One of my favorite things lately is saving frogs from my parent's pool!

This is the biggest one I've caught!

And here's some of my pretty flowers!

love & hugs

hales

My sweet best friend came to visit me this past week!!

She's the cutest!

Typical..

I love my Dixie-doo!

Josh and I had a relaxing Sunday that included vacuuming/taking apart and cleaning our vacuum, watching Indiana Jones, watching The Sound of Music, and then, an ice cream date at Sonic!!

Here's me with no makeup... sorry!

Pineapple milkshake!!!!!

(my favorite)

(I wore my pjs..)

Yay for weekends!

In the Barton house tonight...

I'm watching Design Star on HGTV, & Josh is writing music.

Here's a peek into our Monday night...

Josh's great-grandfather's pocket watch. His dad had it fixed up for him for Christmas.

The top of my tiered serving dish..

Josh's guitar.. he doesn't have anything to cut the strings :)

I bought these cute little flowers today.. not sure what they are called.

Josh talking to Hunter on the phone.. interesting way of holding it.

(I had a little fun editing this picture.. now looking at it it seems silly but oh well!)

On Saturday me & Josh went on a mini date to see Transformers 3! We went to a super fancy theater (we had a giftcard :)) that has really comfy recliners and a full menu to order from while you watch! They even gave us a warm lemony cloth to clean our hands afterwards and a complimentary chocolate when we left! So fun but definitely a special occasion kind of place.

Josh wanted to bring home our 3D glasses. (You are supposed to give them back so they can recycle them.) I told him if he wanted to bring them home we had to take pictures wearing them.

Here's my current desktop picture..

And here's me with a wrinkly chin. I'm pretty sure this is my "go-to" funny face for pictures.

Anywho!

That's what we did this weekend! Hope you had a great one, too!

love love love

Haley

Silly Monday..

In honor of Mom's birthday.... (last week...whoops!)

My mom is my best friend.

Here's some things I love about her.

No. 1: She never goes anywhere without a roll of Ritz crackers in her purse. According to her, Ritz can fix a headache, stomach ache, and when paired with a Diet Coke, be your out-on-the-town-shopping-day lunch.

(And yes, the rumor is true! She does have a nifty little tube that keeps them from being crushed!)

No. 2: She laughs like me. Or I guess, I laugh like her. Only when we are reallllllly tickled about something. We even make the same ugly face. Cue the tears and wheezing.

(But she doesn't do that honking thing that I do... we aren't really sure where that came from.)

No. 3: She 'bruises like a peach'. Or so she says. You can barely punch poke her and sure enough, she bruises.

No. 4: She's a hummer. She hums allllll day long. Everywhere she goes. Half the time she doesn't know she's doing it. But she is. Drives me crazy. She'll hum along to a song she's never heard, in a quiet room, in the kitchen making dinner, while she's driving... hum hum hum.

And you know what? I've been catching myself doing it lately.

No. 5: She makes up words. She thinks they are real and/or thinks that other people won't notice.

I don't know what I'd do without her. You know that song 'Who Are You When I'm Not Looking'? Well if you don't you should listen to it cause it's awesome but anyways.. there's a line in there that says, 'Call up Mama when all else fails..' And I kid you not whenever I hear that part I tear up because that's exactly what I do! Whether it be, 'UMMMMM Mom what does this bill mean?????' or, 'I really have a bad attitude and I just need to vent and have you tell me that it will all be okay and that I need to have a happy heart cause Jesus loves me and is probably just trying to teach me something!!!!!' or, 'I'm in Walmart and I can't find the Watermelon syrup to make my Watermelon Lemonade can you tell me where it is in this giant storeeeee???'

She's always there to help me out.

I love you Mama/Mushi/Maja/Mooooooooooooooooooooooooom

Love,

Peanut

Look what came in the mail today..

It's from our sweet niece Jaslynn!

She's starting kindergarten this fall and it looks like she's almost ready!

A bunch of random pictures from my phone that never got posted...

Gosh my husband is attractive

Willard the fish!

What Dad did on Father's Day

Hayden & Nicole's AC went out so they slept on our living room floor

A wreath I made for work

Random picture in the car? I kinda look mad.. and Josh is squinting

Charlotte barbie with her fish Brian!!!!

(Actually this might have been the first one she got that died...)

Burger tour @ Love Shack

Lisa and Willow at the movies

Mama's Birthday & 4th of July Weekend

This past weekend we got all the siblings together for a big 3 night sleepover at my parents!

We celebrated Mom's birthday and Independence Day!

Mama's mama made her cake!

Willard

Cutie head with her cake

Willow slept until 11:00 on the morning of mom's birthday.. on the chair.. in the living room.

Hunter and Josh made french toast... It was comical but it turned out delicious!

My little niece Bella! She's so snuggly & I fell in love!

Boys in the pool

Daddio

Hunter and Heather

We made the boys take 'twin' pictures like they were 4 again.

Crazy how much they really do look alike

I cropped this one cause it was crazy!!!!

Heather

Oh.... this family of mine

Heather again

Joshy poo

All the siblings! So crazy we are all married!

Bella after we dunked her in the pool to cool off

And I leave you with this incredibly white trash picture. We didn't leave the house the whole weekend & never changed out of out swimsuits/pjs. Please notice that none of the girls have on makeup, Dad is wearing camo slippers with his swimsuit, and even the dog is dirty and wet.

It was such a great weekend! I love my family!