school pictures, smile...

Here are my cuties school pictures.  Are they not so adorable.  I love my two kidos.  SMILE!!!!

Brielle 1st GradeCooper PreschoolAnother preschool picture

A rip Roaring good time

My baby turned, I can hardly write it, it’s just so hard to believe, he turned 4!!!  Oh my goodness, soon he’ll be a man.   Anyone who knows my Cooper know once he gets his mind set on something he never forgets it, so Chuck E Cheese here we come. 

We invited some of our closest friends and relatives to join us at Chuck E Cheese.  It was very fun and very easy.  Cooper wanted the theme of Cars.  So we got a rockin’ cupcake cake at Walmart that turned out so cute.  Cooper just loved it. 

We had tons of fun just hanging out eating pizza, playing games, eating cake, and opening presents.  I think Cooper could have stayed all night except he wanted to get home to see what his Grandma Bon got him for his birthday (it was a gigantic dinosaur)  He loved it, but is still a little scared of it. 

Thanks to everyone who came and made Cooper’s 4^th birthday a wonderful time.  He had so much fun and just loves all his super wonderful friends. 

I’m still in shock that I have a big 4 year old, but I love the heck out of him.  He is such a wonderful part of the Bower family.  He brings so many smiles, laughs, and adventures.  We love you Cooper you are the best boy ever.

An October to Remember

This was the first year that the schools gave an October break. I was so excited, I had lots of stuff planned with different family and friends, but sometimes plans change. That is what happened this week.

My mom had to go to the hospital on Tuesday, it definitely wasn’t planned, but very much needed. She is very sick. She went in very weak and just feeling very crummy in the tummy. It was a good thing she went in so far they have done blood transfusions, given her potassium, found that she has MRSA, done a colonoscopy, checked her bone marrow, done eco cardiograms, and so much more. She is still there. We are just praying for her to get better. They are thinking that most of it is related to a disease she has called polysithimia vera along with some other stuff. I think we have a long road ahead, but I’m just so glad she is getting the help she needs. She is so important in our lives and we love her so much. We were able to do a few things on and off during Oct. break when I wasn’t at the hospital.

One of the coolest things that we did was to go to the zoo. We always do this, but when the weather is nice it’s the best. All the animals were out and wanting to play so we got to see them up close and personal. The coolest was the monkeys. They were seriously right next to us, we could have reached out and touch them. Then with our membership we got free camel rides and train rides. It was pretty cool. The kids loved the camel rides. They thought that was pretty neat, except of course the smell. Yucky… The zoo was super duper fun, we had a blast.

A couple other things we were able to do were to meet a few school friends at the park, ride bikes outside (a little since it was so stinkin’ hot) and we even got to go see the movie “Where the Wild Things Are” (not the best, a little disappointing).

At least I can say one thing for sure, this will be an October break that I will never forget.

The three crazies

The other day it was Makinley’s Birthday and Erin got these great tickets for us to all go see Tap Dog at the Mesa Art’s Center.  It was a great show and we really loved it. 

We got there a bit early so we let the girls go wild and just have fun.  Look at how cute they were.  They had fun just being three cute girls…  Girls just wanna have fun!!!

back to the harvest- a yummy apple recipe

This is a yummy and easy dessert.  Anyone can do it and most likely you will have all the stuff you need to make it whenever you want.  Give it a try and eat it HOT, it’s so delicious!!!

Apple Dumplings (Aunt Jo’s)

2 Apples

2 sticks of butter

1 Tsp. vanilla

2 can of crescents rolls (8 ct.)

2 Cup sugar

1 10 Oz. Mountain Dew

Cinnamon to taste

1/2 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350.  Peel and core apples.  Cut each apple into 8 pieces. Roll each piece of apple into a crescent roll.  Place each roll into a casserole dish.  Pour Mountain dew over the crescents.  Melt butter, sugar and vanilla together and pour that mixture over the crescents.  Sprinkle with cinnamon and pecans.  Bake for 30 minutes.  Cover with foil and bake 10 more min. Best when served warm and with vanilla ice cream.