MACY - POO

My little Macy-poo!  She is growing up!  Almost 15 months old now.  Where has the time gone.  It sure does seem to fly.  Before we know it, she will be potty-trained and riding bikes.  Can't she stay little forever?  Can't all of them.  I joke with Joshua and Marah all the time, how I want them to stay little forever.  But God has other plans for them.  Rodney and I have been so blessed to have 3 children and to raise these little munchkins like God would want us to.  We both were blessed with amazing families! 

With Thanksgiving being right around the corner, my blessings seem to be on my mind a lot lately. 

Rodney gave me a new little handheld digital camera for my birthday and I was so proud of the pictures I took with it.  Not as good as Brooke, but it will do fine for now.

I was finally able to post about Joshua and Marah's trip to the Pumpkin Patch too.  They are in the October folder.

All 9 of them!

I love these kiddos!  Are they not adorable?  It is still hard to get all 9 looking at the same time, but every few months helps.  This one in particular turned out really well I thought.  It was taken on the front porch of my grandmother's home.

We have some fun times a coming.

My mom has hit a huge milestone in her life.  She has been working so hard for months losing pound after pound and she has now lost 100 pounds!!!!!  Amazing!  She looks amazing.  I am so very very proud of her.  My dad told her a couple of months ago that she deserved to do almost anything she wanted to do for losing all the weight.  So she decided to take us all to Nashville during Christmas time (our most favorite time of the year).  We are staying at the Opryland Hotel for 2 nights and each family gets their own room.  Let's just say we have all bunked up in the past and to have our own rooms is a "big" deal.  Not that we don't like bunking up (at least the girls that is), but our family has grown a lot over the past few years.  This trip is more of a prize for us we feel like than for mom, but if you know her, she wouldn't have it any other way.  She is always looking for ways to make memories and for ways to get us all together.  We leave in 33 days and we are on the countdown.  Several things are on the itinerary already: the Rockettes, Ice-the Charlie Brown Special, Louise Mandrell's Christmas Dinner & Show, the Holiday Kids Train, the Gingerbread Corner and more to come I'm sure.  My mom is a planner.  She loves to have our day filled with all kinds of fun things to do.  The best part of all of this is that we will all be together as a family!

I had to throw in this picture of Macy that I cropped from the top picture!  She is almost 15 months and getting bigger and older by the second.  Always wanting to do what her big bro and big sis are doing.

Joshua's Day at the Pumpkin Patch

Joshua could not wait until his Pumpkin Patch Day.  It was rained out then rescheduled.  So, my friend Courtney was able to keep Marah for me.  So, I had to do what the teachers had said "not" to do - bring a sibling.  Little Macy had no where to go, but to the Pumpkin Patch with us.  Luckily Joshua has a super cool teacher who said it was no problem at all.  Macy was super that day, so I was very thankful for that. 

Crawling in the corn...

Joshua and his friend Trey

Joshua and the pumpkin he picked out!

Standing by the wooden cows that were built for all the kids to be able to feel what it is like to milk a cow.  They all loved this.

Digging in the sand for veggies.

He found some.

Mrs. Greenhaw's Green Frogs

Macy loved feeding the goats.  They nibbled all over her hands and she didn't care at all.

It was a beautiful day for the Pumpkin Patch.  I was so blessed to be able to go and spend time with Joshua and Macy.

Marah's Day at the Pumpkin Patch

Any of you know my middle child "Marah", will also know that she loves school.  This child loves waking up in the morning just so she can go to school.  She is also the one that leaves out no details when telling her stories of days at school (like her daddy in this sense).  Since she did not go to preschool last year, this was her first little field trip to the Pumpkin Patch and she had so much fun (Macy and I did too)! 

Marah's preschool class

Marah and Hugh

Marah milking the cow

Jumping in the hay

Marah and Macy

Macy found her a carrot

Crawling in the corn

Marah and her prize pumpkin (she went through a bunch of them).  Macy is behind lining hers up!

Macy had just as much fun

Hugh with his pumpkin

Macy and her little pumpkin! 

It's October!

The Bowerman's are finally well! It has been a long 6 weeks with all 3 of my kids having the swine flu. Joshua got pneumonia and the girls both got sinus infections following the flu. And on top of all this, I got the swine flu myself , then pneumonia. Crazy stuff. We have never been this sick - ever. At least Rodney has found a way to stay pretty healthy throughout all of this. Hope he doesn't get it next week. Oink Oink!

Staying in is not something I enjoy doing every day of the week. So as soon as my breathing was back to normal from the pneumonia, we headed to St.Florian where we get our pumpkins. Joshua and Marah both picked out a small one to paint (Macy too) and we picked out a big one to carve. The rain made everything a little messy, but we still had a good time picking out our pumpkins.

For a little Halloween preview this year, we will be having a fireman and 2 white kitty cats!

War Eagle!

My 3 Auburn Tigers

Marah and Caley

Camden and Joshua

Busby Tigers

Marah, Macy and Caley

This is our nine! The 9 kids that is on the Morrow side of the family. We are still waiting for the twins to come along on the Bowerman side (because whenever Ryan & Kellie decide it is time, they WILL have 2 at one time - Kellie's mom is a twin and her dad is a twin). So any time Kellie!

On the Morrow side, to say we love some Auburn football, may be an understatement. My dad was an Auburn grad so we grew up going to ballgames and walking to Toomer's Corner for lemonade. So now to carry on the tradition, Brooke, Ben and I all graduated from Auburn and all had 3 kids. All Auburn kids, except for Noah who has been saying he likes Alabama these days. I think he is being brainwashed by another family member - hint hint. Look at him in the 1st picture. Of course, they all don't look very excited. Trying to get 9 kids to smile or even look at the same time is crazy.

We love getting together on Saturdays to sport our Auburn wear. The kids were able to hold their hands up for "touchdown Auburn" before they were 1. We have been blessed over the years with some great Auburn memories.

WAR EAGLE - HEY!

Year of 2006 - Macy now wears Marah's little cheerleading dress.

Getting into it!

Marah's 1st Day of Pre-School

Let me just say, this little girl was more than ready to start school. She stayed at home with me last year when Macy was born. So she missed out on school. She could not wait for her first day this year. She picked out her clothes and folded everything nice and neat at the end of her bed for morning. She woke right up, put her clothes on and packed her own lunch box. She was READY to go!

The night before we put rollers in her hair. She has been begging for some for awhile now, so I thought I would give them a try. Marah has a thick head of hair and we have been trying to grow it out, so that requires even more maintenance. This hair is a mess after a good night's sleep on it. We have tried every trick in the book for trying to keep it as untangled as possible by morning, but we have lots of trouble!

I'm not quite sure if she is a high maintenance kind of girl, because she can get down and dirty with the best of them. She loves sports and loves playing with her brother and her boy cousins (Carter is her "bud"). I like the half and half thing. She is 50/50 now. She loves dressing up and doing the princess thing as well. We will see in years to come I suppose. I am kind of "go basketball player", but she may be "cheerleader!" Whichever she chooses will be great with me:) I guess - JK!

Mommy will miss her little helper at home, but I know she is probably helping her teacher as much as she can.

She loves her new backpack!