Our Redneck Summer

Wilson Family Campout 2010

What are little boys made of?

My cute Jake nephew

Amber girl...cutest little babe!

Abby flyin high

My cute Cami girl

Sisters

Grandma...and what ah.. is that? Amber Spring

Cousins

Best Uncle everrrr...

Ava wants a baby sister and was fascinated with Amber


Rob's Backpacking Adventure

High Creek lake

We're on top of the world...

Annie and Justin...ready for another day of hiking?

Justin's not so sure.

Stephens!!!
Visit from some of our best buds EEEEvvveeerrr!

Famous Preston night Parade and Rodeo

Cowgirl Abby

Rob all decked out for the rodeo

Aspen is ready to devour some candy!

Is the parade gonna start yet?

My cute sister Heather....I love having her live nearby!

Hope's best friend SueSue was given away to another family, but Hope and Sue spent a lot of hours together gnawing and slobbering all over each other, napping, and eating hope's food. We miss sue!

Motorcross races in Fairview

Thanks Gilberts!

Even little guys get on these little dirt bikes and tear it up!

Rednecks? mmm maybe but I love it!

It was awesome!

Boating Baby!!!

Leah...you go girl!!!

Davin lookin like a natural

Thanks Davin and Leah for playing!

We look forward to when these guys return from Pocatello...it can't come soon enough.

My friend Tiffani's son, Clayton...watch out girls he's still got a few years until he's 16

Check out that tower...pretty rad invention babe!

Rob in his happiest state

I still LOVE summer!!!

What we've been up to this summer...
(Pictures to come...uploading not happening)

~Mx Races in our backyard...just one field over.
~Boating...and boating some more! Rob created a new tower to replace his old one and it has worked great! Rob is always the happiest on his wakeboard and I love to see him smile and enjoy it!
~Ragnar (Rob and Justin ran it, Annie and I volunteered)
~Justin & Annie got married and just moved to Moscow
~I ran a 10k for the first time
~Nicholas left on his mission to the Seattle WA Mission...I'm so proud of him and miss him of course.
~We went to Lagoon with DFA young cooperators and discovered again that Lagoon was way more fun as little kids! What is this motion sickness stuff?! We didn't even attempt the white roller coaster this year. Last year cured us of that.
~4th of July breakfast at Grandma and Grandpa Bowles...I look forward to this every year!
~Preston Famous Night Rodeo
~NO more school, no more books, no more teacher dirty looks (until today...Rob's first day of School)
~Preston Parade
~Canoeing down the cub river
~Preston Fair
~Rob's Birthday...He is a quarter of a century old now and still cute as ever!
~Wilson Family campout
~Working on the farm (Probably one of my favorite activities of my whole summer...just playing and working on the farm with Rob) I swathed for the first time this year...and I need a lot more practice...oops sorry about the rabbit ears.
~Gardening and canning. Our garden has rocked this year and we are just excited to have canned our own grean beans and froze our own corn....yummers! (We've had spinach, radishes, peas, corn, chives, cilantro, chinese cabbage, tomatoes, zuchinni, basil, and pumpkins of course)
~Rob & I had our 3rd year anniversary!
~Rob and Justin went backpacking from Tony's grove in Utah to Willow flats in Idaho. They slept in a large Elk family's bed of soft grass and listened to them bark all night.
~Working in the ER (I start part time officially in September and I feel really good about this change).
~Benton's nine month Birthday was August 16th...Happy Birthday baby boy! We think about you often and shed lots of tears because we miss you so much. But we know you are in good hands and that you are watching over us and doing missionary work! We love you Benton Boy!
~Mowing the lawn again and again...it never stops growing...thank you Udy Lawncare.
~Demolition Derby...I love em!!!
~Heather, Brandon, and kids moved back to Cache Valley after 7 years in Colorado and they live 15 minutes from us in Richmond! I love it!!!
~Jenny and Ryan moved back to Utah! Ryan commutes to LA and stays with Grandma Edwards during the week.
~Now all 5 of my siblings live in Utah! We are the only Idahoans (Don't tell Rob, but I'm becoming proud of this idaho country living).
~Charlie James Wilson joined Jenny, Ryan, Jack, and Grace in June.
~Emily, Isaac, and Eli came to visit us while in Utah!!!
~Trying to keep my flowers alive all summer... I lined my flower beds with bricks and we created some terraced flower beds in our frontyard.
~Bull Bonanza...Yee hawww!!!
~Ate lots of icecream and popsicles...Thankyou Caspers for your 81 cent icecream cones in July!
~Thank you Sunshine for bringing me pure rays of joy! I never get tired of seeing you and think you are one of God's Best creations!

