A day at the Children's Museum

Melissa and Jenny took the the kids to the Cincinnati Children's Museum for a day of fun. Here are a couple pictures of the fun the kids had.

Barker Family Fun Day!

Barker Family Fun Day started out with a bike ride to the Bastille Day Festival in Downtown Montgomery. This was our first time going so we were not sure what to expect. 

The kids got to play in a big bouncy house and ride ponies! Ethan is showing his ride-em cowboy pose. There were plenty of games there for kids and they got to show us their strength by blowing up some balloons for a prize. The prize was a whistle, that was not annoying one bit.  Then the kids found the clowns that were making balloon animals. Elaine got a bear riding a unicycle and Ethan got a hat, but he did not want his picture taken for some reason with the hat on.

After lunch at the European Cafe and a nice bike ride home, we moved on to the St. Cecelia Festival. The kids babysitters work at this festival so we thought it would be fun to stop in for a couple hours. Well, we forgot to see what time it opened and we were a hour early. So, we decided to hit the stores in Oakley. First, we went to King Authur's Court Toy Store. The kids had a blast and wanted EVERYTHING in the store. We did walk out empty handed.

Then we moved next door to Aglamesis Brothers Ice Cream Parlor where Ethan and I shared a chocolate milkshake and Jenny and Elaine shared a Ice Cream Sundae. Elaine came up with this idea all by herself to get the last bit of the ice cream out of the bowl!

With another stop at a book store, we finally made it to the St. Cecelia Festival. The kids loved all the rides and the games. I think they rode each ride 2 or 3 times and played every childrens game there! Too bad it was really hot or we would have stayed longer. We came home with plenty of festival toys; balloons, Chinese yo-yo's, whoopee cushions, bouncy balls, sticky hands, inflatable butterflies and much much more. If you haven't noticed, Ethan found his old baby sunglasses and wanted to wear them all day long on top of his head and refused to take them off. Even when he went to bed...

We're SWIMMERS & JUMPERS!

The kids have taken on swimming this summer with a passion. They do not want to get out of the water. They have learned how to jump in from the side of the pool. They got a little daring last night a Lizzy's house and jumped in from the diving board! They could do this for hours! The never ending loop of jumping in the pool, swimming to the side and starting all over again.  They slept great last night!

Another Camping Trip!!

More S'mores and Glow in the dark Toys!

Amelia's Baptisim

George and Elaine holding hands walking to the church

Amelia getting Baptized.

Uncle Timmy coaxing Ethan to make funny faces.

Parents and God Parents of Amelia

Ethan and Henry playing at the water table

FIREWORKS!!!!!

Uncle Timmy and Donny set off some small fireworks in the backyard so that we could see some up close. The best part was later that night, we found out that we would see the Red, White and Blue Ash fireworks display from the end of the street. The kids were ready to go to bed but we let them stay up to see them. They loved it!

4th of July Weekend Part 1

George takes turns driving Ethan and Elane around the backyard..

Ethan not so patiantly waiting his turn!

Phillip comes over to play!

While Melissa and Amelia ran some errands, Phillip came over to play.

The kids got to eat lunch on the patio, they loved it!