The 3 In The Middle

Well,

I know everybody is in shock that we are actually putting something on this blog. But hey it is March this is month that I get really anxious for warmer weather and I do realized that we live in New Mexico one minute it is warm the nextminute we have snow. But the most what I realize is that this is the month that I think my mom went crazy. I cannot imagine it but then I have 4 older siblings so I guess it wasn't that bad for Mom and Dad. I am glad that they did it I truly think that mom lost her marbles but it might be that walker gene. On or about the 21st of March mom had Cathie at that time for about approx 20 days mom had a newborn (Cathie) 1yr old(Jen) and a 2yr old(Brian). Over the years I have told great stories about us 3 in the middle bunch. After us three came along mom took a break for a time then along came Paul, Aaron and Holly which were spread out. But the 3 in the middle well............ so in march I often reflect on the broken bones, and the black eyes that were inflicted and of course being thrown across the room. Then of course I think of Cathie and all the endless torment that we inflicted upon her. Of course my two younger sisters probably have a different recollection of it all. My Four older siblings probably remember things different, but I will never forget putting a mouse in Susan's cereal bowl as she was eating the cereal. She of course went out screaming. But hey my job was to catch the mouse after that anything could happen, man did I pay for that one.
Over the course of many years I have had the opportunity to go to college with Cathie and we endured the mighty long drive (even when she went the wrong way on the reservation) and eat Jen out of house and home. I can say it was mighty fine food for a poor starving college student. Now that I look back on it she was just as poor as I was but hey what can I say excepts thanks.
But I am grateful for mom "losing her marbles" and having us "the 3 in the middle" so over the next 20 to 25 days as the 3 in the middle or only a year apart may it be the best.
Until next time

20 Years

As I look back on the last 20 years I stand at cross roads. The other night I was listing to the conversation that was going on with the kids and I realized that the next 20 years are going to be quite fun. The reason why is my kids are going to start moving on with there great big adventure. They will face cross roads trials and tribulations and hopefully the will ride the wave and overcome. Time will tell I think back to that morning 20 years ago and try to remember all that happen and I do have memories of that morning and as i think about that.... everything comes back the smiles the tears the happiness. Fast Forward 20 years as I sit and listen to the children I am amazed at what I see for what I see is smiles tears and the happiness.
What will the next 20 bring....smiles tears and happiness

Happy 20 years my dear love bri

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

since everybody wants to laugh at me and conner i don't think the pictures will go up. so hah hah i laugh at you guys. anyways our house is almost done YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok just kidding i will put the pictures up of me and conner with the pictures of the finshed house when the house is done.

guess what here is a new post

so i guess everyone keeps getting mad at me for not making a new post so here we go

happy late christmas our christmas was quiet, we stayed home.

our life latley has been consumed by our house. the kitchen and tile are almost done. we were happy to get our carpet right before christmas. dad and i were taking out carpet and destroyed the closet door. we fixed it as best as we could, with dad's new toy a nailgun. we lived on cement and tile till right before christmas it was nice. the carpet feels really nice now no one wants to sit on the couch they want to lay or sit on the carpet.

the best part so far has been when me and conner played with fire. just kidding we were trying to relite a fire. i put lighter fluid in it and the fumes reacted nicly. FOOSH!!!!! me and conner got burnt. i got the worst of it becasue i was right in front of the fire place. it got my hands, my face, and my hair. the fire got conner on his hair, side of his face, eyebrows and eyelashes. don't worry we are ok but neihter of us has eyelashes.

so have a nice 2009 everybody.

Thanksgiving with the Bowens

Hey guys what's up
Happy Thanksgiving

I hope everybody had a wonderful thanksgiving.
Guess what there are pictures now!!!!!!! so instead of just words there are pictures
so anyways Thanksgiving was fun everyone ate tons the food took hours to cook and of course 15min to eat boy was it good we had my mom's brother and his wife over. we went around the table and said what we were thankful for. everyone was thankful for many things but one thing that almost everyone said was family.
so i would like to close by saying i am thankful for family and what it means to me. the family is the center of every thing. immediate family and extended are all important. the family is the most important thing in this world
Bye Happy Thanksgiving

the house

hey guyes it's spencer agian

so the house is coming along the tile has been laid YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well conner just correted me alomst all the tile we are still missing a hallway the laundry room and the family room but we can live in peace for now.

thanks mike for the info on how to get the pictures up.


the pictures will come soon now so be prepared to see the house

Update

hey guys it is spencer. i am giving an update on the house. the kitchen is almost done. we are waiting on a pantry to come in so we can finish the kitchin. we have laid tile down between the front door and halfway through the family room. as soon as i figure out how to put pictures on pictures will come

