Aidan the Astronaut

Aidan has been excited about his lessons about space exploration. This is a book he made:
***i am trying the blogger app to post this and I think it scrambled all the pictures up. Update - pictures were not in order so I had to reorder them.  Usually I don't think it would matter but this time it was a book so I had to fix it.

 

 Isn't he adorable? He also had a real astronaut from NASA come to the school.  They talked about space, got to see real items that were on a spaceship and she gave each of them a coloring book!  He was so excited.  Now that Obama has cut the space program....well, we won't get into polotics on this sweet little post. ;)

Life is funny.

sunrise in Florida from my back porch

I was reading one of my posts from just a year and a half ago speaking of the winds of change.  How we were trying to decide where we needed to be in life and where the Lord would lead us.  It lead us home to Orem and we really loved every minute of it.  More than I enjoyed it the first time I lived there!  I got to really know some people that I didn't know before - at least not really, and now I am having a hard time living without them.  And met some more people that I just can't see how my life was ever complete until I met them.
And then the winds of change came again.  I know that they were partially self-inflicted this time - we moved closer to my parents...but I am not sure that they really were.  Sometimes the Lord intends for us to go somewhere for a purpose - I am not sure what that purpose is yet.  I know that things are different.  I know that some days I really enjoy being here and some days it is hard to be here.  I miss my friends terribly and wish that this place and that place were closer together.  But I am resolute in finding out what the Lord has in store for us.  I find solace in the beauty of the place that I am right now.  I am amazed by the natural beauty that surrounds me and hope that I can soak up as much as possible while I am here.  You never know when the winds of change may decide to pick up again.

Family Pics by Michael Lloyd Photography

I am really excited to present to you the 2011 Barnard Family pics - these were taken by one of our bestest friends ever - Michael Lloyd.  You totally need to check out his work at www.michaellloydphotography.com because he is the bomb dot com.  We had never, ever gotten family photos professionally and he made it wonderfully fun and got me through some rough picture stage freight. :) We love him to the moon and back.  So here goes nothing....some of my absolute favs!

The fav-fav hanging large and proud on our wall.

I love the fall colors here!

Andrew

Andrew

Colton

Colton

 Cannon

Cannon

Cali

Cali

Aidan

Aidan

Right before sunset

The Girls

The boys

When I said it was on like Donkey Kong...I meant it.

So blogging hasn't really worked out for me that well.  I don't know if I just have consistency issues or what.  Ok, I totally have consistency issues, let's be honest.  ;) BUT it is a new year and a new adventure and I don't want to miss out on everything that we are experiencing.  I think that it would be horrible of me not to document some of these great memories - so here goes the blog again....