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Anna's birthday post to come next - but in the mean time ... :)



St Louis.

For the past six days we were in St. Louis because Grandpa Barnard had open heart surgery.  The surgery went smoothly - praise the Lord!  He was sedated for a couple days, but was slowly weened off.  The day before we left they took the ventilator out of his mouth and he was able to talk almost right away {which was a shock for Grandma and Dad who went to see him earlier on Thursday and didn't expect it}!  We were planning to leave on Sunday and return on Wednesday, but we ended up leaving on Saturday, because the surgery had to be done on Sunday instead of Monday, and stayed until Friday.  We are so glad we did because we got to talk to him and spend a little time with him :)  So if everyone could pray that Grandpa will continue to heal quickly and thank the Lord that everything is going smoothly so far! <3  Thank you.

~The Barnard Band

vintage.

Sooo....

Anna's birthday is on Tuesday but because she got an extra special present today from Mom & Dad she get's a special post :)

Meet Calico .... you probably remember her from a post in the autumn ... she's Anna's :)

We bought Anna a card that had a cat in a flower pot on the front and said "for your birthday we grew you a cat".  Then Mom put a side note that said go look in your room!  Now by this time Anna had gotten kitten coloring pages, kitten birthday cards and kitten food.  But it didn't click until she read the card. :)  She walked into her room,which we unlocked with a screwdriver, screamed, jumped up and down and freaked the calico out a bit :)  But Anna absolutely loves her!

Chipmunk is Abby's :)