You Gotta Love Craig's List

We picked up this little addition to the Barnes house of fun from a Craig's list member this evening. Aaron can't seem to grasp the concept of "hit it softly." Do you think a ping pong ball could break a pane of glass?

Look out Stephens! You better be practicing!

Spring Activities

So, I'm a little behind on my posting!

Alyssa's school held a Spring carnival in May. The kids had a great time. They played games to earn tokens and "buy" prizes. They had some fun activities like basketball, a cool slide, pie throwing with teacher targets, and a dunk tank. Alyssa threw a pie in the librarians face and Aaron dunked the school psychologist. (is that a bad sign?)





There was a face painting booth. Aaron opted for a snake just to creep me out I think. And while other girls were walking around with hearts and flowers, not our kid! She has her father's twisted sense of humor!
















Aaron wanted to spend the entire time on the slide.

















Last but not least, Alyssa in her softball uniform. She had a great season and can't wait for next year.

Aaron

Aaron and I went on a Kindergarten visit! He got to spend about an hour with one of the teachers while I attended a parents' meeting. We then went on a bus ride together. I thought it was all very exciting but Aaron just is not on board with the whole Kindergarten thing. He insists that he'll just go back to preschool next year! Let's hope the summer brings about a change...

The New Addition to the Family.

We have put quite a bit of web and phone time into the research of this new addition over the last couple weeks. We found a good fit in a little town called Leechburg Pennsylvania. Yes, I said Pennsylvania. If you want to know just how insane we really are take a look at the following link click here and follow the Friday afternoon family trek through the hills.



This is her mother, father and aunt. I think Aaron was more interested in the adults than the puppies. He spent more time draped over their backs than playing with the little ones.














Everyone, meet Roxy! She is a Fawn Great Dane that is 8 weeks old. She already seems to be very close to potty trained with only one accident in the house in the past two days. The girl is very spunky, playing with the neighborhood kids and already very spoiled.


















She seems to have bonded with the kids in the first fifteen minutes. Lets hope it stays that way.












Just like any other little one, there is a whole lot of sleep happening.


We hope that many of you will have the opportunity to come visit the Barnes household and meet our new little (not for long) friend.

It was Missy's idea!

You ever wonder what would happen if you put duct tape on an orangutan?

Wedding

Last weekend Eric and I went to a friend's wedding in Bethel, Maine. The kids hung out at home and had fun weekend with Grandma.

Isn't this a good looking group?!

Can you believe they are going to have another one. I thought the government would intervene after they saw Sherman was able to procreate once but I guess he slipped through the cracks.

It seems to be in the water these days we have several friends and family that are expecting.

Congratulations all!

I can't wait to fill them full of sugar, get them all wound up, full of crap and promptly return them.




Who wouldn't be scared with something like that coming at you!

Bella

As many of you already know, we lost our sweet girl on May 4th. Words can't express how much we love her and how much we miss her every day. Here are some of our favorite pictures that we wanted to share.