One of the highlights of our Ohio summer is being a part of the process of taking care of my parents garden. We missed the planting part and I can’t say we’ve done the much weeding BUT we have done some watering and we are ALL about pickin’ the goodies! I also love thinking that […]
Yes I am back. I am emotionally ready to re-engage the blog world and start catching you all up on what we have been doing. There is so much! Let’s start with a short video of our Jamaica trip! Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
Mason had his first game tonight of tball. Quite entertaining. He had some hits, some decent throw in the right direction and stopped the ball several times. He also had moments when the ball went right past him and he stood there oblivious, the time he stood on second base talking to the girl from […]
On Friday we made strawberry jam from strawberries handpicked by mom that morning. We all had aprons on and we went to town mashing them. That was definitely the kids favorite part…that and eating what they were smashing. The recipe was super easy. Just add a packet of pectin and some a lot of sugar […]
It was 100 degrees here today. We were all really hot. We are ready for Fall. Please come soon. Thanks, The Barelas
This conference has been a GREAT experience for Brian and I to experience alone. Even though we have been very busy, really tired, missing the kids, sleeping on an air mattress in our friends living room floor it has been like a second honeymoon for us. We have LOVED our time together. It has been […]
We’ve been in Ocean City for almost 6 weeks now. We will be leaving 2 weeks from Friday for part 2 of our summer- Ohio “vacation”. I am starting to get the itch to move on to the next weeks but my favorite things are still yet to come! This week is my favorite theme […]
On Fridays we have the entire day off. We spent the first half of the day at the FREE (love that) Cape May zoo. All 3 kids loved it. The girls are adding more and more words to their vocabulary and animal sounds too! We had a great time as a family. Afterwards we went […]
This summer we have seen a new side of Miss K. She is an extrovert as we have known but she is a performer! Once she feels comfortable with her “audience” she goes to town! She dances, pretends like she falls, plays chase, tickles, sings, acts silly to get a laugh out of anyone. And […]
On Friday Brian and I went to NYC for the day. We got a babysitter for the WHOLE day, drove with some friends the 2 hours to the city and had a blast! It’s been 9 years since we were both last in the city. But this is was our first time experiencing it together. […]