C&C

It's been fun having Cam and Cailey home this summer. Lots of games, good food and laughs, and we get to keep it going all year. 

Camden likes to blog like I do. He liked reading the one I did as he got older and so he started one for him and Cailey. It's fun to read his life through his eyes. (https://thebarnescc.blogspot.com/)

They went to the fair. Camden is a homebody like Brad and I; Cailey likes to get out a bit more, but Cam is a good husband and goes. Does he complain...maybe it's the thought that counts? 

They spent the evening at the fair. Cailey saw lots of animals (Cam didn't want his allergies to go crazy). She loved the chicks. They weren't sure, one poo-ed on her. 

She even milked a cow after seeing other ones too. 

Cam HATED heights as a little kid, but they went on the Faris wheel and he did well. He maybe was a little nervous. 

They also floated the river. 

Since they were here the first day of college, we made them a candy gram too. It started this past Monday and so far so good. 

Cam and Cailey, I know it wasn't your 'Fantasy' to have the school year living with us, but you have to 'b-ready' for anything. Two more years and you'll be making 'cheddar', but right now you will just have to keep cooking up some 'mmm' tasty food! Focus on school for more, before you know it, you will be 'rasin' some 'little sour patch kids'! Here are some Gardetto's aka brain food. 

Grandma Grandpa Camp 2-26

I love that there is still a camp for the grandkids. The numbers this year were small, I still love that all those who can make it go. One bad part about having some of the younger kids (mainly Jacks) is he doesn't remember some of the other family things as well as the other kids do. Our kids don't remember the Barnes New Years Parties much. Jacks doesn't remember the Easter Parties or the few Arrington Reunions we had. I love that they are keeping it going for the younger kids to have those memories. 

This year they were in Twin, they did a cook out, played games like reverse charades, got ice cream from a truck. 

They split into teams and did an escape room. My kids all love them, so it was fun for them to do. 

Grandpa's team was the winning team. 

Saturday was a day of service. They helped at the Soup Kitchen. Then they were supposed to go the animal shelter to help out, however whoever took their reservation did not write it down. So they were unable to do that. 

Mini golf and Pizza Pie instead. 

They were tired when they got home, but they all had a lot of fun!

Some News

The other night Cam and Cailey came to us and told us they just found out their tuition and housing went up each by $1800 a semester. They also lost a scholarship that was only for their first two years, so paying for college seemed to be out of reach. They went through a lot of ideas and choices, from taking out loans, taking a gap year, going online. In the end they decided to stay here, get more work time jobs and do online. They have to stay full time, so a few of the classes may not be super helpful but they will take the year to save up more. This will add a semester to graduation (so 2 years left vs 1.5) but it will be worth it to not take loans out when they don't need to. 

They spent the weekend making the loft more long term livable for them. 

AJR Take 3

 Friday Cam, Cailey and I went to see AJR in Nampa. It was outside so it was super hot, but it was still a lot of fun. Cam loves to dance around; Camden and I are a little more stiff, but we all had fun. 

The 4th Weekend

 We had a good but busy 4th of July weekend. We went to Twin Friday night. The 4th is Grandma Barnes' birthday and this year was her 80th. A lot of the family got together to celebrate. Each of the kids had a table and a decade and decorated their table to match. Everyone did a good job and it was fun to see all the things. 

This was ours and we had the 90's. It was a fun way to decorate. 

After lunch we drove home. Cam, Cailey, Jackson and Jarom walked to the park and watched fireworks. I really am not a fan of them, so I was good sitting at home keeping the dogs safe. 

They are not fans either. They were more than happy to run into our room and be with us. They had stages of being scared vs finally being okay. 

All in all it was a good holiday weekend. 

It's Official

 It's official! Cailey is the newest member of the Barnes family. Today was Camden and Cailey's wedding. They did a small intimate ceremony today and then in a year-ish, they are going to have a big celebration when all the family can come and a few people are home off missions. We drove to Twin this morning. The girls went to the Arrington's and the boys went to the Barnes, then we met at the Rose Garden at CSI. 

It was so fun and such an honor to all get ready together. 

When we got to the Rose Garden Cailey video called her family to they were able to see it and be there one way. 

One Irish tradition is wearing a horseshoe on your wedding day. It is giving good luck to the new couple. When we went to Ireland, we couldn't find them and found out that it's not done as much. When they got engaged I wanted to her at least have a little of the tradition, even if she didn't want to wear it, I was just happy she had it. I ordered it off Etsy from a girl in Ireland. I didn't tell my mom about it (I thought I did) and it meant the world to her to see that tradition keep going.

Beck was the officiant. I mean who better to marry Camden then his twin. Beck did such a good job, maybe a side gig in the making. 

Then lots of pictures! 

Cam carried her to the car most of the way, Cailey was over the shoes. 

She was smart and brought comfy ones for afterwards. 

We went to Red Robin afterwards for lunch. Beck did a mini photoshoot there. 

We drove back to Boise and they are off on a mini staycation. They made their cake and its perfectly them. Cam loves Dinos

I tempted the fates with gas on the way home. I did stop right when we got to Boise to get gas because the 'miles left' stopped showing. 

All in all it was a beautiful perfect day and were so excited to have Cailey officially in the family.