Since I missed Blake's picture on the first day of high school, I thought I'd post some football pictures! Blake, as well as the whole freshman team, have practiced basically NON stop since summer started. A week of football camp in the White Mountains in July, 6am workouts every day and practice in 115 degree heat...he's been a trooper! I'm very proud of my football player. He's number 78 and plays first string Offensive Guard. Love you, Blake!
Because I'm a horrible, terrible blogger, I'm just now getting around to posting our back to school pictures (from mid-August) in October. :) Hallie is a 6th grader, and Chase is a 2nd grader. Blake started high school this year, but I didn't get a picture of him before he left. Here's to a good year!
I'm actually posting this ON Luke's 2nd birthday so we haven't had a party yet (though it is planned for Monday!). This week Nate and I took Luke to the Phoenix Zoo to as a special treat for his birthday week. It was amazing weather and Luke adored having Mommy and Daddy to himself for a few hours. What a treat! He seemed to especially enjoy petting the goats. :)
I'm only a month late! Christmas 2010 was a great one. Santa brought Blake a cool new mountain bike, Hallie an electric keyboard, Chase received an electric scooter, and Luke got a Cozy Coupe. As a family we bought a flat screen tv and the boys scored an XBox360 from their Dad and Grandparents. Talk about a big Christmas! On Christmas Eve we went carolling with the Farnsworth family and had a cute nativity scene at the Barlows. It was a very memorable Christmas.
We had Nate's sister, Jeanine and her family, husband Mike (the amazing photographer of these pictures), son Ben and daughter Isabelle come in town early in November. To celebrate the occassion, we all decided to celebrate Thanksgiving on Veteran's Day with the Barlow clan. It was lots of fun! These pictures are a few that Mike captured that day.