The Flood Came Forth

Hello all,

If you read this you are probably dying because I am just writing this. Right now I am sitting in my office and it is real quite and peaceful no one is in right now I have watch the sun come up made the phone call to get Conner out of bed and get him going. I tell ya every kid is different but you love them all the same. I have read all the blogs this morning and enjoyed everybodys Mike I am impressed that you did the Grand at 50 I hope I can do something like that when I hit that age. Some days I don't if our family is going to make it. Saturday night Krisit and I went into walmart about 9:00PM we told the kids to hit the sack at 9:30 (they were up till1:00am the night before) We got home at 10:00PM when we opened the front door it felt like a Suana in our home I looked straight back and saw our back door open we took about 10 steps and hit soggy carpet made into the kitchen and saw probably about 1 to 2 inches of water in our kitchen. Kristi made around our hall way and into the laundry room and found cold water. I was standing in bath water. We found the noise and the leak but it was behind the dish washer in the end I ended up near our tankless hot water heater and shutting down the valve to the heater. At this point we realized that we lost our kitchen floor the carpet into the living room, family room and one hallway. We got everybody up expect for maddison and got to work we ended up going to bed at 2am. Spent Sunday morning pulling pad and peeling back carpet it got worse and the day rolled on. By noon I was at some meetings and Kristi called she stated that we lost Maddison room. That night we pulled furniture kitchen stuff beds everything that we thought we could go without and put in a garage that someone offered to us. We have been blessed through the whole ordeal, we get new carpet, people from the ward just came up and offered there help in pulling anything and everything. We have pictures and will post them soon people have helped Kristi put back together the house, right now we have cut carpet kitchen floor gone base boards gone part of cabinets gone the list could go on. Needless to say everything will be okay last night was the first night that we didn't have fans going it was peaceful. If you want to see a tore up house make your way to New Mexico (I am speaking to you JEN!!!!!!!)
Talk to you all soon!

Heritage

Well the month of June just flew bye. People kept telling me that I needed to post something new. So here it is!!! Just this past week we went over to Prescott and baptized Maddison it was a wonderful experience. Thanks to Craig and Cathie and to Brent and Vickie for there letting us come over and to participate with June in the Baptism.
It was very interesting we ended up in snowflake about 3:00am Micky mouse time (as dad would say) so the next morning dad and mom were having a breakfast for Uncle Jim 80th birthday. At that point I realized just what was taking place I remember grandpa Caldwell in his 80's. At that point I remember what I was told by a stake president "You can never take back that minute that just passed you cannot relive this day. So live it to the fullest" As we get older it gets interesting on how fast life goes by. Spencer asked me a question while we were driving out to Cathie house for lunch. He wanted to know how many of us were born in Missouri I had to think and I was one off (Sorry Susan) but it brought back a flood of memories I still can remember when we moved from Missouri, I remember the blue house at the end of the street. I do not remember the accident that we had in moving out to AZ and the way mom tried to hide us from the News Crew. Stuff like this is interesting to hear. I guess History is interesting. The other day Kristi was going through the scrape books it was fun to see exactly what happened in our lives.
So I guess the morale of this writing is this enjoy life to the fullest and remember the sacrifice of our ancestors to give us what we have today. Because you never know when a PIG TRUCK WILL SMACK YOU. HA HA HA
I will write later Gotta Go there is a call someone just did get smacked

SEE YA

Just a thought

Well one of these days I will figure out the picture stuff but not right now. It is Sunday night and I am still trying to wind down. I just saw Jens blog and was greatly impress by it. I am liking this blogging crap This morning as I woke up my mind started to race but it was very clear on what needed to be done today. I enjoy days like this when it is very clear and concise and the direction is definitely there as I rolled over in bed and saw the sun and listened to the birds sing the song I knew that it was going to be a choice day and I have not been disappointed by the day. It was a good day for the bishop youth discussion and again the direction was very clear. To finish the day at a relief society board meeting after doing the killer 2:30 - 5:30 schedule for Church. As I settle in for the night I do know that tomorrow I will be wore out but it feels good like I have accomplish something. But the most sweetest thought that I have had today as I have run around and visited with different people and have watch the clouds move through the sky and felt the wind blow what hair that I have left. This thought brings nearly in tears as it does now. Is that I have Kristi standing right by my side I often feel that I have to play catch up with her and often I worry that she is not taken care of and that I cannot express in words what I honestly feel about her. Anyway my dear Happy Anniversary it has been a good 19 years of marriage and thanks for being there and I didn't forget the date. LOVE YA

Oh JEN from time to time there will be sarcasm on this blog LOVE YA TOO KEEP THE CARDS COMING THEY KEEP ME SANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Back at Home

Well things have been crazy after we got back from Prescott Arizona for Kristi brothers wedding (it was good to see Cathie good luck Craig in your trial) Kristi went to women's conference and I had the kids for the duration. It wasn't bad hopefully everything went smooth the kids might think different. This past Sunday was very interesting have been gone for the past two Sundays I ended up spending three hours doing interviews. I guess I was playing catch up. I still have Tuesday night to do some more interviews while in Vegas we went and saw Phantom of the Opera very well done I was impress if anybody is in that general direction it would be money well spent for that. I probably need to put some pictures up which I should but I will let Spencer do this.
Talk to you later

Hello

Well the kids found out about the blogging thanks holly and so we created our own Spencer probably will be in charge of it and that is OK I sat in a conference in Las Vegas Nevada I was listening to a big time speaker and he even did this blogging stuff. So I guess we entered the 21st century so every body enjoy and the pictures will follow later