Bowman Family

Christmas Moments

2011-12-18T16:48:00.004-07:00

Wondering what is in the box

Sammy's Christmas program

2011-12-18T16:39:00.002-07:00

Anna's Birthday and Thanksgiving

2011-12-18T16:35:00.004-07:00

Anna stomping

2011-11-02T21:43:00.001-06:00

Anna stomping around in a dinosaur costume.

Bear

2011-11-02T21:41:00.001-06:00

I made this for Anna, she says it is a kitty- Daddy says its a bear.

Halloween

2011-11-02T21:35:00.001-06:00

Anna dressed as Abby Cadabby and Sammy as Thomas

Sammy Lost his first tooth

2011-10-17T19:42:00.001-06:00

Kids Acting out Nursery Rhymes

2011-10-14T11:19:00.001-06:00

Link to Videos
http://youtu.be/dHdfWd8bNcI

Trip to Yellowstone with My Sister

2011-09-24T22:10:00.006-06:00

Anna's Sock monkey hat, Sammy's Owl hat

2011-09-24T22:03:00.005-06:00

Anna learned how to pedal her trike

2011-09-24T22:01:00.000-06:00

Sharon 2011

2011-09-02T22:56:00.001-06:00

Click on the link to more photos of Bear World and New rooms

Sharon 2011

Sammys First Dayof School

2011-09-02T22:54:00.002-06:00

Yellowstone on the way to our new house

2011-09-02T12:39:00.001-06:00

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Move to Montana

2011-09-02T12:26:00.003-06:00

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Our trip to Montana to find a house

2011-07-23T08:24:00.006-06:00

Moving away

2011-07-14T20:46:00.003-06:00

DJ showing the kids where Montana is on the US map in the schoolyard.

So after living here for 18 months we are moving to Montana. DJ has got a great new job and we are moving again. So I am sad and excited. Sad to leave friends, family, and our first home. On to the new adventures in beautiful country just and hour above Yellowstone. My kids are excited and I need there enthusiasm somedays. So good bye Utah- hello Montana.

2011-07-09T22:58:00.001-06:00

Our kitty, kids playing miniature golf

2011-06-25T19:46:00.003-06:00

My Anniversary Flowers, and Cute kids

2011-06-25T19:44:00.007-06:00

Cute!

2011-06-11T20:36:00.000-06:00

Sammy's Preschool graduation

2011-06-11T20:26:00.005-06:00

Sorry Grandparents for so long in posting

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Playing at Aunt Laura's house

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2010-12-16T22:11:00.003-07:00

My sister is visiting from Dallas and took some very cute family photos.

2010-11-01T21:48:00.001-06:00

We had such a happy Halloween

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Twirling

2010-10-31T22:04:00.002-06:00

Flower Girl

2010-10-31T21:58:00.005-06:00

Anna looked so cute, and was so excited to see Donna- running up to give her big hugs. Donna twirled her round and round...so adorable!

Donna's Wedding

2010-10-31T21:51:00.004-06:00

Family Photo's From my Sisters wedding during the first of October

Sammy's First Day of Pre-School

2010-09-16T19:07:00.003-06:00

Sammy Started Pre-school the last of August. He can already write his name!!! I am so proud of him. Ok I can read his name, not sure about everyone else.

Cat Saga

2010-09-16T18:58:00.004-06:00

So our lovely kitty Figaro got hit by a car at the end of August, we were sad...but our kids handled it really well.
We got a new cat and Sammy named her Fluffy (very original)Sammy is a little bit nervous around her. Anna on the other hand picks Fluffy up and carries the at around. She is such a sweetheart.

Practicing for Haloween Early

2010-09-16T18:54:00.001-06:00

The kids are playing dress-up

DJ on KSL

2010-04-01T23:33:00.001-06:00

So my husband was on the news tonight- not an april fools Joke- He was presenting at the Job camp and he was part of the footage at least three times. He is wearing a blue shirt and his bluetooth.

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=675&sid=10239629

2010-03-11T19:26:00.001-07:00

Anna had tubes put into her ears today- She was so brave! Poor baby- but this should hopefully make a dent in her ear infections- seven since November.

2010-01-19T17:35:00.003-07:00

We came home to Have Christmas again with DJ's Parents- My kids go very spoiled by all their grandparents this year- We did too!

