homegrown, a baby boy bbq shower, marty jumps out of a perfectly fine plane & mrs. c

Hi all! Check out the tomatoes and okra, these came out of Grandma's garden. YUM! The tomatoes have been in lots of meals and Matt made the okra the other night - it was delicious.

grown with luv

So, here I am at week 35 - gulp. I am now on orders to "take it easy." That means I basically have to stay off my feet (with them up) and have Matt be my own personal butler. He is, as always, awesome - but I am pretty bored and feel like a BUM. Oh well, I will have plenty of opportunities to help out once baby boy arrives.

Anywho...Carrie, Patterson, Megan and Shon threw a BBQ Baby Shower for us over the weekend - it was GREAT! The food (um, enough to feed an army) was excellent, the flowers (by Mary Ann) were gorgeous and a great time was had by all. We also came home with a carload of baby gifts. Here are some photos for you to enjoy...

matt and marty chat it up

chris and chris enjoy a laugh

it's kitty kat! she came all the way to knox vegas for our shower!!!
(kisses!!!)

carrie, moi, kat and shonnie bear (nice baby bump!)

marty and shawn (looking so cute, love the dress)
(ps - marty had plans to jump out of a plane
the next day...more on that below)

lila, marty, shawn, mary ann and megan pose for a shot

carrie, p-dub, moi, kat, jo, amy and shonnie bear
(yes, we know we are cute)

this one cracks us up, jo got caught in the flash

here we have matt opening the cutest bibs ever

carrie bought an outfit for baby boy AND one for lottie sue
(yes, they match - awesome)

jo and patterson laughing at something

shonnie bear and kitty kat, reunited

here i am opening gifts and carrie is texting

it's me, my nose and jo

the boys discuss football or something like that

Earlier I mentioned that Marty was going to jump out of a plane - WELL HE DID. What a nut. I stole these photos from his crackbook page.

superman

he made it! he made it!

i think this photo must be marty coming in for his landing

Alrighty, I am about to run out to pick up baby girl from school. This morning she walked into church on her "tippy toes" - just like a balrina. She is too fun, we love her bunches.

PS - I meant to post a photo on this earlier BUT the one I had was not so good. Lottie Sue had MAJOR stink eye and I was waiting on Carrie to post about it. To my disappointment, Lottie Sue had the stink eye in her photo as well. Oh well, can't win them all...

Carrie's mom was in town last month, all the way from Vegas and we had lunch together. Mrs. Conyngham is an avid reader of our blog and it was GREAT meeting her. She had a gift for Miss Thang, thecutestdressyou'veeverseen - a photo is coming. Thank you again Mrs. C!

our meet and greet

Alrighty, toodles!

a shower for jp and tabby (banana hammock, anyone?) & a crush for lottie sue

This past weekend we threw an shower for JP and Tabitha, it was an intimate affair with the big day coming up in October - it will be here before you know it - WHEE! It was a very nice evening. I regret that I don't have many photos to share, I may steal them from crackbook if any go up. Megan blogged a great post here, and it includes the shower (PLUS the Heartland Series Homecoming event - looked like fun).

Let's get on with the photos! Matt made this photo of the lovebirds, we had it on the table tents - awesome!

jonathan and tabitha, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G

here is a shot of some of the food

(pardon the blurriness, i didn't have the flash on and
couldn't hold the camera still enough for the artsy shot)

this is a photo of the party favors, i took the leftover
fabric from the garland and made little baggies

patterson, jo and baby cassady party it up

now jo has him all for himself

here we have beth with baby boy (he was quite popular)

megan and amy chat it up

jo, blake and shon hang out while brad munches on the munchies

shon practicing for january

here i am with the bride-to-be, mrs. palmer

As a gag gift we gave Jonathan a banana hammock for the honeymoon. We told him it was a gift for him, but also a gift for Tabby ifyouknowwhatimean...

I bought it on ebay and it's supposed to be swimwear but it's so see-through - I am not sure what beach it's meant for but I'm sure JP will rock it.

jp loves his gift

oh my, and so does tabby it seems

On to more photos!

a group shot with megan doing her patented funny pose

jo and jp are warming up with their
robot moves, dance party to come...

