Friday Update from Mom/Grandma

Good Morning, everyone! I am a little handicapped with my left hand out of commission, but I'll try to do the best I can. Wednesday afternoon, of course, I had the carpal tunnal surgery. It went very well. Didn't feel a thing this time. It was so nice!! Yesterday Grandpa had a bone scan, but, haven't heard back from that yet. They all have asked if he fell sometime and hurt his hip, and he certainly has, so don't know what all that will mean. Will update when we find out. It is sunny here today, but, still chilly. Was frosty this morning, but, supposed to warm up a little today. I think one of my flowers froze last night. That is alright because I'm getting tired of going out to water them all the time. Aren't I lazy???? We certainly enjoyed having Sarina and her friend, Sally, with us last week for a few days. Was awful quiet when they were gone again on Sunday. The leaves are soooo beautiful right now and I asked Grandpa if he would take a picture for me, but, haven't seen one yet. Guess he needs a camera to do it tho, doesn't he????Just hate to think of all the leaves that have to fall on the ground, and be picked up again. Sounds like work to me!! Out neighbor is pretty good about picking them up with his mower, so hopefully he will do it again this year. Must close for now. Have a good week everyone!! Love to all, Grandma

From Denice

Hello everyone! I am finally able to get on this blog deally bop and tell you all my life story. This is a wonderful way for me to communicate with my princess trainees. I can post advise and lessons right here.......on a daily basis! This is going to be soooooo much fun. But enough about princess stuff..... It is Saturday afternoon and the love pups are sleeping here in the kitchen while I type this important information. Rich is working today. Meagan is off babysitting today. And Jamie is in Flagstaff for the weekend with Kendra and her family. I have the entire house to myself. I love when that happens. I am waiting for the Directv guy to call and tell me he is on his way to install our new boxes. We are adding DVR to our package. I think we will really like it once we have it. There are always shows I would like to record and now I can do that. I'm going to bake a Devil's food chocolate cake for small group tonight. I was going to buy dessert but changed my mind when I saw that I had the cake mix in my cupboard. The Directv guy just showed up. That's cool. He's busy doing his thing now so I will finish typing here. I don't have a whole lot to tell other than we are all good and so happy to finally have cooler weather. The morning and evening are just awesome. I usually sit out in the back yard with the dogs an hour in the morning and about an hour again at night. When it really gets cold in the evenings we will fire up our little mini fire pit and roast marshmallows and have S'mores. Are your mouths watering yet?? I'm going to go for now and will post more later since I know how to do this now. Love to all, Denice

Friday morning update!

It is a chilly, sunny morning. Was 38 degrees earlier, but, warming up as the day goes on. We have been enjoying Sarina & Sally being here with us since Wednesday. We had several of the family here last night for dinner (supper) and that was a good time. Served 2 chicken casseroles, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, cole slaw, applesauce, rolls and cookies and oreo fluff. It was all very good tasting and much of it was finished off. Glad for that. Have some of one casserole left, which we will have for lunch today. We are doing quite well, even tho busy running to doctors to try to get some help for Donald. We are really thinking it is a "fruitless mission" but, the doctors seem to think they might be able to help somehow. Time will tell. I plan to have my left hand operated on for carpal tunnel next Wednesday (23rd). Hope it works as good as the first one did. Must go. Will talk later.

News from the "Tickle Bug"

We will see how this goes! I have today off as I usually do on Wednesdays, but it is a dreary day. Boo-hoo! I will probably have to run to town to pick up tires for my husband to put on a vehicle he is working on. He also mentioned that I could come out and install a thermostat on a vehicle, but I haven't decided yet whether I am qualified. I am looking forward to seeing my nieces tomorrow night. I hope everyone arrives safely! Too bad you girls couldn't come home at the same time. I've never heard of a college having a fall break before. Of interest, I was on a local "Radiothon" for Breast Cancer Awareness Month last week Tuesday. They asked me to share my story and then promote mammograms and early detection. This is the 2nd time I have done this for them. It's always a little nerve racking but I tend to settle in and feel more comfortable once I get started talking. It's weird to know that hundreds of people could be listening to you but you can't see them! Our whole family is doing well right now as far as I know. I need to get busy with other things now, but hope to see several of you tomorrow night! Love, The Tickle Bug (you know who I am)

