Beach Trip 2009

We made our annual fall break trip to the beach again.... and it was so fun. The weather was cooler than it had ever been, but the boys werent bothered by it at all. We spent lots of time on the beach, some time at the heated pool, and even a few minutes in the hot tub! :o) Here are some of the Posed pics I took this weekend...

The family...

Momma's angels

Micah looks so old here...

Sweet Coby... how cute is he?

Sweet Cason... he is growing up so fast!

My little punkin.... Precious Bryson

One of my favorites (hence the new header)

Cant wait til we get to go again....

The Great-Grand Tour

Every year, around the 4th of July, we make a big trip to go visit all 7 of my kids great-grandparents... we feel so incredibly blessed to have so many of them living for my kids to know... And as much as we wish we could see them more often, we have committed to visiting them at least once a year so that the boys will know and remember them. They are our legacy...

We started off in Abilene, halfway to Jal, at the Abilene ZOO. We met up with Uncle Russ and Aunt Angie, and our cousin Jarrell. If you look closely, you can see sute lil boys in these letters:

The montley crew

Russ, Ang, and Jarrell, who was not keen on the idea of a photo op...

Our crew at the zoo.

Then we loaded back up and headed off to New Mexico to see my grandparents...

Railroad tracks are always a great photo op, right?

My (hot) little monkeys!

Me with my Dandy Don and Nana

The boys with my Nana and Dandy

hahaha

It was so hot.... and he looks so big here!

The famous tire swing at the park in Jal....

Feeding the ducks

me with my Pop Pop and KK.
The boys with Pop Pop and KK

Then we headed back to TX to meet up with Clint's family for the 4th of July...

The boys at the parade with all their loot!

Crazy Gran Gran!!

We headed to Merkel for church with Mamaw and Papaw to celebrate their 80th birthdays...

It is always an adventurour trip, but always lots of fun... everything went great and it was so good to see lots of family.... but it is always good to be back home, too!

Downtown Austin...

Even though we live near Austin, we rarely venture to the downtown area... especially at night... I am a chicken. Micah's 2nd grade class had a family field trip to see the bats under the Congress Bridge on Friday night, so off we went...

Here are the boys on the path along the bank of the river... it is so beautiful down there!

Our "entertainment" while we waited... she is juggling fire while on his shoulders and he is hula hooping and turning around in circles. Clint sais he thinks we should do this as our side job....

Here was our other source of entertainment... Mrs. Patterson's dog, Parker. For Bryson, it was love at first sight. We will never know how it was for poor Parker... I do know that Bryson was covered in Golden hair by the end of the evening!


Waiting..... still..... Cason is officially grouchy!

Micah and a few of his friends... on the front row!

Finally.... the bats emerged... Hard to capture on camera, but so cool!

We hiked back to the car and decided we would drive by and see the capital building all lit up at night. We noticed people coming in and out, so we parked, almost got run over crossing the street, and went to visit our state capital! The first time for 3 of our boys. They thought it was cool. They were impressed by the canons & the old-timey water fountain, and Cason said that the buliding was "Amazing!" :o)

The capital building was so pretty all lit up at night time...

Beautiful...

On the "fancy stairs" as Coby called them...

Here is the gang on the "echo star" in the middle... And yes, we took Bry for a visit to the capital potty shortly after this pic was taken!

The view of our family from the star... the camera was on the floor and we are facing down. You can see the ceiling in the background... the boys thought this was so cool!

We made it home around 11:00 that evening. No one had gotten a nap that day, and I was completely floored that we made it with out a singel melt down! What a fun, spur of the moment trip!

Fowler Family

While my whole family was here for Christmas, I took some pictures for my mom. It is sometime quite a chore to get all 10 kids looking at the tripod, but we managed a pretty good photo shoot. Momma was one happy grandma!

Dad and Mom

Josh and Heather

Clint and Summer

Casey and Amber

Jordan and Jen

Josh's crew

Summer's crew

Casey's crew

The original crew

Mimi and PawPaw with the kids crew

The guys

The gals

The WHOLE crew (click the picture to enlarge)