10 Years!! (is that all?)

Russ and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary this last weekend! we look like 12 year olds in this picture! (well we almost were!) The time has just flown by, and I still feel like we are 19 year olds just playing house. For our little 10 year celebration, we ventured up to Park City and stayed at the Hotel Park City. We enjoyed a romatical dinner at Ruths Chris, which was delicious. And then to make it EXTRA romantic we went and saw a movie... no, not a romatic-comedy or a juicy love story.... we saw The Dark Night! not exactly the most anniversary-esk flick. But I did enjoy it, in a weird dark way? and what would the night be without some crazy random pictures...

I look a little "woosey" here. A little privacy please...

Russ enjoying a nice cup-o-tea. Mmmmm...

Me just lounge-n out in our sweet pad...

After all theese years and we are still "really, really goood loooking"

Fun at the Lake...

We are so excited that Paul and Kristi moved back to Utah! Milo has so much fun playing with Mikey and Lexie. Last Saturday we all decided to go for a little boat ride on Utah Lake.

Milo and Lexie took a little run out on the tube, but couldn't quite convince Michael to get on!

Whoo Hoooo Kristi! Milo was giving the thumbs up sign to go FASTER!

Rusty even took Auggie into the nasty water for a little swim, he loved it anyway.

So... I got talked into taking a little ride on the tube. I don't really like "watersports" but I decided to be a good sport and give it try. My only stipulation was, " I don't want to get my hair wet!" (lame I know.) SO lets just say no matter how hard my face was smashing into the tube, and my body flailing about, practically folding in half I DIDN'T LET GO! my arms were so shaky after and still to this day are sooo sore!

But despite that... we had a fun trip and even Auggie and Jackson were mellow and happy to be there the whole time.

Paul and Kristi's youngest, Jackson. AWW, cute...

CRAWLING!!!!

Look out! Just 1 week shy 0f 8 months old, and the little rug rat finally figured it out. Time to start baby-proofing the house! not only does he crawl to each destination, manages to pick up any little piece of ANYTHING that he can find along the way, Like a little piece of carpet, or a tiny Lego. He also loves to pull himself up on things, like the really safe tiled fireplace. i have a feeling this kid is going to be a little more daring than Milo was. Just look at the size of him.... He's HUGE!

I took him in last week for his check-up (just a little late) and he weighs 19.5 pounds! that is more than Milo weighed at 9 months! but along with all that weight comes extra squishes from us, we just cant get enough of him!

Doobies, Nachos and a little Jack Johnson...

Russ and I went with a few friends to the Jack Johnson concert last night. As excpected the music was amazing! But besides the great music, and good company of friends, we had a few extra "bonuses"...

First off, it was very crowded. We had alot of people cutting across our blankets and stepping all over our stuff. So for shear entertainment purposes only, we decided to put a plate of nachos in the grass in front of us so that someone would get a foot full of cheesy nachos when they got to close to us. Well we had a few good contenders at first, but the bright white plate was catching everyones attention. So Wally gave it a little "camoflage" and thats when the fun began. We had a few good laughs at all the highly intoxicated concert go-ers who stumbled thier way across our little trap.

Most of our giggles seemed to be in part to the cheesy nacho trap, but in fact, I belive that these two had something to do with our silly behavior...

I like to call them "the doobie brothers" they were standing in front of us the whole time, and they were passing back a "ciggarette" to each other that was relly fat and burned really bright! WEIRD? Needless to say, I think we all had a little secondhand inhalation going on, as you can tell by all the upcoming photos...

This is Russ and I before, anxiously and innocently awating a nice relaxing concert

And this is us toward the end of the evening...

Scary!

Jared, Darrin and Darcie, I think Jared had the munchies?

Anne and James... they definatly had the munchies, Anne downed a whole bag of Resees Whips!


And what would the night be without the rockin prayingmantis who came to enjoy a little JJ.

First Day First Grade

So Milo satrted First Grade today! I cant beleive it! I think it was harder for me than it was for him! I was sick all day, thinking of him being gone all day, and having no control over what he came in contact with, what he ate, who he plays with etc... But He was super happy to go, and even more excited that he and Swayze had the same teacher AGAIN!

Since I was so worried that he wouldnt find his cousins to walk home with after school, I secretly went and spied on him to make sure that he found his way home after school! What A big boy!

Fun in The Tub!

the other day while Milo and Auggie were in the tub, Milo would throw the towel on Auggies face and rip it off real fast, you would think that it would hurt but Auggie thought it was really funny!

And... these were just some cute pictures of Auggie in the morning, he is always so happy when he first wakes up! His little noggin looks like it is glowing, because of the window in the back! I love this little guy! he is growing up so fast, yet not fast enough... you know what I mean?

Milo's ROCKIN' 6th Birthday!

Milo's Birthday was a blast this year! he chose to do a "rockstar" party theme. we took this picture for his invitations, I was trying to get him to be crazy and stick his tongue out and stuff but he just told me he wanted to look really "cool" so that's what we got.




We had all the kids decorate their own guitar and had a little air-guitar concert.



We also gave "tattoos" to all the kids and spray painted their hair to give them that rockstar look.




The Rockin Pinata (always a hit)



Joel giving his best rockstar jump!



Kaysha rockin out!




Milo and a little air-guitar!



Groupies.



Zane, i think he was jumping, but it looks like his feet are on the ground!



Milo's cousin Gage came and gave a personal concert for the kids while they ate their cake and ice cream. The kids loved it! they were all so intrigued by gages awesome guitar skills!



The Sweet guitar cake. Milo was very specific on how he wanted it to look, he had this vision in his head of this cake. don't look to close!


Mmmmm, blue frosting! all the kids had perma blue faces!



ROCK ON!!



A fun game of "pass the mic" I must be having a real fun time, my eyes are totally closed in the back ground!



Kaiya with the Sweetest costume!



Parker still rockin' out even with a broken leg!




And this is what he cake looked like before I decorated it! lets just say, you only need ONE cake mix. So after all was said and done, after I cleaned up the massive mess! and Milo came down from his sugar high, we had a pretty successful party. Milo is already planning for next year! Whew, Im glad thats over with!

24th of July

We had a pretty kicked back 24th this year, we pretty much did the usual festivities, Food, Friends and FUN! here are a few pitures of our little neighborhood firework show, and it was nice to do it outside of our house so we could put Auggie to bed!

{ James the Firework guy }

{ Rusty's Famous Chocolate Mint Chip Cookies!}

{The Fam (minus Aug.)}

Life!...What A Mess!

I'M BACK! So I am officially back on-line! I cant believe how disconnected I have felt. so the last few posts are just a jumble of what has been happening in the Lowry fam for the past month or so. It's kind of alot... so hang on!

Bear Lake Trip & The Accident...

so we took our annual bear lake trip this year with some freinds from the neighborhood, we had a blast as always, except for one little mis-hap on the 4-wheelers...

Milo was riding his 4-wheeler and took it on a little jump that we had made, well whhile coming down once he hit his mouth on the handlebars! OUCH! we took him to the insta-care there and they said that it would not need stitches but it knocked his two front teeth really loose. Besides the gap in his front teeth now and his gums being a little tweeked, it is healing pretty well, we are excpecting his two front teeth to fall out soon, but they were due to Fall out soon anyway.

Despite the whole face drama, we managed to have a pretty good time...

Milo with a fish that his Uncle James caught with his Bare Hands!

Rusty enjoying some local treats! (OK, one of those is mine. Mmmm, superman Ice cream!)

Auggie enjoying his beach cabbana, while russ builds a sandcastle for him.

And Auggie.... happy for the moment.