A Year in Pictures

 

One Year Comparisons

Here are one year comparison pictures of all our Bartley boys!

Caden

Caleb

Cole

Happy Birthday Cole!

Guess what day it is?

Cole turns one year old today!!!

Big brothers were in charge of selecting and helping to make the birthday cake and they voted on "rainbow cake". Apparently it is a one-year-old-birthday tradition in this family :)

Happy Birthday Cole! It seems like only yesterday that I was holding you for the very first time!

We love you sweet boy!

Christmas Excitement!

Ah Christmas time, where Jennifer is at her best! Above is our Bethlehem dinner tradition that we started this year. For dinner we got to eat figs, dates, apricots, and special "Jesus" bread. We did this all by candlelight and spoke in Hebrew during the occasion. Caden didn't like the food, no surprise there.

Christmas at the Faulkners! Grampy and Grammy (top left) were very busy in their younger years having children and so far this is the net result. Top middle is Jennifer's oldest brother James who will soon be a lawyer making gazillions of dollars and purchasing the first family yacht. Next to James is his awesome wife Layne, who is a teacher here in Austin. Next to Layne on the top row is Will, Jennifer's younger brother, who is on a top secret mission and has special ninja powers that even Chuck Norris wishes he had. Bottom right of the front row is Jenna and Gray, the newlyweds. Gray's sweater vest was quite "special" and "merry". He will soon be our family accountant and running the books for my next ponzi scheme. Gray's wife, Jenna (Caden's secret wife) is a teacher as well in the College Station area (keeping the real location a secret). Don't let her smile fool you into thinking she is always nice. Gray told me once she has a vicious left hook.

Christmas morning and Cole found special footprints in the house!

More footprints! They came from SANTA!!!!! Notice no ornaments on the bottom two feet of the tree.

Kids enjoying Christmas morning. That darn strand of lights is out on our tree. Jennifer later fixed this but it was no easy task.

Brother Christmas hug! And below, dad reading a note left by Santa about Caden's goat and chickens he got for Christmas. Caden was really excited, so much so he ran to the back door thinking they were in our backyard.

Secret Park Time!

 

  So here we go! Jennifer has lost blogging privileges and I, Collin Bartley, have taken complete and utter control. As King, with a capital K, I have decided to post some pictures of our family day at the park. Please enjoy!

 Hey look at me! I'm open!

Goal! And look, Caden has ups!

Looking at some fish and trying to find Quack. Caleb and Caden were both determined to hit the fish with rocks. We had a talk about if you kill something you have to eat it. Nothing was killed during our park trip.

Tree climber extraordinaire, Caden, striking his "G" pose.

Whoa! Who is that hottie in red? Man I want some of that! Wonder if she is single?
I bet she can bear some awesome children, someone is really lucky!