We enjoyed a great night at the ball game with our church group!

The Dragons almost came back, a couple times...

A life well lived. An example to us all.

2016-05-28 Remembering Ralph Bowman Barton 

Pastor Bruce Barker

Live by conviction and bring it to completion. 

Randy Barton

Pain became peace, faith became sight. 

Sheriff Dar Leaf

Facing death knowing it was the light at the end of the tunnel. 

Integrity and strength. The strongest man I ever knew. 

Pay it forward 

When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. 

It takes a second to say, "I love you". It takes a life time to prove it. 

Pastor Dave Deets

Scripture: read it, preach it, live it. 

Ralph: The doctors tell me there's nothing more they can do. "Hey, I get to go home to glory!" :)

A beautiful setting to remember my uncle

Julie's newest kitchen gadget...

...and, yes, it really "fires"!

Andy decided even his trainer butterfly knife was a little too pointy. ;)

So he rounded it down a bit more.

I like taking my boys out for dinner one on one.

Celebrating the completion of 8th grade!

Julie's Mother's Day present finally arrived.

Most girls would want the orchids. My girl wants an orchid mantis with her flowers! That's part of why I married her. ;)

Si messing around! :)

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We all enjoyed the NRA show, this weekend. Especially Andy.

He enjoyed booth after booth of taxidermy. This is his rattle snake skin, he bought!

You can see all the pictures here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwbarton/albums/72157666241392714

We had a weekend away with the boys. They dubbed this the "green eggs and ham sandwich". :)

Julie says she's sorry but Shadow won't let her fold any more laundry...

Now Andy's setting micro-scale photos...

Oh boy... Andy's started his own blog.

Where did he get that idea?

Johnny and I enjoyed breakfast together this week.

Nothing like a kitty friend to keep you company on a cool evening. :)

Not one, but two animals crawled into my lap, during our family Bible study, last night.

They're slowly deciding I'm not so bad... ;)

A place for all his Metal Earth! :)

...So he cut them, sanded them, and put them up.

He had a little direction and help from me. It was all his idea and planning too. :)

Andy wanted some more shelves in his room....

Andy rediscovering the joys of radio waves last night

He received a free am/fm radio at a grand opening. He was having fun pulling in signals from all over. He realized his body and the screen improved the gain on the radio's antenna.

Bats AND gummy worms! It's shaping up to be a great VBS, this year!

Someone's been taking "selfies" on my phone...

I think the perpetrator was caught in the frame too...

Andy took a really cute picture of shadow

So, I'm telling Andy good night and he spontaneously comes up with this little gem...!

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I had a blowout! Zach and Isaac would be proud of my fix! :)

Andy and I decided to put my leg to the test tonight! :)

So far, so good!

What a cute collection!

A little heated competition with my college buddy.

I beat him, but his team beat mine. Haha.

Andy comes up with some of the coolest ideas!

When dinosaurs ruled the earth!

Some of Andy's metal earth he bought with birthday money. Creative composition! :)

I caught Andy snuggling and playing with shadow…

Andy's first micro paintings. Lighter, Beetle, and Goku

That's Johnny's iTunes gift card in the background.

Packing them in at Awana. They keep adding 100 chairs every year, and it's never enough!

The boys both served leader roles, in Awana, this year.

That's Johnny at the base of the pillar/arch while his Sparks get their awards. Andy worked in the office. I'm proud that both of them were so willing to help!

Andy's added a new technique. Micro painting!

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Shadow, cute but up to no good!

She was actually features on my companies home page l, this week, as CogneKitty!

Andy's 13th birthday party videos antics!

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Let the birthday weekend begin!

You can see all the fun of Andy's 13th birthday party here: https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/dwbarton/sets/72157667218585600/

I won a "cowbell" - a coveted award, at work this last week.

Best overall presentations and test scores. :)

Johnny gives a yoyo demonstration for home school

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