2010-01-19T17:06:00.008-07:00

We flew to Memphis to visit Dj's Grandparents for Christmas, Anna did great despiste a double ear infection, sinus and eye infection. Slept on all the flights!

Sammy and Grandpa loved watching shows together, Sammy's favorite are trains in HD on a huge screen!

Anna loved Playing with Grandma Bowman

The kids got to meet Grandma Judy for the first time in Little Rock

Christmas Eve, Our cuddlebugs were so excited. Sammy said from the begining he wanted trains and books. Talk about easy.

Sammy got to go to the Zoo!
We had a great Christmas

We love Christmas-time

2009-12-14T07:41:00.005-07:00

Anna is not so sure about Santa

We have had a crazy month, Anna has been getting sick over and over. She saw a doctor 6 times during the last month. Three ear infections, the swine flu, Stitches, plus her year old visit. Whew! I am keeping my fingers crossed that she will be well for Christmas.

Sammy is so excited for Christmas! He always wants to go see the lights in the neighborhood. He loves the decorations, Anything about Santa, and of course the trains- Such a fun time of the year!

Anna is 1 year old!

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She loved her presents!

Thanks to Dj's Aunt for making the cake!

Good Friends

2009-11-16T13:36:00.001-07:00

I love to watch my kids playing together. They are such sweet kids. Anna is always getting into whaterver Sammy is playing with-and he is usually a good sport. (He does hide in his room sometimes to play alone) I cannot believe how old they are now.

Halloween

2009-11-16T13:33:00.002-07:00

Anna was Snow White
Sammy a fireman
They had such a good time!

Book of Mormon to Ipod

2009-10-11T21:25:00.002-06:00

Hey everyone,
Just in case you are interested. DJ spent a couple of hours getting the Book of Mormon formatted to the ipod audiobbok format. This makes it so that you can listen to the Book of Mormon in the audiobooks section so that it saves your place. i.e. you can go listen to music and then when you are feeling spiritual then you can switch back over to your place in the Book of Mormon. Let us know if you want a copy. Our stake presidency challenged us to read the whole thing in 100 days.This was our solution to deal with the distraction of the kids and trying to read the Book of Mormon at the same time. Just in case your curious to read it in 100 days its 7 pages a day or 26 hours of listening. DJ also did it in Portuguese. He will soon be adding Jesus the Christ to that collection as well. Transfer method will have to be creative though it is 439MB any ideas ?

Anna is Walking

2009-09-16T15:14:00.001-06:00

Anna started walking just before she was nine months, now she gets better and more independent.

2009-09-01T14:42:00.002-06:00

We have so much fun with the kids! We took the kids to Wheeler Farm, Sammy loved the animals. But he really loved! the tractors.

2009-07-14T16:26:00.004-06:00

We had fun with the Jex's at Lagoon

Anna is getting in trouble...again

Marketstar

2009-06-11T16:08:00.000-06:00

Dj has been at his new job almost two weeks now. He is working for Marketstar/HP. He is really enjoying the job. It is only for three month now..but we will see.

Crawling

2009-06-09T13:27:00.004-06:00

Anna learned to crawl this last week. She started on Thursday and has been on the move since. And as everything goes into her mouth I have to keep a much better eye out. I am having to baby-proof everything earlier than I had planned. Life just got a bit crazier.

2009-05-25T21:18:00.004-06:00

We went with my sister and her boys to ride Thomas in Heber, Sammy loved it!!!!They had so many fun things to do and see. The maze made out of hay bales, meeting Sir Topham Hat, and a petting zoo. We met old friends making balloon animals and had little Thomas stickers for the boys. Sammy has talked about it so much. It was a great adventure for him.

This is some great advice

2009-05-21T19:35:00.000-06:00

Wymount Memories

2009-05-21T18:46:00.007-06:00

Brigham, Carson, and Sammy

We got together with friends from Wymount and had a play date. These boys were all born around the same time. And it was fun to watch them grow up together. Then we moved around the same area after moving so the boys can still play together.

Then we all had girls with in several months of each other. It was so fun to watch the boys and their sisters playing together. They are so fun!

2009-04-21T12:54:00.000-06:00

Grandma Made this tutu for Anna- She was adorable at the Easter party.

Job Search

2009-04-02T11:16:00.002-06:00

DJ's company lost a couple big clients and he lost his job as a result so we are looking for a job. If you know of anything in Customer Service Managment that is where a most of his experience is.

