One day...

Man one day I will find to time to do everything I want to in a day.. It may be in 20 years when the kids are grown and gone but man it just seems there is too much to do in a day.. I remember 6 years ago working 2 jobs having a new born and thinking man one day I will have more time.. And yet somehow I got stuff done. And here I am 6 years later 3 kids and no job and I can't get much done. One day...... I can't believe it's already October.. Where did September go.. I will have to post pics later but we had a great September.. Went to the Sand dunes over Labor day and then of course Camden turned 6.. He is so big and such a great kid. We are so lucky to have him in our lives. And soon we will have snow and kids will be telling me all of the million things they want for Christmas.. Oh wait the wanting starting a long time ago.. Lets see goal of the day:::: Get something done that needs to be done.. And of course find time to post pics on the blog.. Oh and if anyone hasn't heard of Pintrest yet they should check it out.. Love it...

First day of School....

I can't believe my little guy is in Kindergarten.. He is so big I can't believe he is almost 6.. How time flies.. He was super excited to start school but very nervous to ride the bus. Of course he loved it and is loving school.

What a cute shot of Camden.

Of course Carter had to jump in a pic..

Aaahhhhh...

Preston... Laying on the grin.. (so cute)

Standing in line for the bus..

Climbing on that big ol' yellow bus... Not sure who cried more me or Carter.. He was so sad to see Camden leaving for school.

He's back.. Had a great first day and is loving going to school.

Carter waiting for Camden to get off the bus, he was so glad to see him.

What I've been doing....

My wonderful hubby went a little tomato crazy this year.. We planted 27 tomato plants and lets just say I've had my elbows up in tomato's alot..


Did 31 jars of Salsa so far.. (and yes we want to do more...)

Done 22 Quarts of Stewed tomato's so far....

Did 12 Quarts of Tomato juice last night.. And the tomato's are just coming on now too..


And of course we had to do some jam... I did about 42 jars..

Some of the jam.. My mom, Courtnie, Megan and I spent the day doing 6 batches of jam.. Gotta have the jam I love it...

Family Reunion

The Barlow Family had a campout this year.. We have lots of fun and it's great to see all the family.. Hopefully I'll have a group pic soon.

Me and Heather striking a pose..

Preston doing what he loves best.. Sweeping..

We played some fun Minute to Win it games, the kids had a blast.

Having fun getting candy out of the pool.

My kids couldn't get enough candy..

Hanging out..

Little P chilin in the cabin.

Anyston looking cute as always.

This is what happens when you jump on a deflating air mattress and it's sitting on concrete.. Yeah it swelled up in no time and as you can tell he was not happy.

Mighty big bump..

Family....

My niece Morgan and nephew Logan came and visited us this year.. I hadn't seen them in about 4 years.. They have gotten big and very tall.... We had lots of fun hanging with them... Wish we got to see them more often...

Marsh Lake 2011

We love Marsh Lake... So earlier this year when we tried to book reservations at Marsh lake they didn't have anything open that we wanted so we thought we would try somewhere else. So we booked up mirror lake highway. Well due to the snow we've had this year. They pretty much canceled our reservations up at Trial Lake and left us now where to go and gave us only a week notice.. So we figured we would try and get some first come sites at Marsh.. We were able to get three sited and even though we weren't right by each other we still had a blast.. And yes we camp from Sunday to Sunday.. And yes I was so ready to come home by the next Sunday..

Our wonderful view from our trailer..

The view from the lake.. LOL Our home away from home for a week.

We usually do the same things at Marsh.. First things first is you gotta go cut wood and then spend the day chopping it.

Second.. You gotta get those four wheelers unloaded and give the kids a ride.. Preston wanted a ride so bad he's just a little to small still. And they all love grandpa's little red four wheeler.

Third.. You have to go fishing.. We (well they) did pretty good this year they caught a bunch at the lake and then they caught some albino fish down at Stateline..

Fourth.. If you fish then you eat them.. Nate's family love to cook the fish over a fire.. Camden and Carter have never eaten so much food. They love lake/river fish.

Of course with all the wood we chopped the older boys usually do some wood work.. Nate this year carved knifes for the boys and then we painted them. It's their fav toy as of now.

Carter with his knife.

Fifth.. We always take a drive at night to see the wildlife.. This year we loaded up in the grandparents Tahoe and the kids had a blast in the back seat.

Usually every night we had deer in our campground. Yep pic taken right at my trailer. This night we only had one and a few nights later we had about 4 deer walking around the area.

Me and Preston got to spend a lot of time together, the older boys we either off riding four wheelers, fishing or bike riding..

Preston thinking he is big stuff wearing a helmet on Carter's bike..

Sixth.. You gotta play some cards.. We didn't have too much rain up camping this year which was great but when we did its always nice to go inside and break out some games..

Preston thinking he is big stuff driving the truck.. The bugs were pretty bad so on our hike me and Preston came back early.

Seventh... You gotta go on some cool drives and find some cool stuff on a hike. We love to take a couple hours and go exploring and see whats around. The kids love learning about the wild flowers and smelling them. We found this great place with these super old cabins.. Needless to say I'm thankful for indoor plumbing..

One of the homes we came across. Yeah can't imagine living in that 12 x 12 box with 6 kids and grandparents and who knows what else..

The other home we came across it didn't hold up as well as the other one..

We love Marsh Lake and we love going with Nate's family. My parents even came up for the day and brought my niece and nephew from New Hampshire with them. We had fun and can't wait for next year..

Cute butts..

We got home from camping and I had to spend a couple days cleaning the trailer so we could get ready for our big camping trip of the year.. Needless to say while I had sleeping bags out the kids had fun..

Love this pic of Carter and Preston just relaxing on the sleeping bag watching t.v.


Love them cute butts, just hanging out in a shirt and diaper.. And yes Preston is as big as Carter.. LOL