The Barker Bunch: Merr "E" Christmas!

I feel like I should clarify the "E" Christmas.....meaning our world is Evanston Athletics, E town, Go Red Devils, whether we are the players or the fans, so there ya go Mackenzee didn't seem to get it right away, I thought it was pretty clever.

I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season. It used to be I was like my Mia, "Christmas takes soooooo long to get here!" but anymore it comes so fast, almost seems like a sidenote for me with how busy we are with everything else, "and oh yeah we need to remember Christmas," I did manage to get our tree up, a little decorating done, and cards ordered and some sent (the Merr "E" Christmas ones). Thanks to my kids it has still been magical. We've had some fun Christmas parties, Zoe is good with Santa, and went to temple square, which we missed last year, and I really did miss it, LOVE IT and I love that my kids love it.

As far as what we have been up since our last post...................

Well Red Devil Football is over (tear), Lady Devil Volleyball is over (tear), EMS football & basketball is already over (tear), hunting is not over (tear), jk I know they love it, but it doesn't hurt my feelings when they just don't seem to get the time to go get 4 antelope, 4 deer, and 4 elk! Will turned 18 and Zoe turned 2 in September, Bridger turned 11 in October, and Jesse just turned 13. Mackenzee is 16 and Mia will be 8 in a couple of weeks. Mia is just absorbing every little thing about Christmas, I love her and her attitude, Will thinks she can be a little whiny, but who can blame her with 3 big brothers! Randy calls her little Janet, so she must be angelic right?! She can hardly wait to be baptized, and it just happens to work out that the stake baptism is on her birthday, so she is sooooo excited.

EHS basketball has begun, and that will keep us busy with both Will and Kenz playing until about the middle of March, which will be about time to post again.