Welcome to the Happy Farm

It all started with Axel Rose back in 2008...Who says you can't have rabbits in the booming metropolis of Logan?

Then the 2 La Mancha goats...Gucci & Jar Jar

Even when your down to your last few dollars, there is money in the tip box left for these...

Then Laura and Derrick...this little piggy went to Theurers Market, and this one had babies galore

Mama Laura proud of 12 beautiful babies...

Including our adorable Willbur

Then came Hope this spring...

She used to be able to fit here...but her paws said differently

She's not little any more.

Meet our newest Happy Farm addition...Jackabee

It all begins with an innocent look Jackabee's way.

One of Hope's favorite cookie Jars

Also one of jackabee's favorites

Rob the Mediator...they often have to be split up

Our form of entertainment...Hope & Jackabee Act III

Each morning, that I am not at work, I wake up to the mooing of the 2 cows in our pasture begging for grain, Hope barking at anything moving, and Jackabee meowing to be released from the backporch to play. It's nice to be needed :)

Welcome to Bowles Happy Farm where all your dreams come true!

Meet Nebraska's Sky Cowboy, named Logan

Don't forget to pause my noisey music below first. This video is beautiful...

Happy Cinco de Mayo

Mi Casa es Su Casa

Eleven months and four offers later here we are in the great state of Idaho. Nothing too fancy, but in comparison to our last and wonderful apartment we have upgraded to a mansion. Rob has an acre or so for his goats and Axel has a bigger Rabbit pen (her old one flew out of Nick's truck on the way to it's new home). And as my father-in-law says we have joined the idiots of America in getting in debt. We are happy here and love our home and having our own yard! Hevanely Father is definately in charge and I do believe that this is where we're supposed to be.

Our Backyard

Side yard

Other side yard...garden and rabbit pen back there

We've planted some fun stuff in the yard since this picture...this is where some of my favorite free time is spent, outside in the sunshine.

Part of the fam room

Other part of the Family room/Living room

Bedroom

Spare room, no longer a storage room (it only took 2+ months:), Benton's room

It took forrrever until I finally found a shower curtain I like. If you saw our last shower, you know why this was such a big deal to me :)

El Bano

I have a place to plug in my blow dryer and it's not in the kitchen or in the bedroom. After 14 years of having no plug in the bathroom we have an electrical outlet.

The place I sometimes even cook in. Dishwashers and freezers are THE BEST!

I love having an oven that works!!!

There is an upstairs also that we plan on completing at some point in the future...room to grow. The last family that lived here had 3 kids in one room so we are good to go for several years down the road.

Thank you Judd and Katie for letting us buy your house and for doing all the dirty work before we bought it!

Happy 5 Months Lil Man...

Rob and I went to visit Benton's grave last Friday and this is what we found...Benton's headstone had been placed!!! We didn't expect this until closer to memorial day and were so delighted!

This is Baby Land in Logan Cemetery that you can see behind Rob. It is an incredible place that has only babies buried there. The graves are covered with toys. We are so grateful that Benton gets to be here in this sacred spot.

Benton is starting to get an awful lot of toys...We get a lot of joy out of bringing him all kinds of fun!

Benton has his own farm up there thanks to Daddy especially. He owns more animals and tractors than any other Five month old I know. :)

This poem is really special to us because our sealer said it in our temple ceremony. It has hung on our wall since we were married and it's full impact came even more to life when our little man passed away and so we had it engraved on the back of his headstone.

This poem is on the back of the below angel. This head stone is the main headstone for babyland. I don't know who donated it, but it is beautiful and represents all of these beautiful little miracles.

This is engraved above the angel.

Thank you very much to all of you for your love, generosity, comments, prayers, and support! We have been so blessed! And thank you to Brown Monument for doing such a beautiful job on our little man's headstone! We couldn't have asked for a better surprise that day!