Mace and Amy

18 month stats

2011-05-25T13:40:00.001-06:00

Here are Barton's 18 month stats
Height: 31 3/4"
Weight: 24 lb 2 oz
Head: 48.4 cm
Teeth count is still 16.

He rambles a lot, but who knows what he's saying. He loves dogs, cats and balls. Today we went for a quick ride on the Ducati and it looks like he likes motorcycles too!

Aren't they cute when they are sleeping :-) Barton fell asleep with these gloves that his favorite Jenny gave me.

I was in need of some kind of toy storage, so I build this entertainment center that has big drawers in it to store toys! Barton is always trying to help, whether it is with wood working, cooking, gardening or putting on my make up. Here he is trying out the drawers during the fab process...

Here's the final product! I think it looks great, just needs some decorations.

And Barton doing what he does best.

16 at 16

2011-03-26T21:56:00.000-06:00

Barton has been a teeth-a-holic. Finally at 16 months the count is 16. The 4th canine popped through and we are REALLY hoping for a break before the second set of molars decide to come in.

(Oh and yes the brown stuff all over is my eye shadow...great :-(...)

Scrapbookers

2011-02-19T09:56:00.000-07:00

Ok for all you scrapbookers, digital is the way to go. And the best/cutest place is Leslie at www.ggdigitaldesigns.com She is having a give away for a $25 gift card. So you should head over to her store and blog and sign up! yeah.

$5 challenge

2011-02-09T11:45:00.000-07:00

Yeah my $5 studio 5 project made it to the facebook display! I wish it would have made the finals...but this is second best.

So it is a picture board, that you slide onto the rows. Top and bottom rows are landscape and middle is portrait. This was Stacey's Christmas present so I don't have a shot with the pictures actually on the board.

Christmas time in NYC

2010-12-10T22:37:00.001-07:00

We found some great plane tickets to NYC and my Mom has been wanting to go for years...so we went.
Barton and I, Giz and Annie went to visit the Macy's Santa Claus, the waiting line was spectacular. It was decorated like the North Pole.

Here is Barton and Santa, too bad he's looking down :-(

Here is the Rockefeller tree, it was donated by a NY fireman from his property in upstate NY.

Here's the gang by the tree...and yep that's Dewey, he's home from Mexico. He got home late Saturday night and we flew out Wed night.

So this was cool. At Niagra Falls it was so cold that the mist from the falls froze on the trees.

Saturday Attire

2010-12-10T22:31:00.001-07:00

Here's the boys Saturday attire, hope the tigers get a bowl this year.

1 year stats

2010-12-10T22:14:00.000-07:00

Poor Barton got sick on the night of his birthday, so this is actually the morning after. However I don't think he'd know the difference :-)

At 12 months Barton was:

Length: 29", 25%

Weight: 21 lbs 3 oz, 25% (yay he can turn around in his car seat)

Head circ: 47.5 cm, 80% (Well Grandpa Barton did say that he had a 'Barton' head)

Teeth 11! (#12 came in 3 weeks after his birthday, hope we're done for a while)

Hair: Well maybe one of these days he'll start growing some.

Barton is now a proficient crawler, he gave up the army crawl at 10 months. He is also a very good supported walker, he can walk short distances by himself but is too scared to walk across the room alone. He loves to walk with the huggie box???

First Birthday Cake

2010-11-11T17:33:00.000-07:00

Here is my first attempt at a birthday cake. It looks like an old David Brown, for you tractor folks out there. That's the tractor I first learned to bale hay on when I was 9.

Road trip to ND

2010-10-22T13:25:00.001-06:00

First stop on the road trip was at Independence Rock, WY.

Here is a side shot of Crazy Horse, the carving that wasn't finished in SD.

We made it to Mt Rushmore. It was a spectacular site to see, I was surprised at how smooth the carvings looked.

Another view...

George W...

A nice old man snapped a shot of us...

Barton and Dad.

Barton playing in the rocks, it was a well needed break from the car seat.

