Barrow Family

Your not crazy, your not seeing things this really is an update!

2010-01-17T23:33:00.007-07:00

Ok so it has been almost 7 months not too bad right? Well since there has been so much that has happened I have just posted a few pictures and will give you brief descriptions of the last 7 months of our lives. You may have to go to the bottom and click older posts to get everything but I will start from the earliest to the latest so here it goes.

Christmas & Granny's & Gpa Hughes and they kids got so spoiled!

Christmas outfits . Yes I know they don't make kids cuter than this!
Rode the polar express with cousins. Thanks Gma Scott!

Our snowman @gma scott's house
One of our many attempts of baby food...ugh...but as of 2 weeks ago we finally got it. It only took 3 months!

Halloween costumes. Nathan and I were pumpkin farmers and the kids were the pumpkins we harvested! LOL

Reighely's halloween outfit.

Riggun turned 3! :( My baby is growing up too fast!

Can't decide what he wants to be...Jockey...cowboy...superhero...We went to the dinosaur museum @ thanksgiving point and it took a lot of bribing to get Riggun to sit that close to the shark let alone smile!
I think this is a 3 month milestone pic. Thanks Crafts for this super cute outfit!

Riggun and his best buddy boston being silly @ coldstone. These 2 can't get enough of each other.

Blessing day.

2 month milestone pic

Alright folks that is our life for the past 7 months in a nutshell. We are so grateful for each other all our family and friends and have so many blessings. And I can't make any promises but I will try and get on the ball about updating again. Thanks for your patience!

The Hospital (better late then never)

2009-07-22T22:54:00.003-06:00

This is Riggun meeting his baby sister for the first time. At first there was curiosity and then he just wanted my fruit.

Daddy holding his new baby girl for the first time. He doesn't look proud does he? :)

Stamping her cute lil feet.

She weighed 7 lbs 9 oz

This was me just before they broke my water. I was just getting the patossin to start the labor. I on;y had 4 hours of labor she was definately ready to come she just needed a lil nudge. I was induced a day after my due date. So she was born June 15th at 3:15pm.

About to POP!

2009-07-22T22:50:00.001-06:00

This is me a week before I was due and trust me I was large and in charge!

Our first outing

2009-07-22T22:49:00.001-06:00

She got all dressed up for her first outing to the doctors at 3 days old!

The Ride Home

2009-07-22T22:45:00.003-06:00

We got strapped in and headed for home. Iforgot how awkward it is to put a lil tiny baby in a big huges carseat!

Brotherly Sisterly Love

2009-07-22T22:28:00.003-06:00

Riggun has loved his lil sister so far! He doesnt really take a lot of ontrest in her but does give her a kiss everyday and asks to hold her once in a while. Other then that he is just a busy body.

Cousinly Love

2009-07-22T16:47:00.003-06:00

Everytime Tiffany holds Reighley Statlen is not too far behind wanting to hold her and gets way mad if you don't let him. He loves his cousin and is always keeping an eye on her.

How Sweet

2009-07-22T16:37:00.003-06:00

A mother's dream! Both kids asleep at the same time AWWWWWWW!

Fourth Of July

2009-07-22T16:10:00.004-06:00

I just cropped this pic so you could see how cute her outfit was!

We took Riggun to the splash pad to play to wear him out and he had a ton of fun and then crashed as soon as we started driving.

Riggun is showing off his $2 that he won by winning the foot race at the washington city celebration. We figured since we weren't out at the Bundy reunion kickin but might as well do it here :) Anyway he was so proud of his dollars he wouldn't let anyone else hold them!

Everyone in there gid up except for mom she had to take the pic.

Still no baby

2009-06-09T19:43:00.001-06:00

Just to let everyone know I am 5 days from my due date and there is still no baby. As soon as she comes we will try and get pics posted!

