We have been up to lots this summer. Some events I have posted photos for, others I have not. I am going to back track a little and post a photo or 2 from some big events of the summer. Siena continues to do great. Every day we are out and about people comment on how beautiful she is and of course we couldn't agree more.
Grandma & Grandpa Barnhart (Pooh) celebrated their 40th anniversary on June 28th. They took the whole family to Dick's Steakhouse. Bray was our photographer for the day. With one more kid to watch over it is nice that he has taken over or at least helps with camera duty. In front of my parents is the "dad" & "mom" collages that my aunt Karen made for all of us. It has photos of our them as kids. Very cool. Karen was incredibly creative and was always working on new projects to share.
July 12th- We were very sad on this day. This is from Father Lane's retirement party. Father moved to NY and will be teaching at Saint Bonaventure. He is greatly missed.
The week after Father's send off we were in Chicago. The week following Chicago was St Margaret's Festival. It was a lot of fun for everyone.
Yes, they are all wearing tie dye shirts that they made at a MOMS Club function earlier this summer. They are the official uniform of this summer Bray told me.
For $5.00 (combined) they got their hair spiked & painted red, their face painted, got to play a ton of games, got a glo stick &........
tatoos!!! Plus I won $2.00 on Big Six and Shayne did well at the poker table. We didn't win the car that they were giving away, but overall a very good day. Plus I got about 30 pictures of the boys posing together and being silly. Even after all of the excitement and sharing a bag of cotton candy the boys were great for baths & bedtime. And mass the next day was great too. Great weekend! I think that was the Sunday that a woman gave both boys a dollar and Siena $5 for being so good in church. Very sweet woman.
On July 31st we celebrated our 10 year anniversary. Anyone who knows me knows that I desperately have wanted the backyard fenced in forever. Poor Daisy needs a fenced in yard to roam freely. Well, on July 30th Shayne completed the side yard fence & gate. It is awesome! Now when Daisy sees a squirrel in the front yard she can't take off after it. I love it. Bray took this photo of us before taking off to our anniversary dinner. Thank you Katlyn for watching the kiddos. Every time we tell the kids we are going somewhere now Bray asks "Are we going to Katlyn's?"
Bray takes pictures & video of Siena in the car. Usually when we get home I check the camera to find 60 new photos of her. Bray's 2 passions...Siena & the camera.
I took this of Siena while we were at the state fair. The boys were watching wrestling so we were keeping ourselves entertained.
Tristan and Jen came to visit recently. I hate how photogenic they are, even first thing in the morning.
The other day Bray was reading Green Eggs & Ham to me upside down(so I could see the pictures) while cuddling with Siena. Bray's 3 passions... reading Green Eggs & Ham, Siena & his sharky shirt (his original summer uniform until he made his tie dye shirt)
Siena is pretty self sufficient now.
Brody is back to his silly self. It took about a whole half hour after surgery to recoup. I just can't get over his total lack of any sort of down time.
The kids cuddling up before bedtime.
Here is little Miss Siena being a cutie. She is not officially crawling but she does scoot herself all over the place. She stays on a blanket about long enough to spit up on it, then she is off and onto the carpet.
This morning we went to COSI to meet SuperWhy (from a PBS Kids show- great show-love it!). You better soak up this photo and cherish it always cause we stood in line for an hour to get it. After standing in line that whole time SuperWhy was supposed to be leaving in 10 minutes (with the line still a mile long) so we were told to "take your time, but hurry up". Nothing fancy, just the boys with SuperWhy, then we went home. Bray totally gets the whole "it's a guy in a costume" thing and I think Brody is figuring it out too so they didn't go as crazy as I thought they would. Still... it was fun. But yes, soak up this picture and remember it :-)
Tomorrow is our nephew, Zachary's baptism. Shayne is the Godfather and of course is very excited. It's always great to see all of the nephews, especially since they are all running around and playing together now. Siena will surely either get pampered or toughened up by all of her cousins. I guess time will only tell which will be the case.
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