Blessings

2009-03-29T21:17:00.008-06:00

We blessed Anna today. It reminded me how blessed I am. The weather was so scary, and snow was pouring down- Yet so many friends and family made sacrifices to be there. Grandma Lowe who had a miserable time in the canyon-my sister Diana who came on crutches from a shattered ankle, Dave who drove hours in blizzard conditions. Some giving up there meetings and callings, to drive in conditions that were awful. I felt overhweled by their love.

This was the photo from the news after I got home- which really made me even more grateful for the safety of those who came to the blessing.

We our so grateful for our family!!! Thank you for all the love, support and prayers you give us.

2009-03-09T10:24:00.003-06:00

Sammy has memorized these stories, and acts like he is reading them. It is really long...mainly for the grandparents.

2009-03-08T20:05:00.002-06:00

Happy St Patricks Day

Anna is a bit over three months now, she rolled over on Friday. She is so smiley! Sammy loves her and is very cute with her.

Baby Anna Video

2009-01-16T19:02:00.002-07:00

Anna is growing so fast. We all love her so much. She is a very sweetbaby, and very happy as you can see.

2009-01-03T17:43:00.001-07:00

The holidays

2009-01-03T17:20:00.007-07:00

New Years was great, we bought a bunch of party hats, noise makers...and Sammy ran around yelling "Happy New Ear" (yes ear, that was not a typo) It was so cute.

Sammy loves everything about Christmas. Lights, Christmas Trees, Santa, Presents, and of course all the treats being brought over by friends. Christmas was so fun, Sammy opened everyone's presents...and was so excited for everything...toys or socks. It was a great day.

I had my wisdom teeth taken out the Monday before Christmas, so I looked a bit like Quasimodo.

My mother-in-law gave me a great disguise for photos. I was a bit medicated throughout most of our Christmas activities...but it was all so much fun with our little family. I was just so grateful for DJ, my mother, and my mother-in-law. I could not have made it though without them. DJ has been especially amazing....helping out so much!

Doing well

2008-12-12T15:34:00.003-07:00

We are all doing well...after being home from the hospital 2 weeks today, we are all feeling good.

Hibernation mode has set in, I feel like I am avoiding people now because of RSV. Everyone who coughs is looked on with suspision. We are happy and having a wonderful Christmas season.

Bili-blanket

2008-12-01T13:26:00.005-07:00

Thank goodness for the bili-blanket!!! Anna has Jaundice, (DJ said she looked like an Oompa Loompa) And we had a scary few days, but now thanks to the bili-blanket she is starting to improve. She is so sweet and loves to sleep..during the day...at night she loves to be awake. She is adorable and we are so happy to have her. Sammy loves her...he keeps kissing her and saying..she's so cute.

Anna is Born!!!

2008-11-26T08:53:00.004-07:00

Just wanted to let everyone know that Anna is born. She was born at 2:34AM on November 26th. She was 8lbs. 21in. long. She is doing very well. Sharon is also doing well and we hope to go home tommorow for Turkey Day! Video to follow.

Moving...again

2008-10-27T14:42:00.002-06:00

So we are moving about a block away from our current apartment. The crazy thing is I will be just over eight months, about 37 weeks as we move. (CRAZY!) We decided we wanted to save money and move to a smaller place. I will miss my kitchen..sniff..sniff. When we decided to move I do not think I realised how pregnant I was going to be. I just hope this baby does not come early!!! WE are excited about it, and don't even have to change wards!!!! Wish us luck!

New Job

2008-10-26T15:32:00.003-06:00

DJ changed jobs this week. After saying goodbye to Kohl's and the life of a Retail Manger DJ has started working for Galileo Processing here in Salt Lake City. He works just past the airport off of I-80 now. DJ will be one of their Customer Service Managers for their call center. We are excited because we were able to use his call center jobs and his management jobs to roll into one position. DJ will be working a more fixed schedule now mainly M-F with an occasional weekend.

2008-09-16T16:56:00.002-06:00

Sammy is getting so big. He is two and a half and everyone thinks he is older. He surprises me everyday. I hope he will be a good big brother...he is so used to being the only child, it will take some adjustments.

