NASA

Memorial day weekend I realized was the last day Justin had off that wasn't a Sunday preceded by a 24 hr shift or being spent in Idaho, so we just had to make a whirlwind trip to Houston to see NASA. It was definately worth it. We had a great time and made lots of fun memories. We went up Monday night (because Justin worked all Sunday until Monday morning so we had to get him a little bit of sleep.) stayed in a motel, and spent all day at NASA the next day. It was really fun, except the sleeping in a motel with 2 double beds and 7 people. It worked fine last year, but for some reason this time I could not get comfortable at all. I had to share my bed with Samantha and Nathan, and Nathan was soooo squirmy. We could not get him to be still unless he was lying across everyone's pillows. It was awful! At least Michelle went down in the crib peacefully. I guess we will just bring sleeping bags for the next motel stay. We'll be making a few here in a couple of weeks. I'm getting really excited to move to Idaho. I think we will make a few stops along the way at Carlsbad Caverns and Moab and then maybe at Mike and Sarah's. There's a small part of me that would like to camp our way up there, but then there is the other part of me that knows that setting up a tent, building a fire etc. can make the whole trip just seem really long. Also, I'm not sure Justin would be up for it. But we might. Especially in Moab. I've only been camping a few times in that country, but it was gorgeous, except when we went camping at Zions and John woke up screaming at 2 am and wouldnt fall back to sleep until I drove him around in the car for a few minutes. Isn't life with small children great! Anyway back to the post topic, NASA was great, I would reccommend it to everyone who lives nearby. You should take the time to visit. There are lots of very kid friendly parts and then some adult interesting things also. Definately take the tram tour if you go.

Dr. Justin Rowberry pediatrician!

Yesterday was graduation and Justin is now officially a "Real" pediatrician. We are so proud of him! The ceremony was as exciting as they always are, luckily I got someone to watch the kids. Then that evening they had a dinner to celebrate and roast all of the graduates. It was a lot of fun. A lot of hard work went into planning and presenting all of the skits and funny awards all the graduates got. Justin got the "Dan Tolson award" most likely to have a show on TLC about trying to build his own choir from scratch. It was pretty funny. We love him and are excited to get to our new home in Idaho. Justin goes next Monday to pick out a place, and we will be leaving on July 2nd to get there! YEAH!

Memorial Day

Here are a few pictures from our flag planting activity for scouts. They actually cancelled going as a group because only two scouts showed up from our troop, but my friend and I still went with our kids. It was a really neat experience. Every memorial day they plant flags on the graves of all the veterans at the graveyard at Fort Sam Houston (which is all of the graves). There were thousands of them, but thankfully there were thousands of scouts and young families from all over San Antonio who went and participated. The kids loved doing it and it only took about an hour with all of the volunteers. The only hard part was that after all the flags were planted, Nathan wanted to pick them all back up and had to be dragged kicking and screaming from the grave yard. He loved putting them in the ground though. The other funny thing is that I took the kids to Burger King after the activity because it was dinner time and they were hot and sweaty and starving. We had been looking for a McDonalds but we found Burger King first. All the kids ran inside and started getting ready to order and Nathan finally looked around and started screaming "This is not McDonalds!!" Luckily he calmed down pretty quick, but I thought it would have made a good commercial.

Mother's Day

Mother's day was great this year. As you can see I got a crown and a bouquet of hand flowers from my children. It was great. The kids also brought me breakfast in bed without spilling the juice on the new carpet. (Nathan did try to eat my cereal though). I even survived the cherry and mushroom soup chicken (with a hint of cinnamin)made by Justin for lunch. Just for future reference be wary when Justin says "I added a secret ingredient". It actually was pretty good, but I like to give him a hard time. Just remember Justin if you are reading this, eggs do not belong in chili.

Father and sons campout

Upon arriving home from the camp out Justin proclaimed, "From now on only kids 5 and up can go to the father and son camp out." I guess Nathan wandered a bit while Justin was trying to set up the tent and they couldn't find him for a while. Justin was a bit upset. I maintain that if he was just a bit more creative and say tied Nathan to a tree, he could still take him to the camp out with no problems. He doesn't agree. Other than that incident it seems that they all had a good time. The boys read a lot of Prince Caspian and had fun with water guns.

Father and Son Camp out

So this weekend is the father and sons camp out for our stake. Justin is going to take the boys so I told Samantha we could do something really fun that's just for girls. She looked at me and said "like go to the mall?!" followed by an excited girly screech you would expect upon hearing that we were going to Disney Land. I'm not exactly sure what she expects. I guess it has been a long time since she has actually gone to the mall. I'm excited. I think we'll go eat and may be watch a girly movied. If we're super motivated we may even paint our fingernails before we go. yay! Move over Disneyland!

Battle of the Flowers Parade

I finally got to go to the Battle of the Flowers parade this year. I've always thought it would be fun, but because Justin is always working, have never mustered up the courage to brave it alone with the kids. Kelly Landin called me this year to see if I wanted to go with her since it was our last chance. It was crowded, but not as bad as I thought it might be. (I was picturing a repeat of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parde in NYC or New Year's at Big Ben in London.) Compared to those events it was practically abandoned. It was a lot of fun and I know the kids had a good time too. Thank you Kelly for giving us a reason to go!