Epic Hike

I got to meet one of my favorite bloggers on Tuesday this week, and what was going to be a few hours playing at Bridal Veil falls turned into a 6 hour visit. The kids had a blast together, and I had so much fun getting to know Cheryl! She is even more awesome in real life, if that’s possible.

Well, as if we hadn’t had enough of each other, we decided to take the kids on an “easy” hike up in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Because Cheryl did such a great job blogging about it, I will now refer you to her blog:

Epic Hike! 
(post by Cheryl at her blog)

Complete with pictures. (for the sake of privacy, since her blog is public, make sure if you want to comment on her blog you don’t use actual names of our kiddos, pleaseandthankyou – if you come back and comment over here, feel free to use full names)

Daredevil

I came around the corner the other day and found Joseline climbing all the way out to the door! Crazy child.

She is a little daredevil. Which is kind of ironic because she’s never been to the emergency room or had any kind of accident really. Whereas Vince, who would be scared snotless of climbing across there, has had several ER visits and other sundry accidents…

So we want our kids to be daredevils?

Russ would say she’s just cautious.

Goof Balls

This is my last post for tonight. I got strep throat somehow (my hunch is there is a little guy running around my house with sores on his face that are quite likely strep themselves. We shall see). Anyway, I should be sleeping, but I really wanted to make good on my promise to get the blog a little more caught up. I sill have so much catching up to do it’s ridiculous. But I can spend all day tomorrow doing that because… well, I have strep. So I’m going nowhere. With nobody, which means the kids will probably watch a lot of TV. And jump on the trampoline.

And there just might be a little bit of this goofiness -

          

Scratch that.

There will definitely be lots of this goofiness.

One of my greatest challenges as a mother? Teaching my children how to actually take some things seriously. At least.

Header Update

I updated our header with a more recent family photo! We had our family photos taken last fall by amazing photographer Victoria Baines Harris. I will post more from that shoot eventually.

The old header, with family photo circa Feb 2010 (the beach in Monterey, CA)

The new header, with updated family photo (seen above)

Who Knew

At my yearly vision appointment a little over a year ago my eye doctor said I was a little farsighted and that if I was having trouble reading I could wear a light reading prescription.

Which was fascinating, because I had just been thinking about how my head hurts after I read for a long time, and sometimes my vision goes blurry when I am looking at things close up (not just words… like when I’m making PB&J’s… weird, right?).

Well, I showed up at my yearly eye exam this year and he asked if I ever got that prescription filled for the glasses. Umm… nope. But my vision was definitely not getting any better.

So I finally filled the prescription.

And now I have reading glasses (which I am only 50% good about wearing…)

I need to take a picture of myself in the same position as my late brother, Ross, so you can really see the resemblance. I’ve always thought that I looked like Ross more than I look like anyone else in my family (a female version of him, I’ll say).

What do you think?

Where to Start

I have no clue where to even begin. I can’t believe I have been so bad at blogging our family stuff. I have no real excuses, but the fact that I have been blogging like a mad woman over at My Soul Delighteth probably has something to do with it.

That and the fact that I was teaching our co-op preschool every few weeks, coaching soccer, and teaching a toddler Mommy and Me piano class every Monday. Life got busy.

And I like to read. Reading = I don’t do anything else.

Lately I’ve been reading BYU Devotionals, Women’s Conference talks, General Conference, blog articles, etc and I get a little … consumed. I have been blogging a little bit about all the things I have been studying, but most of the thoughts are still either in my head or in my little composition notebook that I carry around. Writing out my thoughts has always helped me process them.

I have pretty much nothing to do tomorrow so I am going to make a goal to do some marathon blogging on the family blog. I was going to do that a while ago but I got distracted.

If you don’t follow the front page you should so you can get updates, since when I blog past events I usually back date them so they show up in the right order on the blog. I will post on the front page when I actually post the old post, and I’ll link to it so you don’t have to go find it.

Get ready for a Rowley Family Marathon! Woohoo!

A New Page

The Salt Lake County Libraries just finished building a brand new, huge library right here in West Jordan. The old library was small and kind of ghetto. The new library is spunky, big, and clean.

We went to the grand opening where we checked out some new books (it looked like they spend a lot of money on new books), watched a puppet show of Peter Pan, saw a giant snake poop in front of the audience, saw a tarantula, held a cockroach, and played on some blow up slides.

I love West Jordan, and the fancy new library makes me love it even more. I also love that we’re within walking distance of all these things to do – the rec center, the library, the big park. It’s all right here basically in front of our house.