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!