Next stop was the famous Sturgis, wish we could have made it in time to go the motorcycle museum, maybe next time...

A herd of Buffalo on the highway in South Dakota. There was a whole lot of nothingness from Sturgis, SD to New Leipzig, ND (oh except thousands of antelope).

The old Baesler Homestead, the house is gone now, it was bought and moved in the late 70's.

The old Lutheran church, the Baeslers still keep it up. It's about 9 miles outside of New Leipzig close to the old Baesler Homestead.

On the Enchanted Highway coming back from Dickinson, there were these massive metal sculptures. This stop was of the pheasants.

On the hunt, Mace just shot one...and luckily Schorlen spotted it.

Found the bird!

Showing off the catch.

The loot... 9 birds for Mace during the trip.

Mace was sooooo excited to finally get a DUCK....he's been wanting one since he was 14.

Barton having fun with Grandpa Baesler.

Barton digging into an apple from Great-grandpa Baeslers tree.

Happy to be on the ride home...of course this was taken at the beginning on the day, 13 hours later had more screaming.

A whole lot of work, but...

2010-10-20T21:09:00.000-06:00

Well it is finally done, and it was a ton of not so fun work. But the grass is done, woot woot. Here's some pics of the progress.

This is the front of the house in the beginning.

Here's the back.

Barton and I spent quite a bit of time on ol' yeller moving 10 loads of dirt around.

Dad and Tyler thought they'd have a go at it too...

Once we dug trenches, Barton helped by eating rocks and diggin in the dirt. I put the sprinkler system in, but Dad helped with some of the nasty digging. Thanks Dad!

We finally got all the sprinklers in and trenches filled back in.

Front yard all smoothed out and ready for sod.

Here's a pic of the finished product. I liked the sprinkler flags so well I thought I'd leave them up for a while :-) Thanks to Giz, Bub and 3 awesome ladies in the neighborhood for the sod laying help!

Back yard with grass, and my sprinklers even work, SWEEEET!!!!

Well it was a lot of work, saved some $$$ and dropped a couple pounds doing it ourselves...so I guess it was worth it.

Barton is 9 mo

2010-08-11T13:47:00.000-06:00

Well today is our 3rd Anniversary and Barton is 9 mo.

Barton's Stats:
Length: 28"
Weight: 19 lb 3 oz
Head circ: 45.8 cm
Teeth count: 8!

Thanks to Bub we've got some new pics!

Rocket Test

2010-07-15T16:42:00.000-06:00

We went out to the rocket factory to watch the KEI test.

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Here is a tour of the Rocket garden.

Riding a BSM (booster separation motor-separates the booster from the space shuttle after 2 min), and ya he's riding it backwards.

Inside a booster case.

By a fullscale booster.

The goats

2010-07-15T16:33:00.001-06:00

Mace loves goats, so we went down to the Nature Center to visit Jenny's new favorite pet... goats.

I was surprised that Barton wasn't even scared of them.

30th party

2010-07-15T16:03:00.000-06:00

On May 20th Jenny and I had a combined 30th party. We had kabobs and fruit relish.
Our 30th funky cake...well atleast it tasted good.

Thanks for the hats Jenny. (Primary is now enjoying them, I wonder if the kids have noticed the numbers yet :-)

Pages of Barton

2010-05-14T11:43:00.000-06:00

Blessing will be in February!

2010-01-17T17:43:00.000-07:00

The addition

2009-11-13T17:29:00.001-07:00

Our new addition is finally here...Barton Macy Baesler (aka spike if you ask Mace). Barton was born on Nov 11 at 2 a.m. and was 7 lbs 1 oz and 20 inches long.

