Baylea's first day of school last year. She started the 1st grade and was very excited to go full days.

 
Can you believe they've already argued over clothes?

 
The newly crowned big brother.

 
And here is baby Cole, who was a five weeks old here. He turned 1 two weeks ago, it's amazing and sad how fast time flies. No more tiny babies in our house anymore (we mean it this time!) 

 

I was recently able to download a lot of older pictures that had been "trapped" on my mini-DVR discs, so I plan on posting a lot of them shortly. As you will see, I happen to only take pictures of my kids apparently, so get used to the Bartlett Four.

Above is Halloween from last year. We had Snow White, Ariel, Captain Hook, and Eeyore. So in addition to our family's video collection, cereals, backpacks, and clothing, Walt Disney has also monopolized the market on our Halloweens as well. 

 

Here are pics of the princess room. It's been redecorated for a couple of months and I think it turned out really cute. I was never into super-girly things, but I would have thought this room was cool if I were Baylea and Molly's age. 

Rock'n Lock-In!

Friday night was our junior church "rock'n lock-in". It was tiring, but the kids had a lot of fun. We started out the evening with pizza, the staple of all youth activities. Then, we moved outside for a game of hide-and-seek, but that got a little nerve-wracking making sure the younger kids didn't go anywhere near the street. Plus, the flooding and storms from a couple weeks ago have provided excellent breeding grounds for mosquitos.

We moved inside and set up the tv to watch movies. We had told the kids we would be watching Star Wars movies, which they were excited about. Of course, Stars Wars movies to them are the most recent ones so we popped in the Phantom Menace. We also thought it would be fun to dress them up as characters. Melanie put the girl's hair up into Princess Leia buns while Lydia and I applied face paint. We had five Queen Amidalas, two Darth Mauls, two Darth Vaders, one Yoda, and one R2D2. How come no one wants to be Hans Solo or Luke Skywalker anymore?


We let them watch the first movie, then put in the next one, Attack of the Clones. They were still awake after that so we put in the third. Lydia and I thought the kids would go to bed much earlier than they did. They acted fine, but just didn't want to sleep (unlike me.) Suprisingly, the two that stayed up the latest were Connor and Jake, the four-year olds. It was almost 2:30 before they were made to lay down. The girls were all in a corner, "chit-chatting" and apparently wolfing down a whole bag of potato chips, which left quite a mess on the floor.

Lydia and I shared quite a few laughs that night, but were glad to do something for the kids. They all said they had lots of fun and hope to do it again sometime. We'll see . . .