What a week!

Well, it has been quit the week for the Barney's. Tyler got home from his mission on Wednesday the 16th. He has been faithfully serving in the Detroit Michigan Mission. It is always funny to see return missionaries trying to adjust back to "normal" life. The kids were so excited to see him. Ethan propably had no idea who he was, but he kept telling Tyler that he missed (pronounced misse-ed) him so much. what a funny boy.
We all got together on Saturday and had family pictures taken. That is always an adventure. I commented to Erin that i couldn't understand why fathers dislike family pictures so much, considering mothers are always so calm (yeah right), and not at all reminding kids every 3 seconds to keep themselves clean. What a riot family pictures are. The funny part about it is that on the way to get the pictures, i told Carlin that he needed to cut his hair. He has been growing it out for the last three years, and he looked pretty shaggy. I told him that I felt like he needed to be an example to his friends and that they would follow. He didn't like the idea, but I knew that the seed had been planted. well, later that night at about 10:30, i mentioned it again and he decided to do it. You wouldn't believe the amount of hair that my mom took off his head. She couldn't help but wonder why we couldn't get him to do it before the pictures were taken, but i figure it's good for us to have a memory of Carlins shaggy hair, so it will all work out. Besides, we are going to need another family pic in about 7 months anyways because DANIELLE IS GETTING MARRIED. We are all so excited for her. It was only about six months ago that she was telling Erin that she didn't think she would ever get married. How quickly things change. I kept telling my mom that she was going to have a december wedding to plan for, but she wasn't buying it. Look who's the smart one now. (that isn't exactly fair, considering i have known Mike had the ring for about 2 months now). The only problem now is that i won't have anyone to use all my "old maid" jokes on. How sad! It is propably for the best though, i know i have enjoyed marriage, and I think Danielle has wanted to get married for a while now. Well, Dani, you got what you wanted. CONGRATULATIONS!!!