We moved the party outside later on and the regular hilarity ensued (banana hammock dance plus regular dancing)...

a meeting of the minds, finding the
right song in which to break it down

brandon does his karate kid inspired dance move
(please notice beth's admiring gaze)

Then the banana hammock came out again, who knew it would cause such a frenzie? Amy and Megan were equipped with dollar billz.

jp ended up with three dollars and megan's phone number
(don't tell tommy)

And then there was more dancing, if you know us then you know we love to break it down. There is always dancing at parties and tailgates.

beth and brandon win the dance contest, hands down

I'll post more photos as they reveal themselves. Everyone is so happy and excited for the couple, can't wait until October!

This photo came in the mail the other day, Kat sent a card to me but Jasper requested this message get to Lottie Sue.

jasper, the answer is YES. a million times YES.

Alrighty, in other news for you...

• Mourning the death of handwriting...
• NPR asked listeners for their favorite beach reads, here is a list of the top 100.
• Mad Men premieres the new season on Sunday - icannottellyouhowexcitediam. Check out the Vanity Fair spread and then you can read the A.V. club's interview with Jon Hamm here.

Coming up in my next post: kid Matt in leisure suits (ADORABLE), Lottie Sue loves shoes only a hooker would wear and Jo is featured in Skirt! magazine (supahSTAR). Alrighty, happy Monday to everyone. Buh-BYE!

i wish lottie would stop growing, megan refuels, kat is a celebrity & ooh la la

This photo was taken on May 16, 2008 - almost exactly a year ago. I am crying as I type this, why do little ones have to grow so fast? GEEZ!

eating her (still) favorite meal, pesto tortellini

This photo was taken this morning, look how much she has grown in a year. See why I'm freaking out?!?!

lottie sue eating her awfuls (waffles) this morning

And here we have Lottie Sue this morning toting one of her baby dolls around. She has two right now that are in rotation. If you ask her how many she has she says "one two! one two!" - we are working on counting to ten.

lottie sue with baby #1

For your enjoyment, please see a few photos of Megan in a plane that is about to refuel another plane. She's in some type of leadership organization and all they do is cool stuff (i.e. ride alongs with the po-po, refueling flights and etc.). I stole these from her crackbook page.

megan in a flight suit (awesome)

megan in the cockpit

More news on friends...The McNicholas family hasn't been gone that long and have already taken their new town by storm. Kat and Jasper made the paper this week, and look good doing so...

"mcnicholas says the downtown proposal is a fun and great idea"

And you might have caught on that I haven't been taking many photos since the zoo...I promise to start snapping away (starting today).

SO I went into our database of memories and have a few photos from our trip out West, our visit to Bryce Canyon in Utah. It was a leg of our Vegas/Grand Canyon/Bryce Canyon/Zion trip that we took with Matt's parents a few years ago. It was such a great trip and I could talk and talk and talk about everything we did and saw. I will add those photos in eventually since this blog is our family scrapbook.

Matt and I took a hike down into the canyon and Matt's parents stayed up top to take in the scenery. Dad said that a tour bus full of Parisians arrived and they all walked over to the main lookout, then all at once they started saying "ooh la la" - that really cracked me up.

But anywho, if you happen to be planning a trip out that way I can recommend visiting Bryce Canyon. It's close to the above-mentioned places and it is super WIGGY there! I have NEVER seen landscape like it. It's like an alien planet. See for yourself...

this is the canyon, they call these pillar things hoodoos

matt and i went on a hike down through hoodooville

everything is a brilliant orange (go vols)

matt hiking between hoodoos that are about 50ft here

an above shot

a self portrait

I hope you enjoyed those, thank goodness us Mowrers take 5,000 photos per trip. We have an endless supply to share with you.

Here is a funny story speaking of self portraits: One time I was in DC and was staying at the Sofitel, I was about to get ready for a gala and I noticed that the lighting in the bathroom mirror was the BEST lighting ever. I looked so good and I am so not kidding. I proceeded to take 143 photos of myself. True story.