Today's Quote

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in beingstrong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe thattomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

Audrey Hepburn

I found this today, and it made me smile. I think I can echo that quote pretty word for word.

Although, I'm not exactly sure I know what believing in pink means? Nevertheless, I'm pretty sure I believe in it

For those who love to Blog

For those of you who blog you might like this cool site! I really like it (and the blog administrator.)

It helps you figure out how to do all those cool things that the other people seem to know how to do but you just can't figure out.

Pictures are worth a thousand words

But some of these are only worth like two or three. These are just a bunch of fun pictures that I thought I'd share with you all.

This is at the open house back at the beginning of August. Yeremy (pronounced Jeremy) and I went with my Korean roommate Hanah. It was a really wonderful experience. I love the temple and Yeremy, and Hanah!

This is Clarke! He came up to Utah for Education week (we met and Education Week awhile back). So we partied a little. We matched this day, so we took pictures.
This is Alia on her birthday. She's 21 and really good at making funny faces. Behind her is Zach...he's awesome. Check out his Mountain Man Madness (aka beard). He has to shave it now.

Lauren, Adam, and Caleb. The silliness of this picture is priceless. From looking at these pictures, you may all think I have weird friends...I know I do =)

This is Lauren and Stevie-Boy, her bat balloon. He has been with us for three weeks now, and is still plenty plump and floating. He is a good friend, but we all fight over him. Lauren has to continually remind us all that he is hers.

Alia and I last Sunday. We are pretty. The end.

Family Home Evening (obviously)

I remember long ago, somebody who shall remain unnamed (cough*Lisa*cough) who dumped mashed potatoes on our dinning room table and created art out of it. I think David may have helped. This is a very vague dim memory, and might be completely made up...but nevertheless, it has always stuck with me and I've wanted to sculpt mashed potatoes for a long time. I finally had an FHE family that I could convince to do this with me.

This is Kyle. If you want to hear a funny story about him, let me know...it's pretty funny. He is carving details onto a car.

This is a heart that said love...we're killing it =)
This is a star ...of course
This is Vanessa carving something. This picture makes me laugh.
This is teancum killing his mashed potato pony.
This is teancum (designed by Alia)

Steven and Vanessa are inside chatting away. DK, Alia and I are chilling on our bench. And Joe's bike is hiding under the blanket. He told us to not let anyone steal it, so of course we stole it and hid it. He honestly had trouble finding it...It was great.

Alia and are are happy

Alia and I are sad (but we aren't really sad, but we look cool looking sad)

Just so you know, I love my roommates. We play a lot, and make silly faces. Sorry I put you through all that. I love you all

Christmas is coming up soon

And anyone who would like me to design their christmas cards can just ask (and send me pictures.) I can do it pretty much any way you'd like but it takes a while that is why I'm putting the shout out now. I promise to work with you to get what you want not just make it crazy Shelly-style (which lets admit has flair ;)

so i thought i'd share my deep dark secret

I have another blog

Dun nun nun

(love Kimmie)

Enough Shelly!

Man, I can't get enough of this!

This is a Bowman hoe down

How 'bout the Hanberg Family

A little more Halloween fun

Widdly Tinks Family

My Stick Family from WiddlyTinks.com

Halloween is coming up!

I just LOVE Halloween.

Enjoy!

CLICK THIS FOR AWESOMENESS MORRIS STYLE

Hammock

This is the hammock and the girls that I love so very much.

I just wish we didn't have responsibilities
that keep us away from the hammock

Lauren

Is Awesome!

I asked her what I should post, and that is what she wanted me to post. Well, that's what she told me to post. I don't really know if it is what she wanted. But she did just beat our roommate Alia in a towel whipping contest. So yeah, she is awesome.

Anyway, just a quick update...

School is hard. I don't really like it yet, but hopefully I get excited about it again soon. I'm sure I will, it just might take a little longer to get into the swing of things again.

Work is awesome stuff. Being the SAM of CS for OACL under the OIT for BYU (Student Assistant Manager of Customer Service for the Open Access Computer Labs under the Office of Information Technologies for Brigham Young University) is fun. It is also a mouthful, which is unrepresentative of the chillness and relatively easiness of the job itself. So far, I've redesigned a screensaver, put together a report on some of our usage stats, and prepared for and presented at some orientation meetings. Plus I put a coworkers phone in an airvent thing (you couldn't hear it ring when it was in the ceiling).



