Funny Kids!

I did Kaity's hair in my curlformers the other day and they made the cutest curls ever! So I wanted to get a picture of them! Matthew and Kaity were in such goofy moods that they just started doing some really funny poses! This first picture is my absolute favorite! They decided to hug like this all by themselves! I think it is the sweetest picture!

Kaity was REALLY getting in to it!

Jeff's 29th Birthday!

Jeff turned 29 on the 24th of July! It was a great birthday! His mom even got the chance to come up the day before, so she could be here for his birthday! We went out for breakfast that day and we went shopping in Moscow at the mall to get Jeff's birthday gift and then we went and saw 'Dispicable Me' (which was absolutely hilarious)! Then we came home and I made Jeff a nice dinner and then of course the homemade ice cream pie with double fudge brownie ice cream (his favorite)!

Here's a picture of Matthew with his Grandma! He really got attached to his Grandma this visit! He tells me almost everyday that he misses his 'Mammaw'!

I told Kaity that I wanted a picture of her and this is what she did! Obviously she did not want her picture taken!! Jeff decided to copy her!

Then we got a nice picture with all 3 of them together!

And it wouldn't be a bowman party without acting like goofballs! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFF!!!

Wall Circles Craft!

I saw on a TV show these circles that you hang on the wall for decoration! I thought it looked really cool, so I tried to figure out how to do it myself! I found some embroidery hoops and painted them and used some sticky mounting tape to put them up! It was very simple and I think it really adds nicely to their playroom! What do you think? I can even add more around the room later on if I wanted to!

Swimming!

Last weekend we found Reaney Pool! It is an outside pool here in Pullman! I didn't even know that it was here! It has a pretty cool playground right next to it and a really big park! Then inside the pool gates, there are 2 swimming pools! One is for intertubes and floaties that you want to take in and the other one uses half of it for swimming which goes as shallow as 2 1/2 feet! So my kids can touch the bottom! And the other half of the pool has a low board and a high diving board! It seemed like one of those old fashioned kind of pools! We are going there again this weekend with Jeff's mom! I'm definately going to bring my camera and take pictures of us there! But I did take a picture of the kids when we came back! They were very worn out! They just collapsed on the couch!

4th of July!

For the 4th of July this year we live in Pullman, WA, so we decided to try and find things to do in Pullman! We went driving around looking for some fun parks to play at! We did find a few that were pretty fun!
The weather was pretty crazy though! It was kind of cold and very windy! You can tell by my hair in the picture below! It was all over the place!

TERRE VIEW PARK

Kaity refused to look at the camera and Matthew is making a very goofy face! Silly kids!

They had this really cool swing at one of the parks! It was a chair! I had never seen anything like this before! It was fun to sit in it with Kaity and swing together!

KRUEGAL PARK

You don't see many parks these days that has a merry-go-round! My kids saw it and didn't know what it did! Once we showed them how it worked they LOVED it!

Matthew loved pretending to be a spider on this giant spider web!

AT THE FIREWORKS SHOW

While we waited for the fireworks show to begin, there were some fire trucks and ambulances that you could look at and climb up in and see everything! They even had some firemen outfits that were kid sized, and Matthew got to try them on! H ethought that it was soooo cool!

Here we are laying on our blanket freezing to death waiting for the fireworks to begin! It was supposed to start any second! Sorry about the pictures! They are also from my cell phone!

Here we wanted to make sure the flash worked! What do you think? Did it work?

July 3rd!

The day before the 4th of July we went to my sister's new house to celebrate my mom's birthday and to do a few fireworks! I know the pictures aren't the best! They were from my cell phone! I forgot my camera! Kaity was afraid of the fireworks because they were loud and Matthew loved them but had to cover his ears! They both enjoyed the smoke bombs though! After it went of they would run out in the street with their cousins and run in the smoke! It was very cute!

New Hair do!

For the Fourth of July, this is how I fixed Kaity's hair! I thought it was pretty cute! She got a lot of compliments on it too! I've done something like this before with the two rows of pony tails going down the side of her head, but this time I just connected them in the middle! Hope you enjoy!

Kaity's ABC's

Here's Kaity being so dang cute, I had to share it with everybody else! Hope you enjoy her singing her ABC's!

Slip-n-Slide

Before we moved our neighbor got out her slip-n-slide for everybody to play on since it was the first hot day of the year! My kids have never played on a slip-n-slide before, but Matthew just ran over and started playing with the other kids on it! He had a lot of fun! Kaity doesn't like getting wet! When we go to a swimming pool or something, she always just stays on the sidelines! So I couldn't get her to go down the slip-n-slide, but she did get brave enough to go to the bottom of it and touch the water with her hands!

When they were done playing on the slip-n-slide they had a blast with the lake it created at the bottom of the hill!

Update!

Well, I haven't posted anything for so long because I was supposed to move last Saturday, but there was a problem with our application to our apartment so they said that we had to wait another week until we got it all situated! The only problem was that they didn't tell us that until the Friday before we were supposed to move! :( So I was completely packed up and they shut off our phone and internet! (I'm at my sister's house, using her internet right now)! So then we were supposed to move this Saturday, but we couldn't find a single U-Haul truck available on Saturday! So then we got it set up to move on Friday after Jeff got off work! So I got all repacked this morning and then got a phone call saying that we can't move into our new apartment at all now! :'( And we have to be out of our apartment on the 23rd of this month! So you can say I was a little bit stressed out! I guess saying "a little bit" is an understatement! So I found another 4 bedroom 2 bathroom with washer and dryer hook-ups, but its very old! And a lot smaller then you think that it would be! And the appliances are sooooo old! The white on them are no longer white, its yellow! :( And we had to sign up for a whole year! So I guess it gives me a year to find a better place! Lets just hope nothing else goes wrong tomorrow and we can move in tomorrow so we don't end up on the streets! So now everybody knows whats been going on with me! This was just a quick little update on whats been going on with me!

Horseback Riding!

For Matthew's birthday, a friend invited us over to ride her ponies! It was so much fun and Matthew and Kaity LOVED it! They love horses! Right when we got there we spent some time petting the horses and brushing their fur! Matthew and Kaity even got to feed them some carrots! They thought it was fun when the horses licked their hands!

Kaity wanted to ride on the bigger of the two ponies! Matthew chose the smaller one!

Before we started riding, Matthew got to walk with 'Chickadee'! He did it all by himself! He did really good, too!

We even got to trot with the ponies too, but Matthew and Kaity got a bit nervous when we went that fast!

Jeff and I even got on the ponies at the end! The saddles were very little though, so we could put our feet in the stirrups! Jeff took this pictures really low to the ground to make me look taller!

Kaity's favorite part was brushing the pony! While Jeff and I were riding 'Tad', Kaity was brushing 'Chickadee'! Kelly (Matthew's Speech Therapist) has a little boy who just turned 5 in April was there, and Matthew was off playing in the barn with him!

This would have been a perfect family photo, but Blake, Kelly's son, kept sneaking his head in the picture!

After we were done with the horses, we all got to go jump on her trampoline! The kids also loved this! They got along with Blake and their neighbor really well!

I think it turned out to be a VERY fun day for them! Happy Birthday Matthew!