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

We went to S.S. & Church this morning.  Pastor Jeriah had a good sermon too.  He preached from Psalm 1 and tonight he will be doing Acts 2, I think.  That is if he got finished with Acts 1 last week.  We weren't there then.
I'd sure like to see something from other family members.  You will get really sick of just me on here all the time.
The weather again is just beautiful.  We mowed the lawn yesterday and it looks like springtime.  Green as can be.  Thankful for the rains we have been getting.  Now, the acorns from our neighbors tree are falling on our driveway.  He (the neighbor) pretty well cleaned them off yesterday, but, can't tell it today.  Some little girls came and each  took a half trashbag home with them.  Bet their mothers were thrilled with that!!Maybe they will return later, who knows??  At least the squirrels are having lots of fun burying them for the winter.  I don't know how they remember where they planted them, but, they sure do.  Pretty smart little creatures.
We are doing fine.  Time to read my book for a while, then a nap.  Good bye for now.  Grandma/Mom

We had a busy day running to the doctor again!!  Dad went to see Dr. Matthes about his hips hurting and they want him to have an MRI to see for sure what is going on.  It is scheduled for Monday, the 14th and goes back to see the doctor on Friday, the 18th.  We'll see what that shows, but, they were pretty sure he didn't need hip replacement - yet.
I went to see Dr. Hon about doing my left hand carpal tunnel.  It is scheduled for the 23rd.  I told him I could feel it last time and he said he would make sure I didn't feel a thing this time.  We'll see about that!!  Hope he is right!  I have to have my pre-op physical and I'm going to see Diane here in Monroe for that, next Tuesday.  The rest of next week looks pretty open.
Anna, I was so sorry to hear the children were sick.  I surely hope they are feeling better and trust you and the family can come see us some other time before long.  We sure enjoyed Micah's birthday party.  He is such a cutie!!  And Payton is growing up soooooo fast.  School has certainly made her blossom.
Haven't seen too many new blogs on here.  I look every day to see what's new, so better get started real soon everyone.  Looking forward to seeing Sarina and Stephanie next week sometime.  Bye for now!

I HAVE THE DAY OFF TODAY!!  I thought I would write something before Matt and I leave to go to my favorite shopping place here - Jordan Creek.
We actually have good news on the horizon - we have another interested party in our house.  So hopefully soon through either renting or buying we will have some relief there.  This only means that we get to make a trip down and unload the rest of the house which is still quite a bit - actually there is probably still enough stuff there to actually furnish a small home for someone - just no food.  We will be going down on the 21st through the 22nd and getting hopefully everything else out if anyone wants to join us please speak now.
I have been wondering where everybody elses news pieces are at?  Takes a while to get used to it I guess.  We are looking forward to the girls and one of their friends coming home next week for fall break and also Eric called me at 4:30 on tuesday morning and is at Mount Fuji still and will be going to Tokyo on the 13th for some free time - he is excited about that.  Will be leaving over there on December 8th and wants us to drive his camaro out to North Carolina to be there when he gets back from this deployment.  We are considering that and then flying back home possibly with him.  We will all be glad to see him again - seems like it has been short of forever.  He is getting the opportunity to see places he may never see on his own.  Well, better get ready for some SHOPPING!
Hope everyone is doing well - Love you, Delana

Good Morning, everyone!

Thought I'd try to get on here by myself again this morning, and, guess what?????  I finally succeeded.  Thought I was going to have to call Delana again, but, determination finally won out!!  Hurray!!  I'm doing some laundry and baking some bars to take to Bible Study tonight.  I volunteered the first night and hopefully have it done for a while.  Our group just keeps growing.  Praise the Lord for that!  Could have as many as 20 come if they would all come at once.  I'm planning for that many anyway.  Have a good day.  Mom/Grandma  P.S.  This is sooooo much fun.  Thank you Sarina, for thinking of this.

