Our guest bath is mostly complete. We have hand towels that are being embroidered for the towel rack, and I am going to spray paint the gold frame in the second picture, silver.
For the den, we decided on brown. This will be transformed into our movie room this fall, and we wanted a darker color to help make the room more movie friendly!
On Sunday we drove near Houston to be with Bryon's mother for her 60th birthday. My in laws are friends with a car dealer in Houston who has a car museum with hundreds of cars from the first cars to current ones. All three of my boys were very impressed! Matthew took over 200 pictures at the museum!
Here is Mimi with her 6 grandchildren:
Her four grand daughters:
And her three children:
And here is a car that retails for 2 million dollars! I could think of a lot better ways to spend 2 million dollars!
This week was Baylor basketball camp. Thomas went for 4 hours each day and learned more about one of his favorite games. Five or six of our star players participated in the camp as well, and were so sweet with the kids! In the first picture, the man on the left is one of our best players, Quincy Acy. Our announcer at the games referred to him as "Quinnnncyyyyyy Aaaaaacyyyy!" in a very deep voice. Mary Beth loves to copy the announcer and she did her impression for Quincy, which he loved!
The boys with Anthony Jones.
Matthew was star struck to meet Tweety Carter. He just stared at him for the longest time and said, "So, how was it being in the NIT championship?" It sort of reminded me of the Chris Farley sketch with Paul McCartney! Tweety talked to Matthew for a long time, and I am so grateful that these players were so kind to some of their biggest fans!
Thomas making his 10 foot shot!
Matthew has been looking forward to going to church camp for the past two years. The kids are gone for 5 days. I love seeing him so excited! He packed everything himself, and got a huge grin on his face when he talked about camp. I am so excited to hear how things went, and I find myself wondering what his is doing often during the day. A few days before he left, we said something like we would miss him over the Fourth of July. Once Thomas heard he was going to be gone over the holiday, he burst into tears not wanting his brother to be gone. It was such a sweet moment, and it is nice to know how much Thomas looks up to Matthew. Thomas was very teary the day he left, but we assured him we would have lots of fun with him being the oldest Barnhill kid in the house!
Matthew joking asked if his large back pack made his bottom look big!
Thomas got quite the rep on his baseball team for taking his shirt off in practice. He thought it made him run faster, and cooled him down. The child is very proud of his burly physique, and the kids always cheered when he took his shirt off! It came as no surprise that midway though the game, the shirt came off and lots of belly rolls insued. Sweet Thomas makes me laugh constantly!
Thomas is doing the "Byrd" before Marlon Byrd went up to bat. All the fans "flap their wings" for one of our star players!
Another exciting event this week was Mary Beth's swimming lessons. Mary Beth is a lot like me, and is very easily motivated by presents! ;) It was so important to me that she learn how to swim without floaties, that I told her she could pick out any toy at Toys R Us if she learned how to swim this week. In three days, she went from not wanting to stick her head in to swimming! As soon as she touched the other side of the pool, she squealed, "TOY!" She now has a new Disney Princess tent! Money well spent!
Matthew joking asked if his large back pack made his bottom look big!
After we dropped off Matthew, we headed up to Arlington to watch our number #2 Rangers play the #1 ranked LA Angels with some of Thomas's friends from his baseball team. Before the game, Thomas and Mary Beth got to meet Elvis Andrews (who had stolen 4 bases the night before) and Darren O'Day, who is one of the pitchers.
Thomas got quite the rep on his baseball team for taking his shirt off in practice. He thought it made him run faster, and cooled him down. The child is very proud of his burly physique, and the kids always cheered when he took his shirt off! It came as no surprise that midway though the game, the shirt came off and lots of belly rolls insued. Sweet Thomas makes me laugh constantly!
Also, midway though the game, Mary Beth became quite bored! I think I heard the most dramatic, "I'm BORED!!" 30 times. She then said, "I DEFINITELY love God more than baseball players!" Good to know, Dear. Once Hank Blalock hit a homerun and the fireworks blasted, she became the worlds biggest Rangers fan, and screamed, "Hit a home run!" before each batter! She got to see one more fireworks display when Blalock hit his second walk off home run! What a fun game!
Thomas is doing the "Byrd" before Marlon Byrd went up to bat. All the fans "flap their wings" for one of our star players!
"Yeah for fire works!"
Another exciting event this week was Mary Beth's swimming lessons. Mary Beth is a lot like me, and is very easily motivated by presents! ;) It was so important to me that she learn how to swim without floaties, that I told her she could pick out any toy at Toys R Us if she learned how to swim this week. In three days, she went from not wanting to stick her head in to swimming! As soon as she touched the other side of the pool, she squealed, "TOY!" She now has a new Disney Princess tent! Money well spent!
Always stopping to pose at the other end of the pool! What a ham!
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The new colors in your house look beautiful! Looks like you guys have been having a great summer~ I can't believe it is half over (!). Kelly S.
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