Missing My Family

I read this from my friends blog, and felt like that sums up how I have felt lately. I love my family so much and feel so blessed to have the most amazing grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and so on. I cant begin to imagine how amazing Heaven is going to be.

New Blog Post

I posted a little bit about my trip on my professional blog. Thought you would all like to see how cute my niece is:
http://courtneybowlden.com/blog

So True!

I love when my mom sends me comics. Sometimes they describe my life perfectly. These are the latest ones. And yes they are so true!

you may have to click on the images to read them.

Utah Trip/Education Week

Last week I had the most wonderful opportunity to visit my sister and go to Education Week at BYU. I had not been to Education Week for 11 years but what I could remember is that it was incredible and I came away a better person. I made a very strong effort to go this year and was very fortunate to go. I had my mom come out to my house and watch my kids while I went by my self. There I visited with my sister, niece, brother in law, step-mom and dad. One of the best weeks of my life.I learned a lot about parenting the way the Lord wants us to parent. I learned about communicating with your spouse. I learned about angels and living a Christ like life. There is a lot to be said, but I dont have a lot of time to write. So, there will be more later.

Is this not the cutest face ever?! She lights up my life! (I love her little snaggle tooth. She looks like a pumpkin)

Water Fun

Its August and it seems like Summer has finally arrived! The weather has been great. I turned our fans on for the first time this year.
I realize these pictures aren't the greatest. Here are a couple videos as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KErlDA-LiVI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8nRbwnaEAs

Luke and I went shopping and I told him f he would be good that I would let him ride the elephant. He was so happy when he finally got to ride the elephant! This huge smile came over his face and it just melted my heart.

Luke-isms

I have been putting this post off because I wanted to post a picture of this kid, but I am afraid I will forget what I want to say.
Luke is hilarious. This is one thing I have know since he was just a baby. He loves to make people laugh. Right now he has a few things that we just hilarious and wanted to share with you all.
His favorite number is 5. He always says "I want 5 M&Ms" or "I want to play for 5 more minutes." Everything is all about 5.
If you ask Luke something, he contradicts himself. We will ask him "do you want your cereal before I take it away?" and he will say "I dont want it and I do." This is his reply for everything! He never makes any sense.
Rhett and I have been addicted to this game on our phone called Plants Vs. Zombies and the zombies make these hilarious noises. Luke will walk around like a zombie and mimic the noises. We have recently completed the game and at the end there is a cute and funny music video and the kids love playing it over and over again. You can see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N1_0SUGlDQTrust me, your kids will love this video!
Kylee is in love with Katy Perry right now. I promise to post a video of her singing Firework when she gets back from Idaho with her Aunts and Grandma. Its the cutest thing ever!!! Luke knows parts of the chorus to a few of the songs since Kylee is singing them and playing them all day long. When he doesnt know the words, he just makes something up, like "mumbamumba teenage dream.... mudabuda.... dont ever look back, dont ever look back." I will have to take a video of that one too. It melts my heart.
And the kid is totally potty trained! I am so proud of him and know I had help from above (I like to think it was my Aunt Amy). He was completely potty trained on day 2 and has never woken up wet since last week! I feel super blessed and excited to share our story with anyone I can )or who is interested). Photobucket">