End of summer highlights...

Fun with sweet little Sleigh Bell Sodie

Holding the cute "terrifying" kittens

Eating grapes in the backyard with Fred

Luke's first day of preschool!

Annual Labor Day Barker Boat Fest! We all had a blast! Enjoyed some nice weather (thankfully :)), good food, relaxation, a little fishing (Luke's favorite), a lot of tubing!!!, crusin' on the boat (Ava's favorite, "Faster Rice King! Go faster!"), and tons of fun with the fam! Thanks sooo much Domma Barkers and Rice!

Drivin' the boat with Rice!


All Avie wanted to do was cruise fast in the boat. She loved the wind blowing in her face and after we wrapped her up in a blanket (because she was covered in goosebumps) she fell fast asleep...sitting up.


Luke & Ava got the last tube ride of the day...just the two of them! They enjoyed every minute of it!

Happy Birthday Little Ava!

"I just love you so much." - a favorite little Ava quote.

We just love her so much. She is a sweetheart. Her big cheeser grin just makes you happy.

At three she is in love with horses, kitties, dogs, babies, bugs."Wookie" (Luke), Uncle "Stotty", "Katewyn", "Yaura" (Laura), oooh baby Thomas, her grandparents, Emmy, anything pink, chocolate, princesses, pirates, loves to draw, sing, play in the dirt, dance (wow...the dancing!?!), and do eeeverything by "myself".

Wonderful Magical Disneyland Fun!!!

So I am finally getting around to putting our Disneyland trip on here. We had the most wonderful time! Today while I was picking out some of the maaany pictures to post :) Luke sat down on my lap and started looking at them with me. He would laugh at some, and say "ooh, yeah, that was so cool, 'member that!" to others. Then he just got up and walked away and said, "Mom, I can't look at those pictures anymore, they're making me kinda sad." Cute little Bones. It is kind of sad to look back at good times when life was only about having fun. But I don't think it would be quite as fun if that was all we did all the time....well...maybe it would still be just a little bit fun. :) Thanks Papa John and Domma Patsies! We had the time of our lives! Let's do it again...soon.

We drove to Vegas and stayed at the awesome Stratosphere. We got a free pass to go up to the top and look out at the amazing view!

The next day we drove to the beach. Had a great time!

Later that night we met up with everyone at the Rainforest Cafe for Jeremy's Birthday dinner.

And then in the morning..... YOU GUYS READY TO GO TO DISNEYLAND!!!

Of course that was right after scarfing down breakfast.

We're in!

These two were unstopable! I think they rode on just about everything! Katelyn even went on Screamin'!

Luke and Jeremy going on Tower of Terror! Holy smokes!!

Ava and Papa John making a wish in Snow Whites magic wishing well.

The whole family together on our last ride on Pirates.

These guys all had so much fun together.

A Few Halloween Decorating Ideas

So I have nothing better to do with the 45mins I have to wait for my last batch of canned tomatoes to be done. At midnight. Well, I guess you can usually find me up this late most nights. It's just not as much fun being a night owl when you have to. Anyway, thought I'd throw in a little post while I wait.

Is anyone else blown away by the fact that is almost OCTOBER!!! Holy smokes! It really crept up on me. I've gotta dig out my Halloween "scaries" and do some creep-a-fying asap. Usually I'm totally jumping the gun to get summer over with and on with the most wonderful time of year, HALLOWEEN! But this year I think I just haven't had time to catch up with everything. It's been a really fast/fun summer. Here are a few photos from our vacation to kind of help give us all some nice decorating tips for the season. Eeenjoy! Boohaha!!
And if you can pull of a few of these awesome looks in your own home you just might get this response. :)




This was on Pirates. Ava's favorite ride. :) Look at those eyes!!! More pictures of our trip to follow soon I promise. I've got to go to bed now, the stove timer went off like 20mins ago.

Why can't we just have more days like this?

It's so hard coming back home to real life.