Fowler's Funny Farm

Elementary Spirit Week

2011-10-04T16:12:00.001-06:00

80s day at school and my kids were rockin it.

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Our new addition

2011-09-26T09:33:00.001-06:00

Our friend gave us their rats and the kids have been loving them, especially Michael.

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Michaels First Hair Cut

2011-09-01T16:02:00.001-06:00

We finally broke down and gave Michael a hair cut at ten months old. He was a little angel, and sat so still while Jake have him the buzz.

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Jayla on her first day of Kindergarten

2011-08-30T13:05:00.001-06:00

Jayla was excited to go to school and see her friends. She was quite disappointed when she was not assigned the same table as her bff Tacoma. She is over it now and tells me they get to play together at recess.

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Johns first broken binge

2011-08-25T11:27:00.001-06:00

I received a call last Monday night from a friend. "Where are you, I think John broke his arm." Sure enough after 4 hours in urgent care, the doc confirmed it was broken.

He was feeling pretty miserable, but after his arm was casted in Bronco orange and some pain meds, he's feeling pretty good. This will put a damper on football season however, Jakes helping coach, so the broken arm doesn't get John out of going to practice.

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Star Wars

2011-07-16T11:56:00.001-06:00

Took John to the Star Wars exhibit before we left Houston. The props and costumes from the movies were there. He enjoyed it.

movies

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Home Sweet Home

2011-07-15T18:33:00.001-06:00

While we were in Texas Jake received a phone call from a friend about a sales job opportunity in the Boise area. Jake followed the lead and sure enough he was offered a position. We packed up our car and headed back to Idaho.

We are glad to be back and excited for Jakes new job. He will be an outside sales rep for a company called Shred It. We had rented our home out for the summer so are staying with my parents until September then we will move back in our Garden Valley home. The kids love being back and have been busy playing with friends every day.

Last night I took the kids to see "The wizard of Oz" at our local outdoor theater and we all agreed with Dorothy when she said, "There s no place like home." We love this relaxing Garden Valley life.

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Fashion Show att the childrens museum

2011-07-03T20:55:00.001-06:00

At the childrens museum the kids were able to make their own outfits and then model them on stage.

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2011-06-23T19:56:00.001-06:00

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Jayla's Buggin'

2011-06-23T18:48:00.001-06:00

Jayla has found a great spot outside our apartment to find snails and rolly polly bugs. She loves to explore and collect all she finds.

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The Zoo

2011-06-12T13:35:00.001-06:00

We enjoyed the zoo with Jake's cousin Kim and her little boy Tate. John's favorite was the chimps. They were eating when we got there. The treats had a significant resemblence to dog turds and all the kids were grossed out thinking the Chimps were eating their own feces. It took me a while to convince John otherwise. YUCK!

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The Houston Children's Museum

2011-06-11T19:07:00.001-06:00

We bought a pass to the wonderful children's museum that is two blocks from our apartment. There is so much for the kids to do that on our first visit we stayed for five hours and still didn't see it all.

Jayla built herself a marina in the outdoor water works area.

The kids did self face painting. John was a professor and Jayla was a butterfly.

Micheal is so good to hang in his stroller and take it all in.

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Our busy first week

2011-06-10T21:13:00.001-06:00

Two days after we arrived we ventured to a nearby museum and park.

The kids enjoyed the stuffed animals at the Museum of Natural History.

We rode a train through the park. John and Jayla thought it was great.

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Our long drive

2011-06-09T21:42:00.001-06:00

Jayla called it getting a car ache, which best explains how we felt after three days in the car. We drove through Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma to get to our summer home on Houston, Texas.

Micheal was so amazing the whole trip. Happy to have so much time playing with his big bro and sis.

Jayla enjoyed the scenery and long naps.

John stayed busy playing video games on the Ipad and cell phones.

We finally made it to the big city, 3rd largest in the country.

Houston

2011-06-09T20:01:00.002-06:00

We have moved to Houston, TX for the summer. Jake is selling security systems and the kids and I are playing. We have been here for a few weeks and starting to settle in to our summer vacation of swimming, parks and museums. I hope to keep this blog a little more updated so that our families can see the kids growing and having fun. I have really enjoyed being able to spend so much time with my children.