Can't wait to put the snowmen out!!  Grandpa will be thrilled to pieces when they reappear.  Well, I've learned how to something new.  So proud of myself!!  Grandma

I have been very frustrated trying to get this blog right.  Delana and Shawn came and she got me all set up, so now "be prepared for the news of your life!!"  Not right now because we are going to go eat dinner.  Hope you are all having a good week end.  Delana forgot about a meeting, so they did not go to kc.  Mom/Grandma/ Great Grandma

Hello everyone - we are getting ready to make a trip to kc and do a little cleaning up at the house to get  ready for a family to rent the house.  More news later.

My Life in a Nutshell

Hey Family!

        How are you all doing? Is this blog thing a great idea on Sarina's part or what? I hope you are all doing well. Thought I would post a little update on my life. Sophomore year is going well thus far...for the most part. Hahaha classes, as was expected, are getting much harder. However, I am trucking through. Have no fear, fall break is near! I will be home in two short weeks and I cant wait!
 
       So, I assume word has got out about Mr. Ryan. Well, he is just peachy these days. He is still adjusting to the life of a cool college kid but he is slowly but surely getting the hang of it. He seems to be enjoying his time at the University of Iowa more and more as the semester goes so that's definitely a plus! I am getting pretty excited to see him again over fall break as well as some of you!

      Anyway, I cant wait to see all of your lovely posts and hear about everything going on in your lives. Thinking about you all a lot lately as fall break approaches and I will hopefully get to see some of you. Love and miss you all. Hope you have a great weekend!

-Stephanie Renee

2/3rds of the Barr Family Together!

Here is the picture from Stephanie's Birthday Party on Saturday!
Hope all is well with everyone!

It looks like mom had success in posting.
Let me know if anyone has any troubles seeing the blog or posting.
 

-SB

This is a test to see if I know how to do this or not.  I am trying to get some cookies baked for our wednesday night activities so need to get going, but will post more later.  So anxious to see if this really works.
Hope this brief note finds everybody doing well.

Mom & Dad visit OK

Hey Family,

Here is our new BLOG! So we can stay in touch better since we are all spread across the nation..... well... that might be an exaggeration I suppose. You can check this whenever you like and you can post on here whenever and whatever (updates, pics etc) you like.

So here is the first post from me. Can't wait to hear from you!

This past weekend... Mom and Dad came down and visited Steph and I in Oklahoma!
It was a SUPER fun weekend. We were sure to go to Mom's favorite OK store, called Ross, and us ladies enjoyed some shopping there while Dad 'explored' around Shawnee. We went swimming at the hotel pool a few times, ordered pizza and of course watched the Series Finale of Breaking Bad (Dad's only request during the weekend). It was a nice relaxing weekend with part of the family together.

On Saturday night, we threw a surprise birthday party for the birthday girl! It was CandyLand Theme so everyone wore bright colors and her friends AND family were able to celebrate with her in Oklahoma! We had Grandma & Grandpa on skype so they can be in on the surprise as well. And might I say Grandpa was looking pretty classy in a striped gray shirt and grandma in a pink shirt! Steph enjoyed her party and got silly stringed multiple times by her friends!!

Here is a picture of the birthday girl and me from a few weeks ago at a Talent Show, called Biggie, at OBU. She were matching with the color schemes, hm? Sister intuition I guess. (I have a picture from when Mom and Dad visited but don't have access to it now so I will upload it later).

Mom and Dad are back in Iowa doing their thing. And reality has set back in for Steph and I. She has had a lot of chemistry and biology lab work so far this week. She is trooper with the workload she has this semester! My exams and papers set in next week so I'm trying to prep this week. I'm writing a paper over Women's Submission in Marriage so if you all have any thoughts.. I'm all ears!! :)

Anywho... I'm excited about this blog and keeping up to date with you all a little better!

Can't wait to hear from you all!

Love Sarina