Quick post in honor of my Hubby

2009-05-12T11:25:00.004-06:00

I just wanted to do a quick tribute to my hubby. He is such a good dad and husband. I love him so much and he provides very well for his family and is a great example to those around him. This last month has been so busy with easter and horse racing season starting up. That is why I haven't kept my blog update but I will try to get it updated. Anyway this last month Nathan took on a challenge of training some quarter horses instead of thoroughbreds for a futurity race here in St George. It is one of the bigger races that are held in UT. Anyway he received the horses a little later then he would have liked to get them ready for the races. Keep in mind they had to be broke and then trained to run. But he is a determined guy so I had no doubt he would have them ready. He got a lot of teasing and taunting for training quarter horses when he is an established thoroughbred trainer which I think made him even more determined to succeed. As the trials for the races arrived Foxy Dasher and Chasing Savannah were ready and raring. Savannah broke the track record and Foxy ran the 3rd fastest trial time. Everyone was amazed and were quick to congratulate nathan on his success with these horse after all the crap they gave him. We were all excited. Then the finals for the futurity came 2 wks later once again Nathan had the horses ready and raring to go. To make a long story short Savannah ran first breaking her own track record again and Foxy ran 4th (after a lot of in race obstacles). We were all very excited. Savannah definately is a special horse but for her to reach her potential she has shown us it took a talented trainer. Obviously Nathan has shown that if you have a talent is doesn't matter how, or to what you apply it too it is just the fact that you apply and use the talent to the best you can! I love you babe and GOOD JOB!

Fun Times Roping

2009-03-24T11:08:00.004-06:00

Yes this is me attemping to rope 7 months prego. And oh was it uncomfortable. Also I am very lucky I have a strong husband who helped me on and off the horse.

Riggun was so excited to rope like uncle kolbey does. He thought he was so cool and big it was cute! I was just shocked he actually swung the rope and threw it (with daddy's help). And for those of you who are wondering what that contraption is and does well.....It is just a plastic horse that you sit upon and then you push a bar and the calf or steer comes rolling out in front of you so you can rope it. And then it rolls back to start over. It is really cool and fun. Thank you Ganpa Hughes!

Murder Mystery Party

2009-03-24T11:02:00.002-06:00

So I haven't taken any prego pics so this is the first one. As you can see from this pic the reason why I don't like prego pics and it doesn't help that I am carrying her so so low it makes it worse. Oh and I am about 27 weeks in this pic.
For my niece Brianna's birthday we did a murder mystery Nathan was Uncle Tex, I was Auny Maybelle, and Riggun was Lil' Tex. It was fun to dress up.

Roasting Hot Dogs

2009-03-24T10:58:00.002-06:00

This was Riggun's first time roasting hot dogs and he had a blast. The only problem was is that he wouldn't let anyone help him. He had to do it himself and as you can see by the blackness of the hot dog he was no pro. And it wasn't black cause he burned it, it was because he would stick in the coals. Oh well he had fun, and no he didn't eat them he just cooked them.

Cute Cousins

2009-03-24T10:55:00.002-06:00

Riggun, Whitley, and Statlen. We went to watch Whitley at her first pee wee rodeo and took this pic cause those kids are just so cute. Riggun liked to cheer for Whitley while she participated it was fun.

San Diego Trip

2009-03-24T10:49:00.002-06:00

So we went to San Diego for about a week and had a blast we went to The Wild Animal Park, The Zoo, and Sea World. We went to the parks for 3 days straight and then on the fourth day we went shopping and to the beach even though we went to the beach almost every night anyway cause we stayed so close to it. We had so much fun. Everytime we went to the beach I forgot the camera so I had to take pics and video with my phone so unfortunately I have no idea how to get them off my phone to the computer which sucks because it was Riggun's first time and he was hilarious. It was a little chilly but he did not want to get out of the water. So he played and played until he was so cold he couldn't even walk, but there was no stopping him. If I ever get them put on the computer I will have to post them. It was a fun trip to take before the new baby comes.

Sea World

2009-03-24T10:39:00.003-06:00

This is a pic of Riggun and Nathan on one of the rides in the new Elmo's Bay of Play. They had three rides there and Riggun loved them and wanted to go again and again.
This was another of the rides and he was trying to wave at me but couldn't find me. There was like no one at Sea World so there was no waiting in lines for rides. It was awesome!

They also had a big jungle jim for the kids to play on and Riggun had a blast playing on the with dad of course....Mom probably couldn't even fit through that tube! :)

I had to take this pic because we were watching the Shamu show and his little face was cracking me up cause he was just so intrigued!

San Diego Wild Animal Park & The Zoo

2009-03-24T10:27:00.003-06:00

Mommy and Riggun Posing
We were leaving the Zoo and this was our last Park to visit so needless to say I was relieved 3 parks 3 days 6 months prego that's a lot of walking.

Riggun chose out the mask for his trip treat at the zoo so we found this shirt to match. He loved and some of you may know he is deathly scared of masks so we were surprised he chose it out. But only he could where it and he would say to us when we acted like we were scared "It not scary mom it not scary" But when we tried to put the mask on he would freak out cause he was scared it was so funny.

Daddy and Riggun riding the big tortoise!

Riggun had so much fun seeing all the animals.