John is such a good boy. He is so honest and obedient. He got baptized last month and bore his testimony last Sunday. He did a great job going in front of the ward, which is much much bigger than our branch in Garden Valley. It was a wonderful for him. He asked me why I didn't go up and I said because I had to feed Micheal, John smiled at me and said "it's cause your scared." He was mostly right.

Jayla is almost 5 years old and is such a precious girl. She loves being able to swim everyday. She is becoming quite a great swimmer. She is constantly amazing me at all she can do. Our apartment complex is like a big maze. There are quite a few different buildings with two swimming pools in between, a few courtyards, the parking garage, a lobby and throw in where we get the mail, I am fequently trying to remember which turn to make. But my little Jayla has got it all memorized. I just ask her, which way to the elevator, or which way to the mailboxes and she'll say this way or that. I just follow her and have yet to be disappointed.

Michael is growing so fast. When we got here he still hadn't found his legs. But now he is standing all the time. He is so proud of himself about it too. He'll stand and laugh. He is also rolling all over the place and eating baby food. He is growing too fast, but I am trying to enjoy every minute of it. He also is loving swimming in the pool and meeting new people. He loves new people, their voices and faces keep him very occupied.

We have also got to spend some time with two of cousins, one from each side of the family. It has been nice to get to know them better. Hopefully you will check back with us often and see how our Texas adventure is going.

Houston Fun

2011-05-28T14:19:00.001-06:00

Jayla, John and Micheal

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Ode to Michelle; Our trip to the zoo

2011-05-26T21:44:00.003-06:00

pooped

2009-09-14T19:05:00.004-06:00

After Dinner Conversation

Mom finishes the food on her plate, takes a deep sigh and says

"I'm pooped."

3 year old Jayla, scrunches her eyebrows, looks at mom and asks

"In your underwear?"

I am still laughing my head off!

Redfish Lake and more

2009-08-16T18:27:00.003-06:00

Time for an update!!

Cheif Yellow Hair

Jayla pettin our neighbors horse through our back fence.

Enjoying Ice cream by the Lake

Me and my buddies! That cute boy is our family friend Jeremiah.

Daddy with the kids after a boat ride around the Lake

2009-07-01T21:26:00.002-06:00

My Basketball Stars!

(enough said)

Duo Airplane Daddy

2009-05-13T21:20:00.002-06:00

Big John is 6!

2009-05-08T12:43:00.002-06:00

We celebrated Johns birthday with a few friends and family. He went 4-wheeling, swimming and ate lots of yummy chocolate cake. Good Times!

The KISS

2009-04-13T19:13:00.003-06:00

Need I say more?? Well, I will. I have maybe two, MAYBE two pictures of Jake and I kissing on our wedding day. He hates PDA, so when he consented to hold the pose for this photo I was very ecstatic, to say the least. I have waited 8 years for this picture so it definitely deserves its own spot on my blog for the world to see!

Winter Festival

2009-02-27T10:33:00.005-07:00

McCall Winter Festival

We enjoyed the McCall Winter Festival a few Saturdays ago. It was a lot of fun and the kids enjoyed the parade and the we enjoyed the ice sculptures. There was some really awesome ones. The kids favorite was the dragon castle which had a slide and tunnels for them to play on. After the festival we drove up to Tamarack and Jake showed us all the nice homes and some of the ones he sold the wood siding to. It was almost like a ghost town up there but it was gorgeous.

Why you should get married?

2009-02-10T20:36:00.001-07:00

A conversation, between John and his friend Ruby, I listened in on as we were driving.

John "I am going to marry Sammy"

Ruby "I am not going to get married, I am just going to stay a kid forever"

After much thought John replies "I have to get married because I have to eat."

Thus I see that through John's eyes my roll as a wife is to feed my husband, I suppose I should work on that one, ehh?

Sledding!!

2009-01-28T14:51:00.004-07:00

I don't think sledding can get much cuter than this!