The story:

I went to the dr on Tuesday (Nov 10) for a final check up. Everything was looking good, except my progression (but what does that matter anyway right). We discussed if the baby didn't come on the due date how long would we let him go and we didn't want to wait too long, for given reasons. The dr called the hospital and the hospital was booked until the later the next week unless we wanted to go in that evening. At 6 pm we arrived at Mckay-Dee and we started the inducing. Baby B didn't like the drug (we thought), every time I had a contraction his heart rate would go down. They lowered the dose of the drug and that seemed to work for a time. I even had my water broke...but as time went on the fluctuating heart beat continued. Finally they took me off the drug and he still was having problems. They ran me in for an emergency c-section, which ended up being a good thing because the cord was wrapped 2 times around Barton's neck. 20 minutes later I was already stitched up and Barton was doing fine. Mace went in for the c-section and I thought for sure he'd be down on the ground, but he held it in and stayed conscious the whole time :-)

Grandma Hintze and Barton

Mom and Barton
Dad and Barton (don't judge the picture...it was 2 AM)

Hunting in ND at Grandpa Baeslers

2009-10-26T18:20:00.001-06:00

Adam's loot

Mace

Jeff, Adam, Mace and John Adam, Jeff, Wayne and Mace. All in all I think they faired pretty well.

Does this mean I'm famous. J/K

2009-08-26T21:23:00.000-06:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAqcX4GxE1Q

Ultrasound images 24 weeks

2009-07-23T16:51:00.000-06:00

10 toes
Foot profile

Still a boy

3-D images 24 weeks

2009-07-23T16:43:00.000-06:00

Side profile of the baby's face

This one looks like an alien shot

I think his hands are up by his face.

Lucious lips??? Can't be mine, must be Mace's.

2009-07-11T13:00:00.000-06:00

Louisiana over Memorial Day

We went down to Lake Charles to visit Mace's fam. We went on a swamp tour, it was pretty awesome. Lots of alligators and stuff...

Baby green herron

Blue Herron

Big momma gator...luckily if the gators are out sunning they have already eaten...good to know.

Cyprus trees

I know something you don't know...

2009-07-03T11:19:00.000-06:00

A family tradition in the Barton family is to call the aunts when some news comes up and say "I know something you don't know" and hang up. It gets everyone in a tizzy. This one made for a great laugh!!!

Port Townsend

2009-03-09T19:22:00.000-06:00

We were in Port Townsend and there was the most vibrant rainbow, it was awesome.

Road trip to Seattle

2009-03-09T19:05:00.000-06:00

1903 Wright Flyer -- History of flight museum

SR-71...sweet!

A view of the space needle from the wharf.

Pikes market, ya I wasn't fast enough to actually show them throwing that fish.

Jenny in a tree...ha ha...the trees were huge.

The hall of mosses at Hoh rain forest

The sign said a "big tree" and it was.

Yep I dragged Mace to Forks...and we found Bella's truck.

On the way to Cape Flattery, the western most point in Washington. We also met a pack of wolves...not fun.

Discovery Bay outside our condo.

We were dumb enough to buy a trial timeshare, so the week before it was due we took a trip to Seattle. We stayed at Discovery Bay by Port Townsend. It was a super cute town. We visited Pikes market, the History of flight museum, Mace's Aunt Song, Uncle Eugene and Cousin Jeff's family, the Hoh rain forest...and did a whole lot of driving.

2009-01-10T15:26:00.000-07:00

Christmas Break 08

This year some of our family went to Hawaii for the break. We spent 5 days in Kauai and 3 in Oahu.

Florida

2008-10-20T17:51:00.000-06:00

While in Florida we had some fun. We went to Adventures Island and Universal Studios, toured KSC, went on an air boat ride and saw tons of alligators (Mace felt right at home), and went on a whirlwind 1 day tour of the 4 Disney parks.

2008-10-20T17:29:00.000-06:00

I bet you thought I'd never post again. Back in May, I received an award from NASA and was able to go and see a shuttle launch down in Florida. It was pretty awesome! It was a nice clear day so we could see the shuttle for about 6 minutes. We could even see the boosters (the rockets we make at ATK) come off.

2008-05-11T09:00:00.000-06:00

Mace finally did it! He graduated with his MS in Mech Engr from the U.