Family Pics (Finally)

So, it's been forever that Jamie has been bugging me for us to go and get actual family pictures taken. I'm usually not one for pictures, and I am definitely a guy who does not like to have pictures plastered all over walls like crazy, but I decided that it was probably time to get some pictures taken.

Just before we went to get the pictures taken (about 2 days before), Lola decided to leap off of the couch and smack her face right on the floor. At first it didn't look too bad, but the next day Lola had this huge rug burn on her little nose. That is why she has the cut on her nose during the pictures. I hope everyone likes the pictures, and now no one can say that I never get my picture taken.

The Barrera Family

The Barrera Family 2

Ella and Lola Barrera

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.