The Bowers First Official Trip to the Zoo

 

Allison declared that this is the first official Bowers Family trip to the zoo, since it is the first time they were all together.  Lanie  has her best happy on.

 

"I wanta hippopotamus for Christmas..."

  Zebras -                                                                   

Are they white with black stripes or black with white stripes?

  Dwarf mongoose

Are they big enough to kill cobras? Or do they just kill baby cobras?

  Elephants

I think they are Asian - hahaha!

   

"More animals please."

 

These guys are really, really tall.

    

The penguins gave me a shower.  At least it wasn't like the whale at Sea World in San Fransico - remember that Allison?

 

We walked through the butterfly house.

  

 The lion graced us when he sat up for about 30 seconds before falling back over to continue his nap.

 

Lanie also had to have a nap about the same time.

 

The cheeta was also napping.

  The zoo trip ended by seeing the cutter ants.  They were busy, busy cutting leaves and taking them over several back and forth bamboo rods to get to their nest.  A man was working at the table where the ants were located and when one got off track he put it back on rod. Hope they give them lots of plants in that area to "cut" everyday!

Lanie

Lanie is pulling herself up.
She also is crawling
like crazy. She is 8 months old.

Lanie and Grandma

There is a smile under
that nuke.

Springtime

Bleeding
Heart

The reason
they call
it bleeding
heart

Philox

more philox

the cinnamon fern is up

other ferns are coming up

The redbuds are full this year.  I transplanted one last fall

and it made it through the winter.

Dogwoods opened up about 3 days ago - awesome!

Happy Easter Everyone!

We are in Olathe for Easter.  We had surprises for the kids when they got up this morning and the Easter Bunny came while they were at church.  It is a beautiful day out, so the kids had a lot of fun searching for those eggs the Easter Bunny left for them.

Getting ready for the hunt!

Jackson's take of the eggs.

McKinley on the humt.

The Kuhl's - all five of them.

Happy Jack satisfied with his gfts this morning.

Mckinley plays with her new My Little Pony -Tinkerbell as she waits for everyone to finish getting ready for church. She is very serious as she plays.

Jackson eyes, ears and tie matched today.

This is a chicken that lays eggs as it walks.  The kids like them.

They didn't eat the candy egss the chicken laid.

Seth's Birthday Party

Seth's birthday isn't until Wednesday, but this is weekend Beth was off, so we had his party on Sunday.
We went to lunch, then bowling, and then back to the house for ice cream cake - mmmmmmmmmmmmm!

This is an autographed football Seth got from Beth & John.

This was the last one #13 signed as a 49er before he was traded.

Seth got a DOT helmet for 4-wheeling.  He can make decals for it at school in his media class.

Mark couldn't bowl so he was Harrison's nanny for the day.

This is the ice cream cake - vanilla and chocolate with those crunchy sprinkles between layers -mmmm!

The "boys" look at cake and wonder how much they will get to eat.

Helen and Harrison look on as Logan entertains them.

A close up of Harrison - he is 5 months old today!

Logan and Harrison

Logan loves bowling. 

Beth's tatoo of the boys' footprints.

                                             Beth explains to Logan about the bowling ball holes.

A Few Random Pictures

This is Willie Reed #33.  He usually doesn't make his free throws.  This night he was 7 for 9.

Notice the fan on the side line wearing the #33.

Jim and Sunny hangin' out and watching the basketball games.

Me and Lanie doing some hang time girl style.  We both got a nap and play time together -

all by ourselves.  It was very special getting to know you time.

American Legion 20 Years of Continous Service

Tonight, Jim and I went to a covered dish dinner at the American Legion for his 20 year service award.
The night didn't start out to well.  Google gave Jim the very wrong directions - and the following actually happened.  When we figured out the directions were Jim called the Legion Home and got real directions!!
We still got there in time.

There were attendance prizes too.  The God Bless America box was one of them.

There is Bingo every Friday night there, so if you ever want to go play Bingo just let me know.