come along with working in elementary school in a high socio-economic area… a little bit of crazy. Adrian sent flowers to my work. I was so touched that he thought of something so nice to cheer me up! Adrian never sends flowers, so this was a fabulous treat for me!!
Elf on the Shelf: Day 3
Silly Sparkle! She decided to climb up the lamp 🙂
Elf on the Shelf: Day 1
Our Christmas Elf arrived today from the North Pole! She brought us her story as well. The girls were a little clueless at first, Adrian and I had to guide them to find her. After reading the book, the girls chose to name our elf Sparkle. So Sparkle will be visiting us for the next 24 days. Jillian gets it when we say Sparkle is watching, Olivia may be too young for this but it’s still fun.
Christmas Time is Here!
Jillian is so ready for Christmas already! She loved decorating the Christmas Tree. The girls did most of the low ornaments 🙂
Thanksgiving
We had Thanksgiving at our house this year. I made many of the side dishes to accompany our turkey. My favorites were the homemade pretzels and the pumpkin dinner rolls 🙂
Ultrasounds
Here is Baby Barnes at 12 weeks 🙂
Halloween 2012
Jillian’s career aspiration is to be an astronaut. So this year Jillian wanted to be an astronaut for Halloween. As younger sisters do, Olivia also wanted to be an astronaut. This was tricky because we had to visit many different Costcos to find one that would fit her.
This year we went to Disneyland Halloween Night with my parents. It was great because Adrian and I were able to go on some big people rides. The girls were extremely excited that Papa was going on rides with them.
Adrian and I also celebrated Halloween this year 🙂 We went with our friend Lacey to Hollywood for a club crawl. We went as a fruit salad. Adrian was the banana, I was the strawberry, and Lacey was a watermelon. I had so much fun… even though I wasn’t drinking… can you see the beginning baby bump?
Halloween at school was so much fun this year! We were able to dress up and my co-worker Jenny and I dressed up as crazy cat ladies. My students made q-tip skeletons and apple butter. For a fun treat we watched Charlie Brown’s Great Pumpkin and ate “Jack-O-Lantern” clementines.
Here are the girls on Halloween Night 🙂
