Christmas in the 80's

Last night Brent and I got talking about Christmas and all the toys we played with. Growing up in the 80's made for some good times! Hopefully those of you who shared the same decade will remember some of these. They put a smile on my face.
my pony pixie

Inch worm

Rainbow Brite

pound puppies

Hot looks Dolls


Lovely Lady Locks

Wuzzles
She-ra

Popples
Moon Dreamers

Sweet Treasures

Charmkins



Glo worms

And my favorite! The Charm Necklace

Headbands

Just added a few new headbands to the stash. I am slow at getting around to making new things :)

portrait in progress

I am just starting a portrait of my little sis on her wedding day. (The scanner was too small for my paper so it is a bit fuzzy at the top and really dark.) But here is a peek at the project

The Return of Miss Katie

Here she is in all of her Glory! Katie returned home from serving a mission in Chile on Oct. 27th. Welcome home little sis. (Sorry, we are cameraless right now. Thank you Amie and Toshya for letting us snatch these shots)

Katie brought these hats home for all the boyz. Mack and Spencer are proudly showing them off.

Airport

Bowen Halloween Party.
Mack and Spencer at Gardner's Village

Baby Emma


Mack and Kayla bug right before trick-or-treating.



The whole Bowen-Tadje clan

Here's to 4 years

I am a little late on this, but in Sept we celebrated our 4 year anniversary. Brent has stuck with me for that long! We have been through quite a bit in that short amount of time, but I wouldn't change a thing. He is my best friend, and Mack couldn't have a greater father. Happy 4 years my luv :)

(This was one of my favorite pictures from the summer. I haven't had a whole lot of spare time, but when I do, I have tried to start drawing again. Just wanted to share a little.)

A Little Updating

Mack and I went with my parents and grandparents to the sheep herding festival at Soldier Hollow. We had a blast watching all the dogs herding sheep, doing tricks, jumping in water etc. Mack got to milk a wooden cow, pet a turtle, ride a horse and eat a blue snow cone. He was in heaven. And then a week ago we went to the zoo with Brent's parents and Craig and Toshya. Mack was able to hang with one of his best buds Makayla.

Brent started his new job this week and we are so happy for him!! He is Nuskin's newest Global Inventory Control Auditor. He is so excited and will be traveling to his old mission stomping grounds in Italy. (I am hoping to stow away on a few of his trips) I am also SO excited and ready to cut back a few hours at work to spend some time at home with MACK! We are all very happy.

"I get by with a little help from my friends"

Mack is a very lucky boy! He has so many close cousins that are his BEST buds. It is so much fun watching them grow up together. He has Josh, Spencer and Makayla that were all born within 6 months of each other. Good times to come. Josh and Mack

Mark and Natalie were kind enough to watch Mack for us Saturday night. We came home to this.. We have finally figured out a way to get him to sleep in a bed. Stick Josh in there with him!

Mack and Spencer at Snowbird

Annual Bowen Snowbird Shindig

Hike to Secret Lake.

Entrance to the Peruvian Pass. (Tunnel through the mountain.)

Lift down from the Pass

Party Poopers The lift ride down was SO SO cold! Mack is sporting my jacket

Inside the tunnel

The WHOLE trip consisted of Mack and ROCKS

Jaxson, Dallin and Cam on the bungie tramps

Mack and Spencer

More ROCKS

This was supposed to be a shot of the Moose in the background...

we played hard

Top of pass

Lodge

Hike to Timp Cave the day after we returned from Snowbird

Day One

So day one of potty training didn't go over as planned. It may take some time. But thanks Grandma Holley for the new briefs, we love them!

Think we might have a weed problem

So what we thought was a unique little plant, turns out to be a unique little weed. That unique little weed is now out of control!

Our camera is really bad so the shot is blurry. This is a picture of the storm rolling in today. It was pretty intense

Transformers. It's the new twinkle twinkle little star

We haven't had a lot to post. Just working day in and day out. When I am home, we play. So I thought I would share a few of Mack's latest and greatest. This is his new favorite song :) Every night I ask him what he wants me to sing, and he starts busting out "Transformers, robots in the sky". I don't have the heart to tell him that the song is robots in disguise. It sounds better his way. I wish I had more of the whole song, but I had to hide the camera even to get this out of him.

Who says kids need exercise

Mack is big on doing things the easy way. He considers this one of the perks of living in a former grandparents home.

Our niece Emma Jane was blessed last Sunday, June 7th. She was such an angel! Emma wore the same blessing dress that my sisters and I all wore. Mack is so excited to have a babyemmel in the family. As are WE! I know this little sweetheart will receive lots of Love :)

some days, we all just need a buddy.

Welcome sweet baby Emma

We are so excited to have baby Emma Jane enter the Tadje family last Thursday!! After being induced, my sister Amie gave birth to her fifth baby. Her four boys were thrilled :) It is so fun to see some pink already! Emma was 9lbs 2oz, the biggest of the bunch. She is a sweet heart, and I wish I could hold her right now. I think Mack is ready for a sibling, he walked around all day after the hospital saying, "Where's babemma??" Both she and Amie are doing really well. Congrats Tadje fam on a job well done!