Happy Birthday Jaxson

We celebrated Jaxson's 9th birthday on the 25th. He is such and amazing kid and we are so proud of him! He is a wonderful big brother to the boys and a great example to them. We had a fun party at Grandma Bowen's house on Sunday. He got a new tennis racket and lots of frisbies. We gave him something called a rip-stick. I have video of him riding it, but I guess I never got a picture. He thinks it is so cool, but I'm a little worried about broken wrists.

Opening presents

My Grandma Bowen just moved to Alpine, and we are luky to have her so close. She was able to come to Jaxson's party for a few minutes.

This was Jaxson's year to have a family party so

we decided to take him to a Blaze game. Matt and Katie and their girls, my parents, and Nate and Sarah came with us. We had never seen an indoor football game, so we were a little confused, but it was actually pretty fun. The boys did surprisingly well, but because of a diaper incident we didn't get to see the end of the game. We listened to it on the radio, and it turned out to be an amazing ending. The Blaze won by 3 with a last second field goal.

The boys and Sammie

Nate and Sarah (sorry about the close up!)

Dallin thought it was a little loud.

Happy Birthday Jax!

Favorite Time of Year

I love every season, but for some reason I think now is my absolute favorite. We finally have leaves back on the trees, the grass is green again, and many of our bushes are in bloom. It is so fun to finally be able to plant flowers and get some color back in our yard. We have a lilac bush out in front of our house that is amazing this time of year. The last few years it has been cut back by different workmen, but this year we finally have flowers. They are starting to die off , but it is sure amazing for a few weeks.

I made everyone pose for me before all the flowers were gone.

Katie and the boys just before she left.

We are finally finished with soccer. The boys had a great time playing, but we are happy to have our Saturdays back.

Kate's Big Day!

It is such a wonderful time for our family.

Katie left into the MTC this morning. We are so excited for her and know she will be an amazing missionary! She works so hard at everything she does, and we know that serving the Lord will be no different. It is hard not to be a little sad that we won't see her for 18 months, but she is setting such a great example for our boys. They are already talking about when they can go on their missions like Aunt Katie.

This is right before the Stake President came over to set Kate apart.

Spencer got to say an extra good-bye right before Katie left. The other boys were at school.

Our family at the MTC. (Grandma is taking the picture)


The Bowen kids

Baseball, Soccer and More Baseball

I have offically become a soccer mom. It has been a crazy year having two boys in two different sports at the same time. I can't imagine what it will be like when our other boys join in. It seems like every night we are either at a game or dropping someone off at a practice. It is fun watching them play though, and Spencer and Dallin are pretty good at sitting through game after game. I can't believe how excited I was tonight, however, for rain. We actually got to stay home tonight and eat dinner as a family!

Cameron is on the Braves and his soccer team is the "Red Dragons".

Jaxson's playes on the Pirates and his soccer team is the "Green Strikers."