Monday, June 22, 2009

Father's Day 2009 at the Barrington Home





Great Father's Day at our home on June 21, 2009. All but our son in Florida and Daughter in California were there. We didn't get pictures of our cute little Cade but the following are of the other wonderful grandchildren we have (and the parents are okay too!)














Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Construction Pictures - New Basement

The following are images of work done in the basement, February 2009.

Tyson begins w/wallpaper ---- Breaking down the wall -------Tyson in the dust


The wall before it comes down--- New room is born----- Looking across the room(s)



New paint in the room--------Furnishings come in------ Last look before bar installation



Ent. center around the TV------new room w/light----------new bar and lihgt

--Sorry we don't have pictures of David, Shawn, and Dad struggling with the new furniture coming in the bedroom window upstairs, then down the stairs and into the basement. We could not have done it without their help!!

We have had a number of visitors during the construction and work -- two of the most recent are here:



Bridger & Ian - March 1, 2009





























































Wednesday, February 25, 2009

February 2009 Update

The pressure of commitments, the pace of life, and just too little time has prevented recent updates to this blog. Sorry!

Critical events in the Barrington PG home since late November (our last posting):

December -- little Ian Wadley was born and joined the family.

Christmas: wonderful family experience with our annual Family Getaway -- we played Deal or No Deal complete with an electronic game board (thanks to Dustin) and prizes worth dollars (congrats to Tyson and Mckenna who won the biggest prizes); on Christmas eve we had a fantastic nativity re-enactment complete with our own little stable (see pics below).




January: Shanell & Ryan's baby, Bridger Byrd was born as our #5 child gave birth to our #5 grandchild. Yahoo!!
February 4th was a big day for the Barringtons -- Elder Riley J. Barrington entered the MTC as a full time missionary assigned to serve in the Florida Ft. Lauderdale Mission, Spanish speaking. He will be there until April when he goes to Florida to begin teaching and serving.


Mid-February: a remodeling project in the basement began, with the removal of the main wall between the family room and the game/sewing room. The end objective is to create a bigger room for family gatherings. When completed (later this week) it will include new lights, a new counter, new entertainment center, as well as newly painted and conditioned walls (even more electrical outlets have been added). It will be a welcomed change for the house (and mom is anxious to get all this mess cleaned up -- there is dust everywhere!).
Thanks especially to Shawn and David who helped remove a bedroom window, and then bring in some of the big furniture destined for the basement, but which temporarily is being stored in the mid-level bedroom. We could not have done it without their help.
We will post a few construction pictures when the project is finished later this week.