Mr. & Mrs. Bowen come to Tucson for Thanksgiving!

Chris and Kelsey got in the car and braved the long drive to Tucson. I think that sometimes people think that Todd and I are just slow drivers and it doesn't really take quite as long as we say. They left at 3 pm and got here Thanksgiving morning at 5:00 AM. I was so worried all night that they would wreck.



A very tired twosome, but alas no rest for the weary. As soon as my kids spotted their car in the driveway it was up and at 'em! Kelsey and Chris were good sports to just go go go!

I got no pics of Thanksgiving. We put on a feast and also invited our neighbors over for the festivities.

We went to Funtastics and had a fantastic time. We had never been before and had the whole park to ourselves, no literally we were it for the first 2 hours.
























A little rock band and some smore's to finish off the trip. The trip also consisted of some football, ok some a ton of football to which I constantly gave them crap about! Kelsey and I hit Olive Garden for lunch one day and shopped til we dropped. Thanks for coming guys, hope you get sick of the snow and come again soon.

Tan the Man turns 9!

We left early in the morning of Tanners birthday and forgot my camera. So, instead I pulled a newly taken pic and one from a long time ago, before digital.

I can't beleive my boy is 9. He came into this world 4lb 14oz and now you would never know it. He was a blessing then and he still is now. He has one of the biggest hearts a kid could have! I went and ate lunch with him yesterday and I couldn't believe all the kids coming up to talk to him. I had no idea he knew so many kids.



Celbrations included:

Going to eat Chocolate Molten cake at Chili's the night before.
The day of he had 2 soccer games, both against kids 2 years older and he made the first goal his team has made thus far! So exciting.
Then we went to Texas Roadhouse, his choice because he wanted to sit in the saddle to be sang too.
Lastly we went with his team to Orange Leaf a new ice cream parlor, yummy!

He got new Bey Blades that we played with all night. Happy Birthday Buddy!

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So, ever since I was a little girl I liked to dip my peanut butter and jelly sandwich in milk. I know to many it sounds disgusting. But, I have past it down to my boys. They also love to dip their sandwiches. Yesterday while Cali and I were eating lunch, she looked at my milk and asked if she could dip dip in my cup. One taste and she was hooked. So, there we sat eating our PB & J and sharing a cup of milk to dunk our sandwiches.

YUM!! Do you have foods that you like to eat a weird way?

Cali turns 2!

Happy Birthday Cali! Tanner was a stud and wrapped half of these presents. And, time to party girl style.

Dad helping her get the new barbies out. Thanks to Grandma Carter for buying her her first barbies.

Cali's first stoller. Its really a long time coming. She walked for miles around and around the house with her new babies!

Its seriously amazing to Todd and I how nurturing she is to these dolls. Whispering "there you go" when she puts her in the stroller and such.

Cake time. Ok, I'm not going to lie this cake took an embarrasing amount of time and effort on my part. My original thought was to fly Stacy in to decorate it for me and alas I should have gone with that. Stacy you could have done much better I'm sure.

But it was a cute cake, thanks to Rachelle for loaning me her mold. The big one has eggs, but for my Cater man the cupcakes did not. Everybody wins in the Mons house.

Fall Break Fun

The kids were out of school for a whole week for Fall Break. Yeah me, I was ready for some time off with the kids.

Where else can you run through the sprinklers in the middle of October? These came on down the street at our park. They were down there playing, and ran through with all their clothes on first then came home and put on their swimsuits as an afterthought.

Not sure what Tanner is doing here, Todd took the pictures and was down there with the kids.

Onto the zoo. I love our zoo, nice and on the small side. Best time of year to do it too.

My kids favorite thing to do this time of year is put up the spider web, and also booing neighbors, leaving a treat and running. Which will be tomorrow night, so watch out.

Dad's work is downtown. Always a special treat to get together with dad for lunch.

There is the funnest pumpkin stand downtown on Broadway. They have a small petting zoo there as well.

A girl after my own heart.

This is her new posing smiley face. I can't say its the cutest smile, but I'll take it.

We scored 3 great pumpkins to carve for the Ward Halloween Party.

Finally, on Friday my friend Brookelle and I took the kids to the Ostrich Farm off of I-10. We had a blast. See that truck behind me, we went for a tour and boy did it get wild. It had my blood pumping.

Cali was the bravest of all the kids. She would stick her hand right in their mouth.

What a fun time we had. By the end my kids were asking if they could skip school and be home schooled. Um let me think about that .... No, I love you but No!