Clean Up Before Coming Inside

It's the only way to stay cool out here. Rowdy and I love our new yard. Mowing, weeding, watering, you name it Rowdy does it for cheap. Child labor laws anyone. So with an actual yard now Rowdy loves to get dirty and Celeste makes me squirt him off before he's allowed in the house.

Update

Yay! We finally got internet. and we are in our home! and all our stuff is here! not necessarily all out of boxes but it is all here! pictures will come soon. but so much is going on I don't want to forget!
Cody is still working on the railroad, and loving (as am I) living near some of his siblings. In fact last night he and his brother Tad went to the Scion Drag and Brag. funny huh! I am trying to talk him into entering our little toaster.
I can't bend over any more so poor Cody is on foot duty! massages, painting of the toenails, and shaving of the legs. (Maybe that's why I haven't seen him in a while!) but I don't really wear tennies during the summer so he lucked out with no shoelaces to tie. but besides the whole feet thing I am feelin' pretty good. One more month to go! August 12th. Still no definite name!
Rowdy is hilarious and hyper. He wakes us up every morning wanting to watch a "poopie" I am positive he is trying to say movie. He says, "I want to watch a Cars poopie." you know the Disney movie Cars. Its his favorite. I don't let him though. Its my bargaining tool and boy do I need it. He is very opinionated. He is talking a lot and really surprising us with his amazing memory. He remembers quite a few songs and can count to fourteen. Some of my favorite things he says are simple words but he says them with true understanding. like, "oh" (this one is probably my favorite) ,"Yuck!", "ummm" and we cannot forget, "drink a juice please". and he likes to sing and dance. actually I make him dance if he wants blueberries because I think it is so cute. He sort of gallops around and swings his arms all crazy. or he will do a sort of robotic bootie shake. I will work on getting a video of it. but he is such a good kid. He is sleeping all night in his "big boy bed". We ended up shoving the pack and play next to his bed so he doesn't roll off of the bed during the night. so anyway there is the short of it. I have a lot of catching up to do before this bebe comes!

Ain't nothin' finer than a 29er

I just can't get over what a great man I snagged, and he is pretty hot...... for an old guy

(just imagine that's me in the picture and not Rowdy)

Cody got his father's day gift for his birthday.
We went to Lewisville Lake to try it out and had a really nice time.

Cousin Kelly made an irresistable cake.

It was sort of for Cody.

Cody bustin' a move...

To the neices rendition of Happy Birthday!

Lynda made Cody some yumalicious homade sourdough bread

Oh! and we made gnocchis for dinner. That was an adventure!

and this is what happens when you eat too much black frosting

Thanks for the awesome cake Kelly

Well we hope you had a good day Codzao.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Uncle Cody!

The neices put together a fun list of....

29 reasons why this 29 year old is wierd!

Cody is so weird because he wears flower socks to church.

he is weird because he took so long to see if he wanted to live by us.

he is weird because he calls zoe george.

he is weird because he calls livee livillen.

he is weird because he wanted to name his baby luigi.

he is weird because he is so protective of his collectable cars.

he is weird because when he was on his mission he put sun screen on his bootie that said CTR.

he is weird because he is weird.

he is weird because he wears pink.

he is weird because he likes to wear silly socks and shoes.

he is weird because celeste does not think he is.

he is weird because he has weird sun burns.

he is weird because he makes us dance crazily for no reason.

he is weird because he makes us die are teeth black.

he is weird because he dances weird on his birthday.

he is weird because he ate elmo's nose.

he is weird because he made zoe and livee eat elmo's eye balls and made paige eat his nose.

he is weird because he laughs funny.

he is weird because he named his kid rowdy.

he is weird because he stinks up the bathroom.

he is weird because he reads in the bath.

he is weird because he wants to read this.

he is weird because he wants to be.

he is weird because he drives a toaster.

he is weird because he likes dill pickle sun flower seeds.

he is weird because he watches boring sport shows.

he is weird because he did not kiss celeste first.

P.S. he is weird because he thinks every body else is weird.

We are in escrow!

Here is a link to some photos of our almost new abode.

We shoudl have the keys on June 27th!

New Home

Catfishing

We went catfishing yesterday with Cody's friend Brian .

It was really fun, but...

I thought everything was supposed to be bigger in TX!?

Oh!... I am!

Rewind!