A few weeks ago we invited Jake's family up to go sledding, swimming and have dinner at our place. We had a pretty good turnout and everyone was excited to do it again. The Peery's, Jacobs, Burke's (minus Roman), the Thomas's and the Floyds all made it. We had a blast but were all bummed when Teresa flew off her tube and tore a ligament in her shoulder. Sadly we waved good bye to the Peery clan, but the party must go on so we headed up to the pools!

I forgot my camera so I had to download Aunt Michelle's pictures. This was the only one I have of John. He is the one in the orange coat on the right, enjoying the delicious snow with the boys!

Jake and Jayla went down quite a few times and then enjoyed hanging out at the bottom of the hill chit chatting.

Here Kathy and I (center) are telling Teresa about our death defying run we just went down. Now we know why no one else was going down it, slow, boring until we got the the end and all the sudden we're cruisin' quite fast and the trail suddenly turns and we went shooting off the bank and flying off our tubes. Many things run through my mind like, "this can not end good." Alas, after a mental check of all limbs, I am okay and Kathy also. Ahhh, GOOD TIMES!! I really enjoyed spending time with Kathy, I haven't had much of a chance to get to know her, and it turns out she is just as awesome and fun to be around as the other Haddock girls.

Here is me with Jayla and cousin Brinley. Brin is so cute, I wanted to take her home with me!!

I didn't have any eating pictures but just imagine all of gathered in a warm wood stove heated living room with YUMMY taco soup. We missed all those who didn't make it and hope to see you next time around.

All my friends are doing it!

2009-01-04T18:01:00.004-07:00

I have felt some pressure from the Spirit to ponder on my life and make a New Years resolution. There is something that makes me cringe when I think of New Years Resolutions. I really don't like them at all. I don't make them, due mainly to the fact that I really don't like failure and it seems no one ever sticks to their NYR. I do however set small goals throughout the year, but I now feel it is time to get serious and at the same time real with myself. I loved my cousins Amberly's new area of focus for the year, obedience. I was tempted to just copy and paste her blog entry into mine. Nope, that won't work, so I am going to keep pondering and praying on what my (gritting my teeth as I type) New Years Resolution, yuck will be. Just wondering what your NYR is.

WINTER WONDERLAND!

2008-12-29T23:47:00.004-07:00

Just wanted to brag that I live in such a beautiful place. This is what it looked like at our house Christmas Eve. I know pretty much everyone got snow for Christmas, but did it look like this?? Probably not!

My apple tree out my kitchen window. Delightful!

Our driveway. Beautiful!!

This is the view out our bedroom and back door. Gorgeous!!

I am surely blessed by the Lord to live in such a beautiful and awe inspiring place. I thank Him daily for this blessing. I love this valley and all the wonderful family,friends and associated we have here. I know that we are truly blessed.

MOVE MOM!!!!!

2008-12-23T15:21:00.004-07:00

We had a full house the other day and to help calm the energy of all the young-uns. I bundled them all up which took a good 20 minutes and out we went. They kids were having so much fun that I had to get a video of them all crammed on the sled going down our driveway. Here is my attempt which ended me on my back in the snow. Enjoy!!

Christmas Concert!

2008-12-12T17:48:00.000-07:00

I guess it's time for us to jump on the band wagon and start up a blog. So for this first post here is - Drum roll please- that's right, you guessed it John and Jayla!! This was taken before John's Christmas Concert.

Here is John with his friends waiting for the concert to start.

John performing like a star next to his buddy Jordan. They are both absolute hams, always wanting to make everyone laugh and have center stage. That doesn't sound like any Callisters or Allens we know, does it?

This is John with his best girl friend, Sammy. She used to be his girlfriend and they were going to get married. Recently John decided he would have to wait until he gets older to make that decision. However, he has yet to break the news to her.

Jayla is wearing a beautiful dress from Grandma Mary. Jayla absolutely loves this dress, I almost thought I was going to have to let her sleep in it. As you will see in the video, Jayla was more into her spinning dress than any of the singing, consequently so was I and most of those around us.