The Barnes Family Blog

The Endeavour Space Shuttle was being transported to its resting place in LA. The space shuttle was able to be seen around Southern California. Since I was at school, my mom took the girls to see Adrian at work.  They were able to see the Endeavour being flown by! This was so great for Jillian because she says that she wants to be an astronaut when she grows up. 🙂  We just happen to have these great astronaut helmets. I bought these a few weeks back… Jillian was scaring me by putting a plastic bag over her stuft animals saying it was it’s space helmet. I decided it was time to buy one for her so that a plastic bag never becomes hers or Olivia’s helmet.

 

 

This picture was taken at dinner that night. Olivia was demonstrating how the space shuttle piggy-backed on the larger airplane 🙂

 

Adrian, the girls and I traveled down to San Diego on Labor Day. We met up with our friends Felix and Amanda and spent a fun day in the sun!

  

During the heat wave, Jillian and I decided to make caramel apples for the first time. Haha needless to say it was quite hot in the kitchen. Our caramel apples did not turn out the greatest, haha I kinda made everything up as I went and the caramel was just too hard. Oh well, haha, it was an experience!

  

Working full time doesn’t always give me time to get out with the girls. Luckily the weather has been very nice on the weekends 🙂

The family and I (minus the girls) took a trip to New York for the week of Fourth of July! It was fantastic! We definitely classified this as a trip, not a vacation! We were non stop moving from morning to night.  Our hotel was located in the heart of Times Square which was so much fun!  We saw everything on the “tourest to do list” haha. It was a jammed packed week!

My good friend Lacey was also inNew York, studying at the Teacher’s College of Columbia, (She’s getting her second Master’s!!!) She was the reason this trip was put into motion. Adrian and I met up with Lacey for the fireworks show. Unfortunately, we were directed in the wrong direction and we ended up smooshed between two large buildings with a very limited view of the fireworks. It was so ridiculously hot due to it being summer and the fact that we were packed like sardines! It’s still fun to say that we were in New York on the Fourth of July!

Off we go!

 View from our hotel

Exploring the city: Central Park  

Museum Day

Subway Adventures

Little Italy

China Town

911 Memorial

Fourth of July Fireworks

More Subway Adventures

Statue of Liberty/Elis Island

Empire State Building

Best Korean Lunch!

Heading back home

Jillian made Adrian a card and filled in a survey at school. It was very cute!  For Father’s day Adrian wanted to take a nap 🙂 so we let him haha.