We Got our loan!!! Now just to find the right house for us!!!! Felling so grateful and blessed today!

8 and Counting

Happy Anniversary to my amazing husband. 8 years ago I married the best man every I could never know what 8 years would bring us but I'm so happy to have you and our cute kids. You make me happier then I could ever thought I could be. I LOVE YOU! Thanks for 8 great years I cant wait for the rest of our lives together!!! I love you Corey!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY!!!! WE HOPE THAT YOU ARE WELL AND HAVING A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS DAY!!!!
LOVE YOU ALL!!!

Olympia Toy Run

Corey and I did the Olympia Toy Run this year Corey didn't go last year living in Tri Cities but be for that has gone for a couple of years and it is so FUN!! So many people coming out to support kids and give there time and money. Yes it's fun but it is still amazing to see so many people in one place for a good reason and then so many people lined up to watch the bikes go by! This year they think so far that there was 20,000 bikers up from the 17000 last year!!!Corey's bike battery wouldn't start so lucky for us we got to take Allan's bike. Corey is so in love it his dad's bike so he was super happy.
LOVE to see all the bikes!!!

I know its a few days late but we've been so sick and I just wanted to say how grateful I am for all the things we have. This year I am most grateful for Corey's job and that it's here so he is at home with us and not living far away! That Corey is so willing to work so I can be at home with our kids for the amazing man and father he is I love you baby!!! So grateful for my kids each one of them and how wonderful they are I know i never say it enough that I love them and I'm sure they hear way to much of what they've done wrong but I am so happy to have such wonderful little spirits in our home. I'm grateful for all our family and friends for there love and support, for the church in our life and home,for this day to stop and think of all we have and how lucky we are and the up coming month of fun things getting ready to celebrate our Lords birth!!!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Ok not the best pic ever but it shows how much candy they got. Way to much!!! After Corey and I went through it for open candy and such we wanted to know how much the got so we weighed it 11.6 lb!!! Holy cow! What am I going to do with it all! I only let the kids have a few peaces a day. I think I'm going to take all the hard candy out and put it in our 72 hour kits then eat most the chocolate just to be helpful and then save the rest for gingerbread houses at Christmas. but we'll see if Corey and I can stay out of it!

Our pumpkins Logan's is just a face he didn't really care about it after we made him put his hands in side the gross dirty pumpkins, Donovan's is the big Frankenstein Theas is in the corner a bat, mine is a ghost and Coreys is a vampire

Every one we went Trick-or -Treating with 11 kids in all. When some one answered the door they always said wow then backed up a little from all our kids lol!

I made Thea and Donovan's costumes well the coat any way. Donovan is a Jedi Logan is a pirate and Thea is a bat. Corey was a biker and I was the bride of Frankenstein but we didn't get any pic of us.

Picking Pumpkins

Logan thought he wanted to ride in the back with the pumpkins but he really didn't like being squished by them.

Logan with his and Thea's little pumpkins

Donovan wanted this BIG pumpkin he couldn't even lift it a little but he loved it so we got it
Thea's just right round orange pumpkin she looked for a long time be for picking this one as JUST RIGHT!

Climbing on the hay pile

Elmo Cupcakes

My Friends little boy LOVES Elmo so his 3rd Birthday Party was Elmo I made all these cupcakes for his party I think the turned out really cute!

Petting Zoo at the Fair

Dad had tickets to the Puyalllup Fair from work so he invited Corey and the kids and I. We had so much fun looking at all the animals and the crafts and Hobbies. But I think the kids loved petting all the animals the most.

Donovan's new Bike

This is Donovan's new bike he loves it! Hopefully soon we'll teach him to ride on Two wheels.

Happy 4th Birthday Donovan!!!!!

Donovan wanted so many different things for a party but in the end we had a Green Party. His favorite color is green so we just got every thing in green and he loved it. We filled the trampoline with green balloons and let the kids jump on them till they all popped then did a pinata and cake and ice cream it was kind of laid back but he loved it and had a blast.

He loves this mask and loves to wear it and play with his light saber. Corey and I got him a super cute bike that looks like a dirt bike but I cant find any pictures of it

First Day of School

Thea's First day of school she picked out this out fit day be for hand and looked so cute! She is doing so so well at school. She loves going every day and only one day when she was sick she didn't want to go. She is almost always happy when we pick her up and has good things to tell about her day and her new friends. We're so happy that she's loving school and doing well. The boys miss her alot and ask about picking her up all day and love when it is time to go get her.

Bowles Baby #4 is due around April 3rd 2012!!!!!

With love from Japan

This is Yuki! She is our exchange student from Japan. Yuki lived with us for 2 weeks and we LOVE her!!! Yuki is 14 and came to Washington for 4 weeks she stayed with another family for two Weeks and us for the last two weeks. Witch was sooooo fun she had her 15th Birthday while she was here so we gave her a surprise party. Also in our family its a tradition to choose your birthday dinner and cake. Yuki had a hard time asking for what she wanted for dinner and cake so after giving her a lot of ideas she choose home made pizza and blueberry pie. We had her help make the pizza she loved that and we made cup cakes and pie because we had quite a few people coming over Yuki love putting the sprinkles on the cupcakes but didn't like frosting them.

kids and worms

While cleaning out the pool and refilling it the kids dug underneath and found lots of worms and loved it. They named the worms and loved them to death I think. There was 10 kids playing with worms I think all the worms may have moved out our yard for good.

Camping Part 2

Swimming and Fishing we spent almost all day every day at the lake. We had so much fun the kids loved fishing with there new poles. And playing in the water was so much fun i hate swimming in lakes but with water shoes I could get in and not feel the slimy bottom. There is this really fun rope swing that you can drop in to the water we made all our kids go off once they really let go they loved it. I went off a few time too but didn't get any pic Corey said he would come back and take one of me but I was done by that point but it is really fun.

This is the paddle board Corey and Alex had lots of fun playing of them

Logan had no fear of the water just went right in where ever daddy went Corey took one more step and went shoulder deep but Logan just kept go out to him.

Thea has become a great swimmer!

Camping Part 1

Why is blogging so hard during the summer? It must be all the thing going on that I forget to get on and show off what we've been up to....

I've been wanting to go camping all summer but between the fall weather, babysitting weekends and the being in the nursery at church every other weekend it's been really hard to find the time. So this weekend Corey and I planed on taking our kids and Ella's kids. Kelly and her kids decided to come too. It was such a nice weekend!! The weather was amazing. SUN SUN SUN! I love camping at the church property, it so nice so many things to do and cheep right in my price range. We're going back in a few weeks.

One of the things I love is there is a huge meadow with play sets and tree house(that my kids didn't really play in) and then this big rope swing. The kids love this swing the sign says no one under 10 but all out little kids loved it and almost never waited for an adult. Ian and Logan where the only ones who didn't like it. You can see that the platform for jumping off is pretty high. But none of the little kids even thought twice about it they just climbed up and jumped off!