Our very Barry Christmas

Our evening of celebration was such a party! I was the last one to sit on Grandpa Santa's knee and by then we were kind-of weary!

Cute Grandma Belle!

Fun Devin!

A precious (and hilarious) Nativity with 10 of our 11 adorable grand kids. We ran out of costumes so Ashlyn had to be Tigger and a pillowcase with holes cut for the head and arms became Oaklee's lamb. Her dog nose was a nice addition! Notice baby Andi's smile!

Still basking in the joy of Thanksgiving

With 28 of us present, our Thanksgiving was almost perfect! (We missed Adam and Anya and the kids who were with Anya's family). Four members of the Brady family (Kara and Mike and their two sweet ones, Mitchell and Lyndsi and their baby, and Erica and Jordan) joined us too. After dinner Devin offered John to give anyone who jumped into the pool $20.00. Next thing we know there is Greg, Rich, Devin, Mitchell, Jordan and Brooklynn all ready to get the freeze of their lives!

Sam is ONE years old today!

Happy Birthday Sam! So glad you are a part of our family.

What happens in Vegas, we can share!

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John and I had a fun couple of days in Vegas. We enjoyed doing a session at the beautiful Las Vegas temple, eating at the most amazing buffet at the M resort where we stayed, going to the Michael Jackson movie This is It, (We loved it!) and going to The Beatles circus-ole. (Have no idea how to write or pronounce the real words.) This picture of me was right outside the Beatles auditorium. The show was great, especially since there was a speaker in every back rest of every seat! The top picture is of our view from our room. It overlooked the strip which was about ten miles North. While eating in the buffet there was a commotion. We found out that it was because Joe Jackson a(Michael’s dad) and his entourage was there eating also.

The Hoover Dam bridge is incredible. If it ever gets completed it will give me the willies going over it!

We drove through Sedona and Flagstaff to see the Fall leaves, but they were gone already. :( Maybe that was because it was SNOWING at the time!

Adam Wesley Barry

Adam is our third son. His birthday was last month and I am just getting to blog about how wonderful he is.








We sure must have done something good to get to have Adam as a member of our family.

Johnny's soccer game

I had to throw in this cute picture of John and Bastian at the Barry Halloween gig!

Johnny has been playing soccer this fall and today we got to see him in action! We got there just in time to see him block a goal and kick the ball half way down the field. Then a team mate took the ball in for their teams first goal of the season! WOW! Talk about exciting! John is a shinning star!

Exciting news!

At the Halloween party last night Rich and Treslee brought a carved pumpkin. I thought, "How cute! What is it?" Then they told me to look at the pumpkin and I knew something was up. That is when I dicovered that the carving was a baby bottle!!! You know what that means---another baby Barry on it's way! June 2nd is the date that we are excited for!

Halloween Fun

The Barry family had a Halloween party so the grandkids could see their cousin's costumes. We had a parade, a cup cake walk, guess the corns game, target the ghost game, pin the nose on the pumpkin, Halloween Bingo, Chilli, and loads of laughter! Anya, the gorgeous cave woman, me and Sam the elephant.

Tinker Bell Ashyln

Nina and Brooklynn

The fabulous parade-Adam the caveman, Elle cheer leader, grandpa as grandpa, Charlee Snow White, Oaklee the fairy, Ella the ballarina, John the ghost, Nina the cheer leader, Bastian Spiderman. Not shown is Andi the flower, Sam the Elephant, Ashlyn Tinker Bell.

Brian and Scottee
John and Brenda

Ryan and Mindy

Devin and Allison

Rich and Treslee

Adam and Anya

Baby Andi (Greg and Alli's)

The 54 year old-stark raving mad, pregnant lady!!! (Sariah)

The Joy of OCD Class

Our Stake had a preparedness fair today and I was asked to teach an organizing, cleaning and de-junking class-(thus the title.) It was a helpful and fun event. As requested, here are the pictures I had on display.

Over the door organizer. They can be used for the pantry, family room for movies, toys...your imagination is the limit! Bag closures used to hang aprons so they are handy!

Pantry shows rectangle containers, hanging baskets and boxes that can be taken out that contain small items that tend to get lost.

Space saving and convenient-over the door hooks.

Wire baskets and door organizers.

Laundry baskets-one for whites, one for light colors and one for dark colors. No more sorting! Notice-no lids! Clothes tend to make it into the baskets if there isn't a lid to raise!

Toy organization

More toys. Bins make clean-up fast and easy! Keep things simple-lids complicate tasks for children, unless there are many small parts that can escape like Legos.

DVD Organizers-each container holds 100 DVD's Get a binder with clear plastic covers to file DVD jackets and movies in alphabetical order or in order purchased.

Junk drawer contained with dividers. Dividers can evn be shallow box lids.


Rolling textiles, clothing, underwear in sets, saves room and lets you see what you have at first glance!

Wire shelving sold at any super market can double the room in your cupboards. Simply raise the shelves and insert wire ones. No more jumbled, packed cupboards. Easy access and time saving!

Adhesive hooks can help you keep often used utinsels, measuring cups, oversized utinsels at quick and easy reach.

Adhesive spice rack and three-tier adjustable rack keep spices handy.
Rectangular containers are much more space efficient that circular ones. Also medicines, vitamins etc are easily located and returned to proper places when they are stored in open containers.

Baking cabinet under stove. Again the wire shelving doubles space.

Food storage containers

Ways to contain utinsels and gadgets-this is an adjustable drawer divider. It expands to fill your space.

Ikea drawer dividers expand as long as you need them to and you can put as many as you need per drawer.

Rubbermaid single organizers put together to utilize space.

When you de-junk, ask yourself, "Do I need this?" "Do I use it?" Do I want it?" "Is it enhancing my life or just taking up space?"

Happy OCD everyone!