Busy, Busy...

Anna and LO
Always posing
Excuse me Mr. Officer!
New do!

We have been busy here at the Owen household. Anna started preschool two weeks ago, but have yet to post about that. We are doing a joy school type thing this year and the first week was at our house, so for me preschool started last week. Anna loves the girls that she goes to school with, and is really doing well in the learning department. She can almost write her whole name by herself and is recognizing her numbers well too. She still has another year after this current school year until she starts Kindergarten. She also started up dance again after a little summer break. She is doing ballet and Jazz and is able to do it with a lot of her friends. Blake went in for his 15 month check up and is doing well. He is 26 lbs (70%) and 2ft 8 inches (90%). He is starting to talk like crazy and he LOVES music and dancing. He is always making us laugh. Last but not least, Anna got her hair cut yesterday. To a normal person this would not be a big deal, but Anna lacks in the hair department. I told the lady I just needed her baby hair trimmed off and I guess that is what she did. Everyone says they like it, but it is really short. She loves it and that is all that matters.

A boy we call Blake!

Yes they are hot, but get down!!
Doing the dishes!
This is a piece of cake! Stop complaining mom.
Just a little R&R

In the past couple of weeks Blake has turned into a Maniac (nice term for NIGHTMARE). He climbs on everything, opens everything and destroys everything. He is driving me nuts. This is just a few of him in the last week. He is sure getting grown up though.

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Labor Day!

The Girls love to swim together
Do it Jeff!

Blake and Nate played more outside the pool!

These boys are crazy! The bet is on as to who is going to the ER first.

Handsome Boy.

We had so much fun hanging out at Brooke and Chad's. Their new pool is awesome (hopefully we will get to play in it more before it gets cold in October!!). We swam and had a mexican food buffet. So fun!

Congratulations Thomas!

We celebrated Thomas' graduation last night by throwing him a party! We had a really fun time. We especially were glad to see cousin Dan before he heads off to California. Dan has served in the US Marines for the last eight years, and has been on several tours in Iraq. He now has the opportunity to work at a Federal Prison in Northern Cali. For any of you who wonder where Blakey gets his size, these pictures of the boys on my side of the family might help out a little. Danny and I are only 13 days in age apart, and he has always towered over me. There is a picture floating around somewhere of us together in a crib when we were 1 and he was tons bigger even back then!

Sunday pictures!

Elder Blake A.


I just figured out that my camera that I have had for two years can snap shots in black and white. I love taking pictures of the kids Sunday's right before church because they look so cute. I hope you like.

My Crazy Kids...

This afternoon my kids were CRAZY! My kitchen was a mess, Michael was gone to work, and the kids were driving me nuts. So I got out the camera and this is what I got. Please note Anna's leotard with her panties showing (since the Olympics she always practices her gymnastics) and Blake with only a diaper (with a diaper wedgie). Pure chaos.

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My old fart soap box and Anna the character....

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Anna is a character, there is really nothing more to say about it. She loves to sing, and in my efforts to try and be hip and cool(while I am driving my minivan) I find myself listening to KISS FM a bunch. I have found though that I have to turn the station quick because of the inappropriate songs. She can pick up songs very easily, especially ones with a catchy tune, but always manages to change the words and cracks herself up. Today after hearing Anna's 15 different versions of Handlebars by Flobots in combination with KK and Tay's freshman orientation where the dress code specifically states that boys are not allowed to paint their nails and no facial jewelry of any kind that includes spacers, and the ridiculous fact that the school has raised over 25,000 in the last 4 years in cell phone confiscations, I have decided that I am getting old and I need to face the fact that I am not cool. When I was in high school we had pagers! I am actually embarrassed to admit that. The fact there has to be rule for boys that they can't wear nail polish is just ridiculous, and so the old lady comes out I guess. I need to stick to my church music. I am glad that I have my cute little family who delights in changing words to every song church or non church. I will climb down off my soap box and I hope you get a giggle out of Anna's post.

PS If you want to get a good listen to Anna you might need to pause the music at the bottom!