Anna is so active, she is kicking and moving all the time. I only have 11 weeks left!!! I am finding chasing a two year old is exhausting when you are six and a half months pregnant But is is so much fun right now. I am a little scared to find out what two will be like.

Graduation We did it!

2008-08-26T08:56:00.004-06:00

On the 15th we finally made it and DJ graduate. We went down the day before and it was nice to see all of our friends at Wymount again. DJ got his Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies.

For those of you who are super observant you will note that DJ's robe is not black. Thursday night while Sharon was watching TV she noticed that the people on TV were wearing Blue Robes. She mentioned this to DJ who stupidly blamed it on pregnancy eyes and something along the lines of somebody would have said something if the color changed. Well as you can guess she was right. We ran over to our old neighborhood and were asking anyone that we could find if they robes were black or blue. Everyone seemed to think that they were black. Finally our old neighbor's the Ellars came walking by in blue robes. Then we knew DJ once again had been victim to ignoring Sharon's well placed spiritual observations as paranoia. In an effort to be cheap I had borrowed a robe from my brother in law that was black. After a long hour or two determining that we could not get a robe that late in the evening we tried to sleep. Since my graduation was at 7:30 in the morning I was worried about what I would be able to find.

We ended up going over to the faculty rental and bribing them with a credit card. $40 later (and a much happier wife) I had my blue robe. Later we figured out that we had left our credit card there and had to go back for it. It was action packed few hours and I matched everyone else.

The Wheels on The Bus

2008-08-09T22:10:00.003-06:00

Sammy has been learning the words to all of his favorite songs. His nursey singing leader is very good and has inspired his new notes along with the help of his mommy.

Jan the Van

2008-07-27T21:27:00.008-06:00

For all of you out there who have been wondering.... Yes we needed a bigger car for the new baby. Meet Jan the Van . She has two sliding doors, 15 cupholders (but only seats 7), She has all of the newest safety features side and curtain airbags for front seats and both back row seats. She also has a secret cargo department that the seats collapse into. We are hoping she can take Mario Maxima (see the Packers latest addition) out for a ride.

Sammy calls her Chia (that is sammy speak for Kia). He loves being able to look out all the windows and see the cars go by.. best of all she has tinted windows so it doesn't get to sunny in the backseat. We did discover one of Sharon's hidden talents negotiating with Car Dealers. If you need a good deal on a car give her a call. Her I'm tired and I'm pregnant with a screaming two year will beat down any salesman on the block. Of course that might work for anyone that decided to keep their 2 year old and pregnant wife in dealership with a broken air conditioner for 3 hours.

We are having a girl!!!

2008-07-16T18:16:00.003-06:00

We had our 20 week ultrasound today. And it is a girl! We have really been excited and wanting a girl this time, I have been eyeing all the little pink dresses. She will be expected around December 2, 2008.
She is really active ( I knew that long before we saw her squirming around on the monitor) I keep thinking I am nervous..but the butterflies are just the very active baby.
Sammy is so cute about the baby, he was so excited to see the ultrasound photo...saying "Hi Baby." We play a game where I wrap up one of his stuffed animals and pretend it is a baby. He is so sweet and soft with it--kissing and whispering to the "baby." Then he gets bored and throws it on the ground. We need to work on that part.
We are so excited...and it was really good that it's a girl..I was almost in tears yesterday because we could not think of any boy names at all. (I cry a lot more since being pregnant-movies I've seen a hundred times now bring me to tears)
Now I have to go on a hunt for pink...if she is ever going to compete with Sammy for toys, clothes, and just "stuff."

We are finally Done!

2008-05-27T19:00:00.002-06:00

Well after alot of hard work on David's (DJ's) part and even more work on Sharon's part we are finally done with our classes for BYU! We will be going to graduation ceremonies on August 13th. Hope to see you all there.

New Job

2008-05-27T18:54:00.002-06:00

We are so excited! David (DJ) will be working for Kohl's Department Store as a Managment Trainee. He will work for six months in training learning the aspects of Kohl's and then if all goes well he will be moving on to a full blown manager at a nearby store. Part of the reason we picked Kohl's is because of how cute their clothes are. Check out their website for good deals. http://www.kohls.com

Welcome to our Blog

2008-05-27T18:53:00.002-06:00

Well, as you can tell we are still getting our blog under construction. With some changes in our lives and moving we should have some things up soon. Feel free to make comments and suggestins as we build the site.