Riding in style

Riding in style

Merry Christmas!!!

May your day he filled with joy and laughter!

Yay for flying through Chicago!

Luke's new favorite book?

Ben reading to Luke.

Crystal bridges

The growing chair

That's right folks...I'm still growing.
Mommy even weighed me on the scale today at the post office...just to be sure:)

Mesmerized

Shadow Walking

Dry

Problem solving

And the winner of her age group in today's Turkey Trot 5k is....

The Chair is Shrinking

Yes, yes I know that mommy usually calls this The Growing Chair...but seriously...there is no way that I could possibly be growing this fast.

So henceforth this post shall be called "The Shrinking Chair." Happy 14 months to me :)

And somebody please ask Daddy to take down the paper "1" that is hanging from the light over the table.

Have a holly jolly Christmas!

Well, the Bowsher family has gotten on board with the "celebrate Christmas before Halloween" bandwagon with Lowes, WalMart everyone else.  

But seriously, when you're family is made up of farmers, nurses, and Arkansas rednecks, you have to figure out a way to make it work.  So Matt, Luke, and I made the trek back to Ohio (via a wedding in Marion) to spend time with my family, and celebrate Christmas, obviously.  

Luke has kind of figured out the "rip the wrapping paper" concept (much to my family's dismay!)

Grandma and Grandpa got me a box to play in!!!!  WEE!  

Oh wait, I have to take all these blocks out before I can really use this box for what it's made for!  

Owen is very protective of his new (metal) Tonka truck.  

(and by new - we mean, antique metal  Tonka truck - they just don't make them like they used to do they?  Just ask Uncle Matt, he has the same one.  Which I think makes it vintage.)

Luke & Helio

Helio is Grandpa & Grandma Bowsher's foster Australian Shepard dog. 

He's big.  

Boo-rito!

Old Macdonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. 

And on this farm he had a....

This year for halloween we were home visiting my family in Ohio.  And celebrated Halloween my mom's birthday by dressing up as farmers to capitalize on Chipotle's Boo-rito deal.  

It was a family extravaganza!  We spent the day piecing together costumes and making a skidloader (Bobcat or front end loader for you city folk.  When the cows came home all was said and done, we had a cow, chicken, sheep, scarecrow, CASE 1845 skidloader, and several farmhands with milk cans, and FFA jackets from 1963.    

Pumpkin patch

Pea Ridge Mule Jump

In case you didn't know.

We live in Arkansas. 

People think you're a hick if you live in Arkansas.  

mule barrel racing 

intently watching mules (seriously he loved it!)

Mule Jumping  

This little guy and his mule, "Buckwheat".

Buckwheat had a mind of his own.  

Buckwheat, you scoundrel, you can't just walk around the jump.

 Mind over matter.  

or in this case, little boy over mule.  

Buckwheat was giving the little guy a workout.

Sometimes this little buckwheat has a mind of his own.

(don't let the picture fool you)

Trying not to prove the stereotype wrong.  

we went climbing again!