The Barker’s World

Here’s a great video for all you family guys out there. I wouldn’t trade my family for anything and thank God each and every day for them.

I have not been looking forward to this time, but knew it would eventually come. Our great friends, Harry and Kristie Hansen, are PCSing to Virginia. They will be flying out tomorrow, so in honor of that I put together the below slideshow/video for their last night at the chapel last night.

Being part of an [...]

Most days, we get some pretty good traffic in our quiet neighborhood:

We’ve lived here for over a year now, but I still love watching the sheep wander around the roads. It is amazing to see how timid these creatures are (and really, really stupid), but how well they know the voice of their shepherd. There [...]

What happens when you get Gavin and Abigail together? You get Gabigail! Come on, it’s like Bennifer and Bradgelina or whatever. Now you get it
One day at school Gavin announced to Abigail that he was going to marry her. He told me that she wasn’t exactly happy about it at first, but he [...]

Okay, not yet – but I hope to be tomorrow morning. A couple of months ago I picked up a couple of hard shell sea kayaks from the base MWR auction and have been dying to try them out ever since. Well, today I have the kayak loaded up on the car, have my wetsuit [...]

This week has been pretty much rainy every day. Guess the summer is definitely gone and fall is here. So now that it is a Saturday and you can’t really go out to play, what do you do? Well, if you’ve got a house full of boys, you build a fort, that’s what! Below is [...]

Wedding Weekend in St. Louis
I traveled to St. Louis for Sam and Laura’s wedding. It’s still a little weird to think that my little brother is married. All in all, the weekend turned out to be quite nice.
I met my parents at the St. Louis airport Thursday night. They had flown in just a couple [...]

Yesterday we spent a wonderful day in the ocean. It was our first trip out where we snorkeled off of the kayaks. We launched off from Marathi Beach and paddled around the water for a little bit, doing a bit of snorkeling in a couple of spots, then paddling over to “Rabbit Island” for lunch. [...]

We had a great day today hanging out at the old harbor in Chania. I had heard that the RAF Red Arrows were going to be in town flying as part of the weekend’s Battle of Crete festivities. So, I got the crew up early this morning so we could head downtown and make sure [...]

Well, I have finally started seminary. I honestly never thought I’d be doing that, but here I am. If anybody is interested in keeping up with how that goes, check out my new blog (shameless plug, yeah I know) at seekersjourney.com.