Head Shots, Hot Shots and Heart Shots

Aye, yai, yai my girls are crazy.

Last night Greer curled Reese's hair, picked a dress out of her closet

and set outside in the heat for a full on photo shoot.

 Reese turns 11 next week and

the girls figured she needed to make her "eleven year old debut".

 So enjoy--

Reese's posing

And Greer's mad photo skills.

The three Barkettes' headed off to Camp Rainbow Gold's Sibling Camp

this morning.

They are gone about a week.

 Wow, is it ever going to be quiet around here.

Black Magic

Zany might be the word for the day.

Byron went in to give Reese a hug goodbye before he 

left for work this morning.  As he stuck his arm

under and around her pillow-- he found this-- a metal spoon.

Reese was pretty groggy but Greer was happy to answer

his question as to "WHY?".

(Because, if truth be told, she had one under her pillow too).

Evidently, they somehow got it into their heads that if they "kissed

a spoon and slept with it under their pillows" -- today would be declared

a snow day (no school).

Um, didn't quite work.

But, seriously, where do they get this black magic stuff?

We about died laughing.

Kean got to wear pajamas to school today.

I'm certain as I changed him out of the pajamas he slept

in-- into another pair of pajamas, he thought I was crazy.

It was Polar Express day in his class--

and look at this cute picture his aid sent me of

the boy with the conductor.

A Little Snow and A Little Surgery

We had a little weekend escape up to the mountains

and Lake Cascade.  Here's our view from the cabin--

gorgeous, just gorgeous.

 I don't think the Barker's can do boring.

Reese let Greer bury her in snow (for 40 minutes-- she swears

she was cozy warm)-- all on a dare.

 Everyone went out for an afternoon of snow mobiling.

Byron took Kean for about twenty minutes.

 The girls (and our friends the Borup's) were on other sleds...

 Kean LOVED every minute of the "cold" snow cycle ride.

And let me tell you, he was one unhappy puppy when

I took him back to the cabin for a nap while the rest of the gang

went on a snow mobile adventure.

 You know it was a good trip when the kids come back to 

our home and we find them snuggling on the couch- out cold.

By the way, we have a big week this week.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) Kean has all of his monthly

testing at the hospital to make sure that evil cancer stays away.

And then on Thursday, it is surgery time.

He is getting the port taken out of his chest.

Big, big day.