We have been spending the past few days at the Barker family beach house in Garden City with Brett's parents, my sweet sister-in-law Crystal and her brood: Caroline, Bren and Cross. My kids love their cousins and although we live 2 hours apart, they have grown up spending a lot of quality time together. Caroline is 11. She was the first Barker grandbaby and has been doted on from day one. She is spunky, gorgeous, a huge help with the twins and always in charge. Bren is 8 and is quiet but very creative. She loves all things girly: fingernail polish, purses, pretty dresses, dolls. She is infinitely patient and shares so well with her cousins and siblings. Cross who turns 4 in August is adorable, funny and all boy. Eli and Cross love each other to pieces. They play trucks, they play helicopters, they play ball....anything you can imagine two boys that age playing. Then they fight over trucks, helicopters, and balls.....running to their moms to report that the other is mean. They make up quickly and are soon off to find something else to get in to.
While we had the "Barker Seven" together this weekend, we scheduled a photography shoot at Huntington Beach State Park, which boasts a pristine beach and an old moorish castle named Atalaya. Once there, we embarked upon a mission more challenging than childbirth. Getting seven beautifully dressed babes to all look the same direction, and not play in the sand, and not make faces, and not crawl away, and not complain took a lot of coaxing, promises of ice cream, threats to call dads and all-around tomfoolery. We were singing and dancing and jumping up and down behind the photographer to try to get everyone to look her way all at once. It was a sight. Here are a few of the 230 pictures taken..... I still am not sure we ever succeeded in getting everyone to look in the same direction at the same time.
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