We have seriously been MIA as far as blogging goes. So if you want the chronological story rewind to the february post that has been emblazoned on our blog for most of the year, and hopefully by the time you get to the present I will have caught up on all of my place holders!

May 17th

B day stuff

Yoga Baby

So Baby bowler is due August 12th.

We had a real sonogram taken a few weeks ago here in TX, and the little guy was getting his morning stretches in when all of the sudden, Yes! Foot to head. He must be a little Californian like his Dad and Papa Arlan, because I haven't heard the term Metro out here yet.

I love that the little man did this because no offense to the babe, but we have been so preoccupied with house hunting he has kind of taken the back burner of our minds. But seeing his little personality come out made us remember how excited and lucky we are to be having another little man in our home, hopefully house :)

p.s. we put an offer down on one today!

Rowdy Shout Out

New Rowdy stuff

We are in TX!

Which is a little closer to New Orleans

CA stuff

Cause I'm Fidy!

Mom's 50th B day, San Diego

Nor Cal Extravaganza

Idaho to Locke and Katie's house=14 hours! yikes. We split it up just right though and it wasn't bad at all. It was so wierd driving into California, thinking I am not going to be a Californian any more! Thats all I have ever known. And really if you are trying to talk yourself into moving to another state Nor Cal is not the place to do it. It is soo beautiful and just cool.
It was so fun to play with Armanie and watch her and Rowdy run around together.

Aunt Katie got some free mulch for her new herb garden

We got to go to half moon bay. It was gorgeous!

and if you see any cones in the background they were to protect the baby sea lions.

It was however a very windy day

Awwww

Windy much?!

Rowdy didn't like to touch the sea anemonies, he was more into throwing rocks at them.

Not quite the tender heart

Armanie is so stinkin' cute

We also watched conference, had a spring easter celebration, costco lunch and lots of fun. Thanks Locke and Katie for the nice vacation, and geting the mouse!

How Peanut Butter saved the day

So when we were in UT, my cousin Missy showed me a Down East Basics Discount store by her house! I was super excited because they have cute clothes and long prego shirts. While I was there I stumbled upon a denim skirt that I totally loved when I saw it in their catalog and tried to buy for $30, but they were sold out. I figured it would be an amazing staple. So at this little gem of a discount store I found the skirt for $5! because it needed a new zipper. woo hoo!
So then we were in Idaho, with a crazy wintery April blizzard. My grandparents live near a grain silo that was on my great Grandpa's farm, and it was cooold. So we head out to California to visit Locke & Katie and we do think its a little weird that there is a hole in our bag o' cookies. and in Reno I go to try on this cutest denim skirt and the butt has been gnawed through! definite rodent nest material!! ahhhh! Thank goodness for discount stores. Long story short we talked ourselves into the fact there was no mouse in the car because we couldn't find it, but in CA just to be safe Locke set traps with peanut butter and lets just say we are glad the border patrol didn't ask us about bringing cold little field mice into California. poor little guy.

Road Trip!

So since Texas is even farther away from Idaho than California. My Mom talked us into joining her on her spring break road trip to visit the Fam. and we conveniently left the day before the truck had to be packed. Sorry Cody! Rowdy was super good in the car on the way up. I am kicking myself for not getting the pics from my mom's camera, but we did stop to see Syd (Cody's little sister, who is studying cosmetology in Orem) who gave Rowdy a little trim around the ears, and we also stopped near Salt Lake to see the Anderson family and see Missy's (Celeste's cousin) cute new house.
My Mom's birthday was in 2 weeks so all of her brothers and sisters in teh area surprised her with a half birthday, because she was going to be a half a century old, as in 50. It was hilarious all the gifts were in half. My favorite was the bag of gummy bears in which all of the gummy bears inside had been lovingly snipped in two, and the box of chocolates in which half a bite had been taken out of each chocolate! talk about following through with a theme!

There were also some maja blizzards while we were in ID.

Rowdy had so much fun with Grandma and Grandpa Walker

Can you tell we are related?

We all have the same tummies

Goodbye OC

Well, all of the sudden Cody was the youngest guy working on the railroad in L.A. We had talked and even looked at buying homes in TX a few times before and this just felt like the right time to do it. Maybe it was Heavenly father giving us a kick in the pants? It was really hard to say goodbye. We can blame the tears on pregnancy hormones, but it was really hard to say goodbye to our sweet friends and neighbors. Our last night here Cody surprised Rowdy and I by inviting some friends to a beach bonfire. It was perfect.

