Baby Blessing

Wow I have not posted anything in a really long time. It is hard to find time to do this. So I am posted a bunch of different things. First, we had James blessed on August 2, 2009. We had a lot of family and friends come and it was a awesome day. My dad did dutch oven scones and we had a scone bar. James decided to poo right before Bert took him up. Bert said that he smelled awful, but no one else could smell it. He wore a white Hawaii outfit that my mom had bought in Kona, he was so cute.

Our Family

James is so cute


Sydney and Jaxson

We had an ice cream machine. Ellie, Andi, and Brendan found it.


Me and my dad

Mom and cousin Brett

Kristi, Memphis, Uncle Steve, and Dylan


Cousin Chris, Sarah, and James

Sweet Baby James

My cousin Brett took some amazing pictures of James when he was two weeks old. Here are a few of them:

1 Month

I can't believe our little boy is one month old. He turned one month on Saturday and we went and got his pictures taken. I am finally getting a little used to being a mom, and I think I kind of got him figured out. I did not realize how much I would love it! I am tired, but I really don't mind getting up to feed him during the night, I just love him so so much. Here is a cute one month picture, he is starting to smile alot!!

Smiling at one month!!

Drooling on Grandma Bowen.

Aunt Stacey always puts him to sleep.

Here is a close up of him smiling!!

Our Little Boy

Wow what a blessing it is to have James in our lives. It has been an adjustment, but worth it. Here are some funny things that he does. He farts so much, and they stink, I think he gets that from me. He grunts so loud when he is shooting a duke. He peed on me so many times I can't even count, and once right in the mouth. Whenever Bert holds him he always reaches for his face, and they watch baseball games together, it gets me off the hook. One last thing, he so noisy when he sleeps it took us a while to get used to that. Here are some random pictures of our little man.

This is his done face after eating.

Chillin' with Great Grandma Stratton

Drooling on Grandpa.

Drooling on Grandma

This is how we find him when he wakes up, he is our muscle man.

Mark James Bowen

Our baby finally arrived on June 11, 1009 at 8:13 am. He weighed 6 lbs 11 oz. and was 19.5 inches long. Delivery was not bad at all, the movies make it look so much worse than it really is. He is such a good baby and rarely cries. He actually slept through the night last night. It is weird to be a parent, but very much worth it. It is scary to try and get adjusted. I don't understand how they survive parents that have no idea what they are doing. But at least he does not know any better either. Here are a few pictures of our baby. Hopefully I will be better at posting pictures now that I have him.

Here is our beautiful little boy!!

Grandma Stratton

This is what he does when he is done eating!!
He has Borg lips.

Bert is so cute with his son!!

Grandpa Stratton is so glad to finally be a grandpa.

Uncle T with James.

Missionary hair

Grammy Bowen
Auntie Mud

Brendan, Ellie, and Andrea
All the cousins

Aunt Mitzi

Hooray-We had our baby

Cat For Sale

Wow, it really has been a long time since I have posted. The baby is doing so great and I am 5 weeks away from my due date. I have had some great showers, and gotten tons of stuff. So thank you to all that gave me such wonderful gifts.

When Bert and I first got married I really wanted a cat. Bert does not like animals so much, so we decided that we would get a cat and when we had a baby we would give him away. Well sadly that time has come. He is such a good cat. He is neutered, front de-clawed, indoor, and up to date on all his shots. This is hard for me to do, but I think it will be better with a new baby in the house to not have a cat. If you know of anyone please let me know. I want to give him to a nice family. Here are some pictures of him.