Trick or Treat

Every year on Halloween, our church has a safe trick or treating event planned for all of the kids in the different wards. We call it "Trunk-or-Treating", and it's basically all of the families that want to participate will park their cars in the church parking lot, and pass out candy out of their trunks. This allows all of the kids to walk to the different trunks and get candy safely. I'm so grateful for this, because for one, I don't have to walk around a neighborhood for an hour or so, and it's very safe. Jamie was taking pictures throughout the night, and so because of that, she is not in any of the pictures. I know what everyone is thinking, and yes Jamie is much better looking than me, so she should have been the one who was in all of the pictures. Sorry for the disappointment.

me and my girls

Lola the cutest monkey ever!



Ella as Cinderella, and the monkey

It's quality family time like this that make me realize how blessed I truly am. I hope everyone has enjoyed another Barrera family update, and please continue to visit our blog. If anyone has any good ideas to make my blog a little more interesting, just send them my way.

Family Day at the Pumpkin Patch

On Monday, I had the day off from school, and I decided to not go into work so that I could spend the day with my family at the pumpkin patch in Roca, NE. It was a little cold outside, but we braved the cold and had a fun day. Normally I don't like going to the pumpkin patch, but I'm glad Jamie made me go, because it was so much fun seeing my girls have so much fun. Oh, and we also brought our neighbor Julianne and her daughter Emmie with us. It was their first time at the pumpkin patch. I don't have a lot of time to write more detail about what went on because I'm crazy busy with school right now, so I'm posting some of the pic's from the day. Hope everyone enjoys them.


These were just a couple of the pics from the fun day. The picture of Lola (our youngest) was the only one of her not screaming. She was not in a good mood for pictures that day, but oh well. Hope everyone enjoyed seeing the pics, and have a wonderful week.

Sundt Construction

On the 27th of September, I flew down to Phoenix, AZ for the weekend for an interview with Sundt Construction Inc. They are a pretty large general contractor based out of Tempe, AZ, and they have offices in Arizona, and Southern, CA.

So on the 27th, I got on my plane, and it had been probably 13 years since I'd been on an airplane, and so I was kinda excited to go on it. The only thing I didn't like was that I had a long layover in Denver. But it was ok. The only part of the whole flying thing that I didn't like was that when I was flying back from Phoenix, to Denver, the plane just before take-off, just completely shut down and the power went off. Then it came back on after a little while, and the pilot came on the loud speaker and said that sometimes the planes are like laptop computers, and they just need to be rebooted. Now I don't know about anyone else, but that's not something I want to hear just as we are about to take off. We made it safe and sound though, so I'm over it.

Now, the reason I went down there was for a job interview, which I am happy to say that I got an offer from them. Not my ideal offer, and Jamie really doesn't want to live in Phoenix, so hopefully I get other offers with the other interviews I have, but at least I have a job, worst case scenario. The crazy part of the whole interview was that while I was down there, I started to feel sick. The worst part of it was that during the day of the interview I actually ended up have to rush off to the bathroom twice to throw-up. Even after all that, I was still able to impress them enough to give me an offer.

That is basically what is new with me, so I hope that everyone else is doing wonderfully, and may Heavenly Father bless everyone in there lives.

Football Is Here!!!

Well, for those that don't know me, I love sports. I especially love watching the Huskers. This year we have a new football coach, the guru of defense, Bo Pelini. I'm so excited to see what a good coach can do with a team that last year had an embarrasing defense. I just had to say it, but GOOOOOOOOOOOOO HUSSSSSSKKKKKEEEEEEEEEEERS. Enjoy the football season everyone, no matter who your team is.

Pictures of the Barrera's

I realized today, that I haven't put many pictures of us Barrera's on our blog. I am still trying to work out all of the bugs that I experience when trying to blog. I'm not sure if it's the site, or if it's a user error situation. I'm sure it's more of the user error situation than anything else. The layout of this blog might look a little weird, I'm not really familiar with blogging just yet, but I'll get better I promise. If anyone knows any useful information that would help me in how to use this blog stuff, I'd greatly appreciate it.

This first picture is of me and my two daughters Ella Lynn (3 years), and Lola Grace (7 1/2 months).


This is a picture of Jamie my beautiful wife, and our newest baby girl Lola. They were swimming at Grandma LouAnn's house and having so much fun.


Here's our oldest daughter Ella also swimming at grandma's house, and she is wearing her swimming goggles, even though she won't even come close to putting her face in the water. Our girls love swimming and playing at their grandma LouAnn's house.

This picture is of Lola on fathers day being held by none other than her father (which is me). isn't she so cute.




The picture on the right is also on father's day, and it's me and my two beautiful girls. I still can't believe how much I've been blessed to have such a wonderful, beautiful family. I can only thank my Heavenly Father for being so loving and trusting to allow me to be a parent to my two girls, and he has also blessed me with a loving, kind, and supportive wife.

Well, I hope these pictures will be sufficient for everyone, and I'll post some more later.

The Last Semester

So I start my last semester of school on Monday, and it can't happen at a better time. We are tired of school, and living like students. I will graduate on December 20th with a undergrad degree in Construction Management. Everyone keeps telling me that I'm going to be rich, but I don't think that's true, so I do plan on going back to school to get a Master's degree in either Business, or Construction. Basically, my life for the next 4 months will be school, work, and preparing for interviews. Jamie would like it if we stayed in Nebraska, or at least within a couple of hours from Nebraska, but I don't think we'll end up that close. The market for construction isn't great period right now, but especially in the midwest. I'm thinking we'll end up in Phoenix, AZ, or Houston, TX. Phoenix would be a last choice, because we haven't had great luck with that city.

This past summer, I was given the 0pportunity to do an internship with a very good contractor in Phoenix, named Sundt Construction. I was on the surveying team. It sucked for the three weeks I worked there. It's hot, and I basically pounded stakes into the ground, and held a rod for 8-10 hours a day in the summer heat. The heat was better than Nebraska heat mixed with high humidity, but it was still hot. I think one day I drank 16 20 oz bottles of water, and never pee'd once. That's how much I sweated. Well, my internship was cut very short. Jamie and the girls didn't come out with me at first, Jamie had a friend who was getting married, and our oldest daughter Ella was in the wedding, so they stayed back, to then fly out later. This also allowed Jamie to take our youngest daughter Lola for a doctor's appointment. At the appointment, the doctor informed Jamie that Lola's head was realllllyy flat on one side, and that is was growig towards her ear, and could possbly pinch off her hearing, causing her to lose it. The solution to this problem was for Lola to get a special, clear plastic helmet to help mold her head back into place. After lots of different options, and considerations of me staying in Phoenix still, Jamie and I both decided that I should come home and end my internship with Sundt. I spoke with Sundt, and they were very understanding, and infact insistant that I go and take care of my family. I am still in the running with them for a full time job after I graduate, so that is great. Since I've been home, Lola's head is much, much better, and she should be helmetless in about three weeks. The one thing that sucked about the helmet, is that insurance considers it a cosmetic thing, so they wouldn't cover it. So it's an out of pocket expense for us. Oh well, it's for a good reason. The rest of my summer has been back at my old company Judds Brothers Construction Company, and spending time with my girls. Now it's time to get ready for fall semester. I know this post has gotten to be a little long, but it's been awhile since I've posted anything. I'll try to be better at keeping this thing updated, since it will probably be me who does it. Jamie really doesn't like to do this kindof thing. I'll also post some new pictures of the family in the next week or so. Hope everyone is doing well, and I pray that Heavenly Father will bless you all with many blessings. Have a great weekend all.