So that is pretty much all that is new in my life. I love ya all!

Some one got married...

Those Beautiful Bowman Kids (and Mom)

I promised I would post the cute pictures from the shoot, so here there you go!

Shelly's Got Talent

Check out these pics Shelly doctored.

Worst Photo Shoot, Ever.

This was sooooo funny. That last picture with the kids was the first picture of the shoot. Eliza clocked Lisa with a hard sippy cup. I'll post the cute pictures of the Bowman kids soon. They are adorable kids. Even grumpy they are cute! (and they were happy before and after the shoot.....)

Lisa wanted to know why I hadn't posted this information

Joseph dumped me.

=)

the end.



that's for you Lisa!

Happy 4th From Kaysville/Farmington

4th of July was a fun fun day!
Maddie is growing up into a beautiful little tiny lady. She was born to be in front of the camera.

Kirtlan is a great slip-n-slider
Chad and Kimball (I think) on the waterslide

that baby loves chips :)

We played in the sprinklers and Cannon got a face full of water, but no tears.
Kimball looks so happy in the picture below. I love it!

That's me and Kimball! Cute kid!

The day started with Kimball crawling onto the couch where I was sleeping. I cuddled up close to him, and Kirtlan soon joined us at my feet. Maddie wanted in, so i put Kimball on top of me, and let Maddie cuddle close. Cannon came down, and realizing he didn't have a spot...tempted Kimball into the kitchen with some toys. He then crawled up to replace Kimball. Soon they started to get up (apparently I'm no fun when I'm half asleep). So, when Christian came down there was plenty of room. I pulled him up, and he gave me some HUGE hugs and just laid his head down on me. (You must understand, the day before, he wouldn't let me hold him the first 30 minutes I was there).

Then, Shelly yelled down, 20 minutes until the parade. I hopped up, we hopped into the car and saw the parade under a beautifully cloudy sky.

The afternoon was playing outside and eating lunch. Then we watched patriotic cartoons (aka, I fell asleep on the love sac).

Later that evening, we ran through sprinklers at Grandma and Grandpa Morris', ate lots of yummy food, went on the slip'n'slide, (I snuck in some homework) and had s'mores on a fire in their backyard. We ended the day by watching fireworks. Cannon crawled into Grandma Morris' lap saying, "I'm just going to take a nap, okay?". Maddie signed to me "You're beautiful" and Kirtlan requested that "the adults say oooo and ahhhh" more.

It was a happy 4th. I, like all of you, feel so blessed to live in a free land where we are able to find joy and happiness in our family and our faith.

Love you all! and God Bless America!

DISNEYLAND 2009

The Morris Family just got back from the happiest place on earth and here's a couple of pictures to prove it.

Kid questions

Taking an idea from Briana I asked my kids a couple of questions today.  The answers were kind of telling.

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?

M: Clean

K: Clean, take care of my other brothers and sisters

C: I think she does nothing (yep, when not in your presence everyone else ceases to exist)

Kim: Clean

10. If your dad becomes famous, what will it be for?

M: he’s good at working

K: Basketball player

C: nothing, boys don’t become famous

Kim: a king

1.   What is something dad always says to you?


M: M:Shut the door.

    K: You’re so awesome.

    C: Cannon!

    Kim: Go potty!

    

    4. How does your dad make you laugh?
 

    M: makes funny noises

    K: He tickles me

    C: He doesn’t make me laugh

    Kim: Chicken crosses the road to the alligator

7. How tall is your mom?

M: Can I have a measuring tape?  I’ll get a shoe... 8 ¼ of Maddie’s shoes.

K: About 12 feet

C: 60 inches

Kim:17

12. What is your mom not very good at?


M: Sometimes she puts the wrong milk in our food.

K: Making kids know that you’re scared

C: Mommy, you’re good at everything

Kim: feet stands (demonstrated hand stands)

19. How are you and your dad different?


M:  Daddy cleans a lot.

K: I have hair

C: Because daddy is older than me

Kim: Dad has glasses and I don’t

Crazy Dad!

This is a pic of Dad crawling out of a tunnel we went through in Ogden Canyon.