Congratulations

Baby Porter Kayden Fowler was born this morning at 830 to Stacey(Edwards) and Marion Fowler and Big sister Marleigh. Everyone is healthy and doing well. Please pray for these next 48 hours for they tend to be stressful in an adoption. We are so glad you are here Porter and can't wait to meet you! Love you already!

camping

In a couple of days Joe, Amy,and I(Ann) are going to go on a camping trip with our friends, the Masons,Kolbie who I play with, and Kylie and Kaelyn A.K.A the twins, in which Amy plays with. Also both familys dads. We go to a campsite called PLAMOR (pronounced play-more.) The kids call it our tradition, but the dads say its not. Its kind of not camping because there are electrical outlets and a play ground.
Ann

camping

In a couple of days Joe, Amy, and I(ann)Are going to go on a camping trip with our friends Kolbie who I play with and kylie and kaelyn aka the twins, who Amy plays with. Also with both familys dads. We do this every year. (the kids call it our tradition, but the dads say its not.) We go to a campsite called PLAMOR (pronounced Play more.) Its not really camping because there is eletrical outlets and a playground.GTG
Ann

Costa Rica update

We have reached our monetary goal, thanks to many very generous friends and relatives! How humbling it has been to be on the recieving end of such giving. Thank you, may it be used in a mighty way. Any more money we recieve will go toward any needs other team members have and then to Project Abraham itself. As I eluded to before, with fuel prices increasing all of our expenses went up. We have been meeting every few weeks with our team that will be traveling and working together. There are 12 of us, ranging in age from 12 to 55. Our group seems fun, and like they will work well together. We are really looking forward to this.
We are taking some toys and books for the kids at the orphanage and clothes too. We actually leave all of our clothes there for the woman to have when we leave. (I hope they have short, chubby girls there!)I am trying to take some medical supplies, but have not gotten that ok'd yet. Pray this would be approved if it is a need that needs met. Praising God for His provision once again. He is so Faithful, and we are so blessed in so many ways.

Missing Daddy

Joe and Aaron are at Notre Dame basketball camp this week. They left this morning at 9am. The kids and I went to the new Monon center water park along with a couple friends for the day. We weren't there too long when they spotted lightening. Long story short, we got free passes for another day, and went home and played. We got our free mini pizzas from papa murphys thanks to the library's summer reading program for dinner and watched "I love lucy" dvd's. When it was time for bed though Annie lost it. She missed her Daddy. Every time I would get her quieted down, here she would come. "I can't sleep without a kiss from Daddy". How precious. Joe had games tonight, but I got a hold of him and he talked to her. She finally fell asleep on our bed with the dog in the room. Andrew was out cold before I left the room the first time. Amy didn't cry, but said more than once that she missed Dad and Aaron. Joe said Aaron was doing fine, wanted to stay in his room(Joe's) tonight. Lights out is at 10:45, Aaron was asking to go to bed at 10:00. He was up this morning before 7 making sure he had everything packed, so I am sure he is exhausted. It is long week of basketball for him. He is the smallest kid there, she he gets eaten alive. Pray for them, and for us this week.

PMS at the Zoo

I thought today would be a great day to go to the zoo. The weather is beautiful, we had time this afternoon and I wanted to see the Koala bears. I forgot to attribute the fact that I was PMSing. Now I usually don't have to schedule things around this, but I may want to rethink this in the future. Aaron and Andrew were whining and crying they wanted to go home half way there. That is never a good sign. I had packed a lunch in the cooler, so everyone was "starved" by the time we got there. Traffic wasn't too bad. I only answered "how much longer?" a dozen times or so.
The parking lot was packed. I decided to drop the kids off in the shade with the cooler to set up the picnic with Amy and her friend Kayla, while I hunted for a parking place. I don't really like SUV's anymore. And I really don't like the small daycare busses. I had to ask for forgiveness a few times when I wanted to hurt a vehicle because it took up 2, 3, 4 spaces. Why do they not have bus parking that includes those small buses? Maybe a shady area. I also think they should have a"members only" area. I drove back by to check on the kids, who were now finished eating and decided to tattle on each other. I packed up the cooler and Andrew the instigater, and found a parking place a mile away. I had yet to eat, and was getting a headache. I called my husband for support, who I asked to pray for me because I was going to lose it. He proceeded to laugh. Ha ha.
The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. Oh yeah, Annie decided to announce that you could see my underwear through my shorts quite loudly at one point, that was pleasant.
The zoo has made some nice improvements over the winter, and we did have fun. I am sure none of you will ever want to go with me to the zoo though.

Holland

Just because a town is named after a foriegn country/town, whatever it is, doesn't mean it is one. I really think they think they are(sorry Linda!) What is with the traffic laws there?- weird. We had a really good time, reminded us of Goshen Indiana a lot, size etc, without the amish obviously. Lake Michigan was really pretty, the kids had fun playing in the sand. Joe wasn't even too neurotic about the sand. We reminiced about all of our trips to the "dunes" in high school. We had fun with new friends from baseball too, getting to know them. Aaron's team went 1-1-1. A little frustrating at times, but hey they are 9-10 years old. I love watching them.
Annie, and Andrew had fun at Grandma and Grandpa's with cousin Caleb. Fun memories for them too. They caught and ate fish. Played in the water and played inside. They were exhausted, they fell asleep on the ride home at 730pm.
We stopped on our way home in Kokomo to eat at Hacienda, Joe's choice for dinner. Yummy! A real treat for us since we moved down to Indy. Nothing quite like it down here. Joe got fun presents for fathers day: flip flops, a desk chair, outback gift card, Hoosier's dvd, reese cups, ND slippers, and peanut m&m's. An odd collection of gifts, but lots of thought behind each one. Really, he just kept coming up with new ideas as the week went on, and the chair broke. The baseball players gave their Dads t-shirts that said "My Dad Rocks"with the boys numbers on them. (Our logo is the Rocks) Very cute shirt.