Baby Update

2009-02-13T11:54:00.003-07:00

So if you can't tell by the crib set what we are having It's a girl! We are so excited and yes we have a name but I decided that I didn't want to post it but if you really want to know you can ask me. She moves non stop but that could be because I have been playing basketball the whole time she she is used to moving around. This is the crib set we bought and are waiting for the crib to be painted black to start putting the nursery together.

Cookie Day with the CUZN's

2009-02-13T11:45:00.003-07:00

2009-02-13T11:37:00.004-07:00

We all went over to Brian and Loralee's house to make Valentine cookies and it was really fun! Loralee sewed aprons for all the girls and chef hats for all the boys they were really cute!

Riggun's Lounger

2009-02-13T11:35:00.003-07:00

We went shopping for a crib set for the new baby and found this little chair that rocks and everything that Riggun absoulutely loved, so we got it for him. I know I know he is spoiled!

First Black Eye

2009-02-13T11:30:00.003-07:00

So this actually happened a while ago but I had forgotten to post it. The story is that he was playing on the stage with his cousins while the adults were playing basketball at the church. They were running back and forth through the curtains and they did have supervision to keep an eye on them and they was no worries. Well some how Riggun came barreling through the curtain running so fast that he ran right off the stage and hit a chair on the floor. It was so sad and at first we thought it was broken but it wasn't and he is completely back to normal.

Sledding

2009-01-15T09:40:00.001-07:00

While we were up north we went sledding in G&G Scott's back yard. The kids loved it as well as some of the adults. Grandpa Scott tied the sled to the back of the four wheeler and drug them around. The sled started out in one piece but after a few runs over some rocks it started to break so we layed donw some pieces of carpet so the sled wouldn't fill up with snow. As you can see we made it work. Grandma Scott is sporting our redneck sleigh after it had it's last run!

Temple Square

2009-01-15T09:35:00.000-07:00

We went up north the week before Christmas to spend time with Nathan's family. While we were there we went to to Body Worlds exhibit which was way cool and then we went to temple square and watched the nativity. This picture makes the statues look so real.

Snow Day!

2009-01-15T09:32:00.000-07:00

Riggun played in the snow for hours he loved it. Daddy helped him build a snowman and we didn't have any carrots for the nose so we used a pickle. Then we had no sticks so we used pieces of tumbleweeds. And then of course Riggun insisted he wear a cowboy hat!

Christmas Eve

2009-01-15T09:27:00.000-07:00

Tradition is our family is to open one present on Christmas Eve. It is usually PJ's. These were Riggun's awesome pajamas with cowboys on them and the robe had a saddle bronc rider embroidered on the back! Since they had cowboys on them he had to get on of his hats and his horse.

Our New Home

2008-12-06T08:37:00.003-07:00

This is our new beautiful home. We are so grateful for it and and excited to get it all decorated and homey feeling.

Finally and Update!

2008-12-02T20:32:00.004-07:00

Ok ok I know here it is December and my last post was October but at least this time I have a good excuse! We finally got moved into a new house and it has taken 2 weeks to get internet and don't forget the moving in part too. So anyway you are all probably wanting to see a pic of the NEW Humble Home but for some reason I can't get the pic to come off my phone so I will have to take one with the camera tomorrow and get it posted then. I promise I will do it tomorrow for sure. Also you probably notice the pic of the pregnancy counter to the right.....yep we are prego! The due dat is June 14th and it will be a while before e know what we are having for sure but when we find out I will let you know. We do have an unltrasound but really the baby is only like 2cm so it kind of looks like and oversized piece of rice....I'll post a pic when things are a little more definable. Anyhoo we found out we were pregnant while still in the trailer with no home so we were freaking a little but it was only a few days later that we found out that one of our many offers had been accepted so that was good news! Other then that not too much has changed.

Captain Moroni

2008-12-02T20:22:00.002-07:00

So Grandma Scott is making a book with pictures of the grandkids dressed up as different people from stories out of the scriptures. Riggun was supposed to be captain moroni upon his horse in all his armor. Well we tried the pony thin and when the pony moved Riggun got freaked cause he thought he was going to fall cause as you can see he has nothing to hold on to and well he is only 2! So we went a different route and put him upon his trusty steed......the rocking horse he did a little better cause at least he knew there would not be any sudden movements. Then we threw him upon the haystack just for fun and by then he was done with picture time!

Still Scared of Santa

2008-12-02T20:16:00.002-07:00

We went to the jubilee of tree's and saw Santa but Riggun wasn't too thrilled. Our first mistake was trying to sit him on Santa's lap. As long as we kept him away from him he was ok.

