Friday, July 3, 2009

Happy Red, White and Blue day...


I know its a day early but i will be busy tomorrow with all the happenings of the day...
my favorite holiday!!!
parades, picnics, family, softball, food, fireworks, traffic....ohh ugh! i don't like that part, dadgum flatlanders but this is one day that we are patient with the summer traffic because we know how fun our 4th is and apparently so does everyone else!
(oh....and hopefully no injuries! the 4th seems to bring that out in us)

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Girls Camp....

Each summer (for the last 9 years, we just figured out) my mom and my sisters have attended "Girls Camp" while starting out, we would go to my moms "cabin" for our summer retreat. But as you can see...our destinations have gotten alittle more exotic!

Want to take this opportunity to compliment Tammy on her photography skills! LOL ;)

and then there is our mom.....oh our mom!
never a dull moment. She is such fun to tease and she always takes it so well!
we love you mom!!!
Here she is taking her shower....weird, I know!
and of course this was my first opportunity to shop for our little bug....
Gymboree is a Grandma's best friend!
look at this stinkin cute outfit I found...came with a super cute little bucket hat too...



see the little hula girl on the shirt and pants?
She got an adorable 4th of July outfit too but you will have to wait till the weekend to see it!!


Sunday Rose....

so much scrutiny for Nicole and Keith for naming their baby Sunday Rose....
but after seeing our little Brynlee all dressed up for her first trip to church 2 Sunday's ago
I totally get it....the first words that came to my mind were...
SUNDAY ROSE





side note...i know that is not why they named their baby Sunday Rose....im just sayin'



Thursday, June 25, 2009

Blog Music...

Question for ya.....does music on peoples blogs annoye you? I know some people have it and some people dont. I figure if people dont like it they can turn down their sound but i have found myself doing that more and more often on my own blog! LOL...so im puttin' up a poll...let me know what you think about blog music----------->

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Winner, Winner, chicken dinner....

Hey!!!
I'm a blog prize winner!
that's a first!!
whoo hoo
I entered to win a prize that was being thrown up on
the meanest mom blog!
if you have never read her blog, its a mUsT!!!
I won a Gift Cert to
PAPER CULTURE
Brittnee will be sending out some pretty sWeEt birth announcements thanks to
Paper Culture and the Meanest Mom

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

:)




Friday, June 12, 2009

Beware!!!

We May be Turning into a BABY Blog..... ;)







Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Tomorrow....


Brynlee's daddy goes back to work......We will miss him and will keep his family safe and well until his return....this time next year.
We are glad that you are part of our family and you make us proud with the work that you do. We are so so glad that you were able to be here when your family grew from 2 to 3!

Cool sale!

if you have a baby(brittnee) or are having a baby (kacie, johnna) you will want to check this out!

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Introducing......


Brynlee Claire Bowdoin


8lbs 13 oz


21 1/2 inches


6/2/2009 at 8:58am


First of all I must apologize to everyone that has been waiting on pins and needles for pictures all day today...I had alittle mishap that about ended my life.....

I took some GREAT pictures from our little Brynlee's delivery and then I spent the day hanging out and getting to know her. Late this afternoon I came home and went straight to the computer to download the pictures....I put the card in and a bunch of gobbley goop showed up where my pictures were suppose to be. SOOO I put the card back in the camera to be sure my photos were still there, after all Brittnee and I had looked through them many times today. welllll, they were gone! the card came up saying no images found! I was so sick and I started bawling (which says alot because I cant remember the last time I cried, its been years!) I just could NOT believe this was happening. what could I do...I had heard on forensic shows that even after the images are deleted they are actually still stored somehow on the card. Was this true or made for TV fiction? I set forth investigating. I made a few phone calls and started looking on the Internet for a solution because I just could not convince myself that they were gone and there was no way to retrieve them. Finally, We took the card to our good friend Todd who helped me figure it out and I was able to purchase some software to retrieve the lost photos! thank goodness because I did NOT have the heart to tell Brittnee that all the images of the day were lost...sick I tell ya, I was SICK!
~still feeling alittle nauseated over the whole thing~

Our day in images..............

































Story to come, I'm sure.....we will leave that up to Brittnee to post on her site.
But I will say, she did an AMAZING Job bringing this little girl into the world!

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

ok so....

....if Brynlee does not make an appearance before Monday the 1st at 6pm
Brittnee will be induced then.....

My crazy life....

As you can see the month of May has been a tad bit busy!
(HUGE understatement!!)
I had to start this book just to keep up with everything. Hopefully things will slow down but I will be keeping the book. It sure has helped me make sure I get everything done each day that I need to. There are alot of things that did not even make the book but somehow, someway, we got it all done and lived to tell about it.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

First day of summer...

8:39 am.......

Monday, May 25, 2009

Great Weekend, well almost.....

