The Barker’s World

Well, we’ve been in Crete for 3 weeks now, but before I start writing about that, I wanted to share some of the last photos we took before we left Heidelberg.
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Well, this has been one very hectic week for the Barker clan. For those that don’t know already, we are in the process of moving to Chania, on the island of Crete in Greece. This has been in the works for some time now, but just recently started coming together.
When we got back from our [...]

Holgar and Angelyn Kuhn from our church invited us to their daughter Sarah’s birthday down by the Neckar River.  It was such a beautiful place to hang out; quite a popular place actually!  We had been wanting to go hang out down there for years, but for some reason or another we never made it.  [...]

Gavin had some school pictures taken at his German kindergarten back in June.  They really do a good job and allow the siblings to come along, too.  Anyways, enjoy!

Just working through some old photos; this one was one of my favorites of the boys. It was taken when Tristan was going to the local German Kindergarten.

Tristan and Gavin
 

One of the interesting things about living in a different country is finding out about all the different holidays that get celebrated where you are.  Well, today they are celebrating Sankt Nikolaus (name sound familiar?).  He is considered to be a pre-Christmas messenger that examines kids’ behavior.  The kids leave a boot outside their door [...]