Present Time

2008-11-05T17:32:00.000-07:00

Riggun got so many fun things. Thank you everyone that came it turned out great!

Birthday Cake

2008-11-05T17:28:00.000-07:00

I made two eyeball cupcake cakes for Riggun's Birthday. That is cousin Boston next to Riggun which is usually the case. Those two are best buds!

Riggun 2nd Birthday Party

2008-11-05T17:26:00.000-07:00

We had so much fun with the bounce house and all the cousins! Can't believe my baby is 2!

Birthday Boy

2008-11-05T17:17:00.002-07:00

Riggun thought he better get his rest for his big party that night. He has to be ready for his peeps!

2008-11-05T17:16:00.001-07:00

Riggun jumped on uncle Kolbey's Jake Steer and was trying to ride it like a bull. Just lovely right? And daddy was no help cause he was showing him how to do it!

Staheli Farm

2008-11-05T17:10:00.000-07:00

We Went to the Staheli Corn Maze and they had a lot of
fun things for little kids to do. Riggun had a blast

Our Humble Home

2008-09-21T12:41:00.003-06:00

So here is a pic of what we are living in right now. Our camp trailer or as Nathan likes to call it "The Love Shack" We have it parked in the back of my parents home while we still search for a new home. We still can't believe our old house sold so fast. Anyway sorry it took so long to update I knew this would be tough for me to keep up with!

Tough Enough To Wear Pink!

2008-09-21T12:26:00.004-06:00

This Is all the guys showing that they are tough enough to wear pink to the Rodeo for Breast Cancer awareness!

Since Riggun is just soooo cute I had to take some pics of him and he was just posing up a storm. I think we may have a star on our hands!
MMMMMM good! Nothing is better then a Rodeo hotdog!

Dixie Round Up

2008-09-21T12:22:00.003-06:00

This was the first night of the Round Up. We went all 3 nights and Riggun sat and watched faithfully the whole thing except for the 3rd night and he was not having it he was way restless but he calmed down to sit and watch the bulls. He better not get any ideas.

2008-07-13T00:40:00.002-06:00

When the fireworks actually began Riggun got scared and jumped up on Nathan's lap. Then he kind of burried his head into Nathan's chest and then held Nathan's hand over his other ear. He was fine and enjoyed watching as long as his ears were covered. If Nathan moved his hand at all he hurried and grabbed it and put it back over his ear. He was so cute and it was fun to watch!

Waiting for Fireworks

2008-07-13T00:38:00.001-06:00

We parked the truck in the middle of a field and climbed in the back to watch the fireworks!

4th of July

2008-07-13T00:33:00.003-06:00

This is Riggun all decked out in his 4th of July outfit. Thanks granny H for the shirt. My boys are sooooo cute! We just went to the park down from the track to hang out for a little while, waiting for it to get dark.

2008-07-13T00:27:00.002-06:00

We wentto Boise Idaho for a week over the the 4th of July! I know, I know we missed the Bundy reunion but we still had a lot of fun. We were there racing horses but on the days we didn't have any to run we played. One of the days we went to this huge water park that was right by our hotel. It was so much fun and they had this big area that was designed for the little ones. Well, this pics of this big yellow slide are pretty much the only pics I took of Riggun cause this is all he wanted to do. Go down the slide with dad. He literally went down 30 times. If we didn't take him right back to the top he would start to whine. He absolutely loved it! Man this kid has no

fear!

Sleepy lil one

2008-07-12T23:50:00.002-06:00

Once again here he is just passed out asleep.

I may be partial but he can't do anything and not be cute!

Me & My Baby

2008-07-12T23:46:00.003-06:00

So this is me and my little man just getting ready to leave to church. Unfortunately he is not happy about it for a couple of reasons. One he needed a nap so he didn't want to take a pic but he looked so cute I couldn't resist and two he absolutely hates nursery. In fact he start crying as soon as we get out of the car and sees we are at the church. So lets hope he grows out of that!

Hughes Family Pic

2008-06-20T21:52:00.000-06:00

SOLD!

2008-06-20T11:18:00.002-06:00

Yeah we sold our house! We ha to be out by July 23. So we haveabout 5 weeks from now to find a new home or we will be living in our camp trailer, as Nathan calls it "The Love Shack!" So hopefully we can find a house but it is no big rush. We are really sad to leave our friends and the ward. With Nathan and I moving our bishop will have to replace 4 ward jobs! I bet he is nervous. Anyway that's our update.

