Day 1 of Yellowstone

Day 1 we saw the Artist Paint Pots

We also saw the Mammoth Hot Springs and it was really windy! It was so beautiful!

this is where we had lunch

The Bison were the 1st animal we saw at Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park Day 2 & 3

 Yellowstone was beautiful! We spent 4 days there. The weather was perfect 70ish weather all week.

 Lower Waterfall

 Beehive gyser

 Grandma Fowler telling all the grandkids a story

 Old Faithful was beautiful and we saw it twice!

 the whole gang together one evening.

Summer has begun!

We are so excited that summer has begun. We love sleeping in and going to the pool, playing with friends and having all day to do fun things. We did begin with a routine of sorts. But I am having to be flexible a little because of different activities this summer. We are eating the free lunches at school (when we can). And doing a little bit of school work each day. I try to make it fun though.

This is the first year in 3 or 4 yrs I did not have to go to Cub Scout Twilight Camp. I missed it! But it was nice to have enough leaders going. Also Emma started Music Camp this week. She is loving it. They are learning a musical and then on Thursday we get to see them preform it. I am excited! This is right up her ally. She is my little drama queen. So she is putting all her theatrics and good memory to use.

I am slightly worried cause last night she woke up around 10pm crying that she could not do it. I thought she was sleep walking. I asked her? You can't do what? She said I can't do the play it is too hard. I assured her she could do her best and things would work out. It is hard to see your child struggle but important that we encourage them to do there best and NEVER GIVE UP.  That is the thing I always tell me kids when they are complaining something is hard, "NEVER GIVE UP" and "YOU CAN DO HARD THINGS".

We are also looking forward to seeing Grandma Upchurch next week. We fly up to Minnesota and get to do fun things with her. The kids have not seen her since December and they  miss her. I miss her too but I have seen her a few times since then. I will blog about that more when we come back.

Also we look forward to our trip to SLC UTAH, and Yellowstone National Park and seeing all the Fowler clan. It has been a while since we have all been together and I hope we have a fun time.

Who knows what other adventures we have in store for us. I hopefully will get better at this blog thing.

Oh and I am getting a new car soon cause my van won't pass inspection (which is due in June) with out a lot $$$$$ of money. Since it is 12 yrs old it is time to get a new one, wish us luck!

graduated 1st grade

Emma did it! She graduated 1st grade! She also got an award for her academics. They still don't get letter grades until next year but she did awesome this year. This is her with her teacher Mrs. Hamilton. Sorry for the blurry pictures. We are so proud of Emma and all her hard work. She is excited to be a 2nd grader now!

Easter? really

Well I know I am way behind here and it is hard for me to get things in order so here is the Easter Egg hunt the Primary put on as a ward activity. Yes I know Easter was a while ago. And yes I am still Primary President. It was been 3 &1/2 years. Crazy. I love my calling and love the children. I don't know what I would do without my calling. It lifts me up and challenges we and pushes me to my limits in may ways. But I love it and am grateful for the wonderful experiences I have.

Soccer anyone?

Emma and Spencer played soccer this year for the first time. They enjoyed it even though it was hard work. I am not sure when we will do it again. They want to play basketball next. Emma's team was undefeated and she got to rotate in as goalie. Spencer also was a pretty good goalie, he did not like the running part. They are the cutest soccer players I have ever seen.

MAMA and the windshield wiper, the Coyote, and the orange cream shake!

So I have not posted in a while and I am not sure I like how blogger has changed.
Last week end I got to fly up to Minnesota and visit my mother! It was fun, short and full of laughs and funny things.

One awesome story was it started to rain on sat and her windshield wiper was broken and it was raining hard. We had to get it fixed. Well do you think that is what I wanted to do on my short time there. No, seriously I got their on friday night and left sun afternoon. I did not want to sit in a car shop. So we pulled in to this small auto shop and I walked in and told the guy what was wrong. He came out and looked at it. He tightened the bolt and fixed the whole thing for free. My mom and I squealed with delight and thanks. He left with a big smile on his face. We were super excited it was a fast fix.

We went to DQ to get an ice cream on sat. As we sat in the drive thru a coyote chased a rabbit and caught him. Then proceeded to kill him 5 feet from my window. Argggggggg! This freaked us out, I mean for gosh sakes we are in the middle of the city. We screamed like little girls!

On friday night when mom picked me up it was like 11:30pm we were hungry so we drove thru at Arby's. She wanted the new orange cream shake so we tried it. It was pretty good by the way. Well everything seemed normal until the next day. Lavonda (my sister in law) said you know you called me and I listened to your whole conversation. Good times at Arby's! LOL we died laughing!!! Good thing we were not talking about her! Ha Ha!

We had a great time and I will take the kids to see her this summer a few times. She is coming for thanksgiving, so excited!

It was too quick but I got her signed up to facebook so we can all keep in better touch with her.
 Love you MAMA!

Easter 2012

I made the kids Easter attire. I did Emma's dress and coordinating sash and Spencer's bow tie.
It was lots of fun and very rewarding! Love my babies!
Happy Easter All!

A few things we did while dad was gone

Steve was in Denver all week last week and we missed him. The kids wanted to wash his car. And we also made homemade personal pizzas one night. We were glad to have him home. Last Thursday Emma had her open house and Literacy Night at school, I forgot to take pictures but it was a fun night!