::Ever have this Kind of Day::

This is how i've been feeling all week! Happy Friday!

::Mariners 2010: 14-0::

(This is a picture of a picture so sorry it kinda sucks!)

Here is the Mariners team picture 2010. Aren't they all so cute!

Well, 2010 Baseball season for the PeeWee 8 Mariners is offically over and we are very sad about this! We had a great season and met some great people.

Our boys did AWESOME this season ... they went undefeated 14-0 against some awesome teams! Our coaches this year (same as last) were amazing and the support that parents, grandparents, friends, brother's, and sister's gave these boys was amazing. Our stands were always packed with people cheering them on!

During this season B had some great times and some not so great times!

This picture below kinda sucks but during one game B was playing second base and our catcher threw him the ball to get a stealer out ... well instead of going into his mitt the ball bounced out and hit him right in the lip and B had the fattest lip I have ever seen!

He wouldn't let me take a picture of his mouth right when it happend so this picture is 2 days after, the swelling went down a ton but you should have seen it the day it happened and 1 day after it was HUGE!

(He made me promise not to post the pic on FB but he said nothing about the Blog!)

Here is a pic of one of B's GREAT moments! His coach let him take a chance at pitching an inning and he did awesome! He had 3 batters up ... he struck out 2 of them and his team backed him up to get the other player out at first! He was on cloud 9 for at least a week after he pitched, he loved it so much and he was amazing!

Here are the Mariners after their final game! They were all so happy about going undefeated this season!

Here they are right after the big win! I think it took some of them a second to realize they did actually win! Here they are after receiving their FIRST PLACE trophy'sHere is B with his FIRST PLACE trophy. (He actually was really happy I promise!)And here is his cute photo (again picture of a picture sorry for the poor quaility)

GREAT SEASON MARINERS YOU BOYS ROCK!

::3 Years .. Really?::

June 9, 2010 Jeremy and I hit our 3 year wedding anniversary ... All day long I kept thinking "Wow it feels like so much longer" (Not in a bad way!) and then I realized we've been together for 7 years so technically it has been longer I guess!

Here we are in April 2007 getting our engagement pics done .. I think Jeremy looks so crazy with his hair now that he shaves his head!

Here we are on our Wedding night ... still THE funnest night of my life and I wish it was totally appropriate to go back and do it all over again!

And this is just 1 of the major accomplishments we accomplished together in the past 3 years!

We had a great Anniversary .. I wish it was appropriate to take a full day off work when it is your wedding anniversary but it really isn't, oh well! I told Jeremy he had to plan our dinner adventure all by himself and I wanted to be totally surprised ... I kept asking for mini hints and he kept telling me "Just make sure you wear something that you can get BBQ sauce on, It's a place we've never been, etc, etc" just to throw me off .. I secretly had a place in mind that I wanted to go but I wasn't going to give him any hints I was hoping the 3 years of hints I have given him would have been enough! Well we ended up at ....

THE MELTING POT!!!!

This was the place I had a secret desire for! Niether of us had ever been and I heard the dessert was well worth it. We had a great time ... I really did enjoy cooking my own food and just hanging out with Jeremy, of course the best part of the evening was when they brought out our very own fondue pot of chocolate and all the dippers we could enjoy! I would highly recommend going there for at least the dessert portion. Dinner was good but kind of expensive for what you get, but it was our anniversary so you have to spend a little extra on a special day!

Happy 3 years babe thanks for a great night out!

::Memorial Weekend::

We ventured to Mesquite Nevada again for Memorial Weekend this year. This is beginning to become one of my favorite mini vaca's that we take and we have decided to make it an annual Bowles' trip! Here are just a few of the 100 pics I happened to take! I hope all of you had a great Memorial Weekend too!

B doesn't really love getting his picture taken any more!

These two girls were BFF's all weekend ... They are saying their goodbyes!

What a stud!

BFF's again ... takin a little rest pool side!

B was the best big brother all weekend long!

::Gambling: Yes or No?::

We spent Memorial Weekend in Mesquite, NV and had a great time, but I always wonder if gambling is worth it! We always do it when we're in NV but we never win which makes me angry ... So I ask you gambling is it worth it???

::Zoo Day::

Well .. we had our first Zoo trip of 2010 and it was awesome. We went a not hot but kind of chilly day and animals were out and about and it was great. The zoo had the cutest baby elephant ever ... I wanted to take it home and I tried to convince B and Kira that we needed it but neither of them wanted to clean up the poop! I can't wait to go back again .. I loved going when it was colder rather than going when it is 100+ degrees outside!

B in the mole hill!

Kira just ready to play!

Kira and I measuring up to the Gorilla's

B and Kira .. she is the size of an Infant Gorilla and B is the size of an Adult Female!

And the cutest baby elephant ever!

::Mom's Day::

Well, mom's day has come and gone and I don't have a single picture of anything we did but we sure did a lot to celebrate our wonderful mother's.

I love my mommy so much and couldn't imagine my world without her to help me through everything. I will say we didn't always get along .. especially in high school and early college but we made it through what she calls my "alien years" and she is my bestest friend in the whole wide world. I love that I can look back on things she did when I was growing up and think "wow that was really a great idea" here are some small examples that I learned from her and that I find myself doing with these two crazies

1- The whole "you have to eat your dinner before you leave the table" now I don't make them eat their dinner but if they don't at least try what is cooked (especially Bryson who is so picky) then they don't get to eat what they want and they don't get a treat, so basically they go to bed hungry .. sounds harsh I know but trust me it gets the kid to try things he normally wouldn't and he actually does like some of the things I cook!

2- Early bed time ... now I'm sure most moms out there have a bed time for their children but since B has been living with us I have to be to work very early on Tuesday and Thursday mornings so on Monday and Wednesday nights he has to go to bed at 8 pm ... even when it is light outside (which I hated when I was a kid) but come Tuesday and Thursday morning this kid is refreshed and ready to wake up.

3- School ... some may know after my first year of college (which was a blast!) I wasn't really into school and didn't really want to do it ... I kept going because my mom (and dad) always said "You have to get an education" so I did the bare minimum that I could to graduate and got them off my back ... about a year after I graduated I was bored and not using my degree for anything and decided I wanted to do something more so I went back to school for a second degree and now I am preparing to start graduate school this fall ... who would have thought??? Certainly not me .. well this is something that I push on B, I make sure he knows just how important school is and list all the things that he can accomplish with a college education so hopefully he takes this to heart and really wants to go to college!

4- The power of "the look" ... I always make fun of my mom for her "perma-crusty" but hey whatever works to get kiddies to do what we ask them the first time right!

I know there is so so so much more but right now those are all that are in my head! I love my mommy and all that she does and shares with me every single day!

Not only do I have the best mother .. I have a fabulous mother in law! I love everything she does for my little family including little Kira! She is an amazing woman and I hope that one day I can do for my family what she has done for hers!

At last .. but certainly not least the mother that shares her children with me ... now this woman is fabulous ... she is a fantastic mother and does most things all by herself. I look up to her so much and can't even describe how fabulous she is, what other mother out there would trust not one but both of her amazing children to the "baby daddy" wife??? I think it would be hard but she does it effortlessly and without question!

Thank you to all the mom's in my life for everything you have given me!