Just Chilln'

2008-06-20T11:14:00.002-06:00

We just hung out all day yesterday and so Riggun just kind of looke like a rag muffin. One boot on, a binki in each hand and one in his mouth, and if you look closely he found a pen and wrote all over the front of him. He would sleep with them boots on if I would let him!

Father and Sons

2008-06-06T19:39:00.004-06:00

Riggun and Nathan went to father and sons last week and had a blast. Nathan said that he justloved playing in the dirt. Surprise surpise! Though they had a great time Nathan didn't dare spend the night with Riggun in a tent so they came home late that night. Doesn't he look cut in his camo overalls?

More Father And Sons

2008-06-06T19:31:00.003-06:00

New Haircut

2008-06-05T23:47:00.002-06:00

Riggun got another haircut. this is his 3rd! Each and everytime we cut his hair it goes lighter and lighter. I am sad that we are cutting all the red out but it doesn't matter too much cause he is still so cute! His hair does look read in these pics but in person it is taking on more of a blonde.

Swim Swim!

2008-06-05T22:54:00.007-06:00

So we went to the new Washington City Community Center to go swimming last week and the place is really cool! The bad thing was we were only there for about 10 min before there was a "Phantom Duke" in the the pool so everyone had to get out so they could shock the pool and that was going to take up to 50 min so we left and got a pass to come back another day. Apparently they are having that problem quite regularly. So hopefully the next time we go back we can stay a little bit longer!

Tired little man

2008-05-17T12:12:00.003-06:00

When This little guy gets tired it doesn't matter where he is at he just zonks.

Hanging out with Dad

2008-05-17T12:10:00.002-06:00

Rigguns favorite show to watch is Yo Gabba Gabba. And he loves to watch with someone and not by himself. So here he is chillin' with dad watching TV.

Messy Eater

2008-05-17T12:04:00.003-06:00

We have been trying to let Riggun learn to use utensils to feed himself but as you can see it gets really messy and usually he just holds the utensil in one hand and feeds himself with the other hand. But there is one thing about this kid he eats a lot but is still a skinny little thing.

That is one more thing he gets from his dad.

Football

2008-05-17T11:58:00.004-06:00

Not only does Riggun love horses but he loves sports. Everytime he sees any kind of ball he heads straight for it. He acutally has a pretty good throw. He really likes playing football with cousin Boston. They went out on the college football field after cousin Brilee's soccer game and ran around throughing that football around. It was so cute cause the ball was about as big as them.

YeeeHaww

2008-05-17T11:54:00.003-06:00

This is Riggun with his cowboy hat great grandpa & grandma Robby gave to him. Every time he gets on his rocking horse he says "yeehaw" it is so cute. He is really good at making animal sounds and i bet you can't guess what his fav one is? Anyway back to his hat, he sleeps with it a lot. I think we have a future cowboy on our hands!

Fun Times

2008-05-17T11:50:00.003-06:00

We went to California with Nathan for a business trip so in our down time we to the mall and they had a carousel that Riggun wanted to get on but once he was up there he wasn't too sure about it.....but when it came time to get of he started screaming.

2008-04-16T16:58:00.001-06:00

For th easter we had a lot of fun. On Saturday we hung out with all of Nathan's family and had a easter egg hunt it was fun and surprisingly riggun did very well picking up the eggs and putting him in his bucket. Then Sunday we went to Grandma & Grandpa Hughes's house for easter dinner and another easter egg hunt. Whitley and Riggun had their own easter egg hunt and then g&g Hughes hid eggs for the adults and Kolbey. The rules were that you could only find 10 eggs and you couldn't open them. Also that they had up to $1-$10 in them. Anyway it was really fun but Nathan had a hard time cause everyone found all their eggs and he still had like 6 eggs to find. Well so like an hour later he just gave up on the last 2 eggs he couldn't find but we counted all the money and found out that they were only $1 eggs. A few weeks later grandma Hughes found one of his eggs but still to this day Nathan's 10th egg is still out there. So anyone needing a dollar can go egg hunting

This picture is of Riggun's Easter Sunday outfit.

OUR LITTLE FISH

2008-04-16T16:47:00.000-06:00

Oh boy does Riggun love the water! Grandma and Grandpa Scott had a hotel room with a heated pool so Riggun and Nathan took a dive. As you can see Riggun had no fear. In fact he kept trying to go under the water.

Family's are Forever

2008-04-16T15:56:00.003-06:00

This is our family picture taken for our Christmas cards.