The 4th 2011!

Happy 4th of July to everyone!!!!

When we had our last minute change of plans, we quickly packed up and headed to UT so we could enjoy the festivities of the 4th with family and in a much cooler environment!

At midnight the night before we left I signed up for a Freedom Run 10K that my sister in law Madi was already going to participate in!

Me before the race...

Madi before the race!...


Sprint to the finish!...


This was Madi's first race and she absolutely rocked it! Go Madi!!!!



Later that day we headed down to great Grandma and Grandpa Baum's house for a 4th of July dinner!


Then we headed to Sandy to watch their parade that we always love to watch and walk around the festival area!...

McKenna loved the Princesses!...

The girls with Their Nana and Papa and Great Grandma and Grandpa Baum!...

My Big Girl!...

We had a lot of fun and the girls were so tired we decided to not stay for fireworks... McKenna NEVER falls asleep in the car, so this is evidence of how tired she was!...

God Bless America!!!!

27 Candles for Chris!

Sunday Chris turned 27! Saturday I surprised him by taking him to Transformers 3d at the IMax! He LOVED it... not my kind of movie... but it was still good!

Saturday night we decided to go to Utah on Sunday! We had been planning on going to Lake Powell on Wednesday but some things came up! So Chris got to spend his birthday in the car for 12 hours! Lucky boy huh! Hahaha... oh well! At least he got to go out the night before!

Happy Birthday Chris! We love you!

Life...

There are 2 step 1 board tests Chris has to take. Monday Chris took his first board test! It was nice to get one out of the way and then Tuesday morning he took a break from studying and went to our weekly movie with us!!!! This morning Chris went to take his second board test! It is 9 hours long and 400 questions. Your board scores determine what kind of a doctor you can be... so they are VERY important! Even though Chris may not want to be a brain surgeon, it is still nice to have your options completely open! I'm sure he did, and is doing great and we are so proud of him!

Sending GOOD VIBES to Chris RIGHT now!

A couple posts ago I said that we had gotten a second car. We've known now for a couple years that eventually when chris' rotations started we'd need a second car... but we were DREADING car shopping. It is just SO unfun! We looked forever on Craigslist and every other possible site! We thought we just wanted another small sedan, we had an appointment to go see one from Craigslist and the guy was.... super... icky... the car was also over priced and not very nice. After that we went straight over to a tent sale a bunch of dealerships were having. As much as I HATE car salesman... the guy from craigslist was 10 times worse. Anywho... to make a long story short, we went if for a sedan and came out with this...

A Dodge Durango. We got an awesome deal on it but we still had buyers remorse after... but now a couple weeks later, we feel great about our decision! :)

It is about 112 degrees here on average these days in Glendale. We spend a lot of our time in the pool, the mall, or at home in the air conditioning! The heat really doesn't bother me. Angel and I have still managed to keep running, we just have to keep going earlier and earlier to try and beat the heat!

You can often find the girls clothes-less at home just to keep cool!...

This pic is SOOO McKenna, she has all her stuff set out in order!


Here's McKenna playing what Chris and I call "homeless." It's pretty much what she does all day. She puts all her "necessities" you know, i.e. her baby, blankie, snacks, juice, and random toys she decides to be attached to, into her shopping cart and walks around with it all day!

The girls also started to play together a lot more. Sometimes I can catch them playing together in their room... I LOVE it, so do they. They rip the room apart, but that's okay! If Chris or I go in to check on them... McKenna shoos us away with her hand and tells us to go away...

That's what we've been up to!!!! Happy Summer!

Ogre?

The other day we were playing on the floor with the girls. Here was our conversation...

Me: McKenna, isn't Adyson cute!

McKenna: Yeah, Adyson cute!

Me: Is Adyson a Princess?

McKenna: Yeah, Adyson Princess

Chris: Is Mom a Princess?

McKenna: Yeah, Mommy Princess

Chris: Is McKenna a Princess?

McKenna: No... McKenna Ogre!

Since then, she keeps insisting she is an ogre... hmm... then last night she was eating frozen yogurt and I thought that maybe she was right!...

1st Place Daddy Prize!

When Chris introduces the girls and I to some of his teachers and fellow students the expression we hear a lot is... "Wow... 2 kids in Med school." I think it is quite humorous myself! Chris is crazy amazing at how well he manages his time to be a great med student and a great husband and dad which means he gets the .... 1st place daddy prize!

It is UNBELIEVABLE what a great daddy he is to our girls and I know how lucky we are to have him! He has never once put school over us or made us feel abandoned. Even though he is so busy, we always know we are his number one priority. There has not been a day go by that he doesn't help them get their "rough house play" in or a night go by without lots of hugs and kisses before bedtime.

I love you Christopher Wade Fowler... Happy Father's Day. You deserve more than I could ever give you!

Love,

Wifey

Here are the girls giving their daddy their Father's Day gift... or actually... I should say, McKenna opening His gift and showing him! Hahaha...

He got a pair of walkie talkies to use on our coming up Lake Powell trip!

We spent the rest of the day at church and then lounging followed by a roast dinner and Chris' favorite chocolate cake!

Happy Father's Day!

Drive In Movie!

Last night we went with our friends the Hinton's to our first drive in movie as a fam! We had so much fun watching Kung Fu Panda 2! We happened to have just got a new car (new to us that is) the night before which worked out perfectly to set up our camp!

Cutest family ever... Their boys just naturally did that for the picture! Isn't that so cute!

McKenna was rather confused why the sound for the movie was coming from the front of the car (the radio) so she kept thinking the movie was playing up there and checking for it!

The movies start at 8:30 which is already 1/2 an hour past the girls bed time but we just put them in their jammies and went with it anyways and they did great!

Yea for summer AZ nights as a fam :)

Adios Second Year... Hello Boards :(

A little bit ago Chris officially finished his 2nd year of med school!

Can I get a WOOT WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately there is this thing called... boards :( Boo... The boards are at the end of June and first of July. So Chris spends his day studying for those. He's been able to study some at home which has been nice and which means during his breaks he's been able to do a little more of this...

and this...

We try and stay out of his way for the most part! We started going to a movie every Tuesday! It was $7 for a movie a week for 8 weeks! They are really great movies too... okay... so maybe not... but we are all about cheap stuff!

Last Tuesday was our first one, it was Clifford. McKenna loved it!

Here she is watching intensely! And there's Angel in the background trying to not be in the pic! We dragged her into doing the movie deal with us :) She LOVED Clifford as much as I did!

Me and the girlies...