Tobie Veronica and Cody, our neighbors. Monica my BFF and Megan a soccer friend, Kaidee cutie pie, Chelsea my running partner and friend and her family Steve and Kyle and Ashley Came to the Bon-fire slash beach bike riding goodbye. It was sweet.

Ashley Rowdy and Kyle=buff arms for mamas pushing them 4 miles in strollers almost every morning

We felt so loved as we headed out on our new adventure.

We really couldn't have made such a quick move without everyone's help.

Thanks for baby sitting Rowdy, packing boxes, having last minute hurahs with us, loading the truck, dinners, giving new homes to some of our jizunk, and sending us off with love.

Can sonograms be cute?

So just in case you are far away, and haven't seen that my belly is already popping out, I just thought I should let the blogging world know we are prego! We are due August 20-th-ish.

Isn't this sonogram so cute?! Our good, creative and generous friends the Legrone's gave me this so cute congratulatory t shirt and I just love the illustration.

During this break from blogging I have noticed a weird little habit I have, I wonder if it is universal. I keep going to look at our blog even though I know nothing new is on it. I feel so silly every time I do it and yet I am too lazy to update it when I am there. Its almost a little ocd. yikes! and as an excuse to myself, I think I haven't blogged as much since we got this new desk because its a little awkward to get to the uploady picture thing.

Check it out

We won a photo shoot, as a blog contest on 30 days, with Rachel Clare, a talented photographer. Her work is really fun and she was super nice. anyway she put up a few pics of Rowdy on her blog. and if you post a comment on her blog she is throwing in an extra print for us.

Fire Ants Round 2

On Tuesday I went golfing again and not only did my score suck, I got attacked by fire ants. I would tell you about the first time I got attacked by fire ants on the golf course but there might be children and moms reading. Lets just say that I was bitten 37 times in the knee vicinity and yes I am allergic. No more bare skin at golf courses.

Tacos al Pastor

Tacos for dinner were so good. Rowdy fell asleep and other guests plans came up so Celeste and I had it all to ourselves. The pork booty was marinated for 24 hours and came out delicioso. Everyone missed out.

Rally's Christmas present...yummmy

Why aren't sneakers cheaper?

This song my brother showed me cracks me up, its a clip from a tv show slash band, Flight of the Conchordes. I can't recommend all of their songs, but this one is hilarious to me. You might have to listen to it more than once.

Nothin' like a hearty baby laugh

Happy Sabbath

Christmas

I finally have a little time to blog, and my camera is in the car with Cody.
Anyway holiday rundown. We spent Christmas in the IE with our family. Locke, Katie, Armanie and Syd came into town. We did quite a bit of geocaching. Including Christmas day, for our presents (my Dad hid them around town and gave us the coordinates. It was super fun.) Christmas night slept at Yaya and Papa's it was fun to watch Rowdy and Armanie tear paper, crawl through tents, sit at their new little table together, and fight for the good toys (Armanie goes for the eyes.) Christmas morning around 10 we went and had breakfast with Nan, Pops, The Byrds, The aunts and Grandma and Grandpa Bowler. Cody pinned the kids down one by one and put peanut butter on their face. It was actually a present for Rally, the Byrd's new dog...hilarious. Also hilarious was everyone trying out the Wii fit at Letti's, and I have footage to prove it. We also had a blast finding our presents hidden around town, and watching Locke almost walk off with a deceased person's wreath, which he thought was part of the gift. (I wish they lived closer-good times)
We had an amazing time with everyone. Thanks for so much fun, the food and the memories.

Monkeys jumpin on the couch

Ho Ho Ho, Merry Kiltmas!

Our Neighbor Toby, invites us over from time to time to take Rowdy pictures with all his photography toys. He has a son just a little older than Rowdy, also named Cody. Anyway we thought this would be a fun time for the debut of Rowdy's Scottish getup, which was a gift from the grandparents.

I don't know if Rowdy was upset because he didn't recognize his Dad, or he realized he was basically wearing a skirt

Heres the gettup

"You better behave little boy, or you'll get coal in your stocking!"
just kidding, I think was supposed to be an endearing pose.This is little Cody begging Rowdy not to jump ship

Merry almost Christmas everyone!