We sure had a great weekend with all of our family and friends.
It was very very busy but that left us spinning with tons of fun.
There were a few glitches in as much as kids getting sick and such but other then that things went great!
First we had most of the family arrive to share graduation with Hayden. We all had to pack into the gym because of the rain outside but it just made things alittle cozier...Gerri's baby Jessie got sick with a high fever and had to go to the doctor and was not able to make graduation but we were sure glad to have them here just the same.
It was a surprise for all of us because we did not know Gerri and Jessie were coming and when they popped out of the motor home with grandma, grandpa and Scott it was a delightful surprise.
I'm sure there were many times during the weekend that Gerri wished she had not made the trip because Jessie had a high fever and was not feeling well but just so you know Ger, we are really really glad you came.
When Bryan and Liz got here, Davin had a fever too but it was not too bad at that point so they came to graduation with us.
But by Friday Davin was doing much worse.
After a trip to the clinic and then another to the hospital they ended up admitting him and so Bryan and Liz ended up with the most expensive Room on the mountain for their little vacation...
Davin stayed overnight with a case of strep and Pneumonia but was released the next day JUST IN TIME for Liz to make it to the baby shower.
Saturday afternoon we had a wonderful Baby shower for Brittnee and Brynlee that was thrown By Britt's friend, Kacie Flake and my good friends Kathy and Lisa.
It was all wonderful and we had a great turnout!
thanks everyone who came!!
Sunday we all went to church and then over to the place the family was staying to socialize and play some games.
Good times were had by all...
Taylor and the little boys got to spend the night and fish fish fish with their cousins, as Jamie, Warren and their boys got here on Saturday morning.
So as thing were winding down today and everyone was leaving to head home we were just beginning to get our breath back when Quade came into me showing me his hand and saying "Bleed!" YEP sure enough he had cut his hand with a letter opener (that he broke) so off to the ER to get some stitches...
funny how the only time anyone gets hurt around here its on a holiday!!!!! so its been a very fun and eventful long weekend! we hope you and your family had a great time too!
pictures of each event are posted below

graduation...

Graduation went great! It did have to get moved inside because of rain but other then that it went off without a hitch. We must have taken 100+ pictures with him and what felt like every friend he has ever had LOL. These were taken before graduation started.


Hayden and Tyler
Hayden and Megan
Hayden and Jared (who he walked with)
and then we had the ceremony which included the senior video
(which is my favorite part)
lots of pictures of these kids through their school years. Also some silly video from some of their skits, one in which Hayden was "Mr Rogers" and then they did the baby picture/Senior picture for each student. This is the part that always makes me cry, I'm a big baby but apparently I was not the only one that night! lol. It was fun seeing the baby pictures of alot of his classmates and actually recognizing them because we knew them way back then.
Here is the video of him receiving his diploma.....he received a
college prep/vocational diploma
And at the end when they turned their tassels and threw their caps
after the ceremony, it was like playing a game of wheres waldo (do you see him?)
Oh there he is!!!
We were very grateful to have so many family members come for graduation....
we had Grandma and Grandpa Jones, Scott, Gerri and Jessie, Granny, Lynn, John, Tammy, Natalie, Bryan, Liz and Davin, and Debbie and Kyle.
Hayden and His Granny

Hayden and his Dad

Hayden and Aunt Tammy

Hayden and Brittnee

Hayden and Coach Knaust

And last but not least....Hayden and his Mommy!

We are so Proud of Hayden and the good, fun, intelligent kid he is!
WAY TO GO HAYDEN!
it sure has been a fun 19 years! ( So far!!)

The Baby Shower....

Pictures From Brittnee's Shower....

Kacie Decorated These letter and they were soooo cute! she did a great Job with everything!

Thanks Kacie!


She put up this cute little clothes line with Brittnee's blessing dress

(which we HOPE will fit Brynlee)


We played a few games...this is the one where you measure the moms belly and see who got the closest measurement to the real thing...


Brittnee opening the bags to a "guess what baby item is in the bag" game

Liz dominated and is the QUEEN of shower games!!! lol

Brittnee sitting with Sandi (our neighbor)

and Stephanie (Brittnee's good friend from high school! )

Thanks for coming girls!


A few of her many gifts....now she is officially all set and ready to have this baby!

Brynlee...its time to come out and play!!


A hand made quit from her Grandma Jones


every girl has to have a bathtub for soaking!


Some of our guests.....

Grandma and Kacie


Tammy and Jamie


Kelsie, Kathy, Sherrie, Lisa and Sherice


Wendy and Madison....

Aunt Lynn, Liz and Gerri

and a sleeping baby Jessie
Here are the cute letters that we put up on Brynlee's wall after the shower



here is the link to Kacie's crafty website where you can buy some letters of your very own