Dear Ella and Elisabeth,

Uncle Andy found these really great giraffe chairs, but they are a little too small for us to sit in. Do you know anyone who might be able to fit in these chairs?

Thank you everyone!

Thanks to everyone's generous contributions, I am now the proud owner of a beautiful Yamaha guitar. This picture isn't quite as heroic and dramatic as the one dad drew for me in my birthday card, but it will have to do.

more picutures II

Pictures of us working on garage, Ella was supervising from the hammock.

More Pictures

Here are some pictures of the mighty builders and the Tower of Babel, just before the confusion of languages. Or maybe this was the garage, just before lunch, I'm not sure, it has been a couple of weeks.

Re: Garage

Barnhart Birthday Girl (we have two!)

Soon there'll be a birthday girl, whose name I shall withhold;
I'll write a little riddle and you guess who and how old.

She didn't use to smile a lot, when she was very young,
A pouty lip would often protrude well beyond her tongue.

And then would come a backward kick to ward off woud-be teasing;
Ah.....you know of whom I speak, but now she's much more pleasing.

In fact she wants to help mankind, Music Therapy to them bring;
And one of the ways to do so would by by gui'tar string.

So as you solve this riddle, and guess just who she be,
You also may be wanting a birthday ide-e (altered for rhyming purposes!)

She wants to buy a gui'tar and play with lots of soul,
And grateful she would be for contributions toward her goal!