let's see, now what card game would this be...

got a beautiful dress while spending a week with Aunt Marsha and Uncle Dave

baptised by Allen Legier, youth pastor

a Barlow clan group shot, Rachael's near the middle, standing

Barlow, Williams, and Ingram cousins

Ah, those dreaded braces

great fun on the mission trips with church youth

Rachael enjoyed church dramas

Advertising a play for kids at the church halloween carnival

some wild church youth at our house

  some more wild church youth

did I mention she could really ham things up?

friends are important

here she's expertly holding her cousin Amy's baby.  for a while in her life, Rach claimed to not want children.  as you can tell in this pic, those of us who knew her, knew better.  after pursuing the Lord so intensely, she came to realize her true worth in God's eyes, her realization that, because of this God-given worth, there would be a good and godly man who, someday, would be her mate, instead of just any ol' guy, and that she wanted to have children and be the warm, loving, nurturing and godly mom she didn't end up with.  but one of the sad things about her death is that she did not have the chance in this life to break the cycle of the neglect and harmful maternal treatment she suffered, endured and, eventually, overcame.  Rachael is such an overcomer.

chum megan

oh yeah, she can ham it up, all right

the senior prom and her t-bird...the car wasn't new but she made the payments on it, folks...Rachael was a hard